Helluva Town - Quickstart

THAT’S MAD, FOLKS!

1930s, New York City. Helluva Town is one of the city’s secret neighborhoods, wedged somewhere between Little Italy and the Bowery – and inhabited by living cartoons.

An unsettling crowd of lunatics, hyper-colorful, liberally partaking of sex and gender, whose lives are potentially infinite and with one thing on their mind: fun, wacky zany fun!

HELLUVA TOWN is intended to be a narrative, rules-light game, designed to be enjoyed by both hardcore Gamers and those who have never played a single RPG in their life.

The lore borrows wholeheartedly from the vast, lysergic vault of US cartoons from the 1930s (with a couple of space-time liberties; Law & Order isn’t exactly one of the tenets of Helluva Town). The game is an acid trip through Looney Toons, early Mickey Mouse, Popeye and Betty Boop, with sudden swerves into worlds that quite happily stole from those colorful worlds: from Who framed Roger Rabbit? to Cool World, from The Goon to Cuphead.

Helluva Town is a homage, full of heart and nostalgia, to the mad geniuses of the medium, from Max Fleischer to Tex Avery, from Walt Disney to Segar, to their wacky kaleidoscope, and the zany characters their minds brought to life.