The trouble is that a horror game is bloody hard to run.
After all, a horror game is a tight rope walk between opposing concepts, some of them intrinsic to the genre and others to the format of role playing. So to help wrap my head around what to do and how to do it, I’ve written up a series of articles on how to deal with the issues of balancing the various needs of the game to bring out the most horror potential.
Please note that this series of weekly articles is focused on both LARP and tabletop games though the monster article has a focus on LARP.
Horror Tips 1: Personal Investment
Horror Tips 2: Dealing with Dread
Horror Tips 3: Pacing
Horror Tips 4: Monsters (focuses on LARP)
Horror Tips 5: Playing Environment
Horror Tips 6: Threatening Nature
Horror Tips 7: The Flow of Information
Horror Tips 8: Props
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