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Eat the Reich

First Edition
A unit of vampire commandos drop on occupied Paris with a single mission: drink Hitler dry
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historicalhorror
CinematicPulp ActionCombat-HeavyFast-PacedMission-BasedHeroicHigh-PowerOne-Shot FriendlyTheater of the MindFiction-FirstPlaybook-DrivenRules-Light
Languages: English, Italian
Diced6 dice pool
System FamilyHavoc Engine
Cost$$
LicenseProprietary
PublisherRowan, Rook and Decard
Year2023
Complexity Low
Accessibility Medium
Runnability High

Core Mechanic

Roll a pool of d6s equal to your stat plus one die per piece of equipment or ability you activate; discard any die showing 3 or less, count 4–5 as a success, and 6 as a critical. The GM builds a separate Attack pool equal to the engaged Threat's rating and rolls it. You then allocate each remaining die to one of five slots — advance an Objective, eliminate a Threat, defend against the GM's Attack dice, feed for Blood, or trigger a SPECIAL (criticals only) — narrating one scene detail per die as you place it. Any GM Attack dice you don't cancel with defence dice inflict Injuries.

Best For

Groups who want a self-contained, ultraviolent anti-fascist action romp playable in two or three short sessions with pregenerated characters and zero campaign overhead.

Highlights

Every die spent on attack is a die not spent defending or feeding for Blood, so each turn forces an explicit tradeoff between killing nazis, staying alive, and refueling the abilities that make you dangerous. Reinforcement rules ratchet pressure up each round — defeated Threats roll d6 to restore rating and every active Threat's Attack rating ticks up by one — so lingering in a scene gets steadily more lethal. Six pregenerated vampires with fixed mechanics but explicitly malleable backgrounds let the table skip session zero entirely and be drop-coffin-deployed into Paris within minutes of opening the book.

Considerations

Built around a single fixed scenario — the assault on Hitler's Paris stronghold — with no support for other premises, settings, or open-ended campaign play. Character creation is reskin or hack-from-the-pregens only; the book offers no point-buy or formal chargen system. Splatter-violence tone and nazi subject matter are confrontational by design; the rulebook opens with content warnings, lines-and-veils guidance, and an evil-calibration checklist the table is expected to work through before play.