I saw this post on Geektyrant the other day and thought it might be of use for anyone trying to survive a game of Dead of Night!
Posts Tagged ‘Dead of Night’
Christmas Ghost Stories
Posted: December 23, 2011 in Dead of Night, gamesTags: Christmas, Dead of Night, dead of night rpg, ghost story, horror movie, MR James, Susan Hill, Victorian, Woman in Black
Here in England we have a tradition that at Christmas, ghost stories are told and read. I think it dates from the Victorian era, for the Victorians liked a good ghost story, and made the transition to the television in the 70s with an excellent series of ghost stories by the BBC (including Charles Dickens’ The Signalman, pictured). M0re recently, BBC4 has revived the tradition with a mix of fresh adaptations (such as Whistle and I’ll Come to You) and new stories (Mark Gatiss‘ excellent Crooked House).
I’m also partial to a ghost story or two, and as my friend Mark leant me an audio book featuring a variety of ghost stories I’ve been scaring myself into the Christmas spirit every night on the way home. So, what better way to mark the yuletide than with a post about running a traditional Victorian ghost story using Dead of Night?
Writing Scenarios
Posted: December 13, 2011 in conventions, Dead of Night, gamesTags: Dead of Night, evilgaz, Hot War, prep, Smart Party
Just a quick one today and it’s a link to my friend Gaz’s post about writing scenarios – notionally for Hot War, but many of the techniques he describes for setting up complicated relationships would work wonderfully for other games, including Dead of Night. I used something similar with both Bad Signal and Grendel, AP, although with the latter it was the players who complicated the relationships.
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