Horror Time
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Horror Time is an RTD game where players choose their starting scenario and try to survive as long as they can, or until the horror ends. With theme dependant on scenario, players are thrown against horrifying creatures, beasts, monsters, undead and alien nightmares, with little to none defense at the beginning. Can you survive until the horror ends?
Rules, character creation
Standard RTD 1d6 setup.
1 - epic failure
2 - failure
3 - partial success
4 - success
5 - epic success
6 - overshot
Epic failures and overshots usually come with bad side effects, while epic success brings good side effects. Failure and partial success come with less dire consequences/effects.
Health and stamina pools can't be increased. In addition to points, locational damage system works, with getting wounded in some places taking more health points. Organ and artery damage can be especially deadly. Encountering all the monstrosities can have bad influence on your character's sanity, which brings stuff like hallucinations, dwindling it down further and leading to suicide.
Stamina, sanity and health slowly recover on their own. Normal recovery rate is 1 point per turn for health and sanity, and 5 points per turn for stamina. The recovery rate can also depend on scenario chosen. Scenario dependent items can restore more or all of those points.
Name: Self explanatory
Race: Only viable race is human
Gender: Male, female, other?
Appearance: Short description of your character's appearance
Biography: A short bio might be welcome
Health: 10
Stamina: 20
Sanity: 30
Health status: Fine
Head:
Torso:
Hands:
Legs:
Inventory: You may start with a set of clothing (if it's not specified in scenario), and three additional non-weapon items in addition to scenario starting equipment.
Active effects: None
List of scenarios
This is a list of available scenarios, it can be extended by player defined scenarios, using a scenario template.
Players start scattered around deep woods, calm by day and swarming with dark spirits and monstrosities at night. The sunlight brings short safe period, but sun sets down really quickly in this part of woods, leaving anyone in the forest at grave danger. This is not the only problem, as each night boogeyman starts his hunt for lone travellers.
Theme: Woodlands
Starting equipment: Player defined
Rules:
- 3 turns of safe period during which players can safely travel, gather resources
- 3 turns of night, bringing all the dangers
- Boogeyman hunts for lone players each night, it can attack only one player each night
- Scenario starts at the beginning of safe period
- Horror ends when all alive players reach central point of the forest, those that got there earlier are safe, but still can be attacked by boogeyman
Enemies: Undead, dark spirits, witches, boogeyman, werebeasts, beasts
Players awake in a cabin right in the middle of woods, evening slowly turning into night. A wave of monstrosities and unimaginable horrors attack the cabin. Those that survive to safe period of daylight can seek nearby forests for resources and supplies, until the next night comes.
Theme: Woodlands, last stand
Starting equipment: Player defined
Rules:
- 2 turns of safe period, followed by 4 night turns
- Enemies come at huge waves
- Scenario starts at beginning of the night
- Horror ends after surviving through 6 safe periods
Enemies: Undead, werebeasts, beasts, dark spirits
Players were a part of a guided tour around some caverns, but somehow split from the group and wandered into dangerous cavern parts.
Theme: Underground, exploration
Starting equipment: Cavern exploration suits, climbing pick, flashlight
Rules:
- No safe period, player can stumble upon danger at any time
- Players start in a group
- Underground beasts are not only danger, player can be killed by environment as well, like cave-ins
- Caverns are a dark place, you have a flashlight but it loses battery energy when used, losing 5% power each turn
- Horror ends when players either find exit from caverns or joins rest of their/other guided tours
Enemies: underground beasts
A great terror has come to a village where all players were peacefully living.
Theme: Village
Starting equipment: Player defined
Rules:
- Only 2 starting turns of safe period
- Players can start scattered or in a group
- Village is surrounded by monstrosities
- Villagers and other NPCs
- Trading with NPCs is possible
- Sabbaths and Inquisition can be your enemies at the same time
- Horror ends when players safely escape from the village
Enemies: NPCs, undead, demons, dark spirits, werebeasts, beasts, witches, cults, inquisition
All the Deep Ones and Lovecraftian abomomination awaken at the same time! Cthulhu fhtagn!
Theme: Any, preferably city (like Innsmouth)
Starting equipment: Player defined
Rules:
- No safe period
- All NPCs are hostile
- Players can start scattered or alone
- Deep Ones and Lovecraftian abominations swarm the area
- Huge sanity drops and chaos
- Horror ends when players get Necronomicon
Players somehow ended up in a haunted house.
Theme: Haunted manor
Starting equipment: Player defined
Rules:
- No safe period
- Manor prevents players from escaping
- Horror ends when players escape the house
Enemies: Undead, dark spirits
Description: Short description explaining what happens in this scenario.
Theme: Describes mostly place
Starting equipment: Items that players start with
Rules: Scenario rules, best written in such format
- rule 1
- rule 2
- etc.
Enemies: Dangers possible to encounter in the scenario
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