I was once inspired by Curse of Strahd, I thought the idea of horror D&D sounded cool. Honestly though, I'm not very impressed with that module. The fact is, D&D 5e characters are straight up super heroes, even at first level, and horror comes from feeling powerless. Instead of scary, CoS just feels overall gloomy and depressing. Now, this was shortly before halloween that day, and I decided to revisit the idea of horror D&D. At the same time, I was gushing over a game called One Night Werewolf, which I still adore.
Match, meet heaven.
In The Beast of Eaves Hollow, players play pregenerated characters. These characters are classless NPCs built using a set of top secret level-0 rules I invented just for this game. As such, nobody is a super hero. One of the players winds up being a werewolf, and nobody gets to know who it is. The timeline follows day after day as more and more NPCs are found dead, and each night one of the PCs will encounter the werewolf. The players must work together to find a way to put an end to this threat!
Enjoy.
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