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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3575368" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Call of Cthullu. Simply put, it is the only one that moves beyond fear or even terror to real horror. </p><p></p><p>I would also like to put in a good word for Chill 2nd Edition. The great strength of CoC is that the monsters don't care any more for you than you care for a roach. But this abstract alien horror is also a weakness at some level. In Chill, the evil is personal.</p><p></p><p>I've seen Kult, but never played it. I don't see the attraction. It's not really what I would call 'horror'. If I didn't take the game and its content seriously, then it would seem to be comic nonsense worth at best a few laughs - like say X-Files or Silence of the Lambs. If I did take the game or the questions it raises seriously, then I simply wouldn't play it. Beyond that I can't say much, because we start shading into peoples real world religious beliefs.</p><p></p><p>There is more than one RPG by the 'Dread' name. The one I was familiar with is much along the lines of Kult. But I gather that the one everyone is praising is the one with the 'Jenga' resolution system. It sounded silly at first, but all these good reports is making me reevaluate it. I'll have to pick up a copy and give it a try.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 3575368, member: 4937"] Call of Cthullu. Simply put, it is the only one that moves beyond fear or even terror to real horror. I would also like to put in a good word for Chill 2nd Edition. The great strength of CoC is that the monsters don't care any more for you than you care for a roach. But this abstract alien horror is also a weakness at some level. In Chill, the evil is personal. I've seen Kult, but never played it. I don't see the attraction. It's not really what I would call 'horror'. If I didn't take the game and its content seriously, then it would seem to be comic nonsense worth at best a few laughs - like say X-Files or Silence of the Lambs. If I did take the game or the questions it raises seriously, then I simply wouldn't play it. Beyond that I can't say much, because we start shading into peoples real world religious beliefs. There is more than one RPG by the 'Dread' name. The one I was familiar with is much along the lines of Kult. But I gather that the one everyone is praising is the one with the 'Jenga' resolution system. It sounded silly at first, but all these good reports is making me reevaluate it. I'll have to pick up a copy and give it a try. [/QUOTE]
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