Ash Wednesday - Evil Dead 2: The Roleplaying Game

I haven't done an Ash Wednesday post in a while, but seemed liked a good time to do one because the Evil Dead 2: The Roleplaying Game projected launched on Kickstarter today. Already funded, this will be a 250 page hardcover supplement and campaign setting for 5th edition D&D. I know not every concept needs a D&D 5e adaptation, but I'm all in for this. I love all things Evil Dead and I love 5e. While Army of Darkness makes more sense as a D&D setting, from what I've seen Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn is the easiest to get the license for. 

The book will contain the following:

• 12 New Subclasses: Hair-Trigger Barbarian, College of Bravado Bard, Sycophant Domain Cleric, Circle of Decay Druid, Steeljaw Fighter, Warrior of the Phantom Limb Monk, Oath of Interference Paladin, Illusory Terrain Ranger, Liar Rogue, Cursed Bloodline Sorcerer, Warlock of the Necronomicon, Wizard of the Occult
• Blood Splatter Rules
• Necronomicon Curses
• New Items and Feats 
• Deadite Creature Stat Blocks
• Survival Campaign Mode
• Limb-loss and Grating Rules
• Necronomicon Spells

According to the video the game will feature PvP elements (as some characters might secretly be Deadites) and will be compatible with the D&D 2024 rules set. I want to give the video props because the throwback to the film it does made me smile. There are a few pledge levels. Honestly I see the pdf or hardcover/pdf combo being the most popular. There's some cool stuff if you've got the green though (including GM Screen, dice bag, dice, and dice tray).

If you want a taste of the rules there's an 6 page preview. It introduces some the corruption rules. A new 7th attribute, Virtue, is included and your descent to becoming a Deadite is directly tied to it. We're presented with a taste of the blood splatter rules and two modern items, shotguns and chainsaws. Want to see one of the new subclasses? Well you're in luck because we're presented with the Path of the Hair-Trigger for Barbarians. It's a shotgun-centric barbarian path. I love it. Finally, we get a sample foe, a mother f*cking Deadite Sasquatch.  These stats don't look like the new 2024 monster stats, but the format could change by the time the book is released. 

I'm stoked for this one. I know Evil Dead 2 Kickstarters don't have the best track record, but this one looks like its in good hands.