hsg horror settings general

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Anon10/03/26, 22:33No.98775876

>TQ I've only ever ran D&D around halloween times and I'd include witches and boogeymen etc. to match the season. This year might be the first time I'm actually running a horror game, so I'll maybe have the events take place around halloween if the timeline allows it.I’ve been running a certain Delta Green scenario today, pic related. I modified it because the agents were inserted into the base under some cover rather than being soldiers from the beginning. It'll be interesting.

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Anon10/04/26, 11:52No.98778144

>Have you ever run a game that takes place on Halloween? No, but I keep meaning to. >What's your favorite scenario to run for Halloween? Coffee Break of The Living Dead is a long-time fave for premade scenarios, but I've had great success running a different (famous) fantasy module and then suddenly it's awash with aboleths, skum, and mutant sea creatures. Players had a ball.

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Anon10/04/26, 17:47No.98779240

TQ I might run a haunted house CoC game this year, if we can get our group together. In the meantime, I've played Alone on Halloween by myself. I's oretty easy to play just a few minutes at a time.

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Anon10/04/26, 21:13No.98780062

I wondered about running something for spooky month in the Magnus Archives TTRPG, but I could only find a non-downloadble version of the core book and no playerbook so far.

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Anon10/05/26, 12:46No.98783432

Re-read Shadown over Innsmouth for the first time in like 10 years. Somehow missed the whole thing with empty buildings having shoggoths in them as the deep ones were prepping for war with humans. Also that deep ones aren't the traditional reptile/fish men we see in art but are full fish-frog beings, who hop like frogs but have full fish heads. We don't really get art of a proper fish head on a humanoid body but with frog like legs they use to hop around with. Frontloading the story of the government bombing the nest with a submarine and blowing up the buildings with the shoggoths and arresting the hybrids was cool. Kinda wonder what Lovecraft, if he lived that long, would make of nuclear weaponry and the nuclear weapon testing down in the bottom of the ocean, since the story is all about how mankind can't kill or find the deep ones

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Anon10/05/26, 12:50No.98783451

I played in a CAIN oneshot for Halloween last year and have since been trying to get together another CAIN game, even just to simply be a player in it.

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Anon10/05/26, 17:07No.98784642

What shitty old gods. Three are just blobs with eyeys and tentacles. Not very creative. The other is just himanoid but melted with tentacles. Whoever created these was uncreative with a fear of melted boggers with tentacles.

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Anon10/05/26, 19:49No.98785461

I've been bingong Sandy Petersons youtube videos for the last week and reading Lovecraft. I'm thinking of writing a quick one shot for me to run. Basically there are secret tunnels under the city, the players find them in the library or their own home. Not sure if I should A) have the tunnels be filled with ghouls that kidnap people b) Cannibal cultists that secretly run the city and use the tunnels to smuggle people (like irl new nork...) c) Have the tunnels be made by bhloes/dholes and they're about to sink the city

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Anon10/05/26, 22:19No.98786237

>they just released the ocean game Wow. It's a Halloween miracle.

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Anon10/05/26, 23:45No.98786665

Here's an idea for a cool October One-shot. A group of friends go visit a local haunted house attraction. Things get weird when actual supernatural things start happening.

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Anon10/06/26, 00:23No.98786813

I was hyped for running CoC but I have a hard time liking the one shots I've read. Is running pre-written one shots a rare thing and I should just check a DG shotgun scenario and use it as inspiration? Does it make sense of grabbing a Liminal Horror adventure and run it with CoC?

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Anon10/06/26, 02:01No.98787276

Do you guys have any suggestions for a system for a light horror Halloween oneshot? I'm thinking something with a YA vibe like Coraline or Over the Garden Wall, not necessarily scary but more so spooky. I'm kind of scrambling for ideas, I probably should have started trying to come up with stuff last month but I'm a fool.

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Anon10/06/26, 03:51No.98787672

https://x.com/DAWU233/status/1673533272268378112

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Anon10/06/26, 13:42No.98789441

>TQI ran The Dare for Call of Cthulhu for a group of friends last October. I'd recommend it. Local haunted house, tween characters in the 80's, witch in the basement, it's great fun. Even people who weren't alive in the 80's are nostalgic for the 80's. It's popular for Halloween one-shots and if you poke around you can find bloggers who've made improved versions of the maps and props.Anyways, this year I'm running Dead Light. I'm going to ham it up as an eldritch slasher since it's a one-shot and all and any kind of subtlety will be lost on a group of 6.

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Anon10/06/26, 13:50No.98789464

What's a good sanity system for one-shots, anyway? CoC SAN boils down to losing 5 points and running away while other systems give you long term consequences for characters that will cease to exist after 2-5~ hours.

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Anon10/06/26, 18:37No.98790630

Going to be running weekly spooky games for October. On the third and fourth weeks I'm going to be running Viral as one of my players watched a lot of Ghost Adventures growing up and will definitely play the host role memorably.I need something to play this week, though. CoC and DG are options but I'd like to try something different. I'm curious about Fear Itself. Is there a recommended introductory one-shot I could reasonably get through in one or two sessions of 3 hours? It's not a game that any of us have played, though I do own a copy of the Book of Unremitting Horror.

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Anon10/07/26, 01:10No.98792558

Just finished pic rel and thought it'd make a pretty gr8 fantasy horror setting (aparently, it began as a grimdark D&D campaign). Existential/cosmic horror, first and foremost, but can work as more grounded mudcore dark fantasy setting with sci-fi/body horror elements, too.

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Anon10/07/26, 18:44No.98795831

Does Paranoia (straight version) count?

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Anon10/07/26, 21:30No.98796633

Looking for some good bestiaries and books of monsters for my campaign. Any recs?

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Anon10/08/26, 15:27No.98800521

Is S2 any good for Arkham Horror LCG or am I fucked because I missed out on S1?

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Anon10/09/26, 11:20No.98804669

I’m still looking for advice on how to run this without using the Pregens.I like letting people make their own characters, but the Pregens are kinda tied into this scenario so it feels a bit weird.

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Anon10/09/26, 19:13No.98806285

OCEAN GAME IS OUT

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Anon10/10/26, 04:16No.98808745

A member of my CoC party has become a vampire while another has high enough Cthulhu Mythos that he's using the fact you can use that skill to free-form cast spells. Me thinks this campaign has drifted into Pulp without actually using the Pulp rules. But the players all like it, so eh.

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Anon10/11/26, 01:03No.98812738

One of the darkest things to ask is if old nyar could somehow replace azathoth as the center of chaos

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Anon10/12/26, 06:54No.98818545

I want to use star spawn of Cthulhu in my game soon but I'm finding the depictions to be immersion-breaking. They tend to look like either a bodybuilder or a fat slob with head swap and wings, too humanoid and normal. I need help either reconciling with that fact, or getting art of star spawn of Cthulhu that doesn't look like a dude in (admittedly high effort) Halloween costume. Anyone?

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Anon10/13/26, 05:03No.98824345

Would Delta Green recruit a soviet defector during the cold war if the incident prompting his defection was DG relevant? What about a criminal in witness protection who turned on his former associates for similar reasons? Would these types be considered too untrustworthy due to their past betrayals, or would they be looked at favorably for placing supernatural threats to humanity above their loyalty to their mundane organizations?

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Anon10/14/26, 01:39No.98828998

Am going to be playing Call of Cthulhu for the first time soon! 7e, if that matters. My Keeper is going to be running 12 short scenarios where each one we play a different character, apparently there will be some overarching plot running through all twelve. Also we're in the 1920s.Anyway, main point: first scenario is, in essence, Unfathomable as far as I can tell. And so I have made my first Call of Cthulhu character!>Lucia Montanari >Drifter, 15 years old >Str 55; Con 60; Dex 75; Int 60; Siz 45; Pow 40; App 85; Edu 55 >Hit Points: 10; Magic Points: 8; Luck: 50; Sanity: 40 >Charm 70; Climb 70; Credit Rating 5; Disguise 30; Dodge 70; Jump 70; Language (own) 55; Language (English) 30; Listen 30; Sleight of Hand 40; Stealth 75; Throw 68Lucina's Mamma, she is with God now (Lucina crosses herself), and she spent some time alone after that, but then she learned about how her Papà didn't die in the war after all, he went to France! So she left Modena, made her way across France to where he'd gone, only to learn he'd left for America! So she snuck onto the first ship leaving Cherbourg for America herself....yeah I know she's gonna die or go insane. San 40 is...unfortunate for a first character. All the same, this should be fun.

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Anon10/14/26, 19:17No.98832526

I'm a little annoyed by how limiting the mythos feels in coc and delta green. Like theres supposed to be this entire universe of weird shit and I think the last tome something new was invented for this and stuck around was like the 90s. Also I play with grognards and if I made up a new thing for just my games they'd be autists about it. It's sapping my will to play desu.

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Anon10/14/26, 20:47No.98832939

There any good modules involving hastur, or a cult of the king in yellow? System doesn't matter I wanted to use it as inspo for a game of Dark Heresy

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Anon10/16/26, 03:37No.98838654

For those who run DG have you done much with the cowboys vs program interplay? How did you handle giving out info about delta green and it's history? I'm thinking about starting my group out as program with a cowboy sympathizing handler. I'm not necessarily thinking of making it a main focus but more of a subplot for them to uncover as they learn more about the organization they work for and have the potential for flipping sides though going rogue would lead to it's own thing I figure.

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Anon10/16/26, 16:02No.98840724

Is Cthulhu by Gaslight worth picking up if I already have 7E?

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Anon10/18/26, 14:59No.98849577

M-EPIC seems like a better way to do the delta green thing than delta green. Being an official government agency just one that nobody knows about with super vague yet enforced jurisdiction.seems like it fits the government agent solving lovecraft crimes and doing conspiracy stuff than the "cowboys". Which just seems like a way to make an institution of Fox Mulder's.

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Anon10/18/26, 22:25No.98851292

Guys, give me your best Dread scenario-making suggestions. The book is surprisingly sparse on this, focusing more on how to run the game proper.

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Anon10/22/26, 02:54No.98861727

if you want true horror, i have a setting for you

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Anon10/22/26, 10:19No.98862778

The best horror setting ever made was made by tg in 2014 and its called Warren's FollyThe second best horror setting of all time is my mental when I realise ive been here for like 15 years

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Anon10/22/26, 12:51No.98863116

Besides Hunter: The Vigil, what other games handle slashers well? The Crystal Lake TV show has me feeling an itch I need to scratch.

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Anon10/22/26, 14:57No.98863529

> Delta GreenDid any Anon run God's Teeth? Any tips? It will be our first long campaign (currently running Control Group, that was a great introduction to the game).

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Anon10/22/26, 19:55No.98864811

https://x.com/scythenized/status/2055029168291610871

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Anon10/23/26, 02:24No.98866070

>The God of the world of Mise en Abime. It created everything that now exists in their world: lands, rivers, life. No one knows where it came from or what its goals were. https://x.com/musteilsndra/status/2102036962215416067

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Anon10/23/26, 06:42No.98866742

Ocean Game - do all players have to pick either a clown or a monkey or just one of them?

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Anon10/24/26, 16:47No.98872904

Has anyone ever done a zombie game that turned out well?It seems like one of those ideas that would translate well into TTRPGs but always seems to fall flat. Everyone just behaving too logically because they want to have a fun /k/ommando fantasy and not actually replicate the complete breakdown of society.I was also in a "play yourself" zombie campaign that quickly devolved into arguments about what our stats should be and minutiae about the layout of our hometown.

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Anon10/24/26, 22:02No.98874078

Just finished running the Ship Outta Luck scenario in Delta Green. I modified the scenario in that after half an hour or so from them getting onto the ship, all the corpses raised as zombies. Shit was SO cash.

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