My experience with Forgery! (Why you should try it!)
All images were taken from the Forgery game...
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Tag: horror
Public Access, an analog horror game
Horror Is Not My Thing It used to be when I was...
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Growing tension mechanic for your game
There are times in your games in which you want...
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Fear Itself
Today’s guest article is by Gnome Stew...
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Review of Outbreak: Deep Space
The folks at Hunters Books recently sent me a...
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Saying Isn’t Feeling: Evoking Emotional Engagement in Players
Today’s guest article is by Jeff Lees, who...
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Review: Stealing Cthulhu, One of the Best Gaming Books I’ve Ever Read
I recently read Stealing Cthulhu (hardback,...
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After Action Report–Modern Horror Campaign
At the risk of being ‘that guy,’ I’m going to...
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Need Creepy Background Music? 14 Free and Reasonably Priced Dark Ambient Albums
I recently got to run two sessions of Call of...
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Spooktacular Gaming
I got a chance to play in a cool, very Halloween...
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curse the darkness Review
At Marcon this year, aside from making $100...
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Outbreak: Undead RPG Review — An Awesome Game with a Few Flaws
After seeing a preview of Outbreak: Undead...
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Heroes in Horror: Take Away Their Hit Points
Aside from a lack of fear, one of the biggest...
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Heroes in Horror: When GM expectations and PC design don’t mix
A modern variant of the mythical “grim and...
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D&D Burgoo: A Dragon on the Doorstep
Making players – and by implication, their...
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