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Caramel Cooper

Caramel Cooper

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Character Creation

To get things going, here’s quick access to character creation so that you can start familiarizing yourselves with it (if you aren’t already). I’ll post more details later that will likely affect your character creation decisions, so don’t go too crazy with it yet!

Here’s a link to a form-fillable PDF sheet for reference: Hunter The Reckoning 5th ED. Original 2-Page Interactive Sheet

We could probably use the World of Darkness sheet at Myth-Weavers unless someone has a better idea.

I also found this Character Creation Quick Reference document that looks good on a quick glance. Let me know if it’s too confusing or is lacking information. For instance, I might need to provide you with a list of skill specializations if you don’t have access to the core book.

Character Creation Summary
  • Choose Concept, Ambition, Desire, and Touchstones (these are the “flavor” of your character)
  • Choose Creed and Drive (these define when or if you are able to use Desperation Dice)
  • Allocate Attributes
    • Take one Attribute at 4; three Attributes at 3; four Attributes at 2; one Attribute at 1
    • Record Health (Stamina + 3) and Willpower (Composure + Resolve)
  • Allocate Skills,Pick one Skill distribution:
    • Jack of all trades: One Skill at 3; eight Skills at 2; ten Skills at 1
    • Balanced: Three Skills at 3; five Skills at 2; seven Skills at 1
    • Specialist: One Skill at 4; three Skills at 3; three Skills at 2; three Skills at 1
  • Allocate Advantages
    • 7 points of Advantages, 2 points of Flaws
    • Choose Edges: 2 Edges and 1 Perk or 1 Edge and 2 Perks

Character sheets will be posted in a separate thread. Use this thread for OOC discussion!

Introductory Questions
  • Your character's gender and sexual orientation, so I can take it into account when creating NPCs.
  • Your limits when it comes to violent and sexual content (especially non-con).
  • Any specific kinks or content you're looking forward to in this scenario.
  • How much do you know about Hunter: The Reckoning 5E and whether or not you have access to the game's rule book, so I know how much info I need to provide. It's fine if you've never played or even heard of it before.
 
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I will make a character focused on charisma and fighting skill. Vain, arrogant hunter.
 
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I'm going to have to look at some rules and stuff. I don't have any of these books. But I'm thinking of perhaps being skill monkey stealth person.
 
As a quick summary, the three main character mechanics in HTR other than the usual WoD skills (and the specialties related to them) are:
  • Advantages and Flaws that are divided into Merits (such as Looks or Substance Abuse) and Backgrounds (such as Allies, Contacts, or Fame)
  • Edges that are simple special powers the hunters have (involving specific Attribute+Skill tests depending on the Edge). For example, the Sense the Unnatural Edge can be used to sense the presence of supernatural creatures with a successful Wits + Occult or Science roll (the skill depending on how you flavor the Edge at character creation).
  • Desperation Dice which can be added to a roll in certain situations based on the Hunter's Creed (see below)

The number of Desperation Dice depends on the the group's Desperation, which starts at one and increases over time up to five. Rolling 1s on Desperation Dice causes either Overreach that increases Danger (but can only be chosen on a successful test), or Despair, which causes the test to fail, even if it was otherwise successful, and the Hunter to lose their Drive (see below), preventing the Hunter from using Desperation Dice again until it's redeemed.

Desperation and Danger levels also increase circumstantially throughout the scenario when bad things happen or things go otherwise wrong. Danger is an abstraction of how difficult things currently are for the Hunters, i.e. each time a new Danger level is reached, the situation becomes more dangerous in some way. Danger also starts at one and ranges up to five.

Creeds

Creeds are Hunter “archetypes” that are described in more detail in the core book. They don’t provide you with mechanical advantages, but they define situations in which you can use Desperation Dice. Choose one of the five Creeds for your character.

Entrepreneurial
  • Bold innovations and experimental approaches
  • Desperation Dice Fields: Building, inventing, augmenting, or repairing while on the Hunt.

Faithful
  • Belief in higher powers and a divinely informed worldview
  • Desperation Dice Fields: Any direct conflict (physical, social, or mental) with the supernatural while on the Hunt.

Inquisitive
  • Gathering intel and understanding the quarry
  • Desperation Dice Fields: Gaining information while on the Hunt, such as research, breaking-and-entering, and interrogation.

Martial
  • Attacking the supernatural via arms and tactics
  • Desperation Dice Fields: Physical conflict while on the Hunt (which need not be with the quarry itself, or even the supernatural).

Underground
  • Guile, subterfuge, and knowing the right people
  • Desperation Dice Fields: Stealth and subterfuge in service of the Hunt.

Drives

Choose a Drive when creating a character. While you have a Drive, you are able to use Desperation Dice, but rolling them can sometimes cause you to lose your Drive until you redeem it. The conditions for redemption depend on the Drive (detailed in the core book).

Summary of Drives
  • Curiosity: What do monsters do, and why?
  • Vengeance: Settle a score with the supernatural
  • Oath: A promise made binds the Hunter to honor it
  • Greed: Take the ill-gotten gains the monsters have stolen
  • Pride: The world belongs to humans, not the supernatural
  • Envy: Join the night or die trying
  • Atonement: Make up for aiding the supernatural in the past
 
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If you're looking for the core rulebook, just to make sure we're using the same one, HTR 5E was published in 2022 and the cover looks like this:

Hunter5thEditionCover.jpg


(It's actually the 2nd HTR edition, but since it's based on VTM 5E rules, they call it 5E.)
 
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Thinking of making a character that is stealth and melee type. Getting up close and personal
 
I think everyone is considering some kind of melee, fighter, and/or stealth character at the moment. I don't have anything against that, but it might then be a good idea to vary your secondary roles with some of you leaning more towards Social skills and advantages and some towards Mental.

I'd also encourage you all to check the available Edges that are listed in the Character Creation Quick Reference document since they're the strongest or at least the most special advantages your Hunter has. You start with 2 Edges and 1 Perk in one of them, or one Edge with two Perks in it. Each Edge requires a successful test with a specific Attribute+Skill combination to be used, so make sure your Attributes and Skills can reasonably support your Edge. Edges can also be flavored/reskinned rather freely as long as it makes sense!

The specific Edges in the book (or in the quick reference) are intended as examples, so if you don't think any of them fit for your character, we can probably create custom Edges for you that make more sense.
 
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  • Your character's gender and sexual orientation, so I can take it into account when creating NPCs.
  • Your limits when it comes to violent and sexual content (especially non-con).
  • Any specific kinks or content you're looking forward to in this scenario.
  • How much do you know about Hunter: The Reckoning 5E and whether or not you have access to the game's rule book, so I know how much info I need to provide. It's fine if you've never played or even heard of it before.


Character: Dave (Middle ages patrolman)
Sex: M (Straight)
Limit: None (violent and all sexual kinks ok)
Looking for others to help create the story and get involved. (Character getting abused and feeling helpless as a vampire and other supernatural creatures overpowers and plays around with him)
Knowledge of HTR: 5E (read through the books online before) played a VTM 5E game before, and previous editions.
Story more important than character survival.
 
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Thanks! Although, as a reminder, there won't be vampires involved in the scenario, but you're free to include them in your backstory.
 
The Character thread is now up! You can post your characters using markdown formatting or link to a character sheet hosted elsewhere. If anyone knows a good online sheet we can use, let us know! If you need help with your sheet, you can DM me, ask here, or post a work in progress version and ask me for feedback.

Character Knowledge
Here's some prior knowledge of the situation for all your characters.
  • Your contact, a hacker who you know as Doll (or Dolores), has given you false identities as representatives of various tech companies, except for those of you who wish to infiltrate the location by some other means.
  • You have invites (for your false identities) to a private party at a luxurious mansion by a lake in the middle of a large forest. The number of people at the location is unconfirmed, but it seems there will be other guests from at least five different tech companies, likely one or two representatives from each.
  • The host and the invited guests are involved in global sex slave trafficking.
  • Doll has information from hacked communications and traced financial transactions that strongly suggests the demon you hunt will be at the party, but its identity is unknown.
  • Recent satellite photos of the location show nothing else of interest within several miles, though Doll isn't certain that the pictures haven't been altered. There's a small lake, about half a mile (800 m) at its widest, a dense forest that surrounds it and the mansion entirely, and a three-mile (5 km) dirt road leading to the mansion from the closest main road. The ground floor of the mansion appears to be roughly 8000 sq. ft. (740 m²) in size, but Doll hasn't been able to acquire its floor plans.
  • As guests, you are expected to arrive by car.
At the start of the scenario, we can also do retroactive knowledge tests based on how your characters have prepared for the task, and you can use any Edges you have that are related to research and information gathering (such as the Library Edge). You can also communicate with Dolores over text or phone, though she doesn't know if there's cell service at the mansion.

Introductory Questions
Waiting for the rest of you to send me answers to these either as DM or in this thread.
  • Your character's gender and sexual orientation, so I can take it into account when creating NPCs.
  • Your limits when it comes to violent and sexual content (especially non-con).
  • Any specific kinks or content you're looking forward to in this scenario.
  • How much do you know about Hunter: The Reckoning 5E and whether or not you have access to the game's rule book, so I know how much info I need to provide. It's fine if you've never played or even heard of it before.
 
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Introductory Questions
Waiting for the rest of you to send me answers to these either as DM or in this thread.

  • Your character's gender and sexual orientation, so I can take it into account when creating NPCs.
  • Your limits when it comes to violent and sexual content (especially non-con).
  • Any specific kinks or content you're looking forward to in this scenario.
  • How much do you know about Hunter: The Reckoning 5E and whether or not you have access to the game's rule book, so I know how much info I need to provide. It's fine if you've never played or even heard of it before.

Character: Female (Bi)
Limits: (Violence - Yes, Sexual Content - Yes, Sexual kinks - Ok, Real images, porn - ok)
Kinks: Violence
Knowledge: Played VTM, 2E and Hunters 2E, read rule book 5E
Probably a horrific beginning, and even a surviving is a good ending, and death is a relief.
 
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Additional Questions
A few more things I thought of:
  • Are you fine with real face claims and/or using real porn (photos) as reference pictures?
  • Do you want to leave out any of these kinks: bestiality, incest, pregnancy
  • Do you want a good chance that your character survives, or do you hope for a bad ending? (I already know this from some of you.)
 
Not sure how much this helps but I made a quick example character without filling in any of the flavor info, just the things that are mechanically important. You don't need to fill all the flavor info either (things like Concept, Ambition, Desire, Touchstones) but you should of course have some general idea of your Hunter's backstory.

Example: A kind of a book-worm character (I took the Specialist skill distribution) and a group of bodyguards as an Ally (of Effectiveness 3 and Reliability 3). I didn't include Skill specialties, I think we can ignore those to keep things simpler. Note that "Creed Fields" depends on your Creed (see earlier post for details), and describes the situation in which your Hunter can use Desperation Dice.

Example-Character.jpg

When you're choosing Advantages, Flaws, and Edges, if you can't find anything that fits, we can probably come up with custom ones. Just let me know what you want your character to be good/bad at and we can figure something out. You can think of them as something like this:
  • Advantage: Some kind of ongoing benefit for your Hunter (knacks, gifts, and just plain good fortune inherent to the character, or advantages of relationship, circumstance, and opportunity: material possessions, social networks, and the like).
  • Flaw: The opposite of an Advantage, an ongoing problem for your character.
  • Edge: Something specific that helps your Hunter deal with the supernatural.
 
There is link to a form-fillable sheet (this one) in the first post of this thread, but also fine to just type it out (preferably with some formatting for readability). Here's a different looking sheet that has Health and Willpower boxes where you can type in so you can mark them as / for superficial and X for aggravated damage.

You should post your characters or a link to a sheet in the Character Thread.

I'm ready to get started as soon as we have a character for everyone.
 
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As a reminder, the demon you are currently hunting isn't anyone who your characters know or can recognize. Part of the scenario will focus on figuring out who the demon is, if there's more than one of them, and if there are other supernatural threats involved.

@mainman Character sheet looks good! You should add two Perks for your Thwart the Unnatural Edge (the ones found in the book are Creature Specialization, Ward, Recognition, and Handsfree). Also you can remove Despair from your character sheet, it's just something that can happen during play sometimes when rolling Desperation Dice. I think the three points in the Contact advantage can represent his colleagues who he can contact by phone, and the two points in Enemy represent the threat of the demons who've been tormenting him, but could be something else if you want.

Let me know if you have a different idea, but perhaps the demon or demons who have been tormenting Dave have temporarily stopped doing it for some reason, giving him a brief chance to do something about it, teaming up with the other hunters. The demon you are currently hunting could be someone who Dave believes has information on how he can defeat his tormentors when they come back.
 
@mappy Character looks good! You should also add two Perks for your Edge. The ones available in the book (and in the quick reference) for the Arsenal edge are: Team Requisition, Special Features, Exotics, and Untraceable.

You should also choose whether you want her to maintain her own weapon collection with Intelligence + Craft or rely on someone else to do that with Manipulation + Streetwise. If you want, you could move some of your skills and attributes around to get a bigger Edge dice pool. The Arsenal edge needs 4 successes to work, and you have quite low points in the relevant skills and attributes. It might make sense to let the Hidden Armory of your Safe House advantage provide some kind of bonus to the roll as well, though.

Although, for the purposes of a short scenario like this, we can assume you get some kind of benefit from the Arsenal edge regardless of a roll.

@mainman You can use your Composure + Occult or Science as your dice pool for the Thwart the Unnatural Edge, so feel free to move some skills around to increase one of those if you want. You should also decide what your object of focus for the Edge is, which determines whether you use Occult or Science for rolls with it. Object of focus is explained in the book like this:

Most Endowments rely on an object of focus — an item of strong symbolic or practical value, such as a Christian crucifix, a hawthorn talisman, or a gamma fluctuation reader, depending on the nature of the Hunter's Endowment. These objects are not unique and easily replaced, though, and a Hunter can carry or produce replacements with minimal effort.​

@powergirl Your Artifact edge is passive so it doesn't rely on Attribute + Skill roll, but your Beast Whisperer edge uses Charisma + Animal Ken for commands (and Composure + Animal Ken for training but that won't come to play in this short scenario). Oh and I missed this earlier, but you should replace "Presence" with "Charisma" in your Attributes.
 
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I'll get us started soon (today or tomorrow), but in the mean time, let me know if each of you wants to enter the party as a guest using your cover identity (as described under Character Knowledge earlier), or if you want to take a different approach like getting off the road a few miles away from the mansion and walking there through the forest. I'd prefer that at least some or even all of you arrive as guests so that we can play with the social aspects of this party. But let me know if you have other ideas!
 
I created the IC Thread with an opening post but I can still alter details in it if necessary. We'll do a short "Three days earlier" thing where we establish how your Hunters have prepared for the mission so that you can put your downtime-related traits into use, but we don't need to spend a lot of time on that. Probably just one post from each of you will be enough.

After some more thought, it probably makes the most sense for everyone to arrive at the mansion together as guests, so that we don't end up splitting the party at the very start already. Even if you're looking for stealthy stuff, you should be able to find opportunities for that after arriving at the party.
 
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