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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9746149" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah cozy I can see because that's not a genre it's a tone, like D&D is absolutely a game it's extremely easy to make "cozy", in fact I've seen it happen without any intentionality at all, just convergent ideas from the players and DM.But it is not a tone I'm fond for RPGs either lol. I'm not fond of the polar opposite either though (i.e. "crapsack world" stuff or "every NPC is a horrible jerk to the PCs" stuff).For real.The first thing I was told about CoC online was that combat was super-fatal and you couldn't win combat.But by that time we'd already played CoC quite a bit and we knew that wasn't true!Exactly. If it's just cultists and low numbers of humanoid monsters or smaller beast-like monsters, several people with semi-automatic or pump-action firearms are likely to be a decent solution.And if it's anything else, just run for the car!Personally I think it's mostly the adventures. Horror is a hard genre to write adventures for, especially ones that really work. So having decades and decades of adventures is a huge advantage over other horror RPGs. That Mothership inspired so many people to write adventures and it has a surprisingly large number of them is a big part of why that's doing well too imho.</blockquote>