Indie Horror RPGs

[Janx]

I fourth the motion to adopt Dread, the Jenga-based horror game (not the same as Dread: the first pandemonium)

 

[Bedrockgames]

I fourth the motion to adopt Dread, the Jenga-based horror game (not the same as Dread: the first pandemonium)

Janx, your blog link just brings me to the enworld homepage. Was hoping to check out your blog.

 

[Crothian]

For a completely different kind of horror I would suggest Under My Skin.

But for traditional horror I really like Dread.

 

[jaerdaph]

Speaking of Jenga Dread, since nobody has mentioned it yet...

Those "Dread and..." discount bundles at RPGNow are just brilliant marketing and might be good for the OP to look at. I had picked up the Dread of Night (Jenga Dread plus Dead of Night) bundle, but I love the names of all the discount bundles like Dread and Other Dread (Jenga Dread and Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium), Dread for All Ages (Jenga Dread plus Dread House). and Poor, Dreadful Annalise (Jenga Dread plus Annalise).

It's really nice to see different companies working together like this to get their games out there and at a discount.

EDIT: BUT DO NOT BUY THE DREAD PLUS OTHER DREAD BUNDLE! Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium and all the supplements are now FREE at RPGNow, and that bundle bumps the price up to $2.99. Go with another DREAD bundle instead.
EDIT2: And the main rule books are no longer free.

 

[Janx]

Janx, your blog link just brings me to the enworld homepage. Was hoping to check out your blog.

yeah, sigh. Enworld's recent changes disabled the blog feature. Morrus assures me that the data is not lost and that he hopes to re-integrate it in the big upgrade.

Mostly, the blog was infrequently updated with articles I wrote about gaming and stuff. I had some decent ideas in some of them.

I'm either too lazy to correct my sig or I'm leaving it in there as an homage to the lost feature...

 

[Bedrockgames]

yeah, sigh. Enworld's recent changes disabled the blog feature. Morrus assures me that the data is not lost and that he hopes to re-integrate it in the big upgrade.

Mostly, the blog was infrequently updated with articles I wrote about gaming and stuff. I had some decent ideas in some of them.

I'm either too lazy to correct my sig or I'm leaving it in there as an homage to the lost feature...

Sorry to hear that.

 

[Janx]

Sorry to hear that.

That i'm too lazy to correct my sig? Me too...

Getting back to RPGs

I was just now thinking that I should finally get the Dread game. I've run it with the quick play rules and liked it. But I had to extropolate the designers intent, rather than having the full explanation available.

On the note of PDFs, is anybody releasing these as Epub, instead? They'll render better on eBooks because of the flexible layout and simplification of file format.

 

[Bedrockgames]

That i'm too lazy to correct my sig? Me too...

Getting back to RPGs
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No, sorry you may have lost your blog content.

 

[Mercutio01]

From the same publisher who produced Slasher Flick (recommended above by someone) is Macabre Tales which also gets good reviews. It has a novel mechanic using dominoes instead of dice, which is cool.

I haven't played that one myself, but I have played two other Spectrum Games rpgs (Slasher Flick, which I really like, and Cartoon Action Hour: Season 2).

 

[chaochou]

Jenga Dread is brilliant in that it can cope with a wide range of horror.

The only thing it doesn't cope well with is players with a bottle and a half of wine inside them - a lot of the group I game with are severely lacking in motor skills a couple of hours into any game!