Best Horror Role Playing Game

[Gorgon Zee]

That said, it makes the biggest and most common mythos mistake... statting up things man was not meant to kill nor know. If you stat it, players WILL find a way to kill it.

Really? I’ve run maybe 200 sessions and this has never been even slightly on the table. Cultists, deep ones, elder things and even an occasional shoggoth, but an Elder god like Cthulhu or Nodens? That’s never even been close to on the table. I guess if you play a pulp style maybe, but then … that was your choice!

Kind of curious now. Anyone running the classic mode seen players take out a Great Old One or similar? Honestly interested— I might try and see how to encourage it to happen in one of my games!

 

[MGibster]

Yeah, I had fun playing in a one shot. After 8 sessions it felt very tedious. Random death, insanity being caused mostly by teammates screaming nearby, by firing automatic guns (seriously) and rolling badly when trying to read a map, and a set of skills that never quite seem to match the actions being taken.

I've never tried running anything long term as I felt the rules were more suited to one shots or very, very short campaigns. I also found the game did not work very well for a Aliens style marine game as combat was somewhat tedious.

 

[billd91]

Kind of curious now. Anyone running the classic mode seen players take out a Great Old One or similar? Honestly interested— I might try and see how to encourage it to happen in one of my games!

Yes, I believe we encountered and killed more than one avatar of Nyarlathotep in the Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign. None of his avatars are all that hard to kill (particularly if the big game hunter manages to impale with his elephant gun), but it doesn’t matter. The destruction of one of his thousand avatars has no bearing on the others.

 

[Sir Brennen]

I’ve played every edition of CHILL, including a playtest version of 3rd edition that never saw the light of day due to licensing issues (and the published version which unfortunately ran into some creator reputation issues)

There was Night Shift, a game that came out almost the same time as the original Vampire, and was also a “you play the monster” game. Production values and writing put it more in what I call a “fast food” category of rpgs, but it was still fun.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I’ve played every edition of CHILL, including a playtest version of 3rd edition that never saw the light of day due to licensing issues (and the published version which unfortunately ran into some creator reputation issues)

Yeah, honestly I think Chill 3e is an excellent game in many ways, but I can't in good conscience recommend it any more without at least letting people know about the problems with the authors.