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Blood!

The Role-playing Game of Modern Horror

Second Edition

Original Concept: Norley Tucker

Original Game Design: Norley Tucker, Paul Campion and Steve Osborn

Second Edition Writing and Layout: James ‘Grim’ Desborough

Second Edition Artwork: Gavin Hargest, Darkzel, Bradley K McDevitt, James ‘Grim’ Des-

borough and Paul Campion.

Disclaimer

Blood! is a horror game of adult themes, gore and other disturbing matters and imagery.

It is probably not suitable for anyone under the age of ﬁfteen (the certiﬁcate rating for most

horror elements in ﬁlm in the UK). We should also take the time to point out that amateur

blood transfusions, cauterisation and surgery with rusty cutlery should not be attempted,

however bad a headache you might have. In short, anything you do is your own responsi-

bility, not ours. Games and stories are a recreation and an escape, not a lifestyle guide.

Credits

Contents

Introduction Pg 2

Character Creation Pg 15

The Rules Pg 53

Mental Issues Pg 80

Creatures Pg 84

Weapons Pg 111

Critical Hit Tables Pg 120

Appendix Pg 151

Introduction

Steam rose from the corpse in the cool air.

He ﬂicked the blade once and stabbed it into

her chest, unwinding the chain around it

and dragging it, the hook catching in her ribs

as he hauled, dragging her body across the

concrete ﬂoor.

Foreword

She runs, or tries to run. Fear makes her

legs stumble from under her, the heel of

her shoe snaps and she falls to the ground.

Gravel cuts her palms, cold water with a

thin sheen of oil splashes her, she shudders,

weeps, cries…

Another for the collection.

…she looks back.

He’s still there, his face hidden in that hood;

blood encrusting his jacket, the hooked knife

held in his hand scrapes along the wall,

showering spikes. Not human… he can’t be

human, he’d been stabbed and he’d just

kept on coming. His hands were like talons,

clutching the blade in a death grip and he

just walked, slow, assured towards her as

though it were the most natural thing in the

world.

She tried to pick herself up, she scrambled

forward, she crawled, pitifully towards

the warehouse door. Maybe it was open

now, maybe when he’d come in after them

he’d left it ajar. She could hope, she could

dream. She reached it, his footsteps close

behind her now, her hand reached up,

grasped the chain and…

Sparks, pain, she was ﬂung back, bod-

ily. Every nerve, every muscle screamed in

agony, the breath taken from her, her mouth

tasting of ozone and a strange sweetness,

she spasmed and shivered, opening her

eyes, looking up.

Blood! is a game of unﬂinching, splat-

terpunk horror inspired by slasher ﬁlms,

gross-out horror and the literary work of

the likes of Graham Masterton, Sean Hutson

and James Herbert. This is contemporary

horror where we do not look away from the

killing blow, we revel in it, we enjoy the dis-

gust, the fear and the terror for what it is

– a dark and horrible fantasy.

He was there.

The knife descended, her throat was cut

open and her blood fell in a warm sheet

down her front as she gurgled and clutched

with desperate, spasming hands at ﬂapping

ﬂesh, pumping blood and severed tubes, try-

ing desperately to hold her body together as

everything faded.

Blood! is a game of contemporary horror

but, contemporary horror, today’s ‘block-

buster’ horror hits owe a great deal to the

horror of the seventies and eighties, even

remaking many of the old hits with im-

proved effects and a, somewhat bleaker,

modern sensibility. At the same time you

have the inﬂuence of new, psychological

and mythological horror such as Ringu and

the out-and-out tributes to the 70’s grind-

house horror ﬁlms seen in the likes of Rob

Zombie’s House of 1,000 Corpses or the

remakes and prequels to ﬁlms like Texas

Chainsaw Massacre .

at a zombie you probably want to know just

what sort of terrible damage you’re doing to

the poor thing, in gory detail.

Blood! has a trump card in its combat sys-

tem which is gratuitous, deadly, gory and

details over four-hundred different weapons

– including household items – which can

be turned to the purpose of self defence.

You can pick up anything from a sword to

a heavy book and use it to defend yourself

against your attackers, though some things

may be better for the purpose than others.

Another element to consider is the rise

of the horror computer games. Now that

graphics have ﬁnally gotten to a level where

they can be convincing we have a whole

plethora of interesting horror titles from

the Resident Evil series to the spookier and

more unsettling Silent Hill , amongst others.

Even games such as Half Life 2 include

horror elements which can be tapped into

for good sessions of Blood!

The ﬁrst edition of Blood! never managed to

live up to its glorious promise but, this time

around, thanks to the wonders of small/

PDF press, we hope to support it properly

with supplementary material including

adventures and the promised, but never

made, setting books for Star Shock and Hell

on Earth , the science ﬁction and medieval

witchcraft settings respectively as well as

scenarios, bestiaries adventures and exami-

nations of various genres such as survival

horror.

Who hasn’t watched one of these ﬁlms and

winced at the stupidity of the people on the

screen as they investigate the horror stalk-

ing them, or railed at the lack of options in

a computer game? What sort of fool goes

off alone into the woods without a weapon

of some kind, especially after their friends

have been gutted like ﬁsh? Maybe you’ve

even shouted at the idiocy in the cinema,

frustrated by what you see and, if you

haven’t been thrown out, who hasn’t come

away from such ﬁlms with an idea of how

much better they would have coped?

So, now you have an idea of what Blood!

has to offer you’re ready to dive in and read

the book and after that, here’s hoping you

have many years of ﬁne horror gaming

ahead of you! Most of all, just remember…

Blood! will allow you to recreate these hor-

ror moments ranging from the standard

mode of play, which is visceral, gory hor-

ror, through things of a more psychological

bent and ending up with our own, special

mythos horror where something bigger and

altogether darker is going on.

Make it moist!

About the Author

James ‘Grim’ Desborough is a 30 year old

freelance writer and self publisher of role-

playing games and card games, mostly

over the internet. Grim is responsible for

unleashing gaming horrors such as Final

Straw and Hentacle on the unsuspect-

ing public and has also written somewhat

tamer material for Mongoose Publishing ,

Steve Jackson Games , Wizards of the Coast ,

Cubicle 7 Entertainment and others. He

and his writing partner at the time, Steve

Mortimer, created The Munchkin’s Guide to

Powergaming from which the card game,

Blood! goes against many of the current

trends in game design, those that create

very rules-light and heavily improvisational

games. Blood! is fairly rules-heavy, in part

because in order to be a remake of the

original it must stick to its roots, but also

because luck, the roll of the dice, plays a

big roll in the survival of horror victims and

also because when you swing a chainsaw

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