Liminal High School

Why you should get Evlyn Moreau's Liminal High School:

While I love the Liminal Horror system, the current Investigators Edition lacks original art and flavor. My favorite thing when flipping through a new (or old) handbook is getting flooded with ideas of all the stories I could tell with the system as I read the different player options, world information, bestiary and more. 

All this to say, Evlyn Moreau is able here to do in eight pages what some books fail to do in 100+. This little booklet is filled to the brim with ideas, and for a dollar (a dollar!!!) you get all these cool bits and pieces to work with.

Something that didn't really work for me in the current Investigators Edition of Liminal Horror is the vague theme, which seems to pull a lot from the SCP Foundation or Control when it comes to its Resonant Artifacts, even though character backgrounds suggests Investigators should be regular people, and not agents of some secret paranormal organization. What appears to be a desire for the game to cover a broader range of horror ends up making it difficult to run an original story only using the sparse material from the handbook. To have the best experience with Liminal Horrors, you need to bring a lot to it, but thanks to a community of very creative authors, you don't really have to, after all!

Here, the style is very consistent, and is perfect for any LH campaign or one-shot set in high school. This is what you want out of a sourcebook, something you can take apart and use by itself or with other material. What you get here is a step-by-step creation guide to making your high school level LH investigators. There's also a creative cellphone mechanic which has made its way in the current edition of the LH rulebook.  

But I'm telling you, once you stare at this thing long enough (which I have), you see there's a lot more here between the lines. I have used the ten character profiles on page 3 as avatars for my players' investigators a few times already. I usually let my players create their characters' appearance, but there's something fun about rolling an avatar randomly along with everything else, meaning you can end up with the avatar of a nerd type, but with the Athlete archetype, which makes for very unique characters. I also find it fun when, through different games, players roll the same avatars but with different archetypes and traits, and suddenly, the same illustration takes a whole new personality. This does mean I had to come up with rules for players who rolled the dog!! 

Page 5 has tables to roll for equipement, but here, the Paranormal Items feel like they could each be the sole focus of an entire campaign. Yes, all you get is a few words, but what matter is the idea, the seed planted into your head that will bloom into something big. 

Somehow, one of my favorite part of the book is on the last page, where the author lists the touchstones that inspired the supplement. It says: "Imagine the Breakfast Club drawn by Junji Ito or Life is Strange set in Silent Hill."

That single line has bounced around my skull every day since I first read it a few months back, and all it means, I suppose, is that my players have seen this booklet on the table for these past few months, and they will keep seeing it for many months to come.

If you haven't yoinked this yet, what are you doing!! Get a coin from the piggy bank and get your hands on this booklet. Heck, grab Evlyn Moreau's His Arrival Was Foretold and get the Liminal High School supplement with an equally excellent pamphlet adventure and run a session tonight! And grab both if you also want the beautiful Liminal High School character sheets and the satisfaction of knowing you've given more coins to Evlyn Moreau. Maybe if we give her enough coins, we'll trick her into creating more supplements for us... 

I have added a character sheet.
Note that I have modified on the sheet the stability that holding your phone provide (from d2 to d4-1)

This is fantastic. Coupling stress with the PC’s phone is such a good idea, it immediately puts you in character and I think my players will love it.

This is way up there with some of my favorite work you've done!
The art, touchstones, and concepts are fantastic. I'm not normally keen on kid/teen focused rpg stuff, but I think I'm going to have to give this a try.

This is wonderfully done. The tables are right on target and the art sets the perfect mood for high school students encountering the supernatural.

I have been looking for something like this for a long time, so there might be a bit of a bias when I say that this is probably my favorite thing someone has written for Liminal Horror. Also, Evlyn has outdone herself with the art in this one. Some of my favorite pieces by her are in this document.