Yokai Hunters Society

Yokai Hunters Society is a rules-light pen & paper RPG about monster hunters in Meiji Japan based on Tunnel Goons. The adventures you can play range from facing the monster of the week, to complex investigations or political plots, to routine cleansing jobs.

Yokai Hunters Society

System

The game uses a 2d6 + stat + bonuses roll system, requiring a result of 9 or higher to succeed.

Hunters' background and equipment play an important role in gaining advantages and boosting rolls.

Combat is fast and brutal, discouraging hunters from resolving scenarios through sheer violence and encouraging them to seek more creative solutions.

Editions

If you want to try the game, the original pamphlet version, created for the Goon Jam back in 2019, is still available as a free demo and includes everything you need to play.

The standard zine edition is available in PDF at itch.io and DriveThruRPG and in paper thru LULU.

Our friends at Nigredo Press have been releasing everything related to the game in Italian, while Rzucaj Nie Gadaj has released a Polish version of the pamphlet.

Hunter Generator

Creating a hunter is quick and easy. However, if you're short on time or need to come up with an NPC on the fly for your session, the Hunter Generator has you covered.

Tokyo: A City Crawl

Tokyo: A City Crawl

An urban setting for Yokai Hunters Society, conceived both as a reference tool for the GM and a source of inspiration. Although each of the wards can be used as individual scenarios in games of one or two sessions, the book is designed for freeform urban exploration, where the city is explored ward by ward, following rumors, encounters, and unfolding events rather than a fixed plot.

Field Guide to Yokai

Field Guide to Yokai

If you need more antagonists for your game, Field Guide to Yokai gives you a collection of Japanese horrors for use with Yokai Hunters Society or the OSR game of your choice.

Deck of Many Yokai

Deck of Many Yokai

A collection of Japanese horrors in tarot format based on the Field Guide to Yokai, for use with Yokai Hunters Society or the OSR game of your choice.

Snow

Snow

A scenario for Yokai Hunters Society inspired by “The Blizzard”, an episode in Akira Kurosawa’s film Yume (Dream, 1990).

It is the autumn of 1878, and the hunters are sent to a Shinto shrine at the top of Mount Asahi, one of the coldest and most inscrutable places in the country. Their mission is simple: deliver a package to priest Iekami.

Gourdian Not

Guardian Not

A free one-shot scenario written by Lowell Francis and illustrated by Chema González. Perfect for your first session of the game.