#like every other genre focuses on empowerment and horror is mainly a genre of depowerment | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

rxttenfish · 4 months

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my most unpopular ttrpg opinion is easily: no, "universal" games cannot run horror and stop trying to run horror in games not designed to be horror

like, dnd by far is the biggest offender here, but i keep seeing it pop up again and again and im sick of it. i still have no clue why the ogoa ttrpg is in the cypher system or why the mystery flesh pit ttrpg also made this exact same choice.

there are systems made to run horror in. and you cannot just pick up and immediately transfer that horror to another system because so many of the mechanics are things which are fundamental in all other genres but literally fly in the face of horror or creating good horror. there are so many fundamental mechanics in ttrpgs of other genres that will immediately destroy any and all tension you are trying to build in a horror game. please, just stop torturing yourself like this. stop torturing the game like this. just pick up some indie ttrpgs already designed with horror in mind, for fucks sake.

#all the care guide says is 'biomass'#the feeling that comes through every time is that these are not people who give a shit about horror #they want something ''spooky'' that they can do at halloween #and thats it #they have no understanding of the genre nor engagement with it #and theyre so married to these systems that they wont even give the bare minimum to even try #im still so mad about the podcast ttrpgs too. legitimately what the fuck was going through your head when you made this decision.#like every other genre focuses on empowerment and horror is mainly a genre of depowerment #and you have to know this going in and you need the actual meat and structure of the game to support that #but no just throw superpowers in here for no reason. ignore the fact that the rest of the setting is highly realistic.

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