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A sense of threatened vulnerability.

I think the essence of horror is powerlessness, at least in some context and up to a point. Call of Cthulhu is, of course, the big dog...

I'm very much in the player buy-in, tension, and atmosphere camp. Lethality? No, then meatgrinders would be horrific but as they've...

This is a really big question because there are so many different types of horror stories. Let's start with actually trying to define...

I'm a big fan of horror games and I would gladly fill several threads chatting about them, but I want to keep this thread on track. So...

The question came up on another thread but I thought it was worth breaking off into it's own thread. By "successful" here I mean that...

Literally 95% of the people on Earth agree that climate change is a thing. The very loud handful of people who say otherwise (and some...

Galaxy Rangers

I don't know. Fate Horror Toolkit has a lot more actual tools for running horror than CoC does, even if CoC does Hammer Horror quite...

I think we already touched on that up thread. You can do horror in most games as long as the rules don’t fight you. And, as you say, if...

Horror campaigns are hard to do and I'd argue that most of it is not due to the rules. Not even Ten Candles or Dread can save the horror...

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