HALFLIGHT IS A GAME ABOUT CONFLICT. Your life is a flickering torch in a darkened world under threat of annihilation from the forces of The Pit. Your actions in this game will have consequences that you and your companions must be willing to overcome. Take heart. Strive on.This game expects much of its players, but it rewards with an equal hand. Forged in the twin crucibles of pain and grief, you will quit the luminous day, fight through the shadow of The Pit, and seize salvation in the tenebrous haze of...
Gothic Horror Role-Playing
WHAT IS HALFLIGHT?
HALFLIGHT is a tabletop role-playing game where you and several friends assume the identities of characters in a grim and gothic fable.In these borderlands you will write your story, a story about the people of a single small Town and the Dungeon that threatens to consume it. The Dungeon is a roiling font of horrors, a creation of that most primal of evils: The Pit, the embodiment of chaos and entropy in its perfect, unalloyed form. It is all that is antithetical to life as we define it, and Dungeons are the heart of its ever-widening blight.It must be destroyed, and that is the mission you have been charged with. You are the agonists of a diseased world, but be forewarned: The Pit will not meekly yield to its own destruction.
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How Do I Play?
HALFLIGHT uses a conventional pair of six-sided dice for all adjudications, instigations, and resolutions. These are always rolled together and their results totaled, giving a range of possibilities from two to twelve with an average result of seven.However, merely rolling the dice will not be enough to ensure your success, or even your survival. For in HALFLIGHT, any roll below an eight is considered a failure, and so to have even an average chance of success you will need to take on and infuse your actions with Grief, the measure of your Character’s mental and emotional strain.Grief can only be taken willingly by Players, and managing it is a key aspect of playing HALFLIGHT. Too little Grief and your Character will lack the raw and ruthless edge needed to survive in the Dungeon; too much Grief and you run the risk of losing yourself to the frenzy of the fight.
Features and Highlights
Seven unique character classes, from the lowly Penitent to the highborn Scholar.
Exploration in a living Dungeon that actively fights to counter you and your companions, necessitating maps, caches, and a reliable exit plan.
Areas and encounters designed to reward cleverness and punish foolhardiness in equal measure.
Player-determined Character advancement that lets you choose how your Character responds to and grows from their experiences.
Strict lighting, rations, and encumbrance systems to make every item choice matter.
A town ripe with incident, from NPC-specific missions to unique merchants and events that change the world around you.
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Who is the adversary?
The Adversary is the instigator and prime motivator for the actions of the Players. As emissary of The Pit, your job is to create the world, to populate the Town and the Dungeon with interesting non-player characters and enemies, and to present unique challenges for the Characters to overcome... or perish in the attempt.To that end, you will be gifted an arsenal. Your Towns will blossom with warmth and humanity, so as to make even their lowliest bambocciades a welcome respite from the horrors of the Dungeon. Your Dungeons will become monuments to the galvanizing powers of Pain and Grief, a gauntlet worthy of those who dare to challenge it.Let them come. Give them hope.Perdition awaits only those who refuse the call.
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What Do I Need?
The full rules of HALFLIGHT are contained in a pair of thirty-six page books, titled Principles of the Player and Arsenal of the Adversary, respectively. These books, along with a pair of six sided dice and some friends, are all that's necessary to play the game.
The Adventure Series
Each adventure contains a fully-detailed Town and Dungeon, including NPCs, enemies, events, and containing everything an Adversary needs to quickly and effortlessly run a game of HALFLIGHT.
The Halls of Hellhearth, where an order of impious monks seek to unbolt the Wicked Gate.
SALT: the City of Solnitsata, featuring a seaside town scoured by the caustic gales of Adamastor.
The Grave Masque, in which a harlequinade of vampires have taken up residence in a labyrinthine plague hospital.
A Midsummer Nightmare, an opium-soaked story of theater and beguilement in a forest of living bone.
When Can I Play?
HALFLIGHT will be funded through Kickstarter in late 2024. Click below to join the pre-launch page or sign up for the biweekly newsletter to receive development updates and news about the game.