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My condoleances.

i'm currently admitted to the hospital stupid asthma

Free League Publishing in association with Titan Forge announced a line of miniatures for Dragonbane (or Drackar och Demoner for the old...

Vulnerable doesnt mean weak though, Ripley in Aliens and Dutch in Predator are badass but theyre still vulnerable, even Laurie in...

And it quite possible to scare players without them losing anything at all. The person who reads a horror story is in no danger, yet...

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

This is a serious flaw with Free League's Alien and their Stress mechanic. There's a point where a character fails a Stress test, they...

I am also of the opinion that the system matters. Vampire: the Masquerade claims to be about personal horror. For me though it tends to...

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...