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What Non-Published Time/Place Would You Set Your Horror Game?

Started by RPGPundit, July 11, 2018, 04:54:46 AM

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July 14, 2018, 05:50:55 AM
I would say something along the lines of the recent tv miniseries The Terror.

Holy shit that was a good show.
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#16
July 14, 2018, 09:07:49 AM
It occurs to me that a post apocalyptic setting could be a neat starting point (I was watching "The Last Ship" so maybe something after a plague wiped out much of humanity) so that characters are having to struggle to survive anyway ... and then Cthulhu arrives! :D
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#17
July 14, 2018, 09:17:47 AM
Quote from: finarvyn;1048959It occurs to me that a post apocalyptic setting could be a neat starting point (I was watching "The Last Ship" so maybe something after a plague wiped out much of humanity) so that characters are having to struggle to survive anyway ... and then Cthulhu arrives! :D
I think most post-apocalyptic games are horror, even without Cthulhu. It just depends on how much you emphasize horror vs. action/adventure.

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#18
July 14, 2018, 03:43:25 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;1048945I would say something along the lines of the recent tv miniseries The Terror.

Holy shit that was a good show.

I enjoyed the show! But have you read the original book by Dan Simmons? It's an absolute masterpiece and probably my favorite horror novel of all time... That, and another arctic horror called Dark Matter by Michele Paver. They took a few liberties with the show but overall it's quite faithful.
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#19
July 14, 2018, 05:04:15 PM
Antediluvian Earth. Nephilim, their demonic progenitors, other demons taking physical forms... It would be easy to kitbash any OSR ruleset.

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#20
July 14, 2018, 08:27:09 PM
I've long wanted to run a horror game set in the 70s or 80s, where analogues of the slasher villains of those years are built into some kind of crazy pantheon.

Really taking a lot of inspiration from "Jason Goes to Hell" and "The Final Nightmare", and extrapolating them into something really weird.

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#21
July 16, 2018, 01:54:19 AM
Quote from: The Exploited.;1049001I enjoyed the show! But have you read the original book by Dan Simmons? It's an absolute masterpiece and probably my favorite horror novel of all time... That, and another arctic horror called Dark Matter by Michele Paver. They took a few liberties with the show but overall it's quite faithful.

I can't say I read it, no. But if the incredible level of historical accuracy they used in the show came from the book I'm sure it's great.
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#22
July 16, 2018, 02:17:43 AM
Southwest Ohio circa the early to mid 1970s...

Got reasons.

Also that abandoned subway system beneath Cincinnati's downtown must have been occupied by dark and haunting creatures to cause them to end construction like that...

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#23
July 16, 2018, 08:45:30 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit;1049121I can't say I read it, no. But if the incredible level of historical accuracy they used in the show came from the book I'm sure it's great.

Yeah... Dan Simmons really worked in the history as much as was possible given the nature of the story. Well worth a read! :)
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#24
July 16, 2018, 08:51:30 AM
An ancient Chinese city where play starts just as The Mongols break down the gates.

But - it'd probably get way too real too fast and go into places that I wouldn't really want to game. Interesting to consider though.

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#25
July 17, 2018, 03:16:35 PM
Quote from: Joey2k;1048578As cheesy as I thought it was going to be, I actually enjoyed "Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter". In it, vampires were actually behind the Southern rebellion, as they fed on the large slave population. I could see a human vs vampire game set during or just before the civil war.

I really enjoyed the book, there was far more thought into tying it to real historical events and providing "what really happened" than I expected. The movie was fun and I enjoyed it, but it has a completely different tone from the book. The book was basically an alt-history (with vampires) the movie more action hero.



Quote from: RPGPundit;1048945I would say something along the lines of the recent tv miniseries The Terror.

Holy shit that was a good show.

I haven't seen the mini-series, but I'm familiar with the historical event and the basic premise of the book / mini-series. It seems kind of limited to make a whole game around, but it would make a great horror campaign.

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#26
July 20, 2018, 01:51:04 AM
Quote from: Toadmaster;1049365I really enjoyed the book, there was far more thought into tying it to real historical events and providing "what really happened" than I expected. The movie was fun and I enjoyed it, but it has a completely different tone from the book. The book was basically an alt-history (with vampires) the movie more action hero.





I haven't seen the mini-series, but I'm familiar with the historical event and the basic premise of the book / mini-series. It seems kind of limited to make a whole game around, but it would make a great horror campaign.

Well, it could be a long slow campaign where the bulk of it would be historical naval survival in hostile climate; interspersed with moments of tension and supernatural horror.
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#27
July 23, 2018, 03:09:28 AM
I kinda want to run a Conan and Cthulhu game. Mighty warriors facing off against rubbery monsters. Call upon new upstart gods like Zeus or Marduk to fight these ancient ones. Maybe set it in the backdrop of pre-sinking Atlantis, make the PCs partly responsible for the destruction of civilization as they know it.

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#28
July 23, 2018, 03:31:19 AM
I think that the Enlightenment Period, say the 18th century, could be really interesting for a horror setting. The outlandish styles and debauchery really lend itself to vampires, though we also having early science which could give us all sorts of interesting investigative scenarios, forbidden science (Frankenstein stuff), and the like. I also also easily imagine 18th century scholars unearthing ancient tombs or deciphering decaying scrolls to unleash forgotten evils upon the world. I see a lot of horror potential during this time and relatively few (I can't think of one) settings for it.

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#29
July 24, 2018, 07:50:23 AM
Quote from: ShieldWife;1050123I think that the Enlightenment Period, say the 18th century, could be really interesting for a horror setting. The outlandish styles and debauchery really lend itself to vampires, though we also having early science which could give us all sorts of interesting investigative scenarios, forbidden science (Frankenstein stuff), and the like. I also also easily imagine 18th century scholars unearthing ancient tombs or deciphering decaying scrolls to unleash forgotten evils upon the world. I see a lot of horror potential during this time and relatively few (I can't think of one) settings for it.

"A Ghastly Affair" is an OSR RPG that does that well.
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