OBSCURE: Found Footage Horror TTRPG

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Found Footage Horror

PDF included.

OBSCURE is a tabletop role-playing game inspired by the genre "found-footage horror" known from movies and video games like The Blair Witch Project, Outlast and V/H/S. The game is made for one-location horror one-shots and survival horror campaigns, where storytelling is weighted above rules, and horror above action. The Player Characters are not heroes, just regular everyday people caught up in horrifying situations, where death is always lurking around the corner.

This roleplaying game is designed to match the unnerving experience of watching a horror movie or telling a ghost story around a campfire. To capture the atmosphere of urban legends in a time before the internet was a common thing.

OBSCURE is about solving mysteries. It is about running and hiding. It is about confronting your worst fears and overcome them. And above all, it is about getting through the night - alive.

What's inside?

• 80 pages premium softcover book
• Quality: 250g cover, 135g content, uncoated, raw recycled paper
• Complete rulebook
• Quick-rules reference
• Character creation
• Pre-made characters
• 4 scenarios
• Equipment lists
• Game master tools and tips
• Lots of creepy artwork
• Rules for one-shot and campaign mode
• Character sheets
• Experimental analog layout and textures
• Original character death mechanic
• Hidden artwork
• Open 3rd party license

THE GAME SYSTEM

The rules are easy to learn but very effective. Based on a d6 dice pool system inspired by Tunnel Goons, you have a pool of Energy Points that also functions as your HP. This makes the game risky and forces players to make dangerous choices; how much energy are they willing to sacrifice to succeed?

Character creation

Character creation takes no more than a few minutes; this consists of assigning your character Energy Points, Anxiety Points, a short background story, a phobia and rolling up their equipment - this could be a flashlight or a cellphone - with a dying battery, of course. To get into the game even quicker, the book also contain some pre-made archetype characters.

Combat

Combat is fast-paced and smooth - even though you should probably run or hide instead, as the system can be fairly deadly. But fear not, because... 

Death is not the end 

OBSCURE offers a simple yet fun original mechanic for your character when they die. The rules for this are found on the back of the character sheet, so when a character dies, the player just flips their sheet, and follows the written instructions to take part in creating some horrifying and memorable scenes for the rest of the session - as either a sinister or a helpful spirit - the dice decides.

Ways to play

As mentioned, OBSCURE is made for one-shots, but there are also additional rules to add for longer campaigns. These rules will help keep the suspense for ongoing campaigns by adding survival elements like inventory points and conditions, and also character development like skill levels and traumas - while still keeping the rules smooth and simple.