Read the original post on Flickering Myth here: 10 Psychological Horror Gems You Need To See Vanessa Maki with ten great psychological horror movie gems for your watch list… The genuine terror that can be elicited from a good psychological horror film is top tier. Whether it be a film like The Shining (1980) where the madness builds and builds, the home invasion terror in The Strangers (2008), the psychologically grueling […] Read the original post on Flickering Myth here: 10 Psychologica...| Flickering Myth
When a game has a lot of rules, very detailed character creation, and a generous helping of math, it is usually referred to as being “crunchy”. If that is true, then the horror RPG Dread is an adventure trope quicksand pit disguised as a bowl of pudding. When I arrived at RPG-A-THON on Saturday afternoon, I stopped at the Extra Life table. I had just missed their morning block of play-anything drop-in sessions, but I was intrigued by what they were setting up. The table had “character s...| therathole.ca
Travel enriches me in many ways. Apart from novelty and discovery, new surroundings help me to temporarily forget things that usually weigh me down. Certain familiar things back home trigger uncomfortable feelings in me. I guess that is why I had a multi-year respite when I moved to SF for a while. For that few...| Winnie Lim
Most people think of Dread as a one-shot-only game, but when we wrote it we intended to create a campaign-worthy game that created particularly intense individual sessions in that campaign. The secret, as in so much of Dread, is in the questionnaires.| Mental Propinquity
Recently someone asked me about a rule in Dread, and as this is a question that has come up periodically over the years, I thought I’d answer it here for everyone. I have a major doubt abo…| The Impossible Dream
Are you planning to run “Beneath a Metal Sky”? Do you have a way to have a computer at or near the game table? Warning: spoilers for “Beneath a Metal Sky” ahead!| The Impossible Dream
Just a quickie here: The latest episode of Wil Wheaton’s Tabletop web series has just gone live, and it features Dread! In it, they play the intro scenario from the book, “Beneath a Ful…| The Impossible Dream