GUIDE TO HUNTING

GUIDE TO HUNTING
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GUIDE TO HUNTING
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 CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents .....................................................................................................................................................5
Chapter I Callings ..................................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
Overview ...................................................................................................................................................................9
Basic needs callings .................................................................................................................................................10
Survival ................................................................................................................................................................10
Security................................................................................................................................................................10
Sex .......................................................................................................................................................................10
Emotional reasons ..................................................................................................................................................11
Revenge ...............................................................................................................................................................11
Hope....................................................................................................................................................................11
Conformity .........................................................................................................................................................11
Rational reasons......................................................................................................................................................12
Research ..............................................................................................................................................................12
Prestige ................................................................................................................................................................12
Money .................................................................................................................................................................12
Chapter II Characters ...............................................................................................................................................13
Preface .....................................................................................................................................................................13
Manuel ....................................................................................................................................................................14
A Hunter for Hope .............................................................................................................................................14
A Hunter for Revenge ........................................................................................................................................14
Mariam ....................................................................................................................................................................15
A hunter for Conformism..................................................................................................................................15
A hunter for Sex .................................................................................................................................................15
Vincent ....................................................................................................................................................................16
Hunting for Money ............................................................................................................................................16
Hunting for Security...........................................................................................................................................16
Faraj .........................................................................................................................................................................17
A Hunter for Prestige .........................................................................................................................................17
A hunter for Research ........................................................................................................................................17
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 New Recruits
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<Sam>
Friends,
New recruits have joined our ranks. They have opened their eyes to the true nature of the
world.
I hope you will show them the different paths ahead so they are able to develop their skills in
the most efficient way.
Do not go ashtray, whatever the cost.
Sam
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 THE CALLING
CHAPTER I
THE CALLING
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
Edgar Allan Poe
OVERVIEW
While each Hunter follows a creed classified in three
different virtues (see Hunter: the Reckoning’s corebook
p.63 and its Chapter 4), for this quick character motiva-
tion guide, I believe we need to lay out these motivations
in a different way. Consider the few options below an
alternative way to consider your character’s motivations
and how they came to encounter the supernatural. Why
would someone become a Hunter? How did they cross
paths with the supernatural and what was the character’s
reaction?
As such, what would be Creeds in the core book, I will
call this “revamp” as Callings.
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BASIC NEEDS CALLINGS
SURVIVAL
The basis to why people do anything is to fulfill
their basic physiological needs. Work for survival is
one of these, and a Hunter may have found them-
selves doing this job out of pure necessity. They do it
because without it, no food or shelter. Imagine an ex-
ghoul hunting vampires to obtain their blood to keep
surviving.
Is there any upwards mobility for you? Will you find
a way to look further than immediate survival?
SECURITY
The other basic need to every being is a sense of se-
curity, be it perceived or real. A permanent contract,
the ability to put resources aside, or a profound need
to not be on the qui-vive at all times is a powerful mo-
tive. Being a Hunter might be a contradiction to this
motive, but doing it for security reasons, to create se-
curity by not having supernatural dangers is perfectly
logical. Someone ought to do it.
Is this purpose attainable in any way? Will you find
an easier way to find a sense of security, by leaving to
safer lands and giving up?
SEX
Everything is about sex, except sex itself which is
about power, to paraphrase a famous fictional politi-
cian. Whether it’s because you are in an intimate re-
lationship with someone involved, or manipulated
through your hormonal and emotional needs by your
crush, you are now deeply involved in a Hunter cell.
And you would do anything to keep your relationship
alive.
How long will you sustain such a life? What will
make you question the acts taken by your cell, when
it comes to the Hunt? What if you get seduced away
by a supernatural?
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EMOTIONAL REASONS
REVENGE
A supernatural has hurt you or a loved one, and that is
how you found out about their existence. You now seek
revenge to the one individual in question, and by exten-
sion, all others that allowed its existence. Your rage will
expand to all those complicit.
When will the end justify the means? How far are you
willing to go? Will you be judge and party? How mon-
strous will you be, to tackle down the monster you are
after, and how far will you go to burn down the horrors
they created?
HOPE
You took pity on a specific supernatural and you have
hopes to “save” them, protect them from the curse or
horrors they are going through, and help them survive.
You seek a cure, salvation, or a way for them to live their
existence in an acceptable way, at least in your eyes, and
you wish to convince them to do so.
What are you willing to give for this lost soul? Do they
wish for your salvation, or should you force them to open
their eyes? Is your way the only possible righteous one?
Will you let your kindness be manipulated by this mon-
ster? What about the others?
CONFORMITY
You joined because someone you knew joined. You do
as they do, because that is what they are doing and you
hate not being part of the group. You’re a team player,
you wish to contribute, to be useful, and you find value
in the recognition you might obtain through your hard
work. But promotions and responsibilities aren’t much
of your thing, and you’re quite content being part of the
ordeal.
How far will you go to fit into the team? Will you carry
this dangerous life for long, or will you find another com-
munity to be a part of? Perhaps aiding the supernaturals
and being part of their minions might give you more ac-
ceptance, more recognition.
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different reasons to their hunt, you will be their light-
RATIONAL REASONS house, and they will admire you for it. You will lead.
How will you climb the ladders of the organizations
RESEARCH you’re close to? How will you lead your local cell and have
Little by little, the pieces came together for you, and other Hunters work at unison under your lead? Ulti-
you noticed that they existed. You had evidences, and mately, what is your agenda when it comes to supernatu-
eventually, your eyes fully opened. And now, you want to rals, if you have any? Will you focus instead on the organ-
know what they are, in detail, how they work, in detail. ization system and not care at all for the supernaturals?
A cryptozoologist, but these creatures are actually real!
What will you do with your research? How will you val-
idate or invalidate your theories? Will you respect ethical MONEY
experimentations, if you can catch them? Who will have A job is a job, and you just happened to be enrolled by
access to your results? Will you be able to publish, or per- one of these organizations who are hunting things you
ish? never really believed existed. And when you found out
they existed, well.. no big deal, actually. Money and other
PRESTIGE resources are a powerful tool to keep loyal mercenaries,
Why and how you found out about their existence and you’re just one of them.
does not really matter anymore, and your end goal with
How will you obtain more, and will you consider the
them matters even less. And yet, you certainly expect to
appeal of other resources, for riskier situations? Could
not only do something about it, but draw a benefit from
you flip on your comrades to have a shot at eternal life in
your actions. A sense of accomplishment to be recog-
wealthiest part of the city?
nized by all. Part of this group of people who all have
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CHAPTER II
CHARACTERS
“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
Mary Shelley
PREFACE
Some of these characters are present in both Secrets of
the Masquerade’s Guide to Siring and Guide to Dying,
but these are not mandatory to understand their take
when it comes to being Hunters.
A great character concept for players can easily transfer
to other games, as they encounter supernaturals in a dif-
ferent, unique way. Be it dying and becoming a wraith,
dying and being embraced, enslaved by a vampire, or
even awakening, if they survive the initial shock (or man-
age to not leave our world once dead), they will manage
an enjoyable playable existence at any table.
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MANUEL
Manuel was a party boy who grew up in the most bor-
ing and simple middle-class family. He had average A HUNTER FOR HOPE
grades, a banal childhood, a bully baby sister, a teacher His baby sister having been stolen into the night, Ma-
he had a crush on, and a Mexican heritage he couldn’t nuel decided to drop everything in order to find her. His
really care less about unless pointed out. At age 18 and investigations brought him to find the Hunters who
longing for freedom and the end of curfews, he enrolled were after the culprit, and they managed to release her
in university to study psychology, as he believed it would from the monster, who had ghouled the teen. Manuel
be fitting to network, have friends, party hard, and worked hard to help her through the addiction. He
hardly study. Surprising only to him, he failed his finals, loved his sister dearly, and nobody but him could tor-
but retook the exams and sweet-talked to gain enough ment the young high school girl.
extra credits in order to be able to get a passing grade. His will alone wasn’t enough, and she lapsed, finding
Manuel was fairly aimless, cruising through life with im- her master on her own. The addiction was just too much
mediate enjoyment as a priority. His only passions were to handle. Manuel keeps hopes that his sister isn’t be-
clubbing, entertain a highly demanding social lifestyle, yond loss.
and perhaps he would find his path when the time came.
Or he would become a celebrity, after all, his network
includes plenty of influential people...
A HUNTER FOR REVENGE
He actually enjoyed the idea of understanding more Instead of surviving, Manuel’s
about the human psyche, even if he certainly did not in- sister was found dead, victim of a
tend to become a psychologist in the clinical sense. frenzied vampire, or werewolf, or
He did not expect psychology studies to be so hard, as something. The horrors killed
he always thought he was a great listener and good at any kindness left in Manuel
understanding people, but he quickly found a great use and he decided to join forces
to the classes he followed. Now to study. As he reached with the people who were af-
more advanced classes, he realized the studies didn’t ter this monster, with the firm
match his expectations and abandoned to pursue unreg- intention of being the one deliv-
ulated counselling with the wide network he obtained ering the final blow to the crea-
through his very busy socialization. Maybe enter a Hu- ture that dared do such horrors
man Resources Master or something like that. to his baby sister. The image
He did not expect to encounter the supernatural and will haunt him forever.
for it to break his world apart.
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MARIAM
Mariam was a feminist activist. A Muslim feminist ac- Her school years were hard, her parents weren’t able to
tivist. A Black practicing Muslim Feminist hijabi who help her out with homework and did not understand
was not Arab. She faced bigotry at all intersections and exactly what the teachers expected of her, but she was a
for all of her actions and her beliefs, and would face talented enough to give satisfactory results.
countless obstacles on her path, even amongst her pro- Through her perseverance, she obtained a social
gressive surroundings. In some sort of twisted Venn dia- worker certification and after finally landed a relevant
gram, as the obstacles added to each other, her allies can- (but underpaid) job in the foster-home management of
celled each other. The pro-women groups she marched children. Mariam thought she would have to walk alone
with to protest the ban on breastfeeding would give her against the system as a whole she wished to reform, for
hell for her traditional clothes, her fight against the the rest of her life.
burkini or modest swimwear in public beaches, or
wouldn’t listen when she brought up racial profiling as
an extra factor. Her activism to allow a mosque to be
built was met very poorly by her A HUNTER FOR CONFORMISM
social circles who weren’t keen Mariam was always the kind to follow orders, fit in and
on having non-secular organi- try to not make herself too noticeable, despite her faith
zations. Mariam grew sick and and love for tradition. When her direct superior told her
tired, she had many acquaint- about a more hands on way to help the marginalized,
ances, but close, reliable Mariam followed, and her eyes couldn’t unsee what she
friends? None, as they of- had witnessed. Helping the deceased members of the
ten fell on the oppo- families she followed was just another way of doing her
site side of another job.
given issue. Her par-
ents had migrated for
new work opportuni- A HUNTER FOR SEX
ties from Mali, they
Adding Mariam’s companion or crush to the mix
were qualified workers
would allow her to be deeply involved in a Hunter cell.
but faced plenty of
Her significant other may be involved for any other rea-
barriers to have their
son, and Mariam herself would be helpful from her con-
diplomas recognized
tacts and her skills because she loves the person, because
and resorted, like
she can “very much do so, if you care about me so
many, to do manual
much”.
work in order to live.
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VINCENT
Born of a middle-high class local family of liberal pro- therapy” plan to siphon as much money as he wanted
fessions, with little history, Vincent quickly grew fond of worked pretty well. He had the reputation of giving peo-
using the currencies of the people surrounding him to ple what they wanted. After all, the more expensive the
obtain what he wanted. Everyone has a currency, he be- office, suit and watch, the busier the agenda, the more
lieved, and he would trade that for what would come in competent he seemed, and the more popular he became.
handy. It wouldn’t be surprising that such an inquisitive mind
A smart and privileged student, Vincent chose the would meet with supernaturals in need of his services,
realms of psychology in order to expand on his natural and after a few months of trust, they would either unveil
skill; how did human minds work, how to study people’s their existence to him, or he would find out about what
currency, how to turn a natural attitude and talent into they were from certain telling eccentric behaviors being
a methodology to ensure a higher standard of living? more than just “what the rich and powerful did”.
Vincent looked into clinical psychology, or even consid-
ered psychiatry, but the deontology involved or the med-
ical studies needed were more of a hassle than he wished HUNTING FOR MONEY
to tackle. Psychoanalysis, however, was great. It was a pri-
vate certification that wasn’t recognized by the state, it A lucrative option to lure Vincent to work for a
did not need any medical background, and the ability to Hunter cell, and help them with his access to the higher
pay for the certification itself was proof of competence. layers of society would be easy to put into place. Vincent
With the contacts he made throughout his adolescence, may or may not have any strong opinions about super-
naturals, but he knows he can very much benefit from
studies and through his family, he was certain it was the
the truth. Joining the Hunter Cell would depend on the
path to live the life he wanted. The life he wanted was
one of minimum stress, minimum effort, minimum goal of the cell itself, as Vincent may not want to close
preparation, and maximum luxury, all while keeping a his cabinet to these very rich clientele and the mortal
minions serving them.
pristine reputation and his talent being
recognized.
As a psychoanalyst, Vincent had no
fun listening to people’s problems,
HUNTING FOR SECURITY
especially those boring Vincent is not immune to the issues he has studied for
people with boring daddy so long, and finding out about the supernatural, one way
and mommy issues. Yet he or the other, may have triggered in him an overwhelming
was great at pretending sense of danger. Especially as he survived an attack by
and his “what you are one of his clients. Unveiling and destroying the super-
suffering isn’t dooming natural among his clientele may put an ease to this feel-
you, it can be solved ing.
by years of ex-
pensive
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FARAJ
A man of conviction born in the Sahel, in Morocco, and belongings, but the evidence, it was just… strange,
Faraj realized that in order for him to help his family, he and his colleagues and the police just avoided the ordeal,
needed to leave it. He expatriated, incorporated several the arsons were explained away, the investigations were
agencies where his rougher looks would be of use, and stopped and people too curious found themselves chang-
after years of training and obtaining his host country’s ing districts of bosses, or plain fired.
nationality through hard labor and merit, he became a Faraj started doubting, was this some sort of test? Was
fireman. it something else? Was something playing with him? He
The prestige and stability associated with his new po- had a word for it: the Djinn. Such words and concepts
sition helped him send money back home to his parents wouldn’t be understood by his peers, of course, so he
and grandparents, and he became the pride of his had to tackle it himself... off the clock.
hometown. More than one local newspapers lauded his
accomplishments, and the pressure
actually fueled his desire for bet- A HUNTER FOR PRESTIGE
ter and more.
Drawn by the recognition, and knowing his regular
Faraj settled to become the job would never bring him as much as his non-foreign-
perfect immigrant, but he never looking peers, Faraj decided to join another organiza-
abandoned his Muslim faith tion, on the side, to find out the actual truth behind this
and unique regional prac- Djinn’s arsons. This Hunter Cell had noticed the arsons,
tice. He joined the local and the patterns the firemen and police wouldn’t and
communities despite couldn’t look into, and Faraj very much knew what to
some differences, and do.
made sure to keep his
records spotless. Af-
ter all, any mistake
could mean losing A HUNTER FOR RESEARCH
his status, and he Faraj was never an idiot, and he knew to recognize pat-
hated the mere terns when he saw them. He wasn’t exactly properly ed-
idea of it. Espe- ucated to do in depth research, but he was willing to give
cially as Faraj it time, despite the urgency. A Hunter cell helped him,
kept close to his first discreetly, then more openly, as the realization of
traditional ways supernatural intervention became more and more obvi-
when not in service. ous to the group. Faraj accepted to join the Cell, as he
obtained access to the information he lacked, and could
Then the arsons be- confirm his ideas when it came to stop the arsons, who
gan. And he always had claimed so may lives already.
showed up, saved lives
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 GUIDE TO HUNTING
This small supplement gives a peek at reasons why would someone become a hunter.
You will find in this supplement four character concepts, each with Callings to
understand their relationship with their Hunter cell or the supernaturals that they are
involved with.