Hunter: The Reckoning
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Hunter: The Reckoning is a role-playing game based in White Wolf Game Studio's World of Darkness. A Hunter is a normal human who witnesses a traumatic supernatural event and receives an otherworldly "message" to act against it, from beings knows as the Messengers or Heralds, whom are agents of the universe's creative force, analogous to angels. Those who do become the "Imbued," otherwise ordinary men and women who can see the evil creatures, and are gifted with powers ("Edges") to fight them. Those who choose not to act become "Bystanders", people who have knowledge of the supernatural, but no power to act against it.
A Hunter's life is fraught with danger, as supernatural creatures control many human media, law enforcement, and government agencies, and use those connections to paint the Imbued as crazy and dangerous, and to dispose of Imbued who snoop in their affairs and try to impede their control.
Hunters communicated via a mystically-protected network called "Hunter-net," which only the Imbued can access (although at least one instance of another supernatural infiltrating Hunter-net has been recorded). It was maintained by an Imbued called Witness1, and other Imbued who used it included Bookworm55, Doctor113, and the infamous God45.
Hunters figured prominently in the Time of Judgement scenarios for the World of Darkness's second-tier games.
Types of Hunters
- Avengers: Those who seek revenge for the harm done by creatures of the night.
- Defenders: Those who protect the victims.
- Judges: Those who mete out punishment based on how monstrous the creatures have acted.
- Martyrs: Those who sacrifice their all for the cause.
- Redeemers: Those who wish to bring the monsters back into the light.
- Innocents: Those who refuse to prejudge the supernatural.
- Visionaries: Those who seek to understand the greater meaning behind the imbuing and the existence of the supernatural.
- Hermits: "Failed" Imbued who receive psychic static near other Hunters and supernaturals. They should have been the intelligence gatherers for the Imbued, receiving information directly from the Messengers.
- Waywards: "Failed" Imbued who have gone completely psychotic. They should have been the strategists and tacticians of the Imbued.
Three Gauntlet-style video games have been produced with the Hunter license: the original Hunter: the Reckoning on the Xbox and GameCube, and Hunter: the Reckoning: Redeemer for Microsoft Xbox and Hunter: the Reckoning: Wayward for Sony PlayStation 2.de:Hunter (World of Darkness)