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The Haunting of Cliff Cove for Zine Month & Zinequest

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Coming to Kickstarter! Hanna-Barbera meets Giallo in this microzine RPG of lovable sleuths, quirky sidekicks, shadowy demons, and grisly murders.

The Meddling Kids

2 or more players play the amateur sleuths and meddling kids of Cliff Cove

When murderous demons come to Cliff Cove, the town turns to the only effective mystery-solvers it's every known: your band of part-time musicians, part-time monster hunters who are working their summer jobs and taking summer classes at the local college. You Meddling Kids have a pick-list of traits, backgrounds, and connections to the other band members. Each session, you flesh out your backstory, building connections to the town and the locations and people in each mystery.

Sidekicks & The Van

1 player plays the sidekick and everyone pulls together to create the band's van

The game also includes rules for sidekicks—the band's odd, beastly, or supernatural companions who use a slightly different set of rules. Additionally, the band has a van that contains all their shared resources (and their shared pool of Luck).

Keepers

Keepers get pamphlet adventures, faction info cards, and rules for tag-driven hauntings

The Keeper (or GM) gets two ready-to-run mysteries, info cards on the town's supernatural factions (Morgana the Witch Queen and the band's demon-hunting rivals, the Angels of Apokolips), and rules for using Haunting tags to fuel your adventures until your band is ready for their big showdown.

Mechanics

A Keeper (GM), 2+ Meddling Kids, 1 Sidekick, and lot of 6-sided dice

Inspired by Gila RPGs' Lumen SRD, Son of Oak's City of Mist, Jex Thomas's Bump in the Dark, and R. Rook Studio's own My Chivalric Bromance, Cliff Cove brings together Froged-in-the-Dark mechanics and statless, no-numbers characters. 

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