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In Skinchangers, you play an animal shapeshifter - Racoon, Crow, Owl, Bobcat, or Fox - created by the spirit of that animal type to root out the forces of desecration and fight the abominations that arise from it.  The setting may remind players of Neverwhere, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, and a number of other urban fantasy settings (which were all absolutely in mind when creating it).

The system for Skinchangers is a variant of Schema.  It uses a small fistful of either Fate dice or standard six-siders; some components of it may remind readers of the Red Box Hack, Apocalypse World, or Fate Accelerated edition (because that's where those components came from, and proudly so); other pieces are relatively unique to the game. 

This is an open beta-test version of the game.  It is divided into two files - The Playbook contains rules for character creation and action, while the Guidebook contains setting material and advice on setting up your region of the world and situation within it.  A quick setting primer for a sample town of Jarwick Lake is also included, just to make playtesting easier to jump into.

Because it is a beta-test version, you can expect some text errors, duplicated art, rough bits that need rebalancing, and so on.  The game is fully functional, but not necessarily fully tightened up or perfectly explained - that's why it's an open beta test.

Your input is wanted.  This can be anything from "I read a few pages and what I saw was" to "Having read the whole thing" to (ideally) "We gave it a go, and...".  That feedback can be emailed to levi.kornelsen@gmail.com, relayed to me on Twitter, or in reviews here!

StatusIn development
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
AuthorLevi Kornelsen

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Click download now to get access to the following files:

SK-Playbook-Beta3.pdf 3.4 MB
SK-Guidebook-Beta3.pdf 4.3 MB
SK-JarwickLake.pdf 1.1 MB

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