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Hunter: The Reckoning 5th Edition Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook

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A Storytelling Game of Desperate Measures

You saw what you shouldn’t have, the veil pulled back from the secret world and the monsters who prowl it. You chronicled the tragedies they wrought, these monsters, and the victims upon whom they preyed. You grasped the extent of their influence and witnessed the corruption of the organizations formed to keep them in check. And you vowed to do something about it. Tonight, you act. It’s time for a Reckoning.

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  • Introduces the Hunters of the World of Darkness for 5th Edition
  • Features chapters on character creation, supernatural threats, and rival organizations
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Jacob J August 08, 2023 9:47 am UTC
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Hello! file is too heavy! and it make unable to read it! Help!
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Gael L June 08, 2023 6:14 pm UTC
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Hi! The file is so heavy, I cannot open it! Any help?
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Daniel M January 27, 2023 1:08 am UTC
Just checked a copy of a friend and played with him, I'll have to wait a little longer to have 40 dollars to buy it, cause it's an amazing game!
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Jeremy F January 04, 2023 7:21 pm UTC
I keep wanting to buy this, and then seeing that it's still like $40 for just a PDF. This should be a huge seller, it's a new edition for a classic World of Darkness game... but it's been out for going on six months, and it's sold less than 500 copies on DriveThru. In case anyone in charge is wondering why sales are so soft, charging such a high price for an electronic-only edition is enough to keep even hardcore fans from giving you their money.

I'll keep checking periodically to see if the price goes down enough that I can justify the purchase.
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Jeremy P February 23, 2023 9:59 pm UTC
The price is probably part of it but uhh... this one wasn't real well-received.
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Davide D November 11, 2022 5:17 am UTC
Renegade Studios products, have been nothing but a disappointment so far.
VTM V5 is, ok...I am talking about the core books since anything past that, is nothing but atrocious.
ONyx Path products are far superior in every way and the pdf are sold at a reasonable price.
Lastly, their products are multiple and they can intertwine to the point where you could play a vampire, a mummy, a werewolf a hunter etc. All in the same group.
There is literally no comparison!
You are welcome.
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Jeremy P November 22, 2022 3:25 pm UTC
That's because VtM V5 had a different team that's all been replaced. The new team basically doesn't want to make updated classic WoD so they're just doing whatever they want instead and it's... well you see Hunter and it sounds like Werewolf is going to be just as much a trainwreck.
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Andrew P August 16, 2022 6:21 am UTC
Why is it called "5th Edition" when it's only the 4th Hunter core book written?
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Jacob H August 16, 2022 7:25 pm UTC
Technically it’s the second edition of Hunter the Reckoning. It was done for branding purposes. Those other 2 don’t count because they’re a different game line.
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Donald H August 17, 2022 12:19 am UTC
Because it lives in the same world as the 5th Edition of Vampire the Masquerade
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Paul G August 27, 2022 12:41 pm UTC
Because it's part of the 5th edition Vampire: the Masquerade line.

But you knew this already.
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Adrian N December 13, 2022 2:34 pm UTC
Cause the 20th is the 4º tecnicaly.
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Ellen S July 23, 2023 1:18 pm UTC
It isn't even actually an update of Hunter: the Reckoning from Revised. It doesn't have Imbued. The name is false advertising.

That doesn't automatically make it a bad game. But they should have given a new name to a new game.
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Jonathan B August 12, 2022 5:09 pm UTC
Does this game share the same lore as Vampire the Masquerade? If it is forced lore, then count me as a hard pass.
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Donald H August 13, 2022 12:39 am UTC
Yep. Especially the brand new lore from V5.
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Kai D August 13, 2022 5:39 am UTC
No. This book treats the WOD more like a blank slate. Aside from references to familiar hunter-organizations from the old WOD-lore (like Arcanum or Orpheus, for example) and references to the Second Inquisition, nothing else from V5 is being acknowledged. As far as V5-lore-bits are concerned (Beckoning, Camarilla, Anarchs, Ghouls etc.), none of it is acknowledged or hinted at in any writeup for the vampires as antagonists.

There are no loresheets in this book like in V5 and the book spends a lot of words on describing how all hunter-organizations are untrustworthy and the hunters in it are lesser versions of the kind of hunters the players play (the book calls those lesser hunters "Jobbers" because to them hunting is just a job).
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Donald H August 14, 2022 5:38 am UTC
Oh, so they reference the organizations that have been in other books...aka the lore of the game. But they do not use any of the established lore? Interesting.
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Hayden H March 28, 2023 7:16 am UTC
While from a Storytellers perspective this is honestly lazy to not go into describing some of the inner politics that go into Vampire society, from some lore perspectives, it actually makes a lot of sense that they wouldn't have that in the Hunter Book, hunters barely know 5 clans in all of the Vampire clans canonically, you think they actually know about the politics and factions involved? Nope, not likely based on how the lore had gone. TBH, much like some of the WoD20 books they probably expect you to buy V5 and use it alongside in a story sense with H5 to run a chronicle.
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Tal O August 03, 2022 11:45 pm UTC
$40 for a PDF!?
Looks like the only ones who need to do some Reckoning are Renegade Game Studios - you should Reckon that price again.
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Hamilton R September 19, 2022 9:13 pm UTC
Hear, Hear! I agree.
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Ken C August 02, 2022 9:35 pm UTC
I want Hunter: The Reckoning. Messengers, imbued. Everything.

They named this game that and didn't deliver. Will not buy and I do not recommend anyone buy.
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Lee M August 09, 2022 6:46 am UTC
I've avoided it right through as I assumed it was the Imbued etc. I only recently learned it wasn't and am now really excited to get this.
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Scott B December 22, 2022 3:52 am UTC
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You are in for a disappointment, you *CAN* rebuild those smite & cleave Avengers from the old days.
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Colin M August 01, 2022 8:34 pm UTC
40 bucks for a <300 pages PDF is utter insanity. If you want people to stop buying your products, good job.
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Johan J August 01, 2022 11:07 am UTC
I read through the four chapter previews, but it's so sandboxy as to drown me in sand. Almost every statement is prefaced with a "might be", "many hunters think", "usually", "may have" or some such weasel word. On the one hand, the writing is incredibly wordy and verbose, while on the other hand not saying very much at all. Imagine sentences like "A hunter may think there are creatures that drink souls, but this might not be the truth." times a hundred.
Additionally, the lore of Hunter the Reckoning is out the window, as are the Creeds. All organized hunter organizations are termed.... orgs. "Orgs might be", "orgs may have", "orgs usually think..". Ugh. I think I read "org" a dozen times so far.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I'm tired of remakes. Try making something fresh instead! And don't be afraid to be assertive and just write down how it is in your game world!
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Paul G August 27, 2022 12:47 pm UTC
Reboots are fine, that's a completely different issue. But this sounds like the same empty verbosity as the Sabbat book. From what I've seen, this *game* has potential. But the writing that's coming from the WoD in-house team is terrible.
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Mario B July 30, 2022 9:59 am UTC
As someone who's been following this discussion from a distance, I am highly curious about acquiring this as it feels like it has potential but it requires a bit of GM divination/proverbial hatchet-work to work right. And here is also hoping that the Imbued/Orgs get their own sourcebook for those that want them.

I absolutely cannot defend the price-tag, however.
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July 30, 2022 4:06 pm UTC
There are free pdf files on the Renegade site which beef up the page count indirectly.
My understanding is that they will also add more (as of 2022.07.30).

Other than that... I hope that they pay their writers and artists well.
What I have seen about rpg book "money per word" from other companies is pretty low.
I am willing to pay more as long as writers and artists earn more.
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Christian J August 15, 2022 12:30 am UTC
Yes, same here. 2c a word is pretty common
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Joshua B July 29, 2022 9:58 pm UTC
Would you look at that! Another Renegade PDF that is extremely overpriced. Nothing out of the ordinary here.

Still not gonna buy it.
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J. R July 29, 2022 6:57 am UTC
The pricing discussion about this PDF makes sense. Almost fourty dollars are a lot of money to spend, especially on what is essentially just a piece of data and so on and so forth.
What baffles me, is the staunch resistance to this book doing something new, telling new stories under the title Hunter: The Reckoning, instead of waiting for a chance to play or leave your concerns about the price point in these comments and not play the game (which is understandable, as stated earlier). But this whole shouting, that this isn't "understanding Hunter: The Reckoning" and this specific game line should concern itself with imbued hunters, I don't get the problem. The older versions of the game still exist. You can buy the PDFs here on this website and start playing immediately. Yes, there aren't new books coming out. So what? Wasn't the root of the World of Darkness, all the way back when Vampire: The Masquerade came out in the early 90s, the ambition to tell very specific stories, touching upon some recurring...See more
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Donald H July 29, 2022 7:57 am UTC
I noticed you said you had not even read the book.


But the issue is not "This is not Hunter the Reckoning" but more of "They are using the name to sell something that is just a poor reflection of another game from another entire world." namely Hunter the Vigil.
Hunter the Vigil is a great game but the point of Hunter the Reckoning, if you actually read the original line, is about people slowly going insane from channeling a supernatural power granted to them by mysterious benefactors. They used the power to take back the night. This game is not that.

It is a bad version of Hunter the Vigil from Chronicles of Darkness. It is barely even Hunters Hunted thanks to the changes they made such as not letting you be a part of an organization.

Also, as noted, the unique abilities you gain from being a Hunter in this game is very VERY difficult to use even if it is, as noted, just getting a single weapon to use for a single scene.

There...See more
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Christopher K July 29, 2022 8:39 am UTC
Before you go and complain about folks complaining about this book, take the time to actually read the complaints and understand why. Especially if you have bought the book and haven't taken the time to even read it. Telling us to go back to another book in the past misses both the point and is an extremely offensive call out not unlike saying, "Go back to where you belong." That's rude. Read it before you criticize what you don't even understand. Buy it and play it if you want to. We won't stop you. But don't look down on our issues just because you don't have any. Those of us who bought it on Renegade's site (such as myself) and read the book through have been very clear about what we know and have read. We are angry and disappointed, and we have the right to be.

One of the biggest points being made is that it is *not* Hunter: the Reckoning. And that is because if the 5th edition line is supposed to be a continuation of the original WoD game lines, then this title is a total bait and switch....See more
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J. R July 29, 2022 8:40 am UTC
Honestly, I did reply to this earlier, but I wanted to correct the tone of said reply, as it was too harsh. Thanks for the bad faith answer though, proving exactly your stance on someone voicing the opinion, that they consider some things said in this conversation rather silly. Never said, you cannot have an opinion on this edition or dislike it. Never said, you should go back anywhere. Simply pointed out, that a new edition does not overwrite the chance to return to older books and a previous status quo in the fictional timeline.
Hunter is doing something else with this edition ... how unheard of in any medium or context. Where is anyone tricking you or others into buying this book or any RPG book for that matter? But I can absolutely disagree with you. It's fine, I see your point, just think it makes no sense and reasons for this stance were given.
And just to make this clear: I read the preview from the Paradox webpage, just pointed out, I cannot critique the mechanics in-depth, because of me not...See more
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Kai D July 29, 2022 9:05 am UTC
I think it's fair to be disappointed by this release when the title gave the impression this would be about the Imbued. But I think the far more damning comparison is V5 actually. V5 is essentially the template for the rules of this game and as Gwen T has already pointed out, by removing Humanity from that template and replacing it with nothing, other things in the template like Chronicle Tenets and Touchstones suddenly get very weird mechanics or in the case of the Tenets no mechanics at all. Convictions from V5 are also not present, for example. A sidebar explicitly discusses why Loresheets were left out. There's no equivalent to the Coterie-splats in V5 in this book. It's all stuff that sure is vampire-specific and therefore wouldn't fit this game but the decision was made to cut these things and replace them with nothing.

The book puts a huge burden on the Storyteller to really even figure out how this game is supposed to work. Gwen T already said that Edge-rolls have a high difficulty. That's...See more
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Ilan E July 29, 2022 2:58 pm UTC
Having looked at the book and given it a quick overview (I bought the physical book for not that much more than the PDF) I personally mostly like what I see. But I also understand why some people are annoyed or at least confused. The challenge here is what the new edition is intended to be. I think with V5 and what we have seen about W5 the philosophy of the new editions seems to be to streamline the rules and setting, reset the metaplot in a way that makes it easier for new players to get into the setting without all the accumulated sorry and lore from 30 years of the game, and to borrow elements from the NwoD/CoD line. Some people seem to just not like that at all but I think if you want a full-on continuation of the original game then WoD20 is for you and not the WoD5 line. The issue here, for what it's worth, is that it's not as clear what this game is an update of. It's not an update of Hunter the Reckoning because it's about mortal hunters and not Imbued as was the original. And it's not really an...See more
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Noah C October 25, 2022 5:32 am UTC
For the same reason people don't like bad remakes of movies: It may not affect your enjoyment of the original, but it's never fun to watch the legacy of something you care about mistreated.

Plus, if it wasn't going to be anything like the original, why even give it the same name? As far as I'm concerned, if it's going to be something completely different, they should just call it something else, plain and simple.
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Joshua B September 17, 2023 4:37 am UTC
New doesn't automatically mean good. The people who wrote this book are activists and want to change it for the simple reason that they don't like the people who play the game. They believe the people who loved the original game are racist and bigots and they wanted to destroy something they believed they loved. This is why he is written half-assed. It was initially, it was by design to ruin something that was good. Just like Star Wars, star trek, D&D, est. It is awful and it was made that way. This is why they changed VtM5, this is why they took out all the tribes in WtA5. Anyone who thinks this edition is great knows nothing of the original game its lore and its backstory. It's a cheap copy and there is nothing redeeming about edition 5.
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Joshua B September 17, 2023 4:40 am UTC
No, the rules could not have been any simpler than they were, to begin with, the object of the writers was to destroy something they hated not because of the game but because of who played it. Just watch their interviews.
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Ellen S October 08, 2023 6:58 pm UTC
People are upset because the name is false advertising. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual Hunter: The Reckoning game. So somebody who loved the Imbued, and paid $40 for an update to the Imbued, instead got a ripoff and a slap to the face.

If it's a totally new game they should just be honest and give it a new name. Let it stand on its own merits instead of tricking Imbued fans into buying it.
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