''A storytelling game of co-dependency, self-pity, despite, anger and alienation.''


''Hunchback: The Lurching'' is a fan-made game for White Wolf's ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'' storytelling RPG. The game concerns the (mis)adventures of these [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Hunchbacks]], who suffer from "The Curse," an affliction that twists their bodies into something inhuman.

The main goals for a Hunchback are [[TheIgor finding a master]], [[LoveHurts searching for love]] and dealing with [[AllOftheOtherReindeer being an ostracized freak]]. [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope The game has no relation to real people with deformities.]]

The complete game is [[http://worldofdarkness.wikia.com/index.php?title=Hunchback:_The_Lurching available online,]] and even has a [[BigNameFan Mr Gone]]-designed [[http://mrgone.rocksolidshells.com/pdf/MiscNWOD/Hunchback1-Page_Editable.pdf character sheet.]] The author also put out some ideas for a companion game, ''Mad Scientist: The Experiment'', [[http://worldofdarkness.wikia.com/wiki/Mad_Scientist:_The_Experiment here]].


* GratuitousFrench - Given in a game about hunchbacks.
* HumanoidAbomination: Most of the Hunchbacks are this.
* TheIgor - Even ''more'' given. One of the Hunchback classes is this specifically, drawn to Scientists and Geniuses in the hope that science will provide relief for their agony.
* LovecraftianSuperpower: Hunchbacks are humans who, through some unknown cruel quirk of fate, have mutated humps on their backs that are actually stores of mystical energy they can access for a variety of pwers and effects. The drawback is that the energy replenishes itself from the wearers suffering, forcing the Hunchbacks to the fringes of society if their mutation hasnt already driven them there, wallowing in their own hate and anger at the world just to stay alive. The mutation also worsens the older the Hunchback gets, eventually reducing them to immovable mountains of twisted flesh.