Night Companion
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They Walk Beside You in the Night... The Night Companion is the first sourcebook for the Night Shift: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars Role Playing Game¸ the old-school RPG of Chosen Ones¸ Witches¸ Survivors¸ Psychics¸ and Something Weird. Within its pages¸ you will find: Four new character classes: the Divine Warrior¸ the Mystic Martial Artist¸ the Psychic Gunslinger¸ and the Spirit Rider; Rules for playing supernatural species including Celestials¸ Driven¸ Ghouls¸ Immortals¸ Infernals¸ Lycanthropes¸ and Vampires¸ expanding upon the "Supernatural Race" option in the core rulebook; New options for generating ability scores for normal¸ gritty¸ and cinematic games; Rules to convert your game from class-and-level to entirely point-buy; An alternate Alignment system focused on good¸ evil¸ light¸ and dark; Guidelines to convert your game to a unified mechanic: both d20-based and percentile-based options are covered; Enhanced combat rules: variable weapon damage¸ range increments¸ weapon classes¸ grappling rules¸ jumping¸ drowning¸ suffocation¸ poison¸ disease¸ and more; New Arcane Powers and spells¸ plus enhanced rules for ritual magic; A GM section that goes behind the scenes of the system¸ talks about keeping track of your play style options¸ gives guidelines for creating cults and secret societies¸ and discusses tropes of sub-genres of horror and how to use them in your game; Dozens of new monsters¸ enemies¸ and NPCs for your game; New art by industry notable Bradley K. McDevitt¸ commissioned just for this book. This book really blows the doors off of your Night Shift: VSW game!