Category: Frights and Fables

Frights & Fables: Halloween Party Feast

This is the second Halloween guide we’ve put together for your gaming group. If you missed the first, track down Danny’s Rock’n Halloween Gaming Night in the Geek Opera Index — it’s a great companion piece focused on the gaming side of your evening. This guide covers the table: the food, the fun, and the atmosphere that makes a gothic Halloween party unforgettable.

Frights & Fables: Tide of the Dead

It’s peak Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale. The beach is packed, the music is loud, and thousands of college kids and tourists are living it up without a care in the world.

Miles offshore, a luxury cruise liner is caught in a bizarre, boiling storm. Lightning hammers the ship as it slips beneath the waves, killing everyone aboard in an instant. But the dead do not stay dead. Under the water, they change.

Frights & Fables: The Lady Sinclaire Affair

You can run The Lady Sinclaire Affair with any ruleset you like. Nothing here leans on a particular system’s dice or stat blocks. Instead, you’ll find atmosphere, locations, NPCs, clues, and encounter hooks — everything you need to guide your players from light into shadow over the course of a single evening.

Frights & Fables: Dealing Up Halloween

Here is what you will learn: when to pull, how many to pull, and — the true gift — exactly what every single card means, from the humble two to the dreadful ace. Each one carries its own Halloween face. Let us deal.

Frights & Fables: From Old Bones

Building New Horror From Old Bones Come closer, my darling devotees of dread. Draw the curtains, dim the lamp, and let us talk shop for a spell. You have heard it whispered a thousand times: there are no new stories. And I confess, there is a bitter truth buried in that old bone. But I…

Frights & Fables: What You Cannot See

Not the beast with claws. Not the killer with the knife. Something quieter. Something that sits in plain sight, right in front of your reader, and asks nothing of them at all — until you decide to give it teeth. Most writers treat it as scenery, a bit of mood to dress the stage. And that, my friend, is the greatest waste in all of horror.

Frights & Fables: Dread with Trust

Here is the thing to understand first. Horror is not something you do to your table. It is something you build with them. The tension, the dread, the sweet cold shiver down the spine, all of it only works when everyone at the table has agreed to feel it together.

Frights & Fables: Campaign Candy

No. Tonight, I am bringing you a simple tale that you can release against your gaming table. It is an adventure in the unbalancing campaign world of Dark Evolution.

Frights & Fables: Monstrosity & PC Agency

There is a peculiar temptation among those who curate horror at the table—a desire to strip control from the players entirely. After all, what is more terrifying than helplessness? What more chilling than the realization that one’s fate has already been decided?

Frights & Fables: Science vs Morality

There is a question that lingers in every laboratory where the lights burn a little too long, where notes are written in a hurried, trembling hand, where progress is measured not in breakthroughs—but in boundaries quietly discarded.