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7days · 06-14-2010, 12:42 PM

I'm setting up a halloween one-shot built around The WOD:Slasher book. Not really using much from the book itself, but it got me thinking about the whole genre of slasher movies and this year it's my turn to build something for my RPGing group. My problem is I've got two diffent concepts, and I can't decide between them. On one hand, I've got an idea where I set up the perfect college town with all the elements of a slasher genre world, assign each of the players a different type of slasher and whoever get the highest bodycount at the end of the night wins. On the other hand, I got the same world but the players are the college students trying to survive. Now the reason I'm torn is that it seems like every year we do a halloween game, it's the players trying to survive a different supernatural menace, but if I do the players as slashers I'm not sure that everyone will be interested in playing amoral serial killers murdering innocents. The third option is to have some of the players play killers and some play victims, but I kinda want to limit the number of players to 6 and that's not realy enough to split. Any input would be appreciated.

06-14-2010, 12:42 PM	#55
7days Willfully Incompetent Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 25	Halloween Slasher Game I'm setting up a halloween one-shot built around The WOD:Slasher book. Not really using much from the book itself, but it got me thinking about the whole genre of slasher movies and this year it's my turn to build something for my RPGing group. My problem is I've got two diffent concepts, and I can't decide between them. On one hand, I've got an idea where I set up the perfect college town with all the elements of a slasher genre world, assign each of the players a different type of slasher and whoever get the highest bodycount at the end of the night wins. On the other hand, I got the same world but the players are the college students trying to survive. Now the reason I'm torn is that it seems like every year we do a halloween game, it's the players trying to survive a different supernatural menace, but if I do the players as slashers I'm not sure that everyone will be interested in playing amoral serial killers murdering innocents. The third option is to have some of the players play killers and some play victims, but I kinda want to limit the number of players to 6 and that's not realy enough to split. Any input would be appreciated.