Out of the Adventure Path books and Gamemastery/Pathfinder modules, which ones would you say are horror adventures (other than AP #2- Skinsaw Murders and Carrion Hill)?
Carnival of Tears.
Out of the Adventure Path books and Gamemastery/Pathfinder modules, which ones would you say are horror adventures (other than AP #2- Skinsaw Murders and Carrion Hill)?
Hangman's Noose and Hungry Are The Dead?
AP 3 (The Hook Mountain Massacre) was explicitly inspired (as related in the foreward) by movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Delivered, and the Hills have Eyes. The original version apparently had to get edited quite a bit before publication b/c of the level of gore/horror involved.
Out of the Adventure Path books and Gamemastery/Pathfinder modules, which ones would you say are horror adventures (other than AP #2- Skinsaw Murders and Carrion Hill)?
The next AP after Serpent's Skull is called Carrion Crown and is set in Ustalav. Each of the six adventures will feature one of the classic horror monsters, like vampires, werewolves, mummies, and even Lovecraftian horrors.
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AP 3 (The Hook Mountain Massacre) was explicitly inspired (as related in the foreward) by movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Delivered, and the Hills have Eyes. The original version apparently had to get edited quite a bit before publication b/c of the level of gore/horror involved.
Actually, it was the gross rape and gratuitous sex that mostly got cut from that adventure... that, and a significant portion that took place on a barge that ended up being moved more or less wholesale into Nick's next adventure, "Edge of Anarchy."
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Funny how gross rape and gratutious sex gets cut, while page 321 of APG stands proudly ;)
(Yeah, I know, puritan hypocrytic Americans, show them guts spilled out and it's all fine, show them a nipple and you have an outrage.)
"Frustrating" would be the word I would use.
And to be honest, a lot of the "sex" that got cut was more in the category of rape, necrophilia, incest, and gore-sex. A little of that element DID stay in PF3, but for an RPG, a little goes a long way when it comes to those topics.
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The next AP after Serpent's Skull is called Carrion Crown and is set in Ustalav. Each of the six adventures will feature one of the classic horror monsters, like vampires, werewolves, mummies, and even Lovecraftian horrors.
Really looking forward to the Lovecraftian stuff. Good old Howard Phillips. Now there was a man that knew how to scare folks.
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Funny how gross rape and gratutious sex gets cut, while page 321 of APG stands proudly ;)
(Yeah, I know, puritan hypocrytic Americans, show them guts spilled out and it's all fine, show them a nipple and you have an outrage.)
"Frustrating" would be the word I would use.
And to be honest, a lot of the "sex" that got cut was more in the category of rape, necrophilia, incest, and gore-sex. A little of that element DID stay in PF3, but for an RPG, a little goes a long way when it comes to those topics.
I actually found HMM to be juuust about right, there was enough there to let imagination tell you the rest.
Of course, it still got flak for poisoning young minds. :)
But, here's a candle to a prople nipple in a Paizo product, someday.
Well I think that some people find a nipple scarier than blood n guts (sigh) its really kinda sad.
Funny how gross rape and gratutious sex gets cut, while page 321 of APG stands proudly ;)
(Yeah, I know, puritan hypocrytic Americans, show them guts spilled out and it's all fine, show them a nipple and you have an outrage.)
"Frustrating" would be the word I would use.
And to be honest, a lot of the "sex" that got cut was more in the category of rape, necrophilia, incest, and gore-sex. A little of that element DID stay in PF3, but for an RPG, a little goes a long way when it comes to those topics.
I already asked this elsewhere but is there chance we get to know what exactly was cut? A link to an external source would suffice.
Well I think that some people find a nipple scarier than blood n guts (sigh) its really kinda sad.
Unless of course if we are talking about Mammy Graul's nipple. In that case I'd rather spend a lot of time looking at blood and guts, than look at that.
Now I wanna see page 321!Funny how gross rape and gratutious sex gets cut, while page 321 of APG stands proudly ;)
(Yeah, I know, puritan hypocrytic Americans, show them guts spilled out and it's all fine, show them a nipple and you have an outrage.)
Wear a bib... wouldn't want you to get anything on ya...
Unless of course if we are talking about Mammy Graul's nipple. In that case I'd rather spend a lot of time looking at blood and guts, than look at that.
Need More ~BRAIN BLEACH~
A little of that element DID stay in PF3, but for an RPG, a little goes a long way when it comes to those topics.
I thought the situation was handled well in PF3, any worse and I think the Womenfolk in our gaming group may have made a pass at the rest of the adventure path. I might have been able to Hang with a bit more, but I don't think it would have made the scene any better for it.
The next AP after Serpent's Skull is called Carrion Crown and is set in Ustalav. Each of the six adventures will feature one of the classic horror monsters, like vampires, werewolves, mummies, and even Lovecraftian horrors.
That sounds like Awesome stuff! Ustalav seems like a great place to set it too.
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Nice.... Well I'm American and like to think of myself as just like everyone else. But I think when it comes to publications, America is behind the times with "Bold" type of literature. Frustrating! Free speech... yeah right.
I'am just pleased our DM is so open and free to tell a story, and let us Ravage, destroy, and create Chaos if necessary with all the gory, blood lusting details.
Although I have to admit.. maybe its a female thing but talking about rape all the time or just sometimes in story can get a little too much.
But if people really enjoy that type of open literature then Bless them, I think its still a free world.. sort of?
Out of the Adventure Path books and Gamemastery/Pathfinder modules, which ones would you say are horror adventures (other than AP #2- Skinsaw Murders and Carrion Hill)?
Aside from the ones already listed, I seem to remember Blood of Dragonscar being kind of a horror story, but it was also a high level adventure so that may change things. It did have a lot of undead though, of new and varied types (and when the players don't know the monster that adds to the unknown). I just read the adventure so it may be less scary in play.
Then there are the tomb-delving adventures Emtombed with the Pharoahs and The Pact Stone Pyramid. They don't seem gut-wrenchingly scary or gory like the stuff mentioned above, but mummies and unknown tombs are still horror.
There's also The Demon Within. Another fairly high level (level 11) module, so may not be as scary to the players as it could be, but it has demonic possession, demonic temptations (at least as backstory), and more, so I'd class it as a horror adventure.
Funny how gross rape and gratutious sex gets cut, while page 321 of APG stands proudly ;)
(Yeah, I know, puritan hypocrytic Americans, show them guts spilled out and it's all fine, show them a nipple and you have an outrage.)
"Frustrating" would be the word I would use.
And to be honest, a lot of the "sex" that got cut was more in the category of rape, necrophilia, incest, and gore-sex. A little of that element DID stay in PF3, but for an RPG, a little goes a long way when it comes to those topics.
I can personally say- Thank you- for this. I'd rather dream up and write in my own level of racy topics than have to edit it down.
Funny how gross rape and gratutious sex gets cut, while page 321 of APG stands proudly ;)
Looks like my wife's spaghetti! Yum!