HAUNTED ECHOES

Have you ever wondered who died when the echo of a bell toll reached your ear? Who died when the masked man descended from their black church to burn the flesh of the forgotten? Some say there aren’t enough of them to give names to the bodies, find the culprit. Even worse when you slip through their fingers, the only thing you can do is return as the worst memory you ever had, hoping your loved ones aren’t a part of it. HAUNTED ECHOES is a lightweight TTRPG focused on one-shots and short term games where we play as weird detectives in the rainy streets of a fantasy victorian city . Use your talents to gather clues, solve cases, banish ghosts, deal with elemental demons and ruthless scoundrels while trying to search for an answer to the question that haunts your very being. Inside you will find rules for: Solving cases, including gathering clues and delivering the truth Dealing with the countdown clock , a ticking catastrophe waiting to happen Taking the risk , when your talents as a detective aren't enough you accept the risk and roll the dice Using special abilities tailored to help you solve weird cases scattered around the city Running investigations without a GM , relying solely on the fiction of the cases to create interesting clues A simple and fast downtime , check your notes or wear the mask to get ready for another case The principles of play , including guidelines on how to deliver consequences when a dice roll goes awry Rolling on tables to create both characters or possible cases to investigate Haunted Echoes is currently on v0.4 and is fully playable. For future updates you can expect small fixes to the rules, more tables to help you run the game and a revised layout, including more guidance on how to use your talents and create clues. This work is based on Blades in the Dark , product of One Seven Design, developed and authored by John Harper, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. This game is built upon the design of Hunters Inc. by Jex Thomas and Slugblaster Turbo X by Mikey Hamm.