Violent Dark Core Rulebook
$39.99
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Monmouth Cards · Miniatures · Black Site Studios
Violent Dark Core Rulebook
Space-horror rules for crew building, missions, and tense sci-fi skirmishes.
Step into Black Site Studios' grim sci-fi setting with the core book for Violent Dark. This rulebook covers crew creation, mission generation, planetary and facility play, player-controlled threats, and reference materials to get your games moving, with support for 28-32mm miniatures on a compact 2 foot by 2 foot play area.
What's inside: One Violent Dark Core Rulebook. The printed core book includes rules for creating a four-member crew, generating missions, running planetary or facility encounters, using procedurally controlled or player-run threats, and accessing in-book cards and reference materials. Black Site Studios also states that a PDF is included.
Product highlights
- Built for space-horror skirmishes: Violent Dark is presented as a tabletop miniatures game of space horror with solo, co-op, or head-to-head play built around crew survival and escalating threats.
- Crew and mission creation: The core rules cover building a crew of four awakened by the I.S.S. system, then creating missions randomly or by choosing scenario elements yourself.
- Flexible tabletop setting: The rules support both planetary surfaces and corporate facility interiors, making it useful for a range of sci-fi terrain collections.
- Reference content included: The book includes cards and reference materials for crew generation and threat play, and Black Site Studios provides additional Violent Dark resources online.
- Easy entry point for existing hobbyists: Black Site Studios says you can play straight from the rulebook with polyhedral dice, a threat miniature, crew miniatures, terrain, and a 2 foot by 2 foot play area.
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Product questions
What do I need besides the rulebook to play?
Black Site Studios says you can play from this book with D20, D12, D10, D8, and D6 dice, a 2 foot by 2 foot play area with terrain, one miniature for the Threat, and 4 to 6 crew miniatures.
What kind of miniatures work with Violent Dark?
The game is designed for 28-32mm miniatures and terrain. That makes it a good fit for many sci-fi miniature collections and compact skirmish tables.
Is this just a digital file?
No. This listing is written for the printed Violent Dark Core Rulebook. Black Site Studios' product page also states that a PDF is included with the core rulebook.
Add the core book to your shelf and start building tense, compact sci-fi horror encounters with Violent Dark.
