New horror book

Hi, all.


There was a news item alluding to a new horror/dark fantasy book in the works several months ago, but I have seen no news of it since and cannot remember the title. I was not able to find anything on the new realease or upcoming sections, nor anything in the horor section of RPGnow. Does anyone remember the title of any recent books? I belive it was from a well known publisher.

Thanks!
 

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The only one that comes to mind is OGL Horror by Mongoose but I think its beed out for a while. Was the setting coming out for Grim Tales going to be horror? THat might be it, but frankly that's just a flat out guess.
 







Keeper of Secrets said:
On a side note, how is OGL Horror? I have debated picking it up a bunch of times . . .
Like Mongoose's other books from the OGL line a very large portion of the book is reprinted from the SRD. Also like many Mongoose books it has it's share of editing errors.

That being said, there are some interesting ideas within the book. The magic & psychic systems are similar to CoC, and there are rules for porting spells from other systems over. The faith/divine f/x system is a unique take on the idea.

If I were you I would take the time to look through at at your FGS and see if the useful parts outweigh the useless ones. I found enough worthwhile ideas to make it worthwhile to me, but I definitely would not pay full price for the book.
 
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Jondor_Battlehammer said:
Nope, I have OGL: Horror. It has shown up in the EnWorld news a couple of times.

You might be thinking of Lost Destinations, which is based on the freakish and horrific stories of the real world. The first volume covers one town in which one can find:

An abandoned neighborhood which, rumor has it, had every last inhabitant slaughtered by devil worshippers.

A long, winding road to nowhere, haunted by albino pygmies, huge white dogs that can chase cars at high speeds for miles, a killer curve that has thrown many cars off the road and drowned numerous people in the lake below, a ghost that haunts a small bridge by throwing things back at anyone dropping stuff over the side, a collapsed castle often used as a place of worship by satanists... Oh, and did I mention a mafia hit man turned serial killer used the woods off the road as his private dumping grounds for his victims?

The Hookerman Ghost, victim of a railway accident who know murders along the rails in the town.

The Trail Stalker, a ghost on a chunk of the appilachian trail that will either help you or kill you, depending upon what time of day you meet it...

Strange fungi that fire sticky gobs of spores at anything that moves...

A safari zoo abandoned in the late 70's, where they say they let many animals loose to run rampant in the hills (its a known fact this is true of the peacocks now native to the area) in order to cover the embezzling manager's escape, and they left many animals trapped in the park to die of starvation. Since then a number of disturbing things have happened on the old park property...

I could keep going, but I think that should be enough to let you know if it is the book you were thinking of. It was due out last May, but there have been numerous delays since then, not the least of which is the absence of an OGL Horror logo to put on the book, forcing the entire thing to be revised to D20 Modern only. Looks like the revised projected release date is October 1.
 

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