What your favorite horror RPG. I suspect that a certain game will be on top. But then again these polls always seem to surprise and inform me.

The original Vampire: Dark Ages. Only WoD game I ever liked, really. Failing that, Mayfair's version of Chill.

WOD is my choice. My favorite game being Requiem. All of it has been great fun over the years.

Chilly Chill-Chill.

See this is why I love these polls. I'm really surprised by the love for Chill. (Even if I was one of the voters for it.) Which I recently discovered. I mean I knew about back in the day but never had a copy of it. Now that I have gotten a chance to check it out. I really like it.

Call of Cthulhu as I've always been a Lovecraft fan and the game is fun. Chill and Beyond the Supernatural would be second choices.

Any game where "Mean Old Neighbor Lady," is a monster type is firing on all cylinders in my book.

Art-wise and layout wise....well....Mayfair's Chill does smack mightily of the 90's to say the least.  A bit hard to get 'round sometimes, if you catch my drift.

Call of Cthulhu for me.  Still great after 28 years.

Quote from: Danger;356209Any game where "Mean Old Neighbor Lady," is a monster type is firing on all cylinders in my book.

Art-wise and layout wise....well....Mayfair's Chill does smack mightily of the 90's to say the least.  A bit hard to get 'round sometimes, if you catch my drift.

I have and so prefer the 1st edition Pacersetter "Chill". The Mayfair versions cover alone turns me off for some reason. Just me I suppose. I see my expected favorite has started to come on though. I have to say while I like Chil, CoC seems to be the king. At least in what I've seen. (Hey prove me wrong internet.)

Nightbane, def.

The thing is, you really can't vote for anything but CoC to answer this question. I mean, in a lot of other respects, I would say I like Over the Edge far more than I like CoC. I think OtE is brilliant. I think its one of the best Gonzo settings, one of the best systems for rules-lite play, and that its great at handling Bizarre Shit Going Down. But for horror? It still has to be CoC.

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Call of Cthulhu for me too.
I've used it for lots of horror gaming that was entirely Mythos-free... lots of crossovers with Kult's settings/themes.

... and I was tempted to write in The Whispering Vault, but it's more like 'very strange superheroes' than it is outright 'horror'.

I voted for CoC, but it just narrowly nosed out 3e GURPS.  The Sanity mechanic for CoC was a breakthrough for horror role-playing.  However, I think that the Fright Check mechanic from GURPS is just as good.

My favorite horror setting was Ravenloft for D&D. But I don't like the horror genre that much really.

Personally I'd never really consider Deadlands to be a horror game.  In the sense of what I'd consider a horror game.  The characters are fairly capable and even though they do on occasion deal with some scary stuff having a pair of irons can go a long way to mitigating fear.   Then again since you considered Deadlands a horror game I have to vote for it because the game is fucking awesome.  I'd say that Deadlands done close to the book has about as much horror to the setting as WFRP has.

Now if I had to remove Deadlands from it I'd vote for Kult in terms of pure horror in a setting.  It's unfortunate they could never come up with a quality working system for it.  Hmmm Savage Worlds: Kult perhaps....