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Lovecraft in the Ice Age – Canyon of the Snow Cairns

The ice age is probably the most ignored RPG setting. It’s also one of the best historical settings for Lovecraftian horror. Let me make my case: For the ice age to really work as a desperate and alien setting, you need to fully embrace the setting’s quirks. If the ice age just feels like a […]

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Writing a Great Haunted House Adventure – Thrusher Manor

I envy the evil overlords who are about to start construction on their newest dungeon. There are hundreds of fantastic blogs, Reddit threads, and books on how to best construct a world-class dungeon for roleplaying games. Sinister ghosts however get the short end of the stick. There’s sparse advice for GMs on how to create […]

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Downplay the Supernatural, Increase the Terror – Feast of Odoacer

Horror RPGs appear to be going through a resurgence, at least according to my own convention statistics. It’s easy to fill up a game of Call of Cthulhu these days, even at a small convention, and my GURPS Horror historical crossovers do well too. As most horror writers will tell you, the best horror is […]

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Lovecraftian Horror – The Strange & Sunken Fate of Karl Heinrich

One of my favorite H.P. Lovecraft stories is “The Temple”. It’s a straightforward but moody account of a German submarine crew dealing with one horrible problem after another – a cursed item, an engine malfunction, mutiny, madness, suicide, and then finally its lone survivor staring straight into The Impossible. It has all the hallmarks of […]

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