Spooky: The Definitive Guide to Horror Gaming

by Steve Johnson, Kevin Butler (Contributor), Leighton Connor (Contributor)

Spooky: the Definitive Guide to Horror Gaming is a genre guide that will help you improve your current horror campaign, create a whole new one, or bring elements of horror to your current game, no matter what system you might use. With Spooky, you can learn how to make your fellow gamers feel the three types of fear: dread, shock, and terror. See how to transform the gaming table into a location that helps set the mood, how to create sessions and story arcs that sustain the character's unease, and how to make monsters, magic, and mad science set the scene for a game that your players will never forget.

114 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Steve Johnson is the co-creator of the QAGS Second Edition role-playing game system and the ENnie-award-winning Hobomancer RPG setting and author of Obscure Early Bluesmen Who Never Existed as well as numerous RPG sourcebooks from Hex Games. He blogs about gaming at The Death Cookie and about other things at Goat Head Gumbo.

Reviews

[Thom · Rating 4 out of 5]

Spooky: The Definitive Guide to Horror Gaming is a genre describing book, a gamemaster guide, and an uber bibliography all-in-one. The back of the book says "Spooky tells how to bring the thrill of a great horror story into your games." It covers this topic well, whether introducing a horror scene, adventure or campaign. This book also covers horror mixed with humor, from the Scream movies to the Camp of Plan 9 from Outer Space.