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One Week from Now, Exciting Adventures Await in The Between at Backerkit!
In only one week, [publish date], the Victorian-inspired, horror-filled board game The Between, masterfully carved from Brindlewood Studios, will launch on Backerkit!
In The Between, you and your companions must join the esteemed Victoria Hunt Society, a league of brave hunters, tasked with exploring the eerie lands known as the Between – where mythical beasts lurk and unspeakable terrors unfold.
Victorian Horror Awaits…
Inspired by classic European folklore and the mysterious forces that haunt the land between worlds, The Between embarks players on a gripping adventure where monsters lurk in the shadows, seeking to unleash malevolent horrors upon our realm. It’s time for the courageous to emerge from the gloom!
Key Features Include:
Rich lore and historical setting with hints of classic horror literature, adding to the thrill!
Tense, resource-limited battles against legendary foes
Character customization for depth and strategic play
What can players expect when diving into this dark realm? Discover how to form potent hunting parties, research monster weaknesses, and prepare your Victorian squad for heart-stopping duels! But, dare you ask – can anyone truly uncover the truth and overcome the relentless assault on civilization?
One Week Away – Don’t Miss It! Head to [Backerkit Link] to discover The Between as it sets ablaze a world of excitement!
Join the #VHSDiscuss discussion for eager fans sharing thrilling strategies, and as The Between enters the dark night, experience the eternal balance of monster-hunting alongside other fellow adventurers. Can you emerge victorious amidst these untamed terrors and keep our world of mystery at bay?
Backerkit #TheBetween [Backerkit Link]
Genre: Board Games | Victorian Era | Monster Hunter
Categories: Brindlewood Studios | Coop Gaming | Horror-themed Game
Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with The Gauntlet in any way, just a big fan who knows they're not on Reddit.
Hi, folks! I wanted to share some exciting news with you all here about a game I've fallen in love with: The Between! It's kind of the flagship for the Carved from Brindlewood family, which are PbtA games that take a collaborative approach to solving a variety of mysteries with pre-written scenarios and clues, but no official answer. Each CfB game is tightly-themed, but The Between really leans into its Gothic (and sometimes pulp-inspired) flavor with some killer playbooks – The American is a werewolf who tried to flee their curse by running away out West before coming to London, The Mother is trying to bring their patchwork Child to live through unholy science, and so on.
The current version of the game has been made Pay-What-You-Want, so you can check it out for free.
This upcoming crowdfunding campaign is for a revised edition with color art, a print run, and a collection of all the bonus scenarios (including several new Masterminds, who are campaign-defining antagonist NPCs). It's also going to include several spin-off settings with their own playbooks, mysteries, and Masterminds; Ghosts of El Paso has been out for years with its haunted Western fun, but Unsinkable's turn-of-the-century luxury liner and the battle against Satanists in Louis XIV's Court of Wolves should also have fun spins on The Between's great mechanics.
I fell in love with the CfB approach to mystery gaming with a series of one-shots earlier this year, and The Between hooked my group enough that we started our own campaign as an actual play podcast. Not every group will click with "playing to find out what happens" in this genre space, but I personally *love* to be surprised by what their elegant mechanics allow my players to throw my way. Some people here know me for making lots of recommendations – this one carries my highest praise!
…also, selfishly, they're like 500 e-mail reminder sign-ups away from adding a new free Side Threat about "the vampire king of London," and I want that badly enough to try and rally folks to the cause. 😛
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For those coming across this Thread/ game for the first time or want to learn even more about it, the following are some phenomenal Grade A Resources
* The Bad Spot made [an *excellent* overview video about the game](https://youtu.be/DNFJEQDU4Pk?si=bJaTdiODxh2pdQip), which provides a whole host of reasons as to what makes the game fun and unique.
* The brain behind the game (Jason Cordova) has been working with the folks over at Ain’t Slayed Nobody and they’ve been releasing [Actual Play Episodes on a (roughly) biweekly basis](https://www.aintslayednobody.com/episodes/the-between-jason-cordova-gauntlet-games-victorian) and the quality is **excellent** (Jason Cordova also has *lots* of other APs of the game on his own YouTube channel and they’re all also excellent)
* Lastly, [The Darkened Threshold](https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/the-darkened-threshold) is an “under the hood” podcast hosted by Cordova and Alex Rybitsky as they delve further into the tech of the Between and the games which inspired it and the games which it, in turn, inspired. As of late, they’ve been doing a gradual breakdown the Playbooks for The Between and I believe they have finished with the Core 6 Playbooks which can be found in the now PWYW version with an intent, later on down the road throughout the Backerkit Campaign, to cover the other Playbooks which have released for the game which will be included in its final form. There are also several phenomenal episodes delving further into the “hows” and “whys” of the game’s fundamental pieces.
This is, without a doubt, probably the best game I have ever ran or played in well over a decade of running and playing TTRPGs. It really opened my eyes not only in how a game can be designed and structured, but also in how sessions and campaigns can be paced along and ways to get the whole table to paint a super collaborative and vivid picture of the setting and the course of the game. It’s a game which I highly recommend.