Best horror modules any system any game

Crothian · Sep 3, 2009

With Halloween approaching fast I'm on the look for good horror themed adventures that are both really fun and can be played in 4-6 hours. It does not really matter the system or the game because I can run most anything and can covert things to simpler games.

Ravenloft (I6) is always a class but I've ran that. What suggestions do people have?

jdrakeh · Sep 3, 2009

Fool's Paradise for Principia Malefex is a worthy horror supplement that deals with more mundane threats (i.e., religious fanatics, schizophrenic killers, etc) than supernatural weirdness (though options for supernatural weirdness are included). It contains six standalone scenarios (Dinner Party being my favourite).

maddman75 · Sep 3, 2009

Beneath the Mask, one of the scenarios in Dread. Love it to pieces, though its a bit tricky to pull off.

jaerdaph · Sep 3, 2009

Roanoke by Clint Krause for the Wushu system.

Any of the Pinebox Adventures for d20 Modern by 12 to Midnight. There are Savage Worlds versions available too.

Ghost Stories by Precis Intermedia is a lot of fun - I've played the 1st edition and have been meaning to pick up the 2nd. Great for one shots.

Anything from the Fright Night series - all you need is a 3.0 or 3.5 PHB.

Where Madness Dwells from Inner Circle - it's for 3.5e and it's free!

GlassJaw · Sep 3, 2009

jaerdaph said:
Any of the Pinebox Adventures for d20 Modern by 12 to Midnight. There are Savage Worlds versions available too.

+1 on this. I luuuuuvvvvv the 12 to Midnight stuff, and Savage Worlds is a great system for horror. The production values and maps on all the 12 to Midnight stuff is top-notch as well.

Jacob's Well (Dungeon #43) is also one of my favorite horror adventures, and also one of my favorite Dungeon modules. It's kind of a D&D meets Cthulhu meets Alien. :devil:

For gory/nasty horror, Paizo's Hook Mountain Massacre from Rise of the Runelords (#3) is awesome. I've been wanting to include this in a campaign for a while now.

Rechan · Sep 3, 2009

I liked Paizo's "Hangman's Noose".

reveal · Sep 3, 2009

jaerdaph said:
Any of the Pinebox Adventures for d20 Modern by 12 to Midnight. There are Savage Worlds versions available too.

Bloodlines is one of my all time favorites. My group absolutely loved it.

Filamena Young · Sep 3, 2009

The Pinebox material is fantastic.

Also, (since no one mentioned it and you're looking for any system) you should check out the Collection of Horrors. It's a bunch of little one shot short scenarios just the right size for a four to six hour games. It's written for Hunter, but you can drop it into any nWoD game.. or just use the clues and audio tidbits for any game.

Full Disclosure: I wrote one of them. My husband wrote one as well, it won an Ennie this year. Great stuff, including audio files and stuff.

Mark Hope · Sep 3, 2009

I got good use out of the first adventure in NWoD's Urban Legends (the one where

the adventure starts with one PC waking up in an ice-bath missing a kidney). You can make it all supernatural or play it more like something out of the movie Seven. Sure, it's all creepy to have your kidney stolen as part of some crazy occult ritual, but it's even more effective if it turns out it was stolen because some nutter just likes to eat kidneys

Morpheus · Sep 3, 2009

The new adventure, Digging for a Dead God is great. Nazis...jungle...Call of Cthulhu...that alone is worth the price of admission, but the pregens (6 of them) make for a very special event...get this now!