Terrible Lizard 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:H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society releases "The Spark Devil"https://www.hplhs.org/sparkdevil.phpCurrent Book Club Topic:"The Hunters from Beyond" by Clark Ashton Smithhttp://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/93/the-hunters-from-beyondQuestions for the thread:>Have you run/played in a game centered around dinosaurs or some other reptilian threat?Previous thread:>>97266292Please try to keep arguing to a minimum. Don't respond to bait/drama/politics posts.And as usual, try and keep it alive. Make a new thread if its not in the catalog.
First time bringing a general back, hope I did ok at least, though I admit couldn't think of a better topic/question (got dinosaur horror on the brain) and I didn't change news/book club topic.
>>97684197Going to be playing in a DG campaign set in the 1970s. Anything out there that I can reference to get a good idea of what the USA was like in that time period? I keep having classic noir shit pop into my head despite that being the 20's or whatever, and all I can think of is Vietnam, disco, and piles of cocaine.
>>97684849Don't know too much about the 70s in general (wasn't a decade that I cared about too much), but I did find this after a quick search https://nightmarethoughts6.blogspot.com/2025/03/delta-green-and-1970s-part-1-testimony.html
I wanted to ask you anons, what game would be good for a Resident Evil setting and theme? My game group is a mix of experienced TTRPG players but most play D&D. I suppose playing D&D would be easy but I am trying to find an alternative. I was recommended: All Flesh must be eaten, Genysys with the fanmade RE supplement, Savage Worlds Horror, Delta green or Twilight 2000 with tweaks. Even Dread.Which game would be fairly thematic and also easy to teach a group of people willing to learn? Maybe one that is not too dice heavy but dice would be fun. Most likely for a One shot game session not long term. I have ran games before but only for D&D 3.5 and 5th ed, as well as Pathfinder 1e. So I would have to learn the system myself too. A game that lets them play like a regular person and/or agent against zombies and supermutant abominations like in the game with puzzle mechanics. Resource management too. Thank you.
>>97684208I've been missing this thread thanks anon!I've been thinking about why modern cosmic horror stories I've read inspired by lovecraft are just so boring and cliche compared to lovecraft, who should feel the most cliche and boring but just isn't. I think its because a lot of them have a flanderised view of cosmic horror,seems like there's a constant beat for beat of octopus/squid tentacled elder god, a deconstruction of american anti-black racism and some detective. Meanwhile Lovecraft himself has human ape inbreeding, ancient aliens who are smart and rational despite doing horrifying things etc. Hell the Eldar things are beautifully described and truly alien, I cant hink of any modern writer making such a distinct looking alien like them, or the Great Race of Yith. Even a lot of racism stuff that people condemn him so much for isnt as bas as they make it out, Red Hook makes it clear its a distinct group of fictional Syrians that every other syrian groups hates and distrusts are doing weird eldtrich shit.Does any anon have good recent cosmic horror they can suggest? Or at least something that isn't just indescribable tentacle horror with the words 'eldritch' 'gibbering' and 'antediluvian' thrown around
>>97686356If I were you I'd start with either All Flesh must be eaten, Genysys with the fanmade RE supplement, Savage Worlds Horror, Delta green or Twilight 2000 with tweaks. if you've already been given a bunch of recommendations, you should probably be checking out the books and seeing which one looks good to you, not asking for more recommendations.
>>97686356NTA but here's if you go with All Flesh Must Be Eaten, there is a giant homebrew doc for Resident Evil. It's called Resident Evil Regenesis and a 4plebs archive of it should be one of the first things that pops up on a google search.I had to search around for it yesterday, might as well save others the hassle
Also goddamn, having been around Delta Green long enough to see Caleb Stokes and how he does things has actually put me off another TTRPG I've been meaning to look at, Red Markets. Though considering what that's about, I don't think I'm missing much since with his track record of stuff I've seen, it's just going to be him bitching about current politics and shit with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
>>97687541I mean, it's an explicitly economic horror game about people forced to do horrible shit for money in the zombie near-apocalypse. I'd think you know whether or not you were going to like it based on the elevator pitch.
>>97688660Caleb has a way of overdoing it, to the point when I ran my Euro friends through God's Teeth that once it was over they outright refused to keep playing unless I promised I would do something that didn't sound like it ripped from the daily news on TV.I like Red Markets as a premise, it's just I don't trust the other to not grind me and my players faces in his personal views.
>>97688781It's about the grinding horror of poverty. If that doesn't sound appealing to you, I'd look elsewhere.
>>97686519>if you've already been given a bunch of recommendations, you should probably be checking out the books and seeing which one looks good to you, not asking for more recommendations.Not sure why you bothered to respond then? Useless waste of time on your part not mine. I already looked into all of these but wanted to know if there other options or input you had on your own experience with these games if you played them which you clearly don't since you're a no games.
>>97687505Thanks for an actually useful response anon. I will look into it. Did you play it and like it at all?
>>97689426>Have an entire thread that getsvl very little traction, several people tell you to use AFMBE>Decide to come shit up another thread to ask the exact same question even though you got an answerFuck off.
>>97686467"Cosmic horror" is perhaps the most misunderstood "genre" of modern pop culture (not even done badly per se, but really misunderstood) And this before apeing HPL proper with muh tentacles.I don't even think it's correct to call it horror, myself. while there is a lot of overlap, what we think of horror is basically about being hunted by a monster, at its core. Which... doesn't happen in half of HPL stories, if not for the chase at the end.HPL starts and ends with a very old concept: the sublime. Terrible sublime, but still. >>97684849Which is more or less what Fall of Delta Green is about. Well, heroine, but still, the big badass book of adventures is about an old pal of Curwen using heroine trafficiking to cover up his use of essential saltes. OOM: Ufos (actually, the whole classic paranormal milieu was established and popularised between the sixties and the seventies)Counterculture and the fear of it. Don't think hippies, think more terrorism.The "me" cultureNerd culture, amusingly enough (not just dnd or star wars but shit like comics, see heavy metal)Recession or at least shaky economyEcology and the fear of humans having fucked up the planetSexiness and obsession with sexIllegal broadcasting radio Generic love for exoticism
Honestly, with the small talk earlier of AFMBE, what are the better zombie survival horror systems out there? Or hell, what are some good experiences with AFMBE/other systems like it that people here have had?
>>97684197this guy is kind of goofy and cute
>>97689918I like his joyful expression. There's real hope in those eyes
>>97689472>"Several people tell you to use AFMBE"And its just youSuck my dick bitchYou are retarded so let me explain again, I wanted more than a recommendation but some input and insight which you do not have because you are no games. Do you like All flesh or the other games you regurgitated?
>>97691072You're apparently incapable of skimming a book to see if it would suite your needs/tastes, so it really doesn't matter, does it? Your RE inspired game isn't actually happening, this is all closet drama.
>>97692014Anon it feels like someone hurt you, hopefully they do so again
>>97684197Well, we've been hunted by an eldritch mosasaur, if that counts.
>>97688781If the didactic political polemic doesn't appeal to you because its a didactic polemic how have you been enjoying horror so far?I struggle to name a piece of good horror that isn't either essentially someone's manifesto or someone working out their personal demons with the subtlety of H.C. Andersen. Well, that or its a slasher.
>>97698390Honestly that sounds cool as hell, how did that go?
Kinda worried about the state of my Grimdark Glasgow RPG.
>>97705843Eh, had fun, but definitely not my best game, GM had better stories for us to play. He tried to have us "game" whale hunting but it wasn't interesting. That being said, it was funny that we almost managed to get to safety from some sort of Atlantis
Ocean Game when.
>>97706954What is this?
>brainstorming potential character ideas for upcoming game>get a pretty nice and terrible background/origin idea>tfw can't help but think the overall character would work better as a ladyWould it be weird to play a female character in horror games if I'm a dude?
