Liminal: Core Book

There is more to the world than most of us know. Academic wizards and gutter magicians, vampires and werewolves, Men in Black working for a secret religious order and a police department investigating Fortean crimes. The towns and the landscape itself include haunted places and lost bubbles of history, fairy courts and places of power. But you know. You are on the edge of the Hidden World. Maybe you've seen it and can't avoid it. Perhaps you are of the Hidden World, but with ties to humanity.

Liminal is a self-contained tabletop role-playing game about those who find themselves on the border between modern Britain and the Hidden World - the world of secret societies of mages, a police department investigating Fortean crimes, fairy courts, werewolf gangs, and haunted places where the walls between worlds are thin.

Players portray Liminals - those who stand between the mortal and magical worlds, with ties to each. Examples of Liminals are:
- A wizard who acts as a guard to protect unwitting mortals from supernatural threats;
- Someone of mysterious birth who may be half Fae. In any case, they are embroiled in Faerie politics, whether they like it or not;  
- A burglar who steals supernatural relics;  
- A werewolf who still has many ties to ordinary people;
- A dhampir, who strives to do good despite his vampiric infection;
- A mortal detective who knows something of the real strangeness out there.

The magical world has a basis in British and Irish folklore and legends, along with ghost stories and contemporary popular conceptions of the supernatural in fiction.