We Hunt By Night: Expanded Edition - The London Excursion

//DISPATCH TO ALL CONTRACTORS:

Welcome to London, Contractors. The Board has authorised the following changes to the Rulebook, now designated Iteration ‘EE v1.0’. This Iteration is a major overhaul to all game systems.

Iteration v1.2: The London Excursion

• The Big One: After thorough playtesting by our Applied Sciences Division and a frankly disgusting number of bell curves, We Hunt By Night is now a d6-based system. The Board apologizes for any inconvenience caused to lovers of that fundamentally unserious implement, the ‘d10’.
• On a Triumph (now a 6), the dice ‘explodes’, adding 1 success to the total pool and allowing the player to roll again. Complications have been removed, and rolling a 1 no longer removes a success from the total pool.
• A new starter setting for We Hunt By Night, ‘London After Midnight’ has been added.
• Starting attributes are now determined by rolling 3d6; rerolling on a 6.
• Attributes are now hard-capped at 5.
• Starting Skill Points are now set at 8+1d6.
• The 3 point cap on Skills at character creation has been removed.
• It is now clarified that a maximum of 5 points can be invested in any single skill.
• In an effort to cut down on the number of modifiers to dice rolls, Psyche no longer changes the difficulty threshold for rolls. It instead adds/removes dice to the associated dice pools, as Hunger used to.
• As a result of this, Hunger no longer adds additional dice to pools.
• Achieving a milestone no longer allows you to spend 1 point to increase an Attribute. Milestones are now exclusively used to raise Skills.
• To mitigate this, Changes have been added. When a Paranormal reaches max Hunger, they may remove all their Hunger by accepting a Change. Changes grant 1 additional Attribute point (including above the maximum of 5), but Permanently reduce your maximum Psyche by 1.
• History and Passion have been combined into a ‘Tether.’
• Mementos have been added, allowing Paranormals to restore 1 Psyche once per session by using an item related to their Tether as part of a dice roll.
• Connections are now no longer formed at referee’s discretion. If an NPC is responsible for a Paranormal achieving a Milestone, they are added as a Connection.
• Connections now restore Psyche at the end of a scene with that Connection.
• Haunts, safehouses for Paranormals, have been added. A Haunt is made when a location is marked by a Paranormal. Resting in a Haunt restores 1 Psyche per night.
• Burn pools have been added to mitigate the additional Psyche gain potentially pushing Paranormals well over their maximum Psyche. For every Psyche point over their Psyche bounds, a Paranormal gains a burn point that may be used to re-roll one failed dice.
• Faction blurbs have been rewritten and expanded for additional clarity and exposition.
• Two New Membership Perks have been added to all Factions.
• Due to The Institute’s adoption of Machine-Learning Support Programs, ‘Operational Support’ Perk no longer uses the Connection system, and now flatly restores 2 Psyche per successful Hunt. In unrelated news, the Board wishes the Handler Division the best in their future endeavours.
• ‘Dead Drops’ Perk now restores a 1 Psyche every time a Paranormal feeds.
• ‘Pack Mentality’ Perk no longer works in conjunction with the Connections system, and instead restores 1 Psyche for every pack member who made it back from a Hunt intact.
• ‘Bulwark of the Conclave’ Perk is now known by its true name ‘Bulwark of the She-Wolf’, per our revelations on the source of the Conclave’s powers. It now grants 2 additional Body dice on defense rolls.
• Hunts. We Hunt By Night finally has rules for hunting, by night. Generate missions for Paranormals with this new oracle system.
• New Rules for the Delvers, cursebound Paranormals who make pacts with demonic patrons in order to explore the Below.
• Patrons, mentors from the Below who may be summoned to assist with tasks in the material world.

The Board looks forward to working with you further in the future.

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