SHRPG Lite

We live in a modern world based on logic and comprehension. Here people live their lives in relative peace, content to believe that everything around them is explainable, predictable and average.

Their lives are spent innocently, working,raising families, paying taxes, pursuing happiness, and cherishing normalcy. Here, the biggest challenges are solved with a steady income and plenty of distractions: go to work, pay your bills and put food on the table for your family.

For the illuminated, everything is barbeques shopping malls, cell phones and new cars. In this world, life is manageable, normal, and ok. In the light, everything is safe. But the light is a mask that obscures a darker countenance, for when there is light, there also must be shadow, and this is the place where the innocent dare not look.

Behind the locked doors, in the forgotten corners; where eyes are closed tight and lips mutter whispered prayers are the things beyond understanding. Realms of existence that spawn the stuff of which nightmares are crafted, where man is not the apex predator. Here there will be death and fear. Oh yes, there will be fear. 

It is a hidden world, where forces of evil work against the light. Where magick lures, and corrupts the soul. Demons war with angels and man is the pawn. Where ancient gods and horrific monsters roam untethered, cursing the ground beneath them. This is a world that exists in secret, operating deep in the darkness beyond mortal view.

Here are the forgotten spirits, fanged and winged beasts that hunt for the taste of human flesh. Dream killers that lurk beyond the veil of sleep with a lust for murder and mayhem. Where cults enthralled to demi-gods and ancient prophecies gather to work to enslave or destroy the human race. Vampires, lycanthropes, merfolk, witches, the undead and hordes of strange and vicious creatures find unsuspecting innocent’s easy prey.

Why? Because they do not wish to know. But you are not like them. You have seen what waits in the shadows. You have leapt into the abyss and have crawled out alive. You know that the monsters are real. You know… and you cannot forget. You are a Supernatural Hunter, a member of a highly trained secret society of humans, dedicated to the protection of mankind from the paranormal and the otherworldly.

You’ll face dangerous missions with difficult objectives where you must gather information, investigate, document, and ultimately overcome whatever threat awaits. This will require dedication, cunning, courage and skill. But you do not have to face this alone.

There are options. For safety in numbers, you may turn to a network of powerful faction willing to take you in and provide you with support, training and guidance. As a faction member, help is available for the asking and a clear, established direction drives you and your faction forward. Should you prove yourself a valuable asset and a keen survivor, you may be contacted by a wealthy and mysterious benefactor willing to invest top dollar into a strong, promising, capable hunter willing to follow directions without too many questions. While in the field, build a strong reputation through hard work, courage and dedication to the cause which will help to enlist the assistance of the “Runner Network”.

These anonymous technicians can provide anything and everything you might need…for a price. As a Supernatural Hunter, you must remain in the shadows to protect those in the light. For the world is ignorant to the threat of the unknown. Society fears what it does not understand and will seek to destroy what it fears. To the rest

of the world, you and the things you face are the stuff of legends and myths. For the sake of mankind, it must remain this way. The innocents must not know.

SHRPG LITE is the introductory version of the Supernatural Hunter Role Playing Game from Thousand Word Publications, available from Amazon.com. This d100 opposed roll system comes complete with full game rules as well as a complete SHRPG LITE Hunter mission. Designed for 4-6 players, 14 years+.