Kids of Iron Country Unite!


So, I wasn't going to launch Hunters, Inc. until the jam started, but I just couldn't wait. So here it is two days early.

Hunters, Inc. is a lightweight hack of Bump in the Dark by way of Slugblaster Turbo X, and it's my brief but hopefully powerful love letter to the kids-solving-supernatural-mysteries genre, particularly Scooby-Doo: Mystery, Incorporated but also things like Eerie, IndianaGravity FallsTrollhuntersPaper Girls, Alex Mack, Ghostwriter, and the lighter side of Buffy. It's also a love letter to Slugblaster which is in my opinion the best game to come out in the past couple of years (I'm not the only one who thinks so). 

This is a smaller game in most ways -- hell, it clocks in at only three pages -- but I think a lot of the ways things are implemented works well and would inform a revised or second edition of Bump if there ever is such a thing. My goals are that it's easy to pick up as a new player, that it's quick to the table, and that it reduces the GM load that comes with preparing hunts/mysteries. Whether it meets those goals is another story, but I'm optimistic.

Anyway, check it out, throw me a couple bucks if you want, and let me know what you think!

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Sep 09, 2023

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This looks amazing!  While I don't have a group of kid/tween/teen players right now, I could see this working really well for some of the players in my current Bump in the Dark game to take home and play with their kids.
It also looks like a cool way to run a Bump-ish one-shot at a convention

definitely! And if adults want to play a kids on bikes investigating supernatural stuff type game too. I tried to tune the abilities and stuff to be a little less geared toward a grimdark game haha