Here lurk creatures of ancient myth and urban legend. Here lie the graves of angels and the bunkers of secret government programs. Here every malformed horror you’ve ever seen out of the corner of your eye has a home. And they’ve seen you.Don’t look back!Chronicles of Darkness RPG rulebook contains:A guide to creating characters to explore a world of modern horror, from hopes and fears to psychic powers.Dramatic rules for investigation, social manipulation, and bone-crunching violence.Over a dozen monsters straight out of weird fiction and urban legend… plus complete rules for creating your own.The God-Machine Chronicle, a massive collection of sample characters and techgnostic adventures.Formerly titled nWoD Core Rulebook 2nd Edition.

    To chase down prey with your blood pumping fire through your body. Yesterday you didn’t know what that felt like, but today you’re sitting in a room with the bodies of your family and you need to hunt.You are a human, a wolf, a killer, a monster. The ultimate predator.You must hold the balance between the moon and the wolf. Between the flesh and the spirit. Between the pack and the prey. Your blood rises. The wolf must hunt.What are you going to do?You are a hunter now, one of the Uratha who inherit the blessings of Moon and Wolf. You conduct your sacred hunts in the shadows of the ordinary world, trying to maintain the boundaries. Driven by the need to hunt, you must keep the forces that would sway you in harmony rather than giving in to your instincts.But the hunt isn’t easy. Your werewolves think they can hunt any prey, but they now face the return of the idigam — incomprehensible spirits of things that never existed, imprisoned at the dawn of time. Now they’re back, and they want to kill their jailers.They hate you, and they’re coming for you. Time to show them that your senses — and your teeth — are as sharp as ever.This book contains:•The complete guide to playing a werewolf in the World of Darkness.•Reimagined tribes, auspices, and spirit magic to create the ultimate predator and her pack.•A brand new look at werewolf hunting grounds around the world, from Basra to Tokyo.•Rules for the werewolves’ prey, and five examples of the idigam.

    The Mongol army crushed Baghdad, then Russia under its heel, then moved on to devastate Poland and Hungary. The Holy Roman Empire stood to war with the Papacy. The second Lombard League wielded the word of the Pope and fought off Frederick II.The War of Princes rages. Patricide looms. Young powers look up the ladder to the next rungs, and see stagnation and hypocrisy. They see targets. When they look down, they see humanity. They see a power that could change everything. They see mortals organizing into universities and empires.In the mortal world of 1242, power shifted at the rate an army marched. For the undead, power shifts faster than a fire overtakes a haven. To the Damned, power flows as fast as blood from an ancient heart.Vampire 20th Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages is a storytelling game of horrific power.Featuring 13 clans and 19 bloodlines, this volume spans the Dark Medieval World.Contains full rules for play, inspired by Vampire: The Masquerade Twentieth Anniversary Edition.Features new and updated player options, including a brutal new system for Koldunic Sorcery.

    The Art of Changing Breeds compiles the sketches, art notes, and alternate color approaches that went into the creation of the art depicting the shapeshifters featured in W20 Changing Breeds.Each Fera gets a section with down to earth commentary by art director "Mirthful" Mike Chaney, and contains a selection of various stages showing the changes and development of the ideas that were part of the creation of the beautiful illustrations in W20 Changing Breeds.This making of book was made possible by the backers of the Deluxe W20 Changing Breeds Kickstarter campaign.