HELLBOY RPG: CORE RULEBOOK (Pre-Order)

Release date: 2026-11-15

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Get ready to become a member of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.) and begin investigating occult perils that threaten the world's very existence. Your team will explore gothic locations, hunt clues, discover artifacts, and face off against terrifying foes.

The Hellboy universe is vast. Absolutely vast. It spans, well, a whole universe. From the icy depths of dimensionless space where the ancient elder beings, the Ogdru Jahad, wait eager to return, to the wintry tracts of a Russia preserved in Baba Yaga's dream. It contains an entirely new and secret history of the world, preserved in a lost language. It's a universe filled with magic, with arcane science, with Nazis who need punching, and with characters who are always that little bit more than you expect them to be. It's a universe of stories. And with this RPG, you get to tell your own.

This core rulebook is broken down into three main parts, providing all of the necessary background and rules needed to play. provides everything you need for play, including:

Introduction

The world isn't what it seems, you know this, right? You look smart, you look like you've seen some stuff. On the surface, sure, there are still supermarkets and pubs, wrestling bouts and cinemas, but beneath that there is another world. Another world that pokes its way through the glass and steel of our world, pokes its way through and demands to be seen. It's usually the colour of blood. You know the score — vanished children, nightmare beasts erupting in the centre of a suburban town full of nice, prosperous parents with gum-chewing, grinning kids. The old stories that fill books even now are all true. Every fairy tale, every half-murmured urban myth, every fanciful drawing in the corner of a medieval map…every one of them is true. And the world needs protecting.

That's what you're here for. That's why you've been invited to join us, here at the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. You're one of those who've seen the darkness lying beneath, but you've not blocked it out, or pretended it wasn't real. You've put yourself in its path. You're the kind of person we need. We want you on the team. But let's bring you up to speed first…

Part I: Joining the BPRD

Comprehensive Origins and Roles that allow you to create your very own paranormal investigator.

• Chapter 1: Origins - Character creation in Hellboy: The RPG allows for endless customisation, limited only by your imagination. From unique agent origins to the various roles on offer within the B.P.R.D., you have enormous scope for creating a truly unique character.

• Chapter 2: Roles- Agents of the B.P.R.D. are not ordinary people. They have been moulded by training and their experiences to defend against creatures that most only meet in their nightmares. Roles are the primary method through which this training and experience is quantified in game terms. The six most common roles are presented in this chapter, divided across the three main departments of the Bureau. Agents often split their careers between departments and roles, accruing knowledge and experience to better combat the unknown and allow teams to have a unique way of operating as the diversity of experience shapes their approach to a B.P.R.D. Case File.

• Chapter 3: Customization - Feats represent talents or areas of expertise that gives a character special capabilities. It embodies training, experience, and abilities beyond what a class provides.

• Chapter 4: Equipment - As a government agency that specialises in the paranormal, the B.P.R.D. has a wide range of equipment and technology available to support its agents. They are an agency, however, which means accessing that equipment can sometimes involve more than a little bureaucracy.

Part II: Mastering the Basics

The complete 5E ruleset, with some tweaks and changes to bring the system fully into Hellboy's world. It includes new mechanics for options such as Ingenuity and Doom, designed to capture t…