Horror in RPGs - 2014
Last year I did up a set of notes for the 2013 PaizoCon seminar “Horror in RPGs”. This year, I was fortunate enough to attend the seminar in person and take the following notes.
- James Jacobs
- Ryan Macklin
- Wes Schneider
- H.P. Lovecraft
- cosmic horror
- Alien
- The Thing
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- body horror
- David Cronenberg
- The Shadow Over Innsmouth
- Harry Connolly
- Twenty Palaces series
- Kenneth Hite
- GURPS Horror
- victorian sexuality
- fear of the dark
- gothic horror
- dark fantasy
- Dracula
- The Invisible Man
- Frankenstein
- Salem’s Lot
- Amazon
- “I like robots deciding what I want read.” —Jacobs
- We Live Inside You
- Netflix
- The House of the Devil
- Unknown Armies
- “Unknown Armies is the best book ever made.” —Macklin
- Tim Powers
- Last Call
- biohorror
- CDC Twitter
- The X-Files
- survival horror
- action horror
- CDC
- “That goes in the vault.” —Schneider
- urban legend
- Bloody Mary
- Jersey Devil
- Ogopogo
- Unsolved Mysteries
- Japanese folklore/urban legends
- Kaidan
- Edogawa Ranpo
- Edgar Allen Poe
- The Human Chair
- Martyrs
- Cannibal Holocaust
- Lillian Cohen-Moore
- synesthesia
- fakelore
- Slender Man
- Something Awful
- Candle Cove (KYM)
- Three Kings
- Dread
- James makes a heck of a pull during a Dread game
- James pushes the tower
- “Dread cheats.” —Macklin
- Murderous Ghosts
- Call of Cthulhu
- Fate
- Modiphius Entertainment
- Auchtung Cthulhu
- “This is villanous horrific alien magic… of course it just works.” —Macklin
- Indie Press Revolution
- Abberation… actually called “Abnormal”
- Carolina Death Crawl
- Fiasco
- “For certain values of woot woot.” —Macklin
- DriveThruCards
- Odysseus
- Bully Pulpit Games
- The Shab-al-Hiri Roach
- “One person brings a shovel, one person brings a bucket, and the other person brings anything he wants. And whoever fills the bucket first wins.” —Jacobs
- Unofficial Unknown Armies website
- “Why is a good question.” —Macklin
- phobias
- music in games/mood music
- Monty Python jokes
- Jessica Price
- Video of Wes cranking the music while Jessica tries to make a pull
- Cosmo
- Cosmo filmed a different pull
- “What are you going to do? His arm’s running off” —Macklin