Horror Examples

Here are some quick write-ups of various Horrors you can use when running the game.




A quick thing to note is that ALL Horrors, regardless or archetypes or traits chosen, have these innate abilities.

• Fueled by Death - The Horror heals when it kills. How much it heals depends on if it kills a player, one of their contacts, or a random NPC.
• Resistance - Horrors only take one damage from attacks that are not their weakness, and a Horror cannot be killed except by it's weakness.
• Terror Aura - While in the presence of a Horror people enter a Fight or Flight mindset and players must roll for every action their character does, no matter how mundane. These rolls are made against the lowest difficulty.
• Disappearance - While not being actively observed, the Horror can spend a Willpower to disappear from a scene. Where the Horror appears again is determined by the GM.
• Catastrophe - A Horror can spend 1 willpower to cause a piece of man-made technology to malfunction. Cars will refuse to start, guns will jam, video will scramble, and melee weapons may slip out of people's hands.
• Jump Scare - The Horror can spend 1 willpower to cause a haunting effect known generally as a jump scare. I'll go into more details about these in a different update.

I'm also not including their stats as those are numerical, debatable among fans, and entirely up to the GM to spend.

Freddy Krueger

Archetype: Immortal

Illusions  ( Jump Scares increase in difficulty )

Dangerous Weapon  ( His Claw)

Personal Space  ( Bonus dice when in his boiler room)

Personal Realm ( That boiler room is now in a nightmare dimension he can drag people into)

Nightmarish ( Causes nightmares that make it harder to heal )

Possession ( Is able to take over people's bodies)

Speed: 3

Weakness: Fire: weaponized, Dreams: weaponized

The Thing

Archetype: Viral

Infectious ( Those it kills become copies of it)

Human Form ( Can appear as a human, and even change it's human form)

Animal Form ( Can appear as an animal, and even change it's animal form)

Multi-Arm ( Can attack multi-people at a time)

Vocal Mimicry ( Can sound like anyone)

Speed: 2

Weakness: Fire: weaponized, Explosions: weaponized

Freddy Fazbear

Archetype: Cursed

Pursuit ( Can choose to always appear in their target's visual range, no matter how fast they run)
Darkness ( Can turn off all lights in a room, or for a willpower create a field of supernatural darkness)
Illusions ( Jump Scares increase in Difficulty)
Nightmarish ( Causes nightmares that make it harder to heal )
Cultists ( Has a number of Lesser Horrors that accompanies him)
Rare Weakness ( Only has one weakness, which is both rare and guaranteed to put him down)

Speed: 2
Weakness: The Death of the Purple Man: rare


Lesser Horrors: Chicka, Foxy, Bonnie
Pursuit
Quick
Nightmarish
Strangle

Speed: 2
Weakness: The Death of the Purple Man: from Horror, Blunt: weaponized

Note: Lesser Horrors are much easier to defeat, but they will always come back as long as their leader is alive.

Dracula

Archetype: Undead

Invulnerable (Takes no damage from attacks that aren't his weakness)

Human Form (Can appear as a human, and even change it's human form)

Animal Form (Can appear as an animal, and even change it's animal form)

Hypnosis (Can implant ideas into people's minds)
Flight (Can fly... simple)
Strangle (Bonuses to grabbing a victim)
Incorporeal (Can become untouchable and move through objects)
Social (Can do willpower damage through social interaction)
Infectious (Those it kills become copies of it)

Speed: 2
Weakness: Sunlight: proximity, Garlic: proximity, Holy Items: weaponized, Stakes: weaponized


Note: Dracula took extra weaknesses in order to take more traits.