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Hellboy

Cover of "Hellboy: The Roleplaying Game Corebook" featuring Hellboy and other characters amidst tentacles and flames.

Get ready to become a member of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.) and begin investigating occult perils threatening the world’s very existence. In the Hellboy RPG, your team explores gothic locations, hunts clues, discovers artifacts, and faces off against terrifying foes.

The Hellboy universe is vast. Absolutely vast. It spans, well, a whole universe. From the icy depths of dimensionless space where the ancient elder beings, the Ogdru Jahad, wait eager to return, to the wintry tracts of a Russia preserved in Baba Yaga’s dream. It contains an entirely new and secret history of the world, preserved in a lost language. It’s a universe filled with magic, arcane science, Nazis who need punching, and characters who are always that little bit more than you expect them to be. It’s a universe of stories. And with this RPG, you get to tell your own.

The world isn’t what it seems, you know this, right? You look smart, you look like you’ve seen some stuff. On the surface, sure, there are still supermarkets and pubs, wrestling bouts and cinemas. But beneath that there is another world. Another world that pokes its way through the glass and steel of our world, pokes its way through and demands to be seen. It’s usually the colour of blood. You know the score — vanished children, nightmare beasts erupting in the centre of a suburban town full of nice, prosperous parents with gum-chewing, grinning kids. The old stories that fill books even now are all true. Every fairy tale, every half-murmured urban myth, every fanciful drawing in the corner of a medieval map…every one of them is true. And the world needs protecting.

Cover of "Hellboy: The Roleplaying Game" corebook with dice and Hellboy illustration.

What’s in the Hellboy book?

This 240+ page core rulebook is broken down into three main parts, providing all of the necessary background and rules needed to play. It provides everything you need for play, including:

  • Part I: Joining the BPRD.Comprehensive Origins and Roles that allow you to create your very own paranormal investigator.

  • Part II: Mastering the Basics. The complete 5E ruleset, with some tweaks and changes to bring the system fully into Hellboy’s world. It includes new mechanics for options such as Ingenuity and Doom, designed to capture the flavor and strange dynamics of the Mignolaverse.

  • Part III: Conquering the Darkness. Definitive advice for GMs on running games set within the Mignolaverse, including tips for creating paranormal locations and strange pocket dimensions, rites and rituals, weird science, and occult groups.

  • Part IV: Agents and Enemies. A comprehensive bestiary of foes, plus statistics for several legendary characters such as Abe, Hellboy, Liz, and others.

  • The Jungles of the Mind. A complete stand-alone adventure for up to six players

Explore the full range:

Cover of 'Hellboy: The Roleplaying Game B.P.R.D. Field Manual' featuring armed characters in tactical gear and a monstrous creature above. Dark, comic style illustration.

Hellboy - B.P.R.D. Field Manual

Get ready to become a member of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.) and begin investigating occult perils that threaten the world’s very existence. Your team will explore gothic locations, hunt clues, discover artefacts, and face off against terrifying foes.

The B.P.R.D. Field Manual, for the Hellboy RPG, is a digital-only release, designed to expand the content of the Core Book for GMs and players alike.

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Hellboy - GM Screen

The four-panel Hellboy GM Screen comes in landscape format, perfect for keeping things secret and safe! With stunning artwork from the Hellboy RPG on the player’s side and all the charts and tables the GM on the other, this screen is perfect for your Hellboy sessions.