Hunter: The Reckoning

Hunter: The Reckoning

First edition cover by Brian Glass
Designers	First edition Andrew Bates, Phil Brucato, Ken Cliffe, Greg Fountain, Ed Hall, Jess Heinig, Michael Lee, Richard Thomas, Mike Tinney, Stewart Wieck 5th Edition Justin Achilli
Publishers	White Wolf Publishing (ed. 1) Renegade Game Studios (H5)
Publication	November 1999 (ed. 1) June 5, 2022 (ed. 5)
Systems	Storyteller System
Series	World of Darkness
Website	Official website
ISBN	1-56504-735-4 (ed. 1) 978-1-737496-24-3 (H5)

Hunter: The Reckoning is a horror tabletop role-playing game, and the sixth main game in the World of Darkness series. It was originally released by White Wolf Publishing in November 1999 as part of their Year of the Reckoning line. A second edition, based on the Vampire: The Masquerade 5h edition ruleset, was released in 2022 by Renegade Game Studios.^[1] It is supported by a series of supplementary books which expand the game's setting and describe types of characters.

Led by a gamemaster, players role-play as human characters in modern times who learn of the existence of the supernatural, such as vampires, werewolves, and mages, and fight back as monster hunters. Having little knowledge of the supernatural and nobody but each other to rely on, they share information and organize through the internet forum Hunter-Net. The hunters are divided into several creeds, which determine their philosophies and outlooks on the hunt, and what sets of powers they learn.

The game was designed with themes of righteous fury, paranoia, hope, and retaining a normal life. The game was critically well received and considered appealing to both returning players and those new to the series, and became one of White Wolf Publishing's most successful and popular intellectual properties. It has seen several adaptations, including a fiction anthology, a novel series, several video games, and a live-action role-playing game.