mehenwolf24
2020-11-18, 05:01 AM
love playing and (specially) GMing a lot of different games with various systems, approaches and styles. So every once in while I keep wandering my mind and my readings on some ideas I'd like to bring to the table to some groups. And you guys are always a very nice source of interesting discussions and ideas.
So after watching the series The Haunting of Hill House, I really want to do something akin to it: psychological horror with interpersonal drama; relationships (siblings, parents, children, marriage, friends) being tested by mind horrors (depression, anxiety, addiction, suicide, madness) that may or may not be influenced by the supernatural (ghosts, demons, entities, cursed places).
The general vibe is intended to fit the style of Silent Hill, with melancholy and guilt as common tropes in what I like to call "sad horror", but with less survival horror and more interpersonal drama.
So what would you use for this? I have thought about a few games that would fit but I'd like read your thoughts on it. Here are some ideas from the top my head:
Cortex Prime
Chronicles of Darkness
Call of Cthulhu
DramaSystem (Hillfolk)
Powered by the Apocalypse (Monsterhearts, Night Witches, Masks, Sagas of the Icelanders)
The Burning Wheel
UniSystem (Witchcraft)
One Roll Engine (Nemesis, A Dirty World)
Wuthering Heights
What are your thoughts for this kind of game?
Thanks in advance!
So after watching the series The Haunting of Hill House, I really want to do something akin to it: psychological horror with interpersonal drama; relationships (siblings, parents, children, marriage, friends) being tested by mind horrors (depression, anxiety, addiction, suicide, madness) that may or may not be influenced by the supernatural (ghosts, demons, entities, cursed places).
The general vibe is intended to fit the style of Silent Hill, with melancholy and guilt as common tropes in what I like to call "sad horror", but with less survival horror and more interpersonal drama.
So what would you use for this? I have thought about a few games that would fit but I'd like read your thoughts on it. Here are some ideas from the top my head:
Cortex Prime
Chronicles of Darkness
Call of Cthulhu
DramaSystem (Hillfolk)
Powered by the Apocalypse (Monsterhearts, Night Witches, Masks, Sagas of the Icelanders)
The Burning Wheel
UniSystem (Witchcraft)
One Roll Engine (Nemesis, A Dirty World)
Wuthering Heights
What are your thoughts for this kind of game?
Thanks in advance!