Let's Make A Hunter: The Reckoning Character

Making a character for Hunter: The Reckoning, it's like Supernatural meets Vampire: The Masquerade... except it predates Supernatural by about 5 years.

00:00 Intro
01:29 Concept
05:04 Attributes
05:53 Abilities
06:41 Advantages
10:18 Last Touches
11:09 Mechanics
14:50 Final Thoughts

#worldofdarkness #hunter #whitewolf #ttrpg

[mistuh]

Hunter the Reckoning is not about playing Supernatural as a TTRPG
It’s about arguing for 30 minutes on whether you should bury or cremate a blankbody

[doublestarships]

I honestly think they should actually try to market Hunter more. Probably can be used more as a gateway to the World of Darkness more so than Vampire. The World of Darkness is entirely played by people who LOVE TTRPGS and gave this game a chance. With D&D holding the monopoly of attention to new gamers it's hard for any game to shine. Especially because a lot of 'normies' really don't want to learn new rules for anything.

[nemo]

i think the problem with Hunter is that the setting in general just ignores how dangerous humans could be.

ultimately the game still thinks too much about fighting, how weak or strong humans should be vis a vis vampires or werewolves. but what makes humans truly effective is not that we are the most physically impressive animal, but the most clever. most vampires are fucking idiots who drive around looking like a troupe of theater kids doing a vampire movie, doing petty crimes and larceny all night. it doesnt take much thinking for a human to find them. they have obvious weaknesses that can be easily exploited.

the true threat of a human is not "man with a shotgun in the parking lot" but "man who figured out where you live and sets the house on fire during the daytime."

[yeahnaaa]

That's said -- CHARACTER: THE MAKENING!

[gidofter_lukge]

Have you ever watched Hunter: the Parenting?

[EHH]

I was chuckling when you were dramatically reading the flowery descriptions of each creed.

[roberttew]

World of Darkness, be it Classic or Chronicles, is such a great game series. There are plenty of interesting fan games as well. Such as Zombie: The Coil, Highlander: The Gathering, Genius: The Transgression, Leviathan: The Tempest, etc. So much to choose from. It makes one wonder just how insane if you were to play one game and cross the others over.

Hunter the Reckoning is a pretty good games with a fair few books. One is "First Contact" where the Imbued work with various groups from "Hunters Hunted" basically the mortal monster hunters.

Something to note about the Creeds. We have the Virtues of Mercy, Vision, and Zeal. Three for Mercy and Zeal. Vision are two other Creeds for Vision. The "Lost Creeds". Hermit, and Wayward. Hermits are basically so overwhelmed by the messages from the Messengers, they have to keep to themselves, and communicate over long distance. The pain of the "Psychic Static" they get from the messages can only be lessened in the presence of a Visionary. Waywards can't unsee the supernatural. All Imbued Hunters have a sort of Second Sight that allows them to see past supernatural guises. But it comes and goes. Waywards, however, can't turn the Second Sight off. Something about their Imbuing goes...wrong. Waywards effectively go mad. They will hunt the supernatural with little to no scruples. This is only tempered/lessened by the presence of a Visionary.

[skeeter]

For anyone struggling with inspiration for Hunter, don't think of Supernatural - that's too boring. Think of early season of The Boys. The Boys is PEAK Hunter and not enough people think about that

[kronosbach]

I think this game is exactly what I was looking for to start my GM journey, thanks!

[StarkMaximum]

Man, I've been aware of your character building videos for ages, and I'm so glad to see you're still doing them to this day. And you even hit Hunter, my favorite of the World of Darkness books (while this specific book might be a little bland and milquetoast, the idea of humans banding together against the darkness is by far my favorite ideal of any of the books, but I have been warming up to Vampire and Werewolf). Bit more of a CoD guy these days but ain't nothin' wrong with the classic WoD, except all the stuff that's wrong about it but we'll push that aside for now. Glad to see Hunter won the poll!

Anyway, what I'm trying to get at is thanks for the consistent content over so many years, and I hope you continue to do well and find success and comfort in everything you do.

[armaggedon]

Thanks for the good video. I'm now curious about the Mummy: the Resurrection characters and how they compare against the older Mummies.

[codenamejinza]

Thank you so much for this; it REALLY helped me understand how to make a Hunter Character. I'll check out the rest of your WoD videos too!

[senor-achopijo]

Tbh, I've never been particularly attracted to WoD games, but this one seems actually kinda cool for me. Also, please make a LMUAC for Shadowrun. It's kinda crazy that you haven't done one yet.

[Pyrela]

I seem to recall a lot of people not liking this game when it came out. Not even the mechanics, but just the theme.

[mightyfp]

Wraith has a lot of room considering they also put out the 20th anniversary edition

[aelamf]

thanks alot for the video, im wathcing hunter the parenting and this is super fun to learn

[Glacier_Nester]

I know you're probably making fun of the super flowery text, but this is STRONGLY up my alley, so i may have to finally stop putting off digging into later editions of this and mage in particular

[StrangeGamer]

Awesome stuff! I would love to see some New World of Darkness content though

[GalvviinMizzewwreck]

10:50 wait, I was under the impression that using "xp" or "freebie points" to level up the stats compounded as you invested in higher dot counts. In the video you spend 5 points to go from 3 dots to 4 dots. I thought it would've been 20 points for the 4th dot? (5 points per dot x buying the 4th dot = 20 points, right?)

[hattiemiller]

Maybe you could try Maze Rats next. It’s very cheap as a pdf and has simple character creation.