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The haunted house remains a staple of horror stories. It offers a location full of haunts for players to explore. It also allows the juxtaposition of the familiar and the supernatural. Call of Cthulhu has some excellent haunted house stories such as the classic The Haunting. They’ve collected a...

There are many flavors of Dungeons & Dragons. Heroic fantasy is one of the most popular as well as gritty sword & sorcery stories. In recent years, cozy fantasy has risen as a trend. Games like this take their cues from video games where the world is still full of adventure and excitement but...

The most common gameplay cycle of fantasy games involves trekking through the wilderness, exploring a dangerous location, returning with loot to sell for the next expedition and starting over. Cities in fantasy settings can speed up this cycle by offering dangerous locations close to home such...

I love writing for this site because I get to highlight some of the great work going on outside of the D&D scene. As a designer, I know how discussion of your work can feel like a drop of rain in the desert. Thanks to everyone that's read, discussed and yelled at me in the comments.

Mecha are typically portrayed in a military setting. They can be kings that stride the battlefield, hot fighter craft that streak though the emptiness of space or, in some cases, a little of both. Salvage Union, from designers Aled Lawlor and Panayiotis Lines, fit these robots into a more...

Some folks don't have to go to reddit for wild conspiracy theories and folks who won't change their minds despite mountains of evidence. They just have to go to holiday dinner.

I think one of the challenges to this line of reasoning is that people rarely change their minds. It can happen, but it's just as likely they'll reenforce their current belief system and rationalize it away. Even if presented with multiple instances of evidence, people will go to great lengths...

There's a Mothership adventure in Hull Breach that does that. You can't see the monsters unless you're looking through the special prototype camera and that sound terrifying. Or consider doing something like Silent Hill, where your phone vibrates harder as the ghost gets closer...

I’ve been writing horror material for RPGs for over ten years. I’ve run horror games for much longer, dating back to the early 90s. In all that time, I keep hearing a strange declaration. “Oh, I can't run horror games in the modern day. Technology makes them not scary and too easy.” My knee...

Comedy and horror seem like unlikely partners. They both can achieve a direct emotional response when properly executed. Monsters often follow a track from terrifying creature to comedic mascot and back again as a new generation refreshes what made the beast scary in the first place. Vampires...

And they are cutting the dangerous island games with flashbacks plus a meta element about whether or not the players are there to win or to blow up the game. I'm looking forward to it and hopefully a review will turn up here.