No.391969
So i have friends who i have started to get more into tabletop, not been 'that guy' and friend-hostage'd them mind you they genuinely are asking and getting interested. Thanks to shadespire being an amazing gateway game i suppose.
But its halloween season coming around and as well as watching horror movies and replaying shit like Resident Evil like we do every year this year they are asking about /tg/ related stuff.
Be it board games or rpgs whats a good one shot game? Theres board games like Betrayal and House on the Hill, homebrew games like Dread and maybe even the demo's for stuff like Prometheus or Hunter.
What do you consider a fun spooky game for an evening of play to get beginners into tabletop during the halloween season?
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No.391989
Cliche though it may be, my group and I like to do Call of Cthulhu d20 for a one-shot around this time of year.
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No.392062
>>391969
>>391989
Usually those campaigns need time to escalate, but anon ain't wrong. Closest you can get to a Resident Evil feel.
I'm sure there are plenty of "modern day/real world + zombie" splats and rules, but due to how zombies were normie bait for a long time, I dread to imagine how many were bad.
Although, you could pull it off in fantasy settings as well. As long as undead are still fantastical/horrifying in that world, your average citizen would be easily killed by them, and killing them usually costs such a large amount of resources (including health) running is a valid tactic- then you're golden. Though by the above logic you could take any tabletop game and just throw low level PCs to a horde of almost-too-strong-enemies and make the goal survival/getting out.
I would highly recommend Shadows of Brimstone (Cthulu and Cowboys Basically Deadlands but since the guy couldn't get the rights he did his own thing). The first map is fun, but it really is a "campaign" since you can build up abilities and neat items. You certainly get "oh shit" moments with bad events and lots of monsters coming out. Less suspenseful, more like waiting for another shoe to drop and releasing the tension with victory and loot. You gotta glue plastic models together which some of you may not like.
The Ravenloft boardgame is also fun if you want something simple but still requiring some tactics and discussion
As a word of warning - AVOID Mansions of Madness and Zombieside. I played them and found them unfair. MoM does a little damage over time, before ramping up too fast and one-shotting your ass. Zombieside has a rule where if you have no more zombies in the box, that group of zombies gets an extra action. Combine that with how they can spawn and some other shenanigans, and you can be quickly overwhelmed. My group had to make different house-rules for damn near every map depending on what was bugging us.
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No.392064
>>391969
>What do you consider a fun spooky game for an evening of play to get beginners into tabletop during the halloween season?
Why overcomplicate things? If you're running a tabletop RPG, pit them against classic monsters. Zombie horde, vampires, pumpkin-themed monsters, ghosts, witches, flesh golems, and so on.
If you're looking for board games, spending an evening playing Mansions of Madness (the newer edition that runs with a companion app) with the lights turned low and the spooky atmospheric noises dialed up is pretty comfy. Did that a few months back during an actual dark and stormy afternoon and it was amazing.
Games like Mysterium fit the theme, and with the right mood lighting and background music, it could be enhanced to suit the mood.
You've got some on-the-nose kind of stuff like the Ghostbusters Board game, or Phantom Society which are about hunting ghosts.
I don't think it will be available in stores in time, but there's a game coming out called Monster Slaughter that is about players controlling groups of monsters who are out to murder a house full of teenagers. Played an early build of it last year, and I thought it was pretty slick.
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No.392068
>>391969
I agree with >>391989, Call of Cthulhu d20 is a great choice for your group.
I would be remiss to not mention how good GURPS, Fudge, or any generic system is at one shots of any type once you have a group that's familiar with the base rules. However that's a lot of work for you as the GM, and a system built around horror will get you up and running faster and easier than working with a generic.
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No.392072
I'm thinking about a Cowboys vs Xenomorphs one shot for Halloween. I don't expect it to be literally spooky once they figure out what they're up against, but Halloween's the one time I can get away with the reveal being "movie aliens".
For unironically spooky, I would look at adventures from Lamentations of the Flame Princess. In particular, Death Frost Doom, The God That Crawls, or Scenic Dunnsmouth.
In any event, for new players in a Halloween game consider having pre-gen characters to choose from instead of rolling from scratch.
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No.392097
>>392068
I'd just say play regular CoC instead of d20'ing things up. You've also got all those "It's Stranger Things, but we can't call it Stranger Things: The RPG" type of systems that have popped up lately.
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No.395977
The #1 game for spook season
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No.395980
>>395977
Mansions of Madness is better and less full of random bullshit. Last time I played that, the group accidentally found 3 out of 4 MacGuffin items before we even found the random haunt event.
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No.395981
Here's a fun game.
>Buy the biggest bottle of cheap vodka you can find.
>Go home and down the entire thing in one sitting.
>Puke.
>Pass out.
>But where's the spooky?
>Toss a sheet over you so you can pretend to be a spooky ghost while you get shitfaced.
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No.395996
>>395981
I bet you even drink with women you fucking casual
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No.396001
>>395996
You're supposed to get drunk by yourself. And by big bottle, I mean big. At least 2L or if you have some dosh, 4L+
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No.396047
I don't think it would be super spooky or even very creepy but you might want to look at Straight to VHS. It's like bad B-movies that are fun for all the wrong reasons, it would work well for a horror movie themed campaign.
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No.396080
Dread is good game for a seasonal one shot. It's a bit of a meme, but it really works.
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No.396081
What is wrong with a simple haunted mansion that the PCs suddenly wakes up in?
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No.410276
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>>396081
Your pc wakes up on a battleship. After realising you can speak japanese fluently, you find out it's 6th April 1945 and the ship is Yamato. cue droning of 300 torpedo-bombers
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No.410279
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>>410276
This would be amazing to do and then at the end have a illusionary Al Calavicci comes out and you play the quantum leap themesong.
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No.420871
One-shot sniper mission.
Heh.
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