"Night Horrors: Primordial Peerage" Is Out (For Those Who Wanted To See Me Contribute to "Beast: The Primordial")

A lot of folks who are familiar with my work know that I love the World/Chronicles of Darkness, and that I've made liberal use of the Storyteller's Vault platform. Whether you checked out my 100 Kinfolk Bundle (which has over 1,400 NPCs for Werewolf: The Apocalypse), vampire supplements like 100 Resources and Rumors to Find on ShreckNet or 100 Havens, a changeling supplement like 100 (Mostly) Harmless Goblin Fruits and Oddments to Find in The Hedge, or even my supplements for geist and mage, 50 Geists and 100 Shadow Names (And Their Meanings) respectively, I've got a lot of content available for these settings.

However, one of the games I haven't worked on in the past is Beast: The Primordial. While it has both its fans and its detractors, it just wasn't a particular pool I'd dived into before... however, with the release of Night Horrors: Primordial Peerage, I've added one more notch on my belt for parts of this setting I've had a hand in adding to.

And you should all check this book out ASAP!

A lot of people worked hard on this, so help spread the word!

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So Just What Is This Book About?

In Beast: The Primordial, players take on the roles of the Begotten... humans who have merged with the primal horrors that live on in the dreams of humanity. Beasts take on a thousand different masks, some familiar and some alien, but all of them prey on the darkest, most ancient fears of mankind... and the Begotten are those who connect with these ancient nightmares, who now live in their soul, and feed off mortal victims.

It's said that Beasts were the first of the Night Mother's offspring, but that most (if not all) of the other horrors of the Chronicles of Darkness are their younger cousins. Though the relations between them and vampires, changelings, werewolves, mages, sin eats, prometheans, and others may be distant, or strained, the Begotten often see themselves as the elder siblings of the world's darkest shadows.

Night Horrors: Primordial Peerage aims to dig deeper, and stretch wider, allowing for a greater variety of characters to exist within the scope of Beast... and it provides history, examples, art, and templates for making such characters!

We are legion, and we have taken many paths.

While there is a lot of content in this supplement book, the one that I think is most interesting are the templates for additional character types. Some of these are where the Primordial brushes up against another sphere, creating strange combination creates (Beast and Mage, Beast and Geist, and so on), but others are utterly unique, and play off the terrors that live at the heart of the human condition. The Cybernetic Horrors, for example, tap into the fears of what can happen when machines blend with flesh, and create something new and inhuman. Dark Lords, on the other hand, are people whose reputations are such that the urban legends about them begin to imbue them with genuine, supernatural abilities. You could use these for NPCs that could present a real challenge to a collection of Beasts, or who might act as allies or cultists helping to bolster a Begotten's goals. Or, if you really want to, you could run a chronicle where players take on the roles of these alternative types of mortals touched by the Primordial Dream.

So, whether you just enjoy expanded source material for Beast, or you've been looking for more ways to play that particular sphere, I would highly recommend picking up a copy of this new release!

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