GETTING STARTED
To make your Traveler, first pick a name. Then follow the
All your predictions about the future are wrong… I am
not going back to that apocalyptic world until I do
everything I can to guarantee a better future.
◯ • Manipulate Someone
◯ • Act Under Pressure
• Help Out
◯ • Investigate a Mystery
• Read a Bad Situation
◯ • Kick Some Ass
• Protect Someone
◯ • Use Magic
LUCK
Mark luck to change a roll to 12 or avoid all harm from
an injury.
Okay □ □ □ □ □ □ □ Doomed
HARM
When you reach 4 or more, mark unstable
Okay □ □ □ | □ □ □ □ Dying
Unstable: □
(Unstable injuries will worsen as time passes)
LEVELING UP
Experience: □ □ □ □ □
instructions in this playbook to decide your look, ratings, means of
Whenever you roll and get a total of 6 or less, or when a
transport, moves, and gear. Finally, introduce yourself and pick
move tells you to, mark an experience box.
history.
When you have filled all five experience boxes, you level up.
LOOK, PICK ONE FROM EACH LIST: Erase the marks and pick an improvement from the
• Man, woman, androgynous, indistinct. following list:
• Excited face, youthful face, crazy face, severe face, downcast IMPROVEMENTS
face, expressionless face, sad face, hopeful face. □ Get +1 Tough, max +3
• Formal clothes, casual clothes, gaudy clothes, futuristic clothes, □ Get +1 Sharp, max +3
improvised costume, tactical costume.
□ Get +1 Cool, max +3
RATINGS, PICK ONE LINE: □ Get +1 Charm, max +3
□ Charm+1, Cool+1, Sharp+2, Tough-1, Weird=0 □ Get +1 Weird, max +2
□ Charm+2, Cool-1, Sharp+2, Tough-1, Weird=0 □ Take another Traveler move
□ Charm-1, Cool+2, Sharp+2, Tough-1, Weird=0 □ Take another Traveler move
□ Charm=0, Cool+2, Sharp+1, Tough=0, Weird=0
□ Charm-1, Cool+2, Sharp-1, Tough+2, Weird=0
□ Gain an ally
□ Take a move from another playbook
□ Take a move from another playbook
INTRODUCTIONS
When you get here, wait for everyone to catch up so you can do
After you have leveled up five times, you qualify for
advanced improvements in addition to these. They’re
your introductions together.
Go around the group. On your turn, introduce your Traveler by
name and look, and tell the group what they know about you.
below.
ADVANCED IMPROVEMENTS
□ Get +1 to any rating, max +3.
HISTORY
Go around the group again. When it’s your turn, pick one for each of
□ Change this hunter to a new type.
□ Create a second hunter to play as well as this one.
the other hunters: □ Mark two of the basic moves as advanced.
• They saw you coming from the future and thought you were □ Mark another two of the basic moves as advanced.
one of the villains. Ask them how you convinced them. □ Retire this hunter to safety.
• They taught you how to manage in the “modern world”. You □ Erase one used Luck mark from your playbook.
still have trouble understanding how everything works, but □ Delete the move Servant of Technology. You have
they’re here to help.
learnt to deal with the supernatural, no longer
• They’re one of your ancestors. Tell them how you’re related.
receiving any penalties for it.
• They help you deal with the supernatural by trying to get you
out of your over-reliance on technology.
• They’re an excellent travel companion. You hope to one day be
able to take them to your era and show them the future.
• They remind you of a loved one from your era. You will protect
them at all costs.
• An eternally platonic romance. The two of you would make a
great couple but you don’t want to get too involved in this era.
• They understand you perfectly, as if they came from the same
era as you. This is comforting and gives you total confidence in
them.
MEANS OF TRANSPORT, CHOOSE ONE:
You can visit future events, past events or remote places,
either alone or with the whole team.
The Keeper must decide how time travel will work:
changing the past, alternate timelines, small changes
producing major changes etc.
When traveling through time and space, roll +Sharp.
• On a 10+, you arrive at the desired place at the desired
time.
• On a 7-9, you arrive at either the desired place or at the
desired time, your choice.
• On a miss, you are lost; this is probably quite serious.
Choose the means of transport for your travels through
time and space. Each transportation medium has both
positive and negative traits. It is worth remembering that
time travel is by no means a safe trip.
□ It’s bigger on the inside: Your time machine is
multidimensional, as small as a phone booth on the
outside, but as big as a spaceship on the inside. Things
inside it cannot be tracked by normal means. To travel,
it disappears from one place and appears in another,
but otherwise it is completely stationary and cannot be
transported at all.
□ Teleportation: You can teleport instantly if you have a
clear line of sight of the destination or if you know it
very well. Otherwise, you need to study the spacetime
continuum for a few hours, or even days, to plan the
trip, so as to not end up underground or a kilometre
above the ground.
□ 88 miles per hour: Your time machine looks like a car
or a van, not drawing much attention (in time periods
after the invention of such vehicles). You can use it to
move around like any other vehicle, but it depends on
fuel, maintenance parts, roads etc.
□ Time Portal: You open a time portal to your
destination. You can only open one portal at a time,
and it will remain active for as long as you wish. It
allows you to cross it in any direction as many times as
you want. But an unattended portal can also be crossed
by any person, or monster…
MOVES
You get all the basic moves plus four Traveler moves. You get this one:
▣Servant of Technology: You are extremely dependent on
technology, having difficulties in relating to the supernatural.
You get -1 ongoing to use magic or any other moves related to
the supernatural or magic.
Then pick three of these:
□ Butterfly Effect: At the beginning of each mystery, choose
one rating to receive +1 (max +3) and another to receive -1 (min
-2) during this mystery. These actions disturb the spacetime
and the oscillations of their characteristics is a reflection of
that.
□ Historian: When you investigate a mystery or read a bad
situation, you can choose to ask “Why does this seem
familiar?” as one of the questions. If possible, the Keeper will
describe how a similar situation has happened in the past or
future history of the world.
□ Inventor: If you want to build, repair, or study a device, the
Keeper will tell you how long it will take and what equipment
will be needed.
□ Prescience: Attacks that can cause your death pop up in your
memory. When you take harm and become unstable, you
may roll +Weird. On a 10+, you remembered the attack and
were able to avoid it completely. On a 7-9, the memory took
time to emerge, take 1-harm less or don’t become unstable. On
a miss, the memory was incorrect and your avoidance made
you unbalanced; in addition to the harm, you take -1 forward.
□ Neural Implants: When you need to do something that
requires specific training, such as defusing a bomb or flying a
helicopter, you already have the information implanted in your
brain. You still need to act under pressure, but you know what
to do.
□ Sufficiently Advanced Technology: You can reproduce the
effects of the move use magic with technological tools. You do
not roll dice for this, but you must choose an effect and a glitch.
This is not magic, so the effect will not have the magic tag and
will not work on things affected only by magic. The Keeper may
ask for one or more requirements to achieve the effect.
□ No Paradoxes: When you say why something should happen to
guarantee the future, you can help another hunter and give +1
to their roll, as if you had rolled a 10+ on help out. You still
need to describe how you are helping.
□ Android/Cyborg: You have cybernetic implants or
maybe you’re half a machine. In addition to superhuman
strength, your punches and kicks are attacks with
(3-harm contact).
□ Psychic Paper: You get +1 ongoing in rolls to avoid
being detected or remaining unnoticed. You also get +1
ongoing when you manipulate someone by pretending
to be someone else.
GEAR
You can have two technological devices and a protective
weapon.
Technological devices, pick two:
□ Photonic Binoculars: Able to see in total darkness and in
different spectra, including infrared.
□ Sonic Screwdriver: Able to repair, or damage, simple
mechanical and electronic devices (e.g. radios, locks,
weapons etc).
□ Travel Guide: A small electronic book containing all
human historical knowledge up to the present era.
□ Portable Laboratory: A small device capable of
diagnosing diseases, poisons and abnormal conditions
from a drop of blood or similar input.
□ Universal Locator: Indicates the exact position in time
and space. Can only be blocked with magic or high
levels of radiation.
□ Hologram Projector: Projects a person-sized hologram
(recorded or live) that looks real until touched.
□ Instant Translator: Ensures speech and understanding of
any natural language (does not work with magic or
supernatural languages).
Protective weapons, pick one:
□ Machete (1-harm contact)
□ Common revolver (2-harm close loud reload)
□ Shotgun (3-harm close messy loud reload)
□ Light futuristic weapon (1-harm) [add 1 range tag and 3
other tags]
□ Heavy futuristic weapon (3-harm) [add 1 range tag and
1 other tag]