Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-43886832-20200116030106

So, I may have mentioned an idea similar to this a very long time ago, but I've been thinking of a way to go and reinvigorate the "cursed game" subgenre of creepypasta without it being another clone of Lavender Town or Ben Drowned, and I think I've figured it out.

Instead of a creepypasta about a video game, why not a creepypasta about a tabletop role-playing game? I think this could be interesting because of the moral panic about Dungeons & Dragons that was a thing back in the 80's with stuff like "Mazes & Monsters" and Jack Chick's infamous "Dark Dungeons" comic or the short-lived uproar over "vampire cults" back in the 90's when Vampire: The Masquerade first got popular, so there is a bit of a precedent for the trope.

I'm thinking of the game in question being an obscure independently published RPG from the late 80's or early 90's that was published for a very short time, and with old RPG's, the "obscure game nobody's ever heard of" trope isn't so much a cliche as a reality in the hobby, especially with older and less well-known games that fell out of print after only one or two editions.

Taking some cues from Polybius and The King In Yellow, I'm thinking the game was only really available in a few select markets, being published by a small company in the pre-internet era and all, and it was pulled from the market after rumors of bizarre behaviors from those who played the game, with gaming groups even turning into weird small cults and mysterious disapperances. 