12-07-2019, 10:24 PM | #51 | |
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Re: Best Fictional Settings for GURPS Horror [Horror]
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12-07-2019, 11:42 PM | #52 |
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Re: Best Fictional Settings for GURPS Horror [Horror]
Technically, yes, but I think quality matters more than quantity for most horror games. Having the characters turn away from a NPC for a moment and, when they turn back, discovering him holding his throat to staunch the blood, and there is no one in sight that could have done it, that becomes horror. Having them suffer the same fate becomes terror.
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12-08-2019, 08:16 AM | #53 | |||
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Re: Best Fictional Settings for GURPS Horror [Horror]
Please bear in mind that my personal situation is a little unusual: I am known to be the employee of a games publisher and the developer of a product line, and I sometimes speak in that capacity at local conventions. I've had friends bring in people I don't know because they want to play GURPS (or other games) with me, and I've sometimes said "yes" because I have to consider how gracious I look. It's marketing, at least a little bit.
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In my city (Montréal), that culture tends to be defined by what games have been written in or translated to French, which is the dominant language. It would be unwise to assume that people here are familiar with every English-language-only development in U.S. and U.K. game design, or routinely go to big English-language games shows like GenCon and Origins. There are certainly people who are and do, but they're a minority. Quote:
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Again, we can only relate our experiences, but that has been mine. There are so few soi-disant "horror gamers" around that when they finally find a group, they seem to go off and run a campaign forever . . . I know of a gang of Vampire players still running their First Edition game with the same vampires as in 1991. Last I heard, the PCs ran the U.S.A., or maybe the world – I try not to sound too interested.
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12-08-2019, 08:58 AM | #54 | |
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Re: Best Fictional Settings for GURPS Horror [Horror]
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12-08-2019, 09:13 AM | #55 | |
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All IMO, YMMV, etc. Perhaps things weren't like that all over.
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12-08-2019, 07:39 PM | #56 |
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Re: Best Fictional Settings for GURPS Horror [Horror]
Actually I was contesting your opposing complaint/request... that it doesn't matter how a system is designed if it isn't played that way it can't be considered for that purpose (Death of the Author) and then stating that a system needs to be designed to support a specified purpose (Authorial Intent).
My actual point is that a system designs doesn't' really matter, rather what the Player's want (and that the GM is willing to cater to) matters more. Frex you can run/play horror using D&D if the group wants to. |
12-08-2019, 07:59 PM | #57 |
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Re: Best Fictional Settings for GURPS Horror [Horror]
You know just because you have confident and capable protagonists doesn't mean that you can't get a little creepy. I was just reading volume 2 of the Durara Light Novel series, and while the protagonists are an unkillable Dullahan and an unstoppable superhero and they're both functionally immune to the insane erotomaniac mass mind which spreads itself by slashing people to infect them...it's still kind of disturbing
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12-08-2019, 09:12 PM | #58 |
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Re: Best Fictional Settings for GURPS Horror [Horror]
Another interesting setting for a horror game is The Others by Anne Bishop. You have anthropophage shapeshifting monsters eating humans alive without fear of retaliation because they (and their even more inhuman elemental allies) control all of the resources and are willing to commit genocide if groups of humans misbehave. Individually, humans obey their rules or else they get eaten alive, though they might end up getting eaten alive anyway if they sleep with the anthropophage (or if the anthropophage is just feeling angry, hungry, bored, etc.).
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