Comments on: D&D Burgoo (4.0): A Real Bunch of Creeps http://www.gnomestew.com/gming-advice/dd-burgoo-40-a-real-bunch-of-creeps The Game Mastering Blog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Troy E. Taylor http://www.gnomestew.com/gming-advice/dd-burgoo-40-a-real-bunch-of-creeps/comment-page-1#comment-2558 Troy E. Taylor Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:20:22 +0000 http://www.gnomestew.com/?p=1345#comment-2558 Shadow chasers is indeed an ideal Halloween setting. It's Buffy meets X-Files meets D&D monsters. Unfortunately, d20 Modern never really caught on -- and for the most part -- most of the support for the system was for Urban Arcana, which I was never really jazzed about. I thought d20 Past did an admirable job of adjusting Shadow Chasers with its Shadow Stalkers campaign model, adding Gothic horror to a fantasy filled 1872.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2558','Troy E. Taylor'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Shadow chasers is indeed an ideal Halloween setting. It’s Buffy meets X-Files meets D&D monsters.

Unfortunately, d20 Modern never really caught on — and for the most part — most of the support for the system was for Urban Arcana, which I was never really jazzed about.

I thought d20 Past did an admirable job of adjusting Shadow Chasers with its Shadow Stalkers campaign model, adding Gothic horror to a fantasy filled 1872.

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]]> By: Scott Martin http://www.gnomestew.com/gming-advice/dd-burgoo-40-a-real-bunch-of-creeps/comment-page-1#comment-2556 Scott Martin Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:57:11 +0000 http://www.gnomestew.com/?p=1345#comment-2556 I like the mix; there's snippets of good story in each, but also a nice balance of roles in the last two examples.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2556','Scott Martin'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> I like the mix; there’s snippets of good story in each, but also a nice balance of roles in the last two examples.
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]]> By: Matthew J. Neagley http://www.gnomestew.com/gming-advice/dd-burgoo-40-a-real-bunch-of-creeps/comment-page-1#comment-2554 Matthew J. Neagley Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:33:31 +0000 http://www.gnomestew.com/?p=1345#comment-2554 One of the things I liked about the Shadow Chasers campaign setting (published as a mini-setting in Dungeon, then again in Urban Arcana, for 3/3.5) is that they created a setting in which every monster, from the beholder, to the bugbear could be used for horror. A lot of it was in the old trick of not naming things, but describing them: a club bouncer that appeared as a normal human to everyone but the shadow chasers but was in reality "a huge hairy THING with giant fangs and claws" is a heck of a lot more intimidating than "a bugbear." and the technique of making them unique. Every nightclub having bugbear enforcers, for example would lose it's edge. You may have to stretch the descriptions of the creatures a bit, but even half-hitdie wonders like kobolds can be frightening if described as such (of course in 4e, they're pretty frightening in their own right) And, of course, if you want to get "old school" (not really) shadowchasers is more or less just a rehash of the old "Masque of the Red Death" boxed set for 2e (1e in a pinch) except that Masque is victorian.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2554','Matthew J. Neagley'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> One of the things I liked about the Shadow Chasers campaign setting (published as a mini-setting in Dungeon, then again in Urban Arcana, for 3/3.5) is that they created a setting in which every monster, from the beholder, to the bugbear could be used for horror. A lot of it was in the old trick of not naming things, but describing them: a club bouncer that appeared as a normal human to everyone but the shadow chasers but was in reality “a huge hairy THING with giant fangs and claws” is a heck of a lot more intimidating than “a bugbear.” and the technique of making them unique. Every nightclub having bugbear enforcers, for example would lose it’s edge.
You may have to stretch the descriptions of the creatures a bit, but even half-hitdie wonders like kobolds can be frightening if described as such (of course in 4e, they’re pretty frightening in their own right)

And, of course, if you want to get “old school” (not really) shadowchasers is more or less just a rehash of the old “Masque of the Red Death” boxed set for 2e (1e in a pinch) except that Masque is victorian.

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