Horror Indie TTRPG Series: Home

From now until Halloween, come to Pandemonium for the next several weekends to learn (and play) a selection of horror tabletop roleplaying games! Horror, as a genre, is broadly defined, and our selection reflects that (progressing from dark-fantasy to tragic horror). Even still, owing to the content that may be covered in these adventures, these sessions will be for adults 18+ in age.

The schedule of ttRPGs is below:

• Friday, 09/26: Home

• Saturday, 10/11: Bluebeard’s Bride

• Saturday, 10/25: Ten Candles

Note that, with the exception of Home (which is on a Friday, from 6:00-9:00 p.m.), in order to give us time to digest the game, each session will run from 5:00 - 9:00 p.m. (in the back event room – past the ttRPG books). Note that games won’t necessarily take 4 hours, but for these, we want to save some extra time at the end to decompress.

What You Can Expect

To paraphrase a horror-centric episode of Quinns Quest, horror ttRPGs ask players to do two contradictory things: 1) play your character as if you want them to survive, and 2) create a thrilling story where your character may not live. 

Each of these games will be run as one-shots where the above will be true. In addition, these games tend to be rules-lite and require more active participation from the players to help the GM craft the story. Therefore, if you don’t mind free-form, slightly more horrific horror games, you may enjoy this selection (if “enjoy” is the correct word).

Finally, because these are horror games, we will make use of ttRPG safety tools at the table (especially Lines & Veils and the X-Card). To read an excellent write-up of what these tools are (and why they’re used), follow this link to Mike “The Lazy DM” Shea’s article here. 

Resources about the upcoming game (a Google Doc) can be found by clicking at the link here. It will be updated with information roughly one week before the game is scheduled.