Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
How to Scare your Players' Pants Off
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 6038976" data-attributes="member: 50895"><p>Since Kaidan - Japanese horror (PFRPG) is indeed a horror setting, all the adventure modules released thus far incur all these elements to instill fear.</p><p> </p><p>In the Curse of the Golden Spear trilogy of adventures for Kaidan, each module uses a different flavor of fear to instill the right measure of horror and each are different to fully explore the concept.</p><p> </p><p>In <strong><a href="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/91394/The-Gift%3A-Curse-of-the-Golden-Spear-Part-1-%28PFRPG%29?cPath=4448_6626" target="_blank">Part 1: The Gift</a></strong>, the party encounter at least two very haunted areas. The first one begins as a simple stop over on the trail, a country inn or ryokan. In that encounter, a simple farmhouse turned into an inn seems very much unprovocative. Combining enigmatic dream sequences, discovery that the food you ate on the prior evening consisted of dead rats with an illusion of being something else is step one. When other guests turn out to be ghouls, and the former innkeepers are powerful ghosts - the change of expectations from first encounter to combat can be a scary transition.</p><p> </p><p>Also part of the Gift is another horrific encounter consisting of undead children - victims of a serial killer now as zombies. Using children in this way is very discomforting and enhances the feelings of horror.</p><p> </p><p>In the second adventure, <strong><a href="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/91465/Dim-Spirit%3A-Curse-of-the-Golden-Spear-Part-2-%28PFRPG%29?cPath=4448_6626" target="_blank">Part 2: Dim Spirit</a></strong>, horror turns to dread as the party discovers several of it's members now carry a curse that will kill if trying to escape or venture too far away from their previous venture. Now the local lord is sending his troops to capture the party and overwhelm them - it becomes a survivor module.</p><p> </p><p>The third adventure, <strong><a href="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/92499/Dark-Path%3A-Curse-of-the-Golden-Spear-Part-3-%28PFRPG%29?cPath=4448_6626" target="_blank">Part 3: Dark Path</a></strong> is an exploration of the various phobias people have including: spiders and spider swarms, total darkness and closed in spaces, and other well established phobias.</p><p> </p><p>In the free Kaidan adventure, <strong><a href="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/95894/Frozen-Wind-%28PFRPG%29" target="_blank">Frozen Wind</a></strong>, survivor horror is the theme in a high mountain monastery caught in a fierce unseasonable snow storm. The temperature is dropping 10 degrees a minute, reaching deep subzero in a very short time. All the fires have gone out, and fuel cannot be easily found. The former monastery inhabitants are all dead, and are rising as frozen zombies. Ice oni and a yuki-onna (snow woman oni) is determined to kill all remaining monastery residents (the PC party) and trying to summon a powerful insane kami to win the conflict. With a lack of healers among the pre-gen PCs, survival becomes even more harrowing.</p><p> </p><p>All four adventures above are 4 and 5 star rated by the reviewers suggesting that the attempts at fear inducement is quite successful in all of them.</p><p> </p><p><strong><a href="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/98413/%2330-Haunts-for-Kaidan-%28PFRPG%29" target="_blank">#30 Haunts for Kaidan</a></strong>, explore truly horrific and detailed haunts some as multiple linked haunts, all as part of larger story elements. Haunts are among the featured elements of Kaidan that truly explore concepts of horror. This book, like no other instills the essence of fear that haunts should induce, that other modules and supplements seem to fail in comparison.</p><p> </p><p>Looking for horror elements for your roleplaying? Look no further than Kaidan to accomplish that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gamerprinter, post: 6038976, member: 50895"] Since Kaidan - Japanese horror (PFRPG) is indeed a horror setting, all the adventure modules released thus far incur all these elements to instill fear. In the Curse of the Golden Spear trilogy of adventures for Kaidan, each module uses a different flavor of fear to instill the right measure of horror and each are different to fully explore the concept. In [B][URL="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/91394/The-Gift%3A-Curse-of-the-Golden-Spear-Part-1-%28PFRPG%29?cPath=4448_6626"]Part 1: The Gift[/URL][/B], the party encounter at least two very haunted areas. The first one begins as a simple stop over on the trail, a country inn or ryokan. In that encounter, a simple farmhouse turned into an inn seems very much unprovocative. Combining enigmatic dream sequences, discovery that the food you ate on the prior evening consisted of dead rats with an illusion of being something else is step one. When other guests turn out to be ghouls, and the former innkeepers are powerful ghosts - the change of expectations from first encounter to combat can be a scary transition. Also part of the Gift is another horrific encounter consisting of undead children - victims of a serial killer now as zombies. Using children in this way is very discomforting and enhances the feelings of horror. In the second adventure, [B][URL="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/91465/Dim-Spirit%3A-Curse-of-the-Golden-Spear-Part-2-%28PFRPG%29?cPath=4448_6626"]Part 2: Dim Spirit[/URL][/B], horror turns to dread as the party discovers several of it's members now carry a curse that will kill if trying to escape or venture too far away from their previous venture. Now the local lord is sending his troops to capture the party and overwhelm them - it becomes a survivor module. The third adventure, [B][URL="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/92499/Dark-Path%3A-Curse-of-the-Golden-Spear-Part-3-%28PFRPG%29?cPath=4448_6626"]Part 3: Dark Path[/URL][/B] is an exploration of the various phobias people have including: spiders and spider swarms, total darkness and closed in spaces, and other well established phobias. In the free Kaidan adventure, [B][URL="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/95894/Frozen-Wind-%28PFRPG%29"]Frozen Wind[/URL][/B], survivor horror is the theme in a high mountain monastery caught in a fierce unseasonable snow storm. The temperature is dropping 10 degrees a minute, reaching deep subzero in a very short time. All the fires have gone out, and fuel cannot be easily found. The former monastery inhabitants are all dead, and are rising as frozen zombies. Ice oni and a yuki-onna (snow woman oni) is determined to kill all remaining monastery residents (the PC party) and trying to summon a powerful insane kami to win the conflict. With a lack of healers among the pre-gen PCs, survival becomes even more harrowing. All four adventures above are 4 and 5 star rated by the reviewers suggesting that the attempts at fear inducement is quite successful in all of them. [B][URL="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/98413/%2330-Haunts-for-Kaidan-%28PFRPG%29"]#30 Haunts for Kaidan[/URL][/B], explore truly horrific and detailed haunts some as multiple linked haunts, all as part of larger story elements. Haunts are among the featured elements of Kaidan that truly explore concepts of horror. This book, like no other instills the essence of fear that haunts should induce, that other modules and supplements seem to fail in comparison. Looking for horror elements for your roleplaying? Look no further than Kaidan to accomplish that. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
How to Scare your Players' Pants Off
Top