Last year we celebrated Autocratik’s #RPGaDay, where we spend a month celebrating RPGs, discussing what we love and what we love about them. Here are the responses of the TRF crew. Be sure to tweet, blog, or post your own with the #RPGaDay!
For August 20, What is your favorite horror RPG?
Aser: My favorite horror RPG has to be Fear Itself. There are other gumshoe contenders like Trail of Cthulhu, Esoterrorists, or Night’s Black Agents, but Fear Itself makes you face all the potential horror as normal people. Now, that’s scary.
Chuck: Weird Wars Rome for Savage Worlds
John: Call of Cthulhu, duh!
Jonn: Call of Cthulhu
Landan: Generally not a fan of horror but the closest thing was a D&D 3.5 game played at Geekly Con 2015 DM’d by Michael Lane of the Cthulhu and Friends Podcast. Either V’s creepiness rubbed off on him or she may have gotten some of it from him since he DM’d for them back in the day if I remember right when they first met. Generally dolls don’t creep me out but he had an extremely creepy doll and a creepy old man NPC.
Matt: I’m not sure an RPG is the best medium for horror. I enjoy the genre for movies, video games, books, etc., but it somehow doesn’t translate well to RPGs in my experience.
Megan: I think I like the sanity/stability mechanic in Gumshoe the best, so Trail of Cthulhu and Fear Itself.
Patrick: Haven’t played one yet, maybe soon. And I can’t qualify anything that I’ve played by White Wolf as horror. It’s is the Coke Zero of horror.
Rob: Call of Cthulhu
