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Supercharge your Monster of the Week sessions with a one-two punch of new playbooks, new story options, additional assets & threats, and more. The Hunter's Journal and Slayer's Survival Kit offer up 600 pages of new material for this bestselling game of supernatural mystery and kick-ass action!
The Slayer's Survival Kit introduces nine new Hunter playbooks and an additional nine Team playbooks! Get ready to dive into adventure as The Action Scientist, The Celebrity, The Changeling, The Covenant, The Envoy, The Forged, The Host, The Interface, and The Visitor!
On the Team side of things, unite your group around a common theme with The Artifact Collectors, The Coven, The Escaped Experiments, The Good Monsters, The Medical Team, The Mundane Monstrosities, the Radio Station, The Research Lab, and Swipe to Slay!
But that's not all! The Slayer's Survival Kit also covers new flavors of Weird moves, new assets and allies, guidelines for using Big Magic and more!
The Hunter's Journal provides a toolkit to extend and enhance every playbook we've published for Monster of the Week -- including the nine new playbooks in the Slayer's Survival Kit!
The new Hunter Story mechanic helps Keepers personalize the story for each Hunter, giving them specific arcs and choices to build on that are tailored to each Hunter playbook. You'll also find new assets, new threats, and more within this 368-page beast of a supplement.
This book is loaded with narrative options, rules, and advice for players and Keepers alike, whether you're new to the game or ready to inject fresh ideas into your ongoing campaign.
The Slayer's Survival Kit clocks in at 232 pages. The Hunter's Journal covers every official Hunter playbook we've published (including those in the Slayer's Survival Kit) and comprises another 368 pages. Both books will be printed as digest-sized 6"x9" hardcovers with a matte color cover and black & white interiors.
Made of solid zinc alloy and finished with antique silver plating, these 15mm six-siders have custom numerals on the 1-5 sides and a special slayer icon on the six face. No matter what Move you're making, you're always rolling +Cool!
This deluxe set of seven zinc alloy tokens from Campaign Coins presents a visible (and tangible!) way to track your character's stability status, hold, and modifiers It includes:
One Stability token. The "hub of your character tracker, this six-pointed-star has different colored coatings on each side to tell people around the table whether your character is Stable, or Unstable and in need of swift assistance!
Three Modifier tokens. Each of these is V-shaped so that they slot onto the Stability token. Each side is colored differently (red for penalty, blue for bonus) to easily represent –1 or +1 modifier.
Three Hold tokens. These hex-shaped tokens represent "hold" currency for your hunter. While they don't sport a color coating, the sides depict different monsters so if you have two different kinds of hold you can differentiate your stacks The hex shape slots into the space between the top two or bottom two points of the Stability token.
Track NPCs, clues, evidence, cryptids and more in this 160-page custom notebook. This 6" x 9" flexi-bound journal features a smooth black faux-leather cover embellished with a silver-foil-stamped design. Two ribbon bookmarks will help you navigate the multiple sections we've laid out:
The character sections provide a structured way to stay on top of your Hunter's stats and history with their fellow team members.
The Mystery sections give you space to assess the situation, gather clues & evidence, and develop your key approach in defeating the supernatural forces opposing you.
A final reference section puts Hunter concepts, basic moves, and alternative Weird moves at your fingertips.
Plus, there's plenty of room in this dot-grid notebook for your own notes, sketches, and other free-form observations. You also find evocative black & white art by Fernando Salvaterra through the margins. With its deft balance of style and functionality, the Investigator's Casebook provides a terrific way to organize every aspect of your Monster of the Week adventures!
We put an extraordinary effort into making sure our Roll20 offerings give you the best VTT experience possible. In addition to art assets, character tokens, and handouts, the modules for the Hunter's Journal and Slayer's Survival Kit will offer the complete text of both books, fully searchable right there within Roll20. If you game solely on Roll20, this reward gives you everything you need.
First, a note: World events continue to disrupt shipping. Pricing and delivery schedules remain extremely volatile. Our intention is to deploy shipping options that minimize risk and expense for both ourselves and our backers. That means we will not be able to offer a shipping option during this campaign that will service everyone. We're frustrated by the situation, but if you do not live in a country we service, we outline some options below.
All shipping fees will be chargedseparately, AFTER the campaign, during pledge management. The prices below are estimates. Actual shipping prices will be determined after production is finished and we're gearing up to send out the books. Also, if you add-on additional physicalcopies of the game to your order, your shipping cost may increase. If you add any of the premium gear to your order, your shipping cost will definitely increase.
Estimated shipping costs (two books):
$10 USA; $15 if your order includes any of the premium gear
$27 UK, inclusion of non-book items will likely add in VAT costs
$35 Ireland, inclusion of non-book items will likely add in VAT costs
$37 New Zealand, although there may be other importation fees we aren't yet aware of
$37-41 Australia, depending on what we need to do to take care of import duties
$41 Canada including handling and border tax
$58 Norway depending on what we need to do to take care of VAT and duty costs up front; inclusion of non-book items will likely increase VAT costs considerably
Estimated taxes by country:
Canada — 15% GST charged on entire order’s contents
UK — 20% VAT charged on non-book portion of order, with probable proportional bump to shipping cost
Ireland — 23% VAT charged on non-book portion of order, with probable proportional bump to shipping cost
Norway — 25% VAT charged on non-book portion of order, with probable proportional bump to shipping cost; plus, has the highest base shipping cost we’ve seen to date
If you live in one of these countries, GST/VAT will add additional costs for you. These are taxes we MUST charge. We will incorporate them into the cost of shipping so that you get one charge rather than paying shipping once and then being forced to pay VAT when you go to pick up your items. This combined shipping + GST/VAT will be charged well after the campaign ends, close to the time of fulfillment.
If we do not offer shipping to your country you may consider:
Backing at the PDF + POD tier. In prior campaigns, the POD version has been ready weeks or months before the physical books have been produced. If you place your POD order as soon as the codes are ready, it's very likely you'll have a physical book in your hands before our print run reaches your local game store.
Waiting until the book reaches your local retailer (online or neighborhood). Our PDF guarantee means that any time you buy one of our books new in a physical form, you get the PDF for free.
Backing at the Roll20 Compendium Bundle tier. We make sure our Compendium offerings on Roll20 contain all the text from the source game, we create customizable backgrounds, full sets of tokens and clocks, handouts, and more. If you use Roll20, there's an immense amount of functionality in our modules and it's an easy way to share the game with your entire group. This level also gets you the PDF and POD copies so it's really your best bet all around.
Our expected delivery date for all rewards: July 2025
We have a great team on this project. Evil Hat is an experienced RPG publisher. We've run over twenty successful crowdfunding campaigns and we've printed many roleplaying games in a variety of physical formats over the past few years.
This puts us in a fine position to take on the risks and challenges that will arise. Experience tells us that things don’t always go as planned.
Here's what we can anticipate as potential problems.
The Text: While Hunter's Journal and Slayer's Survival Kit are largely done aside from the artwork, it's possible backers will identify some glaring issue that we need to address before we take this fully to publication. That can add time, for sure.
Printing: We have a strong, established relationship with our printers. We’ve got them on tap to print the books in whatever quantity we end up needing. But printers can run into problems all the same: supply shortages, unexpected delays due to company holidays or industry events, shipping problems, printing errors, and so on. We’ve got the experience to stay atop those potential problems and the flexibility to pivot and address them promptly. In the event of defective product, we will send a replacement at no cost to you. We print our books in the USA so shipping time from the printer to our fulfillment center is both speedy and reliable.
Shipping: Packages get lost. We'll send replacements. Shipping can take longer than expected. We won't put the book on sale until all backer copies are shipped out. As noted in the Shipping section above, we regrettably can't offer delivery to every country as part of this campaign. We will release the book into retail distribution overseas soon after the delivery of the campaign rewards and for most (if not all) fans in areas where we can't ship directly this will be your most affordable option.
Finances: Although various world events continue to throw curveballs into production and shipping, we're solidly profitable and well-positioned in 2025 and for the foreseeable future.
One final note: We often run two or three crowdfunding projects per year. Each one is a carefully planned process based on our 20+ successful campaigns in the past. We pride ourselves on fulfilling rewards quickly, but even so, different crowdfunding efforts can sometimes overlap. We have not had an issue tackling that. We make space for each campaign and work to ensure that resources are available to take each of our projects across the finish line. If, on the rare occasion something does go wrong, we're committed to being upfront and transparent about the issue and what we're going to do to fix it.
If there's any risk or challenge YOU can think of that we haven't mentioned here, please write in and ask. We love to answer questions, and we do our best to provide an unparalleled customer service experience whenever possible. We intend to impress you.
At $50k the project is funded and we'll print the books!
Printed endpapers and spot gloss added to both Hunter's Journal and Slayer's Survival Kit
We'll create ePub versions of both Hunter's Journal and Slayer's Survival Kit
The Investigators Casebook will have ribbon bookmarks added.
New hunter playbook! The Elemental designed by Michael Sands. A transdimensional agent correcting cosmic errors—powerful, mysterious, and inhuman. Includes advice and hunter stories. Inspired by Sapphire & Steel. New hunter playbook! The Abandoned by Luke Green. A hunter who was left alone through tragedy, neglect, or other circumstance. Like Newt from Aliens or Little Orphan Annie. New Rules! Ensemble Teams. Rules for campaigns that use team playbooks. The players create two hunters each from the start and choose which one tackles a given mystery. Good for focusing on the team theme. PLUS New Team Playbook! Passing the Torch. A group of experienced but weary veterans and fresh young talents who learn from those veterans, with each player creating one of both. Pairs well with the Ensemble Team Rules. Random Mystery Tables: A set of rollable tables for inspiring quick mystery ideas. Combat Options: A set of moves to change the focus of a combat scene. Zoomed-in combat moves provide more detailed back and forth action, for exciting duels or boss fights. Zoomed-out combat moves quickly resolve a fight or cope with hordes of monsters at once.
