Haunter in the Dark

This town is haunted. Your home is cursed. Monsters are real.

Haunter in the Dark is a horror roleplaying game about a group of investigators discovering then confronting the supernatural horrors that haunt their home town. The game is powered by the Forged in the Dark engine, with rules to create your investigators defined by their relationship to the unnatural: the Descendent, the Dreamer, the Exorcist, the Scientist, the Sleuth, and the Sorcerer.

The motivations, powers, and minions of the horror are generated collaboratively by the players during the game, with players encouraged to creep each other out and brandish their character's sharp edges. The MC takes the townspeople, world, and monsters that the players depict, then twists the knife to make it worse than they could have imagined. The game helps you create an escalating mystery, followed by a climactic scene of confrontation.

Game information:

• Number of players: 3-7
• Age of players: 13+
• Length: 3-4 hours
• Page Count: 22

Playbooks

A variant set of playbooks are also available to download below for free. These are for those situations when you want to play a scenario from another investigative horror game, but use Forged in the Dark rules.