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Horror

Roleplaying with the things that go bump in the night. While other genres can have scary elements - what's a Fantasy game without a tomb to plunder, after all? - these games concentrate on the fear and horror elements, usually in a more or less modern setting. The first horror roleplaying game was Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu, probably the most popular currently are White Wolf's World of Darkness games.

Sites in Horror

The Awakening: The Journal of Extreme Horror Roleplaying
Magazine of generic (no one system) horror RPG material. 5 on-line adventure idea articles.
Wind Dancing: A Nightbane Character
Description of a player character created for Palladium Books' Nightbane.
Asylum
Enter the World of Asylum, where the US has been reduced to a collection of walled Wards, built from former cities and surrounded by desolate Wastelands. The Sun has been gone for over a hundred years, hidden from view by the airborne algae known as Blanket Seed. And everyone has gone mad. Those in the Wards are called Inmates, and they are cared for by the Staff and watched over by the Orderlies, who are as insane as the Inmates.
Principia Malefex: A Horror Roleplay Game
Horror roleplay set in modern day Britain.
House of R'Leyh-Dark RP Chathouse
Rules and background for a web-based game combining Call of Cthulhu, Nightbane, and the World of Darkness.
Confrontation
A cyber-gothic role-playing game based on the original Necromunda proto-type. It has realistic rules and greater scope for complex and non-linear role-playing. This site offers a quality example of this system.
The World of Bloodshadows
One new monster and one new spell for West End Games' Masterbook-based "fantasy noir" game.
Demonground
Electronic fanzine for modern horror roleplaying. Free downloads in zipped PDF format.
Schism
A subversive roleplaying game set in "a world of corruption, paranoia, and bizarre phenomena".
Dread
A game of modern horror in which investigators struggle against the forces of evil. Features a conflict-resolution system, back story, spells, monsters, demons, cultists, and secret societies.
Dreamwalker
Official site for this role playing game. Humanity is under attack, the enemy is an alien species that assails humans while they are sleep.
Horror Rules: The Simply Horrible Roleplaying Game
A horror comedy game based on popular movies such as "Tremors," "8-Legged Freaks" and "The Evil Dead."
Little Fears
Game of childhood terror, created by Key 20 Publishing. Contains game information, character sheets, previews, and errata.
Nyboria: The Dark Side of Roleplaying
Oering original material for various games including Kult, World of Darkness, SLA Industries, Unknown Armies, and setting material taken from Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.
Philippe Tromeur's Pages about Nightbane RPG
Play aids, skill lists, and links for Nightbane.
Creations End
Makers of a game entitled "Creations End". Contains product information and sales.
The Crossroad
A guide to "Whispering Vault" resources on the web, including reviews, articles, mailing lists, rules, and disciplines.

sub categories in Horror

All Flesh Must Be Eaten All Flesh Must Be Eaten
Bureau 13 Bureau 13
Chill Chill
Deadlands Deadlands
Ghostbusters Ghostbusters
Kult Kult
Unknown Armies Unknown Armies
World of Darkness World of Darkness
Beyond the Supernatural Beyond the Supernatural
Call of Cthulhu Call of Cthulhu
Dark Conspiracy Dark Conspiracy
Free Systems Free Systems
In Nomine In Nomine
Nephilim Nephilim
WitchCraft WitchCraft

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