Deluxe Edition Preview #2: Facilitator's Guide
Delving into the second section in the book that provides Facilitators with tips and tools for bringing their horrors to the table.
Welcome to part 2 of 6 in our lead up to the Liminal Horror Deluxe Edition newsletter series!
As we gear up for the April 15th launch on Backerkit we will be exploring what is contained within the book!
In this series we’re looking at each Chapter/Section in the book so you can get a good idea of everything we have in store for you.
This time will be diving into Chapter 2: Facilitator’s Guide (essays on how to run and create horror at the table). Within is a plethora of advice and tools for anyone interested in running Liminal Horror (or really any type of ttrpg).
You can take a look at the last newsletter, that focused on the Investigator’s Guide here:
Deluxe Edition Preview #1: Investigators Guide
Welcome to part 1 of 6 in our lead up to the Liminal Horror Deluxe Edition newsletter series!
*Remember that things are still subject to change as we’re in the editing and layout process. Even so, this should give a good look at what you’re going to get with Liminal Horror Deluxe Edition.
WHAT’S INSIDE CHAPTER 2
The goal behind the Facilitator’s Guide was to gather tips and tools for bring the horror to the table. These “essays” provide advice and guidance for running and creating this type of game, and hopefully helps people by scaffolding some areas that are often overlooked when it comes to game advice
The chapter is primarily broken into three sections: Running an Investigation, Creating a Scenario and Adapting a Mystery.
Running an Investigation: This section focuses on how to leverage the system to use in horror scenarios.
Creating a Scenario: A detailed breakdown of how to make a horror scenario for Liminal Horror and use the tools within the book.
Adapting a Mystery: This final section focuses on how to take adventures for other systems and run them in Liminal Horror.
Running an Investigation
Advice on how to use Liminal Horror’s game mechanics to bring your scenarios to life. These include parts going into. This has general advice on the different modes and situations that Investigators may encounter during play.
Creating a Scenario
How to go about making your own stuff for Liminal Horror, creating adventures in which to throw the Investigators into. It delves into all the different variables from types of adventures and setups to obstacles they may encounter to creating compelling Locations /NPCs/Factions/Horrors/Resonant Artifacts/Fallouts.
One of the most exciting portions are the explicit advice on creating Doom Clocks and the different encounter procedures that Facilitators can use in their games. These are systems that are used to deploy random encounters. These include:
Encounter die (a straightforward roll table)
Tension die (an ever dwindling resource that leads to inescapable encounters)
Void crawl (a narrative generator that utilizes multiple tables to push investigators as they look deeper into the weird and strange).
Adapting a Mystery
With all of the amazing adventures for other systems and genres there is no reason you can bash them up and make them modern horror. This section’s draft can be found on the website as we wanted to inspire Facilitators to make and adapt adventures for Liminal Horror. The advice is distilled in such a way that reveals what aspects are truly important for a session/arc/campaign/adventure in Liminal Horror.
Stay Tuned
During our next newsletter we’ll look at our version of a bestiary… Catalog of the Strange.
Liminal Horror Projects to keep your eye on
Liminal Horror Deluxe Edition, because everyone is going to need a copy.
https://liminalhorrorrpg.com/ the official Liminal Horror website got a revamp and reorganization.
Liminal Grimoire by M. Allen Hall: A box set of pamphlet adventures and supplements.
I Don’t Belong Here by Adam Stations: A horror spark book supplement that includes tarot sized encounter cards.
Playthings by Seth Ian: a new third party Liminal Horror adventure where the players are trapped in a plastic toy Demi-plane.
Actual Play list for Liminal Horror
If you want a low barrier of creative entry, write a Liminal Horror conversion for one of the following adventures.
If you’re feeling creative, hop over to join the Horrors of the America Jam and write an entry highlighting something weird within North or South America!