Post Halloween EditionTell us about your horror settings, games, etc. Share inspirational art, prompts, etc.>List of games:Call of Cthulhu, Chill, Cold and Dark, Degenesis, Delta Green, Don't Rest Your Head, Dread, Esoterrorists/Fear Itself+Book of Unremitting Horror, Fall of Delta Green, GORE, Into The Shadows, KULT, Little Fears, Mothership RPG, Nemesis (free on Arc Dream's website), Nights Black Agents, Silent Legions (Mostly for the tables), Stalker: The SciFi RPG, Symbaroum, Ten Candles, Trail of Cthulhu, Unisystem (All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Witchcraft, Conspiracy X, etc.), Unknown Armies, The Whispering Vault, Vaesen>Inspirational stuff:Caitlin R Kiernan, Castlevania, Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, Doom Watch, Fear & Hunger, George Romero, Ghostwatch, House of Leaves, I Am In Eskew, John Carpenter, Kolchak the Nightstalker, Laird Barron, John Langan, M.R. James, Nick Cutter, Old Gods of Appalachia, Quatermass, Ramsey Campbell, Remedy Series (Alan Wake, Control), SCP Foundation, Scarfolk Council, Shaun Hutson, Silent Hill, Stand Still Stay Silent, The Evil Dead, The Magnus Archives, The Secret World, The Stone Tapes, Anatomy, Thomas Ligotti, Twin Peaks, Vault of Evil forums, toomuchhorrorfictionOther News:Trail of Cthulhu 2e crowd funding launcheshttps://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/34bae629-fe97-4643-97b1-d6efc8a14267/landingCurrent Book Club Topic:Where Oaken Hearts Do Gatherhttps://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/where-oaken-hearts-do-gather/Questions for the thread:>Did you manage to get that Halloween Horror game session together?Questions for Horrorverse refugees:>Favorite Halloween special?>Who is the best Halloween icon?Previous thread: https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/94163207Please try to keep arguing to a minimum. Don't respond to bait/drama posts.And as usual, try and keep it alive, or at least undead
>>94377926Here is a question if a player wanted to play a hacker/computers expert in a modern day coc or DG game, how would you handle it?Real life ain’t cyberpunk
>>94378998>Real life ain’t cyberpunkYes it is, just the fake and gay kind.Everyone has Smart Devices that can be used to spy on them with minimal effort and you can buy devices of your own if they don't.
>>94378998>life ain’t cyberpunkYet but NSA has a lot of tools to remotely see what you're up to IF they have a reason to>if a player wanted to play a hacker/computers expert in a modern day coc or DG gameLook up older DG editions they have some tips on that Here is how I did it on my last session CIA agent needed to hack CCTV footage that had no internet access and replace the feed with prerecorded video so that rest of the MTF could go unnoticed Here is what happened >During day other agents caused electrical incident >The call to electrical company was intercepted and redirected by a bond of CIA agent who works for NSA >CIA agent goes in undercover >Roll for INT/search to find place he can connect his laptop >Roll stealth>Roll computer science/craft electrician to connect his laptop with CCTV feed (roll is more how much time it takes him)>Roll SIGINT to "hack" and clean any tracks
>>94378998"I buy the cellphone data for [location of supernatural event]"
>>94377926Let's say a very similar incident, but much more isolated, occurs like the Raccoon City incident.Rookie cop Leon S. Kennedy braves and prevails against zombies/mind-controlled monsters/whatever equivalent.Delta Green shows up and decides to take him in, much like how the government in the Biohazard franchise did.What federal agency does Delta Green slide Kennedy into for his regular work? What kind of spook does Kennedy become for his day job?In Biohazard lore, he gets training and works with SOCOM for a while until the Division of Security Operations is formed. What would be the near equivalent of that IRL that DG would have Kennedy work at?
>>94383776I told you back on /k/.
>>94383859I wanted another opinion.
>>94378998There are many ways to get information like you said. Hell, the tip of the iceberg is using cell towers to triangulate the location of phones. There are all sorts of ways you can get information Shit if they aren't running fiber optics you can even use vampire taps to gain access to a network. You just gotta be creative and do a little homework
>>94377926>Trail of Cthulhu 2e crowd funding launches>The Black Book Player-Level Annual Subscription(£10): Get an annual subscription to the Trail of Cthulhu digital character generator, The Black Book, at a discount of 10% off the list price. You can add multiple years (up to three) by adding an additional £10/year.
>>94377926A huntsman spider is in my house again and it made me think wonder if a giant spider with obfuscation powers That mainly eats other fell spirits and hostile night creatures running away when regular people spot it Would make for a good monster that gives the players spooks but upon careful observation it ultimately nonhostile Thinking of calling such things spirit eaters
>>94386200>get sent to location of ooky spooky>put on nightmare goggles>giant spiders are covering the building and scitter away the second I look at them>oh shid oh fuggg DDDD:::>roll smarty pants>my character knows that the spiders are neutral but so many of them means the building is crammed full of spirits>:DDD but also DDD:
>>94386177This right here is the bullshit that WotC want to be the norm on tabletop RPGs. Absolute crookery
>>94387404They can at least try justifying it by saying their paid character maker is better than the ones the audist fans coded (they bought out the autists) if this was a system that actually needed a character maker.
>>94383776>What would be the near equivalent of that IRL that DG would have Kennedy work at?The answer is there isn't any and Leon is basically just Resident Evil James Bond. That being said given his background he would probably be plopped at the FBI.
So how easy is it replace the Gumshoe system with BRP in the Fall of Delta Green
>>94388846Just use the CoC stats for all the critters that show up.
I wanted to do a short PIECES game for my delta green group as a player will be away for the weekend. I tell them some PIECES lore and now they really really wanna do a bug hunt. Like I've never seen a group of grown men so hype to hunt some brain bugs. So uhhh any bug hunt suggestions?
>>94393428Start 'em already fucked. Their Pisces handler-equivalent? Bug-controlled. Sends the player to kick the hovel of an injured Migo or something
Recently ran The Last Equation for a group of new players and absolutely loved it. Now I'm looking for similar missions to run without a clear big bad to shoot. Anyone know any less or even 0 combat missions I could run?
>>94386200>>94386441>benign spirit-eating spider>but also if it's in an area, then you know the place is infested with things that WILL kill youGoing to be stealing this.
>>94377926>Did you manage to get that Halloween Horror game session together?Nyo...>Favorite Halloween special?Not sure if it counts, but the Haunting Hour.>Who is the best Halloween icon?Myers is perhaps the one that most springs to mind.
Book Club starter questions:>What works?>What's cool about it?>Why is it so effective?>What is the best part of it in your opinion?>Thoughts on the characters?>Is the villain effective?>If you had to pick a moment that really scared you, which would it be?>Is there anything you feel could have been expanded upon?>What would you change?>Would you use it as inspiration for a game?21 posts in and no starter questions? Great googly-moogly.
>>94386200Try to make some connection with those spirit catchers and say the spirit spiders are the original inspiration, they catch evil spirits and bad dreams with their webs.
>>94387404>An absolutely optional system that doesn't contain micro transactions and is cheap as fuck.It's a far cry away from what WOTC is doing.
>>94388846Just use FoDG as a setting book, it's all there in CoC or DG
>>94393940Night Floors.
Never DM'd, but Mothership looks really nice. Do any of you have DM advice specific to that game? Advice in general? I'm new to TTRPGs so I should probably give it a few more games, but my group was asking for new systems and new DMs, and when I saw it earlier today I felt in my bones I was destined to DM it.
Gonna start working on my version of a mythos tarot deck, wanna do the associations first before doing art. Only doing major arcana for now. I know there are a bunch out already but i'm mainly doing this for fun. Gonna have to read some stuff. If you guys have any suggestions you can tell me.
>>94383859>>94388822Would you categorize Leon's experience Extreme Violence, Hard Experience or Things Man was not Meant to Know when making a character.I could see it argued any of those ways easily, with TMWNMtK being the least likely.
>>94396904Leon just Sanitymaxxxed by scooping up Mission Complete San Rewards
>>94377926>inspirational stuff>CastlevaniaDoes that really count as horror?
>>94397993Half the list seems to be made just to make searching the archive very annoying.
>>94397968He takes scary situations like a champ. That's why I imagine he'd have some sort of adaptation
>>94398008He had a long talk with the GM about how losing 1 san 3 times shouldn't bring about a huge change to his character.
>>94398020IDK, seeing G-type monsters and chest bursters, among zombies, there ought to be at least one situation where Kennedy misses a San roll and gets temp insanity, but he never seems to.>3 instances of 1 San eachSo maybe Hard Experience would be best since there's no adaptation? Just a lot of on the fly skills.
>>94397996Explain.
>>94398490>search something from the list>have to scroll through dozens of hsg threads in order to find actual discussion.Thread would be better with a pastebin that contained a summary instead of doing this Ready Player One-esque list.
>>94398518you can disable searching for opening posts when doing a search in the archivedumb faggot
>>94398565But what if the op was specifically about the thing I searched for?Nigger!?
>>94398608damn sound likes you have a real specific idea of what you want to search for, I bet you could even put in some more search terms!
>>94397993Castlevania is literally Gothic horror. By definition even.
>>94378998https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ANT_catalogi would encourage it, it can be a fun aspect to consider
>>94383776Ackshually he was STRATCOM not SOCOM.>What would be the near equivalent of that IRL that DG would have Kennedy work at?There isn't really one, the DSO is pretty goofy. For the kind of flexibility shown they'd probably have him on the books as a contractor doing OGA stuff, maybe through a full-on shell company like Air America and the extraordinary rendition companies.
>>94399118No and that has nothing to do with Castlevania or Gothic horror aesthetics. Stop being retarded.
>>94397993I mean, if you’re trying to do a horror-based DnD adventure or something like that, Castlevania is a good place of inspiration. Plus, its bestiary is good to pull ideas from for monsters, even in more straightforward horror games.
I am trying to think of a name for an evil AI that runs military equipment, and I'm running into a hurdle. All the current nefarious tech projects are named after LOTR things or random mythological creatures. PEGASUS or MAIA just don't feel very sci-fi horror, but they're the most realistic names for that sort of stuff now.Then again I don't suppose SKYNET sounded omnious before terminator.
>>94402914The only saving grace is that Maia is also a girl's name,
>>94402914make it a corny backronym for extra authenticity
>>94404096Modular Artifically intelligent Administrator, it means nothing and spells out something from LOTR. Perfect for a public-private military program.
>>94402914SANGUINE or INCUBO (the latter is the Italian word for "nightmare").
>>94402914>name for an evil AI that runs military equipmentIs the AI intended to run that equipment? I like to roll with slavic mythology for naming my various computer viruses and other net based entities, when I was playing Shadowrun and Cyberpunk Red>Perun, Veles, Chernobog, Morana as selection from gods>Baba Yaga, Bes, Kikimora, Mora, Poludnitsa, Rusalka, Sharkan as selection from demonsThey sound exotic and depending on language may even sound badass.
>>94378998I worked in SIGINT for the military. It's not overly complicated.
>>94401814DnD is already a random monster mash, you don't really need to steal anything from a vidya.Also pathfinder>that's a horror setting!Yeah, for the eldrich horrors that have to be careful lest they take the wrong step and get a Lv 19 Male human prison warden kneeling on their neck.
>>94404932Modular Autonomous Integrated AdministratorMission-oriented Autonomous Integrated AdministratorMission-Adaptable Interoperable AnalyzerMulti-mission Advanced Intelligent Awarenessect
Group wants to run mothership. What am i in for?
>>94377926I'm thinking about GMing an Unknown Armies oneshot. I'll be a horror story, with a creepy moth creature and a blood ritual to escape. I've never player UA, much less in those terms. Any tips worth sharing? The characters will be street-level dudes, in an isolated creepy island.
>>94408352Any tips for the GMs in the audience? Also good job killing kids, etc.
>>94412734>Any tips for the GMs in the audience? Sure, Uncle Sam makes a bevy of tools for getting into networks and devices and most at this point are handheld, if not easily portable in a car. I'm not going to go into particulars for obvious reasons. Just look up a bit of cell and RF theory.>Also good job killing kids, etc.No one outside of America is a person. It's less killing and more pest control.
>that Y'golonac adventure whose preview was posted on patreon years ago is never getting finished because certain someone is going to be too busy reeing on alt twittersKinda funny but also kinda sad.
>>94413504Detwiller?
>>94413931Yeah, though I assume the others are seething wherever else they are instead.
>>94411410Depends entirely on what adventure/module they choose but expect some extremely weird shit either way.
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>>94395679The term DM is only used in D&D, would recommend that u use GM instead.Generally advice is to reed some of the pdf that has been passed around for some time in how to run and what to focus on as the GM for horror games. E.g., Horror in rolepaying.pdf orThe trajectory of fear or how to use horror tropes effectively in your game by ash law.
>>94417787This is just the plot of Supernatural with a dog.
>>94422548There doesn't seem to be that much homo-erotic tension between two actors pretending to be brothers.
>>94422571Wait until they introduce the angel in later seasons.
>>94412083If it's 2E I can help a bit even if it's been a while. The system is so open it's really hard to mess up honestly, just remember how fatal combat is so if it's time to throw down make sure it's a moment where they can really do it or make sure there's a way for either party to reasonably escape. I never played 3E nor did I particularly feel the draw to it.
>>94395700The Moon or High Priestess should be BastI feel like Hierophant would actually fit Cthulhus role better to be honestThe Star should be Hastur, what with Aldrebran and all that. The Chariot would be Nodens with his great clam shell, I think. Lovers would definitely be Mother Hydra and Father Dragon entwined Honestly it's difficult to avoid temptation and just slot in masks Nyarlathotep but a Major Arcana made up of all his masks would be a neat project in and of itself.
>>94422882For Hastur I wanted to use his King in Yellow image that's why i stuck with the emperor but I'll think about it, for the rest i totally agree with what you said, I didnt even think of using Elder Ones, wanted to stick to Outer Ones/Great Old Ones. Thanks for the tips. Also here's the finished card for King in Yellow and the wip for Yog-Sothot
>>94423218Ooo very nice. Can't wait to see the full set
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What are the best kind of space horrors?Entirely understandable ones such as the decay of your life support as you struggle to survive and fight for your breath in a tin can in the void?being subjected to the will of an alien being sapient or otherwise that you're hopelessly outmatched against?Something bizarre and inexplicable out in the cold black where you're so far from understanding?I want to know what you think
>>94429931Clowns>wizards>cults>silicons
Anything decent come out lately?
>>94430954I mean, it depends on what you're looking for
>>94394149I feel there isn't enough setup and the twist too abrupt for it to be truly effective.
>>94430975Horror RPGs, you know the board related thing.
>>94378998Ay Keeper, can I use Computer to use chatgpt to substitute for Every Knowledge Based Skill?
>>94422548Reminder there is a canon Supernatural/Scooby-Doo crossover.
>>94398434fuck this image is old, I remember thinking much of it was reaching even back then ahaha
>>94429931a horrible weird semi-understandable alien problem that can be solved with great sacrifice but that afters its completion a far great threat is revealed that humanity has no hopes of defeating.Sent to investigate/put down a cult v cult war occurring in the middle east, zorastrian sun worshippers vs some ancient moon cult. Their rituals have started to noticeably affect the day and night of the local area and you need your team needs to stamp it out now. Get there and realize the roots of this problem are dug in further than intel originally suggested. Maybe making it align with an eclipse/equinox is good for a ticking clock to stop it is good. Guide your players to trying to take the side of one cult/try and take them out one at at a time. Make one obviously weaker, more merciless, whatever. When they manage to stop one cult, reveal that this was a grave mistake. Blot the sun from the sky, let an inky blackness snuff out all the stars in the night sky as the moon glows with a sickening brightness. Shatter the moon to nothingness, let its remnants rain down to earth as a meteor shower, watch as the sun swells and hungers for more.
I keep having dreams about an H. P. Lovecraft story that doesn't exist.In the dreams, I'm conscious of the fact that I'm watching an adaptation of a story by Lovecraft. The dreams have been separated by months and cover some different parts of the story but also include some of the same characters/events so that it feels like one narrative.The hero is a religious figure (a monk I think) who is investigating this wealthy man in colonial New England who is secretly a wizard. The wizard is searching for something on the floor of the ocean, and they both go down under the water multiple times (presumably using magic to breathe). In one confrontation, the wizard's two manservants have the glamours that make them look human down and they attack the monk. One of them is a partially transformed Deep One (he isn't called that, but the description makes it clear that's what he's supposed to be) and the other is only called The Dark Thing because the monk can't clearly see him through the kicked up silt at the bottom of the ocean. There's this whole theme in the story comparing the constantly overcast and foggy shore lapped by grey waves and the grey, cloudy, silt filled ocean floor and the protagonist at least once starts going crazy and losing track of whether he's on land or in the water. Anyway, based on glimpses of The Dark Thing's limbs, he seems to be a Creature of the Black Lagoon-like monster, but with his carapace being black.In another trip, the monk investigates a dilapidated and haunted ancient ship wreck. In what is presumably the climax, it has him tracking down the wizard to a cabin on a small rocky island. The cabin's basement opens up into a vast underground cavern filled with marine monsters. The dreams haven't covered what actually happens there, at least the parts of them I remember. There was a second hero in that dream, some kind of sidekick maybe, but all I remember is him being in a suit.Thank you for reading my blog post about my dreams.
>>94406393Yes. It's meant to be running military equipment. But the humans in the command chain are long dead, so it's sending endless requests for confirmations to corpses. It's meant to be a "realistic" take on AI, so it doesn't have a true intellectual understanding of anything, so you could fully explain to it that it has been asking for clearance to suspend the use of lethal force to a corpse with no flesh left on its body, it could tell you "I understand" and it would go right back to pinging the corpse.That's in part why I don't want to give it a name that implies too much personality. >>94406076Sanguine is fun.
>>94432127The 4x game Zephon that was just released has a cool variant of this. Humanity united under a one world government, and handed control of much of the materiel to an AI so humanity could get busy doing things that weren't war.Aliens invade, the AI fights the aliens even as civilization dies. The humans that emerge from the bunkers emerge to a conflict between scavenged equipment rigged together by the AI and the straggling survivors of the alien invasion, with the people who couldn't make it to the bunkers raiding both. Once you meet the AI it starts out at war with you, judging you to be a hindrance to the war effort (unless you make peace.), and it will gladly wipe you out while talking to you like a mixture of a customer service chatbot (It is explicitly said to communicate by chatbot, although the writing doesn't fully support it) and HAL about logging your negative experience.Whether it's conscious/sapient is answered with a shrug, but one of the factions is the result of it trying to become sapient.
Has anyone been playing Cain? If so what sins have you designed? I just made a Lord and am working on a Toad. The amount or body horror or just frightening scenes you can put in a game themed like Cain is fun to me.
>"A ritual murder shaped the Early and Middle Neolithic across Central and Southern Europe"https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adl3374Time for Mossy Arrowhead(or whatever DG Grugs were called) to investigate.
>>94422849Thanks! Sorry about all the spelling mistakes in the previous post. I guess I was simply too tired. This is a oneshot, so I'm not too worried about survivality, and the end, if reached, will require the PCs to sacrifice one of the group for the ritual to cleanse the lands of the moth creature. I'm still thinking about tips from the beginning and the creature stats. I may use rabid dogs or something as minor inconveniences between the moth's attacks. Being overwhelmed with work doesn't help the creative juices.And yes, 2E. I don't find 3E that attractive to play. It might be prejudice, but well... I did want to check their magick schools at some point, to see if I could add them to the rest of 2E, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
I need some help guys.I am trying to transition my 40k friends into rpg’s.My goal is to create find an rpg that can supplement the basic combat mechanics of 4th edition.The setting is a amalgamated world of fantasy/magic, modern and sci-fiThink the anime gate but seamlessly merged.Does anyone know of a decent system?I’m asking here because I want a horror bent to it.Fantasy and magic make for a horrifying experience in the eyes of contemporary society.
