Horror Hero: What would you have liked to have seen?

[yamamura]

Re: Horror Hero: What would you have liked to have seen?

 

I would also include;

1. The classic ghost/haunting.
   
2. Discussion of Horror as an on going campaign versus a one-shot diversion. Which of course can get into a discussion of which is truer to the horror concept and which is more of an adventure style.
   
3. Japanese Horror with the likes like Tomie, Sadako and other Oriental Nasties.
   
4. Which of course leads the idea of nihilistic horror.
   

[Vestnik]

Re: Horror Hero: What would you have liked to have seen?

 

 

- The Koontzian Hero: A general failure at life, but has the strange collection of skills that make him perfect for defeating a Weird Menace.

 

 

And superintelligent dog and/or cat. No Koontz novel is complete without a superintelligent dog and/or cat. It's like a trademark.

 

And an evil liberal arts professor. In Koontz' world everybody in academia is evil. Especially the ones in the liberal arts.

[Midas]

Re: Horror Hero: What would you have liked to have seen?

 

And an evil liberal arts professor. In Koontz' world everybody in academia is evil. Especially the ones in the liberal arts.

 

Aha! Koontz writes non fiction then?

 

Midas

(I know, I know. Bashing the professoriat belongs in NGD)

[bcholmes]

Re: Horror Hero: What would you have liked to have seen?

 

So I keep thinking about this topic, and come up with more:

 

In Section 5 (Game Mastering Horror Adventures), it'd be great to see some Villainy Amok-style treatment of some classic adventure formats. Some might include:

 

- the Wax Museum

- the Overnight Sleep-over in the Old Mansion with Strange Architectural Features

- figuring out what happened to the team at the Antarctic Research Station

- is that cute, adorable child really the spawn of evil?

 

Like Villainy Amok, you could have twists, turns, and typical personalities:

 

- the crazy old guy who tells you not to go to that place, but who, maddeningly, won't just tell you why

- the very intense nanny who is exceptionally protective of her charge

- the last known survivor who draws insane scribbles on all the walls

 

The last section on sample characters should have at least these monsters:

 

- the sewer alligator

- the modern golems (e.g. junkyard golem)

- the subterranean cannibal monster

- the crazy slasher type

[Spence]

Re: Horror Hero: What would you have liked to have seen?

 

I would have hoped that Godzilla and other Japanese giant monsters would qualify for a section.

 

While a couple of those could be consider horror' date=' too often they come across with analytical feeling that doesn't quite fit the horror genre. On the other hand a whole book dedicated to giant monsters would be so cool.[/quote']

 

Agreed.

 

So when does The Ultimate Giant Monster get released