The essential handbook integrating fear and horror into Dungeons & Dragons® play. Heroes of Horror provides everything players and Dungeon Masters need to play and run a horror-oriented campaign or integrate elements of creepiness & tension into their existing campaigns. Players can develop heroes or anti-heroes using new feats, new spells, new base classes and prestige cl The essential handbook integrating fear and horror into Dungeons & Dragons® play. Heroes of Horror provides everything players and Dungeon Masters need to play and run a horror-oriented campaign or integrate elements of creepiness & tension into their existing campaigns. Players can develop heroes or anti-heroes using new feats, new spells, new base classes and prestige classes, and new magic items. The book presents new mechanics for different types of horror, including rules for dread and tainted characters, as well as plenty of new horrific monsters and adventure seeds. Different types and genres of horror are discussed in detail.
Heroes of Horror
The essential handbook integrating fear and horror into Dungeons & Dragons® play. Heroes of Horror provides everything players and Dungeon Masters need to play and run a horror-oriented campaign or integrate elements of creepiness & tension into their existing campaigns. Players can develop heroes or anti-heroes using new feats, new spells, new base classes and prestige cl The essential handbook integrating fear and horror into Dungeons & Dragons® play. Heroes of Horror provides everything players and Dungeon Masters need to play and run a horror-oriented campaign or integrate elements of creepiness & tension into their existing campaigns. Players can develop heroes or anti-heroes using new feats, new spells, new base classes and prestige classes, and new magic items. The book presents new mechanics for different types of horror, including rules for dread and tainted characters, as well as plenty of new horrific monsters and adventure seeds. Different types and genres of horror are discussed in detail.
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Juho Pohjalainen –
More edgy and juvenile than genuinely scary.
David –
A pretty decent supplement. It highlights the concepts of what makes horror interesting and alluring, and how to make it fun. But it doesn't seem to go quite deep enough, as what it seems to offer is make analogies to old and modern media sources. So if you liked horror enough to get this supplement, chances are, you already know what makes horror tick. The sourcebook introduces a new taint mechanic and variant rules regarding fear. The new mechanic basically makes "taint" an actual thing to be t A pretty decent supplement. It highlights the concepts of what makes horror interesting and alluring, and how to make it fun. But it doesn't seem to go quite deep enough, as what it seems to offer is make analogies to old and modern media sources. So if you liked horror enough to get this supplement, chances are, you already know what makes horror tick. The sourcebook introduces a new taint mechanic and variant rules regarding fear. The new mechanic basically makes "taint" an actual thing to be tracked, thus something tangible to put pressure on the players. It also introduces two new core classes and several prestige classes that relate to the ideas in the sourcebook. I only found them mildly interesting. The new core archivist felt odd with its use of divine magic and the core dread necromancer felt unnecessary. I did find the new spells, items, and creatures to be very interesting. Other than these, there's a new demigod, a small section on dreams, and a smattering of sample adventures.
'Nathan Burgoine –
Not the greatest of the D&D supplements, this book does have a few good ideas in it, but the mechanics of terror and taint leave something to be desired - I prefer role-playing fear (and have players strong enough to do so) - and taint seemed like something that needed to be campaign-specific to work; if it was dropped into a setting already in play, it would seem sudden and strange. I did like the new classes, however - especially the Archivist!
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