First Time Playing DREAD (Horror TTRPG)

[@morridin8]

This group is very fun to listen to, I would be very happy with more dread

[@willmendoza8498]

Same

[@LakeVermilionDreams]

My friends and i have played Dread for the past four years! We've done a 1920's Knives Out murder mystery, a Thalasophobia WW2 Submarine horror, and a 1980's slasher horror game, and a Space horror Alien style game! Can't wait to find out what we do this year!

[@MonarchsFactory]

All of those sound so good! Let me know what this year's game ends up being?

[@DemocratSocialistRob]

So interested in the new one as well

[@LakeVermilionDreams]

@@DemocratSocialistRob unfortunately this year's boss was the Scheduling Monster :(

[@DemocratSocialistRob]

@@LakeVermilionDreams nooooooo! The scariest one of them all!!

[@jaggedtoothgrin]

I am choosing to believe that the ship is actually called the Saint Eve, but since that is stencilled on the side of the ship as ST.EVE...

[@MonarchsFactory]

I actually really love that

[@sealion713]

this is brilliant

[@sealion713]

it’s so fun watching how freaked out everyone else gets when i’m pulling from the tower ✨

[@eliazar_meru]

I just want to say, Chiara, Dan, or Kit (or all of the above) can perform emergency surgery on me any time after this. I swear, it was getting to Wages of Fear / Sorcerer levels of suspense there in the final half hour before the tower ultimately gave out.

[@SrTNick1]

Dread was one of the more memorable one-shots we've played at our big annual Halloween party. We had a giant, person-sized Jenga tower for it, and played a fanmade adventure about mining ice in the rings of Saturn. Favorite part was when, to save everyone from the monster, I full-body tackled the jenga tower to sacrifice myself. It was the only sacrifice of the night, which was probably a good thing cause it took quite a bit of time putting it back together!

[@CharlesStacyII]

This game was so goodDael and players! I really felt the tension with each pull

[@MonarchsFactory]

Thanks Charles! Glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@miloshpetrik]

A friend of mine asked for Dread for birthday last year. Ran a folk horror / sci-fi thing. So much death and mayo. It was glorious.

[@miloshpetrik]

*mayhem, even

[@shangc2781]

​@@miloshpetrikno, I prefer death and mayo

[@miloshpetrik]

​@@shangc2781understandable.

[@MonarchsFactory]

Maybe there's room for a mayo themed dread scenario...

[@Minotaur-of-Malice]

My favorite horror system! My group is wrapping up a 2-shot this weekend with a “Wild West Wendigo” theme. We were considering another 2-shot for a space themed adventure, too!

[@lgob7]

That was great! Super tense in the end :-S Dael, it was great to see you GMing; your descriptions and mood were spot on (and great turret sound effects!) I hope we get to see you run some more games 💪 To your crew: excellent story!

[@MonarchsFactory]

Thanks for the kind words! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ThatsMrSomeGuyToYou]

I love Dread as a system. It's my favorite to run one-shots in, regardless of the season. It's got such a lovely kind of intensity. ^^

[@josephvedres3227]

58:04 the synced up group nod of understanding👌👏

[@liamflynn1120]

I played Dread once. It was really cool, but then my roommate brought weed cake pops. He did not read the dosage info, and we assumed that one cake pop = one dose. Within an hour 2/4 of us were greened out and I was as close as humanly possible to it without actually succumbing. I do not remember how the game ended. I am so, so sorry to our GM, she was doing a great job.

[@meander112]

Dread for the Dread god!

[@Door_to_the_North]

I ran Dread for the first time last weekend. I am very excited to check this out.

[@MonarchsFactory]

How'd it go?? What was the scenario you ran?

[@Door_to_the_North]

@@MonarchsFactory I ran the beneath the full moon scenario. 5 players. we played outside in the dark by a fire on a sloped and rickety table. It went well. They were extremely unwilling to abandon a pull so it got dicey fast. I also took the liberty of causing an environment hazard instead of death on the first topple. Of the 5 I had one escape, but I took liberties as you did on the final topple. I actually really liked it. Players had a good time. Ran Stars and Wishes afterwards. one of them wished that they could play on a flat surface with less "distractions". I took it as a compliment.

[@MonarchsFactory]

@@Door_to_the_North That sounds like SO MUCH FUN!

[@SanJacintoArtGuild]

Great game of Dread! I was on the edge of my seat for those last few pulls. Excellent work by everyone involved!

[@Dansalright]

The tension is IMMEDIATELY back in my body (I say that like it ever left)

[@Dansalright]

"welcome to space"

[@Dansalright]

"I've never read the room....successfully"

[@Dansalright]

1:26:30 brings me much joy

[@Dansalright]

"Something's about to happen I can taste it in the air" was SADISTIC but I also cannot believe I lived

[@shangc2781]

Let's reminisce about those fun Halloween activities

[@mickeysmagic89]

I just ran Dread for my group the other night! They loved it!

[@MonarchsFactory]

Nice! What was the theme of your game?

[@VaultBoy13]

I love Dread. It's such a fun experience with a good GM.

[@MonarchsFactory]

The inbuilt tension is unbeatable!

[@shangc2781]

1:30:29 No time for Jokes! Is ironically so funny

[@OnYourMarx]

10/10 perfect ending lol

[@willmendoza8498]

Love this!

[@kindelfmclennan]

Nice to find a fellow Australian channel with intelligent, likeable people.

[@MonarchsFactory]

Well, thank you so much! 🥰

[@LynWise1]

This was so much fun I would love to see you play it again

[@shangc2781]

RIP simon

[@MonarchsFactory]

We hardly knew ye

[@ghoulashy]

Why the name ISS Copenhagen?

[@MonarchsFactory]

Coz there's something rotten in the state of Denmark

[@Nathouuuutheone]

The "PvP" at the end should (rule-wise, not imperatively) have been pulls by the alive players. The dead player is an npc. If they make the tower fall, who dies?

[@MonarchsFactory]

I know, but homebrewing is in my blood. My biggest gripe with Dread is having a player die and then they just have to sit around and not interact, and I think there's something fun in letting the "zombie" interact with the tower to try and make things harder on the still living characters, particularly because if you get a death in the climax, a freshly rebuilt tower really kills the tension because it's way more solid now. If Cyrus had toppled the tower again he'd be out for good.