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Liminal Core Book

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Category: Liminal

There’s more to the world than most of us know. Academic wizards and gutter mages, vampires and werewolves, Men in Black working for a secret religious order and a police division investigating Fortean crimes. The cities and the very landscape encompass haunted places and lost bubbles of history, faerie courts and places of power.

But you know. You’re at the edge of the Hidden World. Maybe you’ve seen it and can’t ignore it. Maybe you’re from the Hidden World, but with ties to humanity.

Liminal is a self-contained tabletop roleplaying game about those on the boundary between the modern day United Kingdom and the Hidden World- the world of secret societies of magicians, a police division investigating Fortean crimes, fae courts, werewolf gangs, and haunted places where the walls between worlds are thin.

The players portray Liminals - those who stand between the mortal and magical realms, with ties to each. Examples of Liminals include:

  • A magician who acts as a warden to protect unaware mortals from supernatural menaces;
  • Someone of mysterious birth who is perhaps half Fae. In any case they are caught up in Faerie politics whether they like it or not;  
  • A burglar who steals supernatural relics;  
  • A werewolf who still has many ties to ordinary people;
  • A dhampir, striving to do good despite their vampiric infection;
  • A mortal detective who knows some of the real strangeness out there.

The magical world has a basis in British and Irish folklore and legends, along with ghost stories and modern day popular takes on the supernatural in fiction.

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Customer Reviews (4.8 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Richard ★★★★★

The chapter on the Men in Black working for a secret religious order is what sold me—it's such a fresh take on the conspiracy angle. I've already started a campaign around that concept and the lore hooks are perfect for a modern urban fantasy game.

Jacob Y. ★★★★★

The setting creation tools are surprisingly deep, with solid mechanics for running everything from a secret police squad to a coven of gutter mages. Really happy with how it handles the different supernatural factions without making any of them feel overpowered.

Nicholas S. ★★★★★

The way it balances academic wizardry with street-level gutter magic makes the world feel incredibly lived-in. I’ve already used the Men in Black and Fortean police division lore to build a couple of session hooks.