You’ve lived a sinner’s life. Now you’ve died a sinner’s death… Cruel, cruel fate has cast you down to the wretched ocean at the bottom of all things, the stygian sea, where you make a deal with someone who calls themselves your captain. Hunt and kill the hellwhale, partake of its flesh and blood, and you’ll find your redemption.
HELLWHALERSis an original GM-led token swapping & d6-based TTRPG of nautical and religious horror. Players take the role of damned whalers hunting a monstrous whale across the oceans of hell for the promise of salvation; gambling, fishing, and facing the trials of hell along the way.
Book of Leviathanis a 40-page expansion zine for the original game thattakes us further into hell’s waters, with all new material expanded from the original game’s premise. New evocative art. New horrors of hell. New grisly crew options. New mythical endings.
HELLWHALERStakes its DNA from old school systems likeCarin&Errantand Narrative modern story engines likeBelonging Outside Belonging&Blades in the Dark. Old school resource tracking, procedural tables, and peril; modern roleplaying incentives, streamlining, and sensibilities. It is suitable for 2-5 players and a GM, and uses both tokens and six-sided dice to play.
HELLWHALERS: Book of Leviathanplummets us back into the pitch-black waters of the Stygian Sea, where we'll once again seek redemption for our crew. One more roll of the dice. One more whale on the horizon. One more shot at saving our immortal souls.
Book of Leviathanbrings us:
Two horrific epilogues
Two sin-laden playbooks
Two fractured lore stories
Two desperate castaways seeking passage
Four haunting locales across the Stygian Sea
Six ghastly sea creatures to dredge from the deep
An entirely new gambling results table for the devil's board
A myriad of public domain illustrations and bespoke lino-cut and digital stamps
Play as one of the original six playbooks ofHELLWHALERSfrom the core book, or take the reins of one of the two new advanced playbooks -The Abomination, cursed with a form that betrays their sins of desire and deviancy, orThe Returned, a ‘came back wrong’ playbook for those who have fallen to hell’s trials.
