Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition

by Travis Stout (Developer), Liz Argall, Dave Brookshaw

You are dead. You shuffled off this mortal coil, passed away, bought the farm, or any of a thousand other quaint metaphors we use to avoid staring into the face of our own mortality.

You are not dead. Something else was more important – you didn't have time to lie quiet in your grave, you had things that needed doing. And on the cusp of dissolution, at the crossroads of this world and the next, you met something that felt the same way.

Now you walk the world with living flesh and dead eyes, eyes that can't help but see the plight of the for gotten shades that huddle just beyond the light. Stalked by Reapers, devoured whole by the eaters of the dead, summoned and bound by necromancers, they are your people, and they are suffering. Pulled between your own Burden, the half-remembered humanity of the monstrous ghost to whom you are Bound, and the cosmic injustice of the Underworld, where will you stand?

This book contains:
- The complete rules for playing a Sin-Eater in the Chronicles of Darkness, including systems for organizing and directing the efforts of large-scale organizations like Sin-Eater cults or organized-crime families.
- Burdens, krewe Archetypes, and a host of unique powers to create your Sin-Eaters and the strange death-cults they build.
- Example settings from across the globe and history, from the tumult of Washington, D.C. in the 1960s to medieval Carcassone to present-day Beijing.
- A detailed look at the Underworld and its denizens, from the terrifying Kerberoi to the never-born Chthonians.

Genres: Role Playing Games

423 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2019

Reviews

[Garrett Henke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow. Talk about an impressive game. Essentially, we’re talking about a what-if story where Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren got together and wrote a ghost story RPG with a progressive politics/civil rights motif. I’m really not kidding. Even more surprisingly, it completely works. Geist maintains its sense of horror and is damn frightening (the section on Ghost Eaters kept me awake one night). But it’s not a game about doing nothing or giving in: it’s about standing up and fighting for equality and what is right - all through the lens of a dead person.

[Timothy Pitkin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easily my favorite line from the World of Darkness and the Chronicles of Darkness lines, I do like that the 2nd Edition does go into more depth about the underworld because the first edition version was vague and relied on other source books to go into depth about that part of the setting which seemed kind of weird. I love the mythology they create surrounding death, the underworld, and ghosts it can lead to some very creative adventures.

[Guillermo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Me encantó. Lo jugaría