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HellGuard - Curse of Caina - Review

HellGuard - Curse of Caina is a rules-light role playing game of infernal fantasy, complete with five sight-night adventures for you to enjoy. Filled with horrific investigations and explosive grid based combat according to the Kickstarter. This is a 3-5 played including a game master, up to three hours per gameplay, and it’s for ages sixteen, and older. Official Kickstarter




“Hellguard: Curse of Caina is a tabletop roleplaying game inspired by Diablo, Castlevania, Call of Cthulhu, and other dark fantastic worlds. The game focuses on the land of Caina, a continent buried in the long shadow of an infernal war that twisted the landscape and warped the hearts of its people. Villages scrape by on the edges of barren wilderness, ignorant of the supernatural evil that walks the streets. Ancient apocrypha, ripped from the tongues of tortured saints, portend that Hell will wage a new war on humanity from the shadows. But against the specter of annihilation stand the few damned souls with the power—and the will—to save this tragic world from itself. 

Hellguard blends the mounting suspense of horrific investigation with the thrill of anime-inspired combat and brings them together in a unique experience—approachable by board gamers and TTRPG veterans alike.” - Hellguard Kickstarter


With this it really intrigues me with anime-inspired combat that blends with horrific investigation into one. I personally love investigation style games, but to add anime based combat. Makes me wondering how they will do this? From the looks it’s a grid based game system. So the more I look into this, we will see what they mean, but so far everything looking real good. 



What you can get - 






You have up to five classes similar to base set up with any game, but they all come with a unique variety of skills.





“The Hellguard: Curse of Caina Core Rulebook includes all the infernal intrigues and cunning demonic foes a Game Master needs to inspire, endanger, and immerse their players in the setting. Tools to extend play beyond the prewritten adventures include...

A bestiary of Hell's agents, complete with stat blocks, tactics, and lore for each

Dozens of story hooks, woven into the landscape and history of Caina

Tips and guidelines for structuring one-shots in Hellguard: Curse of Caina 

Systems-agnostic advice for game-mastering one-shots, from setting stakes and establishing tone to escalating tension and achieving satisfying conclusions

A robust kit of tools for playing safely with horrific themes from contributing author, D&D live streamer, and professional nerd Noura Ibrahim. All this and more is made possible by our incredible contributors, whose CVs speak to the high level of quality they bring to this project.” - Hellguard Kickstarter 





As it comes to a close of a very successful Kickstarter, I can’t wait to be able to play a few rounds of this amazing looking game. Even though the gameplay in just my opinion doesn't really display anything that would make me think of anime style or more or less like a TTRPG or dungeon crawler mechanics. But still looks amazing, and will definitely be worth getting.



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