Dark Eras – Hunter Edo Jidai Preview

Chronicles of Darkness, Hunter: The Vigil, Open Development, Projects

A few people have asked if we were going to do open development on the Dark Eras additional content. While I’m not in a position where I can take a ton of commentary and still manage my schedule well, I figured it couldn’t hurt to put a little content out there to show you what we’re doing. I’m personally developing the Changeling the Lost Grimms’ Fairy Tales setting, and this one, Hunter: The Vigil in the early part of the Edo Jidai/Tokugawa Shogunate.

We sort of went all-out on character options in this one. We’ve introduced three new Compacts, and two new Conspiracies. I figured that since Hunter is a relatively Eurocentric game, and hasn’t touched much on Japan, that a lot of area-specific character options would be a great way to foster chronicles, and build setting all at the same time.

We’ve got:

A Compact of pearl divers that deal with the monsters of the sea.

An archaic form of the Hototogisu, who you might know from the various Tokyo sections in the Second Edition cores.

A Compact of male escorts that hunt in society events for those preying on the people.

The Rampant. You can read them below.

A Compact of samurai nobles, who use their money and influence to root out supernatural corruption in government.

This one’s particularly topical, because it gets mentioned in the modern Tokyo writeup in Beast: The Primordial (which you can read on its Kickstarter page right now!).

This is the Otodo, the Rampant. They’re distant cousins of the Lucifuge. I hope you dig them. All the names are current placeholders. I’m not fluent in Japanese, but I’ve talked to one of my fluent, native friends. She helped me out with them, but I always like to go to a few people when I do this stuff.

If you want to discuss this, check out the forum post I made for it.