Let’s do a #HorrorWritersChat for #ttrpg creators. What #horror games are you writing this year? Are you exploring a particular sub-genre? What makes it scary? #HorrorSky - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

hatchlingdm.itch.io • 44 days ago

Let’s do a #HorrorWritersChat for #ttrpg creators.

What #horror games are you writing this year? Are you exploring a particular sub-genre? What makes it scary?

#HorrorSky

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hagiologist.bsky.social•44 days ago

One of the projects I'm working on is Ghosts in the Dark, a mash up with elements of PBTA, VtM, Pokemon & Blades. Players make custom cryptids, monsters, spirits, etc. and compete for control of territories while hiding from humans who they constantly need to feed on

hagiologist.bsky.social•44 days ago

Modular abilities + unique feeding types to make your perfect monster.
Some of the PCs folks made were classic horror. A cannibalistic hunger spirit, a haunted doll feeding on fear itself, a mournful church grim blending into the shadows of graveyards that could just snuff out graverobbers

flamingbraingames.bsky.social•44 days ago

Currently working on "Adirondark: the Weird Wilderness beyond the Blue Line": a wilderness horror setting that is centered on the Adirondack Mountains of the Gilded Age.

Come up against Powers like The Red (animals) The Green (plants), The Gray (rock and cold), and The Dark (anti-life alien evil.)

flamingbraingames.bsky.social•44 days ago

Every expedition enters the forest for a mundane reason, then some Omen let's them know something is not quite right...

exstasisgames.bsky.social•44 days ago

It's all horror, all the time 😆. First up is Meatbags, which pushes fragile but plot-armoured characters through action horror scenarios.

Later in the year we should at least get a quickstart out for Feral, which is deep woods horror with anthropomorphic animals.

hatchlingdm.itch.io•44 days ago

Brilliant. Love the titles!

exstasisgames.bsky.social•44 days ago

I'm having too much fun delivering messages like MEAT? into people's inboxes

innocentgoblin.bsky.social•44 days ago

I'm writing a ballet horror TTRPG called Pirouette!

You play as a baller dancer but the audience is an eldrich horror waiting hungrily for you to make a mistake

It uses tarot cards and a block tower making it super tense as every move brings you closer to being devoured by the amorphous audience

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hatchlingdm.itch.io•44 days ago

Brilliant concept!

innocentgoblin.bsky.social•44 days ago

Thank you! It's been something I've wanted to make for a while ever since I wrote a very short story with the same concept

I reached out to a ballet dancer and got a ton of amazing information for it!

hatchlingdm.itch.io•44 days ago

Get so many of my game ideas from short fiction drafts.

innocentgoblin.bsky.social•44 days ago

I have so many ideas noted down for short fiction I definitely need to go through them for ideas!

billheron.bsky.social•44 days ago

More Achtung! Cthulhu, Musketeers vs. Cthulhu, StokerVerse RPG, and two more I can't talk about #HorrorWritersChat for #ttrpg

hatchlingdm.itch.io•44 days ago

Wonderful lineup!

zacharyoshea.com•43 days ago

For me it's really figuring out shadowdark. I want to do a series of dark fey adventures and fiddling with a horror themed spell jammer like campaign

koathedm.bsky.social•44 days ago

I'm currently in the process of refining a religious eldritch horror-themed piece! Taking the familiarity of catholicism/Christianity and defamiliarizing it with the (surprisingly easily) overlapped lens of eldritch horror!

bearwinters.bsky.social•44 days ago

koathedm.bsky.social•44 days ago

Not ready quuiittee yet but a lot of imagery of defining "true divinity" as an unknowable, impersonal entity that evokes bleeding, prayer, worship, weeping, and witnessing the true glory of It's will

I got big inspo from the idea of relics in religion + the bleeding host in catholicism

bearwinters.bsky.social•44 days ago

I love everything you just typed. Anywhere (other than following your account) I can follow to watch the progress?

koathedm.bsky.social•44 days ago

Thanks so much!!! All of the progress will be released for free on the internet with time, but you can support me and follow me on https://patreon.com/koathedm or on Reddit under the same name!

I'm still finishing up my current project, so this one likely won't hit until the end of the month!

hatchlingdm.itch.io•44 days ago

Nice!

anim-ttrpgs.bsky.social•44 days ago

Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy does horror really well, horror and investigation go hand-in-hand, with the relatively fragile characters and the slow unraveling of the truth. The rules are free on itchio. https://youtu.be/QJ9yncgoJHA https://anim-ttrpg.itch.io/eureka-urban-investigative-fantasy-ttrpg-haunted-house-murder-mystery-module

anim-ttrpgs.bsky.social•44 days ago

Not to brag, but one of our adventure modules currently only only available on patreon( https://www.patreon.com/c/TheAgencyofNarrativeIntrigueandMysteryPatreon ) is so scary that we're told by GMs that THEY get chills just reading it. FORIVA: The Angel Game. Tiny Table did an actual play of it https://tinytablebusiness.podbean.com/e/eureka-rules/

alisoncybe.bsky.social•44 days ago

I'm working on a game about vampires based around themes of consent.

nomdegirl.bsky.social•44 days ago

I'm most of the way through writing a solo folk horror using @sludgepunk.itch.io's JARS SRD - exploring a village and confronting the evil at the heart of it

I've also got a body horror game cooking which is heavily inspired by The Fly which is currently based around a yahtzee type thing

hatchlingdm.itch.io•44 days ago

Some much amazing content in these replies. I’m blown away.

nomdegirl.bsky.social•44 days ago

Horror brings out the real freak in a writer I think (complimentary)

percypropa.bsky.social•44 days ago

We Wander In Circles Through Radiant Lights is my solo game which will require playing cards, a maze game, a blindfold, and timers. It is also a confrontation with the mistakes of the past.

hatchlingdm.itch.io•44 days ago

Lots of cool immersive props. Love it.

bearwinters.bsky.social•44 days ago

Reverse role, eldritch horror. You play a dead god, greiving and broken, traveling to different realities where the fabric of said reality will warp history and the people within to reject your presence. Isolationist body horror, where you are the monster from beyond, trying to process your death.

exstasisgames.bsky.social•44 days ago

Hi, I need it.

bearwinters.bsky.social•44 days ago

I have a playtest if you'd like it. Just shoot me a DM and I'll get you a (incredibly rough and currently unedited) alpha.

exstasisgames.bsky.social•44 days ago

Yes please!

hatchlingdm.itch.io•44 days ago

Sounds awesome. Love the reversed concept.

pennyblake.bsky.social•44 days ago

omg the poor baby eldritch horror!! Stop breaking my heart!!! (but don't really stop...) 🤭🖤🖤

gothhoblin.me•44 days ago

Just finished a session working on what I'm calling "wretched west" supernatural horror. Centres around a ranch of femme vampires liberated from their unjust human lives and their precarious/traumatic relationship with the remaining townsfolk, whom they protect from the other monsters of the world.

shinyfluffdnd.bsky.social•44 days ago

👀

gothhoblin.me•44 days ago

🤠

shinyfluffdnd.bsky.social•44 days ago

😂

nomdegirl.bsky.social•44 days ago

Hi, hello, hi 👀👀👀👀

gothhoblin.me•44 days ago

Hiiii hi hi 🤗🤗😁🤠 (you already had a peek of a class id made for this ages ago when it was going to be Mork Borg)

nomdegirl.bsky.social•44 days ago

Oh I remember, i just want to be clear about how excited I am 👀

gothhoblin.me•44 days ago

Oh yay! I'm happy to hear that 😁🖤

sethanikeem.bsky.social•44 days ago

I love everything about this concept.

gothhoblin.me•44 days ago

Thank you! 🖤 It's been in my brain for some time now and I'm finally making some headway on it.

losthavenart.bsky.social•44 days ago

Ooo, that's a few words I like to hear combined.

hatchlingdm.itch.io•44 days ago

Sounds incredible! Also definitely stick with that title.

gothhoblin.me•44 days ago

Oh "wretched west" is just my made up genre keywords, haha! The working title I have at the moment is "The Belles of Bone Gulch"

hatchlingdm.itch.io•44 days ago

Also cool as hell. Could Wretched West be the overall setting title? As in “The Belles of Bone Gulch: A Wretched West RPG”. Apologies… Got my GAST head on atm.

gothhoblin.me•44 days ago

Ooh maybe! I will add it to my notes 👀 I'm still working on the setting itself but thinking of using the FRONTIER SCUM third party license.

dragoncatpaw.bsky.social•44 days ago

I have an atmospheric horror game in the works that's focused on characters who are physically separate, connected only by radio as characters are (likely) picked off one by one.

hatchlingdm.itch.io•44 days ago

Sounds really interesting.

dragoncatpaw.bsky.social•44 days ago

Thanks! It's a really ambitious project for me so I'm excited to dig into it.

carrion-comfort.com•43 days ago

COME ON IN is getting ready for playtest!

ajhumphreys.bsky.social•44 days ago

I wrote a #dnd one-shot for some buddies that was really a murder mystery dressed up in fantastical lore, and I've been considering putting in the effort to publish it as a game master manual that can be modified for different universes... but it's just an idea at this point

ghostcandle.bsky.social•44 days ago

I have a couple on my list I'd like to finish:

CAN/T: a Wretched & Alone game about escaping anxiety.

HER Bones Are Moondust: Cosmic/Divine horror on the moon. For the "Below A Bad Moon" game jam.

And thinking of expanding on my micro game, CURSED, because I just like its look.

exstasisgames.bsky.social•44 days ago

Her Bones Are Moondust is a beautiful title, and this sounds right up my street.

hatchlingdm.itch.io•44 days ago

Great stuff. Feeling very inspired by all these amazing projects.

tdungeonator.bsky.social•44 days ago

Currently working on a cosmic horror based on solo ttrpg I'm testing called The Insensate Ones. If it is scary (I hope it is!) it is from the way the drive to understand the incomprehensible turns into horror and that the only way to escape utter alienation is by rationalizing the irrational.

hatchlingdm.itch.io•44 days ago

Sounds cool. Be interested to learn more as you develop.

tdungeonator.bsky.social•44 days ago

The basic mechanic is a lot like Bloodborne's insight. Getting knowledge gives you bonuses to your rolls, but it also makes it more likely you experience the weird stuff.

hatchlingdm.itch.io•44 days ago

Oh I love that. Also my fav video game of all time.

signalstation.bsky.social•44 days ago

This year: continued expansion and refinement of Step Right Up, my horror game set in 1930s Dust Bowl Oklahoma.

Players are performers in a traveling carnival and, in the grand folk horror tradition, every small town they stop in has horrible secrets.

Also: the world feels like it's ending.

losthavenart.bsky.social•44 days ago

This sounds very much like the HBO series Carnivale and I'm here for it.

hatchlingdm.itch.io•44 days ago

Nice! Love the idea of this ticking clock of doom in the background of sessions.

kobanya.bsky.social•43 days ago

Pelogos should be coming out this year.

Otherwise, I've got:

1. A baking game partially inspired by The Mortuary Assistant
2. Witch's curse rune game
3. Katabasis & sequel to Well Wishers
4. Disability-focused sacrificial horror

thogreer.bsky.social•44 days ago

I've actually just begun a new project, trying my hand at writing a grim setting revolving around a frozen landscape filled with monstrosities, where ritual bloodletting is being used as a last resort to combat the expansion of the corrupt empire threatening to entomb the world in ice.

ugli4life.bsky.social•44 days ago

Making a humor filled horror ttrpg called Reel Fear where players play actors cast in a horror film! It's a rules! The game will release with 3-6 unique adventures and a homebrew section that helps the Director craft their own adventures!

Honored to also be a part of Zine Quest 2025!

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hatchlingdm.itch.io•44 days ago

Brilliant and good luck with the month.

ugli4life.bsky.social•44 days ago

Thank you thank you!

pennyblake.bsky.social•44 days ago

Hi lovely! My main horror project for this year is a Romani folk horror solo game called Child of the Vesh (child of the forest) in which you play a lost child of the Romani woodland goddess trying to find the truth of your birth - are u divine or a monster? - as you wander through Romani mythology.

shinyfluffdnd.bsky.social•44 days ago

That sounds amazing Penny

pennyblake.bsky.social•44 days ago

Thankyou treasure! xxx

blackchurch.bsky.social•44 days ago

Keep talking about it bc I definitely want it but I’ve got that ND memory. Sounds great!

pennyblake.bsky.social•44 days ago

Aw, that means the world lovely thankyou! 💚❤️💙I can send you a free playtest copy when it's ready for playtesting if you like?

blackchurch.bsky.social•44 days ago

I’d love one and will arrange a smol group of smart friends to help test it. 📚

pennyblake.bsky.social•44 days ago

That would honestly be amazing thankyou so much treasure!😭🙏 It will hopefully be ready for playtesting end of Feb/ start of March 🤞

losthavenart.bsky.social•44 days ago

Sounds absolutely amazing Penny! I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for this!

pennyblake.bsky.social•44 days ago

Thanks so so much lovely! xxx

fistfulofcrits.bsky.social•44 days ago

Ohhh Penny this sounds incredible

pennyblake.bsky.social•44 days ago

Thanks so much lovely! xxx I'm thinking October-ish it'll be done 🤞

hatchlingdm.itch.io•44 days ago

👀 sounds amazing! Can’t wait to learn more 🤩

pennyblake.bsky.social•44 days ago

Thanks lovely! It'll probably be an autumn release 🍂🖤💀

satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social•43 days ago

I'm collecting my minigames into a single volume called Creatures, Storms & Aliens.

Those games include Creatures of the Dark, Creatures of the Wood, Wilderlost, Storm Shelter, Life Among Aliens, Singles Going Steady, The Goodbye Bag, Love Beyond Walls, and perhaps three stretch-goal games...

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satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social•43 days ago

...titled From Hell's Heart, Let's Finish This, and Inspirators.

All those games - save Life Among Aliens and Singles Going Steady - have elements of horror and/or dark fantasy.

(LAA is about people and our pets; SGS is a dating game based on song and album titles.)