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| White Wolf |
90s RPG phenomenon Vampire the Masquerade provided the means to play out the shadowy politicking and tragic tales of the undead. The 1992 supplement The Hunters Hunted followed up with options for the few humans seeking to destroy the vampires hiding in plain sight. This was curtly established with the book's frontspiece, depicting a hand using a disposable lighters to torch a rose, an allusion to Vampire's iconic cover art.
Hunters Hunted leans into the idea that the Kindred really are running the World of Darkness and actively making it worse. Even so, the book doesn't automatically give its errant humans the moral high ground. From the get go its established that even the best established hunters are working on incomplete information, filling in the gaps with their own biases. The motives presented are selfish to varying degrees, either driven by a personal grudge or a transparent desire for power.
Hunters are unlikely to ever get close to the truly influential vampires, cutting down plenty of the more "human" ones without ever realizing they might even be serving the truly monstrous rulers of the night.
An interesting parallel is formed, where vampires themselves are undead creatures who thrive off of human society but the humans pursuing them become murderous pariahs during their quests. That dynamic is where Hunters Hunted excels, giving a better swipe at "who's the real monster" than most similar works.
All Walks of Life
Falling a dozen pages short of a hundred, The Hunters Hunted mainly offers new perspectives and story advice on running this kind of Vampire chronicle, with the mechanical side of things coming second. Which is to say, nothing new for White Wolf.
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