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Hey all,
After a loooong time lost in the ether, I have returned with the GMing itch (there's a cream for that, I think). I want to run a Golarion-based horror campaign that makes Carrion Crown look like Candyland.
So, I plan on giving each player a letter before the campaign begins, describing a dream that their character has. It's a happy dream, maybe about that time they visit the kindly old hermit who lives on the mountain to get some medicine for little Timmy's sick puppy. The sun is shining, the birds chirping etc...and they wake up in a cold sweat, screaming.
The premise of the campaign is that the realm of nightmares is slowly spilling over into reality. It first starts off with things just being a little "off". Colours dull and muddy (except for blood red, of course), people looking a little more gaunt and listless and gradually gets worse as the two planes converge; with people turning into "Evil Spock" or funhouse mirror versions of themselves and doing horrifying things as if they were normal (digging heads up in the field instead of turnips).
Only the PC's are aware that something is wrong (twist of fate, chosen by the gods, lucky accident)and don't appear to be suffering any immediate ill effects, other than being creeped out and weird waking dreams.
As the campaign progresses, the PC's can voluntarily take on "Taint Points" to gain short term advantages (Hero Points), but at the cost of their sanity and risk of becoming a nightmare version of themselves. At the end of the campaign, the characters should end up quite twisted and maybe unrecognizable to their loved ones.
Modules I plan on using (levels and encounters will be adjusted and everything made really creepy) are:
Hallow's Last Hope -little Timmy's puppy is sick
Crown of the Kobold King -find the lost runaways
Revenge of the Kobold King -the nice old gnome who looked after the runaways comes to visit
Carnival of Tears -the circus is in town!
Hungry are the Dead -a parade in the hero's honour.
So, what do you think? Ideas? Suggestions? Modules that might be worth taking a look at?