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I've seen some mechanic's that specifically represent/gameify tension in RPGs: Dread's Jenga Tower -- you pull when you need to do...

Oh, yeah. If you're just going to die or fail there's no tension and most horror scenarios are designed so your characters have a...

Hmmmm. This will be an unpopular opinion, perhaps, but here it is. What makes a successful horror game is the GM and players...

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...