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1	''Hulks and Horrors'' is a TabletopRPG made by A.C. Danvers. It is a SpaceOpera setting made using the Open Gaming License 1.0a rules system. It is available for download as a free PDF at online game stores.
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3	The game's premise is that when humanity finally reached the stars, they found that a plague had wiped out most other sentient races. Now it's up to the players to investigate ruins and [[TitleDrop abandoned ships, facing the horrors]] in them, in order to find great rewards.
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5	You can play as four human character character classes: Pilot, Scientist, Soldier, Psyker (psionic) and three alien races (also treated as character classes): the Sl'ettexik (hovering squids), the Red-Red-Chartreuse-Blue (a race of giant one-cell organisms, with a color-based language, called Omega Reticulans by everybody else) and the Urr-A-Arfruf (Bearmen.)
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7	The game allows for a wide array of WorldBuilding, from designing your own devices, spaceships and monsters to planets and star-systems. It includes dozens of ready-made monsters and artifacts as well.
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9	[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas No, it has nothing to do with]] ''that'' [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]], Or with Space Hulk, another RPG.
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11	!Tropes in Hulks and Horrors include:
12	* ApocalypseHow: Class 3. The Great Plague, a disease of unknown origin, completely wiped out the previous interstellar civilization; the survivors were mutated into monsters.
13	* BearsAreBadNews: Subverted with the Bearmen (though they do suffer from berserk furies.)
14	* BlobMonster: The Reticulans, and a few monsters.
15	* BodyHorror: The Great Plague. Also, many monsters have attacks that have similar effects on their victims.
16	* CharacterAlignment: Not for [=PCs=], but for monsters. It ranges from "docile" to "killer."[[invoked]]
17	* CharacterClassSystem: combined with racial character classes.
18	* DungeonCrawling: In spaceships, planet surfaces and abandoned cities.
19	* IndoEuropeanAlienLanguage: There are several languages a PC can speak, including "tradespeak."
20	* MoodWhiplash: Though mostly an action-adventure setting (with some horror elements) the setting is peppered with humorous bits as well, such as artifacts that sell used underwear, or the fact that Cajun gumbo is a universal dish.
21	* PsychicPowers: The Psyker uses them. An optional rule allows other classes to learn them as well.
22	* RecycledInSpace: ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' In space!
23	* ShoutOut:
24	** The Caerbannog is kind of a [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail familiar Killer Rabbit]].
25	** The Felix, a breed of wild cats, are explicitly named after [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat an ancient Earth cartoon character.]]
26	** The Hiverbugs may also be based on ''Film/StarshipTroopers''' "Bugs".
27	** The Living Weapon is one monstrous Franchise/{{Alien}}.
28	** Series/TheWalkingDead are, despite the name, actually Plague victims.
29	* StarfishLanguage: The Reticulans' color-based language. Humans can "speak" it with a wrist-mounted signal device.

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