Horror – FWD RPG

Orbital Blues: Silent Skies over Sutler-47

GM Nick December 22, 2024 No Comments

Welcome to Sutler-47! A brightly sign-posted fueling platform and motel slowly orbiting the Sutler system’s dying sun. Built to the same archaic specifications as a million more across the stars. Things here are a little too quiet-that’s when the shrill ping of a distress signal flashes across your ship’s monitors. This is the rock and roll future of yesteryear that never was—and nobody wanted. It is an intergalactic age of cowboys, outlaws and bandits playing on an interstellar stage. It is a time of hyper-capitalism and a cut-throat gig economy. Unreliable trash-heaps carry scrappy underdogs to their next gig, and corporation freighters lumber across the horizon laden with an empire’s bounty. These are the music-fueled, moon-age daydreams of a rebel space age. These are your ORBITAL BLUES.

Not the End: Valley of Shadows

GM Nick November 23, 2024 No Comments

Step into the Valley of Shadows, where blood-soaked cathedrals and shadowed crypts guard the secrets of a vampire’s dark reign. The foggy wastes of Antilia call to the brave and the bold—will you uncover the truth or fall prey to the darkness? Only heroes willing to risk everything can shape the fate of this cursed land. Not the End is a roleplaying game that tells the adventures of Heroes willing to risk everything for what they hold dear, with an original game system called HexSys.

Butter Princess

GM Nick November 20, 2024 No Comments

A Game of Indulgent Doom! What better way to gear up for Thanksgiving than by indulging in a twisted dairy heist of absurd proportions? Equal parts comedy, horror and thriller, Butter Princess is a journey into the butter-clogged heart of an over-the-top rendition of the Minnesota State Fair. At the center of it all is a 90-pound butter sculpture of the winner of a dairy-themed Midwestern pageant. That sculpture has the attention of your characters who will stop at nothing to obtain it for their own devious goals. Who among you will glide away with this blue-ribbon MacGuffin of the Northwoods? And who will be caught forever in the churn of farm animals, deep-fried food, and armpit-to-armpit humanity?

Under the Autumn Strangely

GM Nick October 27, 2024 No Comments

“Under the Autumn Strangely” is a storytelling game of pastoral horror priming with anachronistic Americana set in a land that Never Was. Inspired by “Over the Garden Wall” created by Patrick McHale, players collaboratively create a world uncanny and old. Codify and encourage tonal clash as the Three Roles meld whimsy, autumnal melancholy, and dread. Take a wrong turn on a dusty road. Follow the sign past the red barn with peeling paint. Doubt your senses. Get a little lost. Welcome to the Never Was.

Liminal Horror: Raven’s Loft

GM David October 10, 2024 No Comments

A vein opens on the coast… There are many crumbling lumber towns on the west coast of British Columbia. Forgotten places with deep roots. Dried up industry. Sometimes people would pass through and spend some money, but those times are drawing to an end. Old buildings, families, and ways of life rot on the windswept shore. And when things rot, scavengers pick through what’s left. LIMINAL HORROR is a rules-lite, adaptable Survival-Horror roleplaying game about normal characters and their struggles against the things that go bump in the night. The game focuses on surviving the weird and Investigating horrors while blending simple, old-school inspired rules with modern, narrative first principles. Survival is not guaranteed and those that do make it through the night are often forever changed.

The Halloween Babysitter

GM Nick October 6, 2024 No Comments

THEY EXPECTED A PARTY. WHAT THEY GOT WAS A NIGHTMARE. It’s Halloween night. Your parents dropped you off at a friend’s house. You were promised Candy, Costumes, Trick or Treating, but you were abandoned, and left in the care of a very unusual babysitter. She wears a tattered, soiled Halloween costume, and never speaks, but her heavy breathing and the sound of her filthy boots resound through the house. She has given you all chores that must be completed, and rules to follow. Don’t make a sound. Don’t make trouble. Behave yourself. If you fail to follow her rules, she will open up her toolbox, and then the hunt will begin. Can you escape? Finish her chores and make her leave? Can you keep your cool as her presence causes your house to become more and more haunted? Or will you die and become a ghost haunting your friends, doomed

Frontier Scum: Tides of Rot

GM Nick October 1, 2024 No Comments

Small towns always seem cursed places, but something particularly foul has come to ensconce the petty port of DREDGE-UPON-ROCK. A storm has settled upon its shores, the buildings are crumbling into the bay, floods are unearthing all the folk there once wished buried, and the dead ain’t willing to give up on what they think is theirs. FRONTIER SCUM is a rules-lite Acid Western roleplaying game. An auto-destructive, violent and LSD-infused take on Spaghetti Westerns, about wanted outlaws making their mark on an unreal Lost Frontier. Probably getting shot before having the chance to shoot. A rough-and-tumble world of insatiable greed where scum live one slug from the grave. Inspired by such things as El Topo, Dead Man, and Bone Tomahawk.

Trophy Dark: Die, Grave Robber, Die!

GM Nick October 1, 2024 No Comments

Die, Grave Robber, Die! is a gothic horror incursion for Trophy Dark. A rain-drenched world of horror and open graves awaits! Can you reach the Flayed House in time to rescue a stolen body before it’s too late? Trophy Dark is a collaborative storytelling game about a group of treasure-hunters on a doomed expedition into a forest that doesn’t want them there.

Never Going Home: The City on the Other Side

Mike September 25, 2024 No Comments

A One-Shot of Never Going Home, a +1 System game set in the trenches of World War I in an alternate reality where the death and destruction of war has torn open the gates to dark forces. Please note location is subject to change depending on space availability.

Sunken: The Farthest Shore

GM Nick September 10, 2024 No Comments

The stories we tell are often not of gallant survivors but of the hard-pressed, star-crossed crestfallen. They are the poetry of the broken and the inhuman breakers: haunting things, deep and dark and bellowing things, unfathomable things that consume all that edges to their precipice. Sunken is a tabletop roleplaying game about these things. It is a tabletop roleplaying game about these things and the sea. It is a tabletop roleplaying game about how your characters find their doom among these things while at sea. Sunken shifts the focus of the world of Trophy onto – and below – the vast and treacherous Salt Sea, expanding “That Silent Howl” from Codex: Void into a full stand alone system that remains rooted in the mechanics of Trophy Dark.

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