Jason Bulmahn is the Director of Game Design at Paizo, and as noted in his profile, Jason created Pathfinder. Minotaur Games is also a Bulmahn gig, and he’s Publisher and Designer there.
Minotaur Games is crowdfunding the modern zombie apocalypse hack of Pathfinder 2e called Hopefinder. You can track progress through the funding goal on the project page.
Hopefinder is a game about survival, which seems appropriate, and set after the death and violence of the Fall.
Players are survivors sin a world after the Z-Plague, wiping out civlization within a year.
Hopefinder plays only over a few sessions, with most PCs reaching only about 5th level before the Narrator switches out with someone in the group.
The game comes in booklets rather than big hardbacks. The Survivors Guide includes;
- Introduction, Content Overview, Character Creation Guide
- 16 New Backgrounds
- 3 New Skills and a revised Crafting System
- A Class-less Character System with 14 Basic Feats and 63 Advanced Feats
- Modern Weapons, Armor, and Gear
- Bruises, Dings, and other systems to add Survival Rules to the game
- A system for player driven Flashbacks that reveal the truth about your Survivor
- Rules for Playing the Game and Leveling Up
A pledge of $12 is enough to get the PDFs of the Survivor’s Guide, Narrator’s Guide, character sheets and suitable stretch goals.
Those PDFs become print editions, except for the character sheets, for backers at $25. Global shipping isn’t offered.
At $35, the rewards are print and PDF with an updated deluxe character sheet PDF. Once again, Minotaur only tackles shipping to certain countries.
Beyond this tier, backers can get multiple copies until the $75 tier, at the top and limited, which offers the Z-Day print editions of both booklets. These are hand stressed.
Jason and the team estimate June for the print editions, except for the Z-Day hand-stressed specials, which are due in July. Digital is earlier and in April.
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