LAST UPDATED
5/31/05

OVERVIEW
- Hunters in DC
- Key Characters
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RESTRICTIONS
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CREATING A H:tR CHARACTER
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BOOKS IN USE
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HUNTER THEMED MEDIA
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LINKS TO HUNTER RELATED WEB SITES
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Hunter: the Reckoning

"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster; 

and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you." 

-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

OVERVIEW:

- Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347-348

RESTRICTIONS: 

Restrictions on Hunter PC's: New Players are discouraged from making a Hunter as their first character for this Chronicle unless they can exhibit mastery of the rules. 

• Restricted Creeds: Hermits, Waywards
  

• Restricted Backgrounds: Arsenal (overused)

"Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner."  

-- Anne Rice

MAKING A H:tR CHARACTER:

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9. Starting Conviction:

10. Attributes: You will have 6/4/3 starting dots, to spend in three categories (Physical/Social/Mental) in whatever order most suits your PC (Primary/Secondary/Tertiary). Give thought to spending them according to the kind of person your character is, not what looks neat or what you think you have to have to keep from being killed.

11. Abilities (Talents/Skills/Knowledges): You will have 11/7/4 starting dots. You may not have anything above 3 dots in Initial Stage here. Please do not "Min-Max" either (where you have all your dots in just a couple areas, and nothing anywhere else). Also, remember new characters grew up in the modern world. That means it is unlikely you don't know at least a LITTLE Computers and how to Drive. Some may not, but you should be able to justify this in their background.

Hunters have different abilities than some other genre character classes. 

TALENTS: Awareness, Intuition (for a total of 12)

SKILLS: Demolitions, Technology (for a total of 12)

KNOWLEDGES: Bureaucracy, Research (for a total of 12)

• Temporary Link on Abilities (Current List Only, No "System"):

• http://www.pen-paper.net/wod.php?op=abilities

• Temporary Link for TALENTS: http://www.darknexus.com/WhiteWolf/talent.html

• Temporary Link for SKILLS: http://www.darknexus.com/WhiteWolf/skill.html

• Temporary Link for KNOWLEDGES: http://www.darknexus.com/WhiteWolf/knowledge.html

NB: Specializations (Attributes and/or Abilities) -- If you have a 4 or higher, you may take a specialization in something, but the bonus rerolling ONLY is done when you are using that specific specialization. 

Example, if you have an Appearance of 4 and your specialization is "Sexy", you only get the bonus when you are trying to deliberately be "sexy" in your RP.

12. Advantages (Backgrounds/Edges/Virtues): You have 5 starting dots for Backgrounds (we highly recommend at least Resources 2 in order to be able to afford to live in DC at all, but you can also buy this up with Freebies later.)

Backgrounds, Hunter (Main Book) WW8100, pg. 119. You get 3 starting dots for Edges. You get 3 starting dots for Virtues (Mercy, Vision and Zeal).

Temporary Link for Backgrounds (Current List only, no "System"):

http://www.pen-paper.net/wod.php?op=backgrounds

Another temporary Link for BACKGROUNDS (Multi-genre, no System):

http://www.darknexus.com/WhiteWolf/background.html

13. Merits & Flaws: Merits and Flaws, Hunter Player’s Guide WW8120, pg. 55-56

 

Temp Links to use for Merits & Flaws. The VOE one is incomplete and VTM -centric in coverage; the Pen&Paper one doesn't give details but it DOES give the sourcebook for tons of them in every genre so you know what's currently legal and what isn't.

http://www.vampyresofeurope.com/files/play-pack/meritflaws.htm 

http://www.pen-paper.net/wod.php?op=meritindex

http://www.blarg.net/~rain/ats/Merits.html

http://www.blarg.net/~rain/ats/Flaws.html

http://darkstone.udic.net/merits.htm

http://www.darknexus.com/WhiteWolf/merit.html

http://www.darknexus.com/WhiteWolf/flaw.html

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Parc/2606/mf.html

 

Temp Link for HUNTER-SPECIFIC Merits & Flaws.  

Mortals may NOT take these:

http://vampire49.tripod.com/meritflaws/huntermf.html

 

NOTE: Interestingly, though they are "Human" in the most basic sense, Hunters do not apparently have a Humanity stat. If you need to make a roll that requires it as a Target number, consult the Hunter ST for help determining an equivalent.

14. Conviction:

15. Willpower:

You may then switch the template to FREEBIES stage and you have 21 freebies to spend.

WHO APPROVES YOUR SHEET / WHO IS HUNTER ST?:  Jon

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"Morals - all correct moral rules - derive from the instinct to survive; moral behavior is survival above the individual level - as in the father dying to save his children."

 

"Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive [...] Unless one accepts that, anything one says about morals, war, politics - you name it - is nonsense. Correct morals arise from knowing what Man is - not what do-gooders and well-meaning Aunt Nellies would want him to be."

 

 -- Major Reid, Moral Philosopher, 7000 A.D.
Robert A. Heinlein's "Starship Troopers", 1959

HUNTER SOURCEBOOKS IN USE:

(Thank you, Adam, for helping type these up)

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"Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?"

-- Solomon Short

**NOTE: A PC may not assume to know the "aura" or reading of a Hunter until they have earned this knowledge IC, via RP, buying Hunter Lore, or info from an approved background. Otherwise, they may see the reading as stated, but it has no meaning to them.

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"Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate -- and quickly."

 -- from "The Notebooks of Lazarus Long" by Robert Heinlein

HUNTER THEMED MEDIA:

BOOKS: "The Watchmen" by Alan Moore (DC Comics), "Dracula" by Bram Stoker [Van Helsing], "It" by Stephen King, The "Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter" Series by Laurell K. Hamilton, Hellsing (Manga), Swan Song by Robert McCammon

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LINKS TO HUNTER RELATED WEB SITES:

Anonymous-Liberty.com: http://anonymous-liberty.com/

Bystanders (Hunter Mortals) NPCs Index: http://www.pen-paper.net/wod.php?op=npc&npctypeid=7

Eternal Grace Congregation Church (FICTITIOUS, but amusing. There is no #3601 on Calusa Club Dr. in Miami, and their phone # is a 555 exchange ): http://www.father-ramos.com/

H:tR Mailing List Symbols (Glyphs): http://patriot.net/~glurker/Hunters/additional/symbols.html

Hunter: the Reckoning: Redeemer (Sequel to Video Game): http://hunterthereckoning.com/redeemer/ 

Hunter (Hunter's Hunted Style Mortals) NPCs Index: http://www.pen-paper.net/wod.php?op=npc&npctypeid=7

Hunter's Solace: A Project Twilight RP Site: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/urbanbuda/ 

Imbued Hunter NPCs Index: http://www.pen-paper.net/wod.php?op=npc&npctypeid=6

Libris Maleficarum / Price of Blood / Richmond By Night: http://members.tripod.com/Price_Of_Blood/

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