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My arguing with Fred Hicks about powerlessness was a substantial part of the Fate Horror Toolkit existing, so count me as another voice...

Oh re: mechanics again, I do think they matter, and like, as an example I'd contrast two mechanics from Mothership - Stress/Panic Checks...

When my group played Strange Aeons, we found that it was way too easy to fail the saves and get stuck with really bad consequences for...

My perception of VtM was it was largely about sex, not horror (although you could say the same about Dracula).

I think the issue with VtM 1E and 2E is that they were never primarily horror games. Particularly not 2E. It'd be a re-writing of...

A sense of threatened vulnerability.

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 don't really agree. And when I think about effective horror adventures it wasn't the ones where we were truly powerless that worked...

Using your previous comment as a starting point: I think you can do it even when the rules do fight you, as Ravenloft even existing...

I'm not sure why I am interested in the subject, since I don't actually like horror (although I don't mind 'performative' horror like...

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...

Those sound like a pretty narrow slice of the setting, though. I don't know if I'd want to use either for adventures in Egypt, South...

Well you have Good Society, and Regency Cthulhu.

SW published a Solomon Kane setting even. I would say the Napoleonic era is pretty lightly explored.

My condoleances.