Grim ghouls, creeping dread, and ghostly apparitions are materializing in so many games this month that we wanted to take a moment to point you towards some of our favorite tools for playing D&D games in the horror genre!
Official Wizards adventures on Roll20 include pre-prepped maps with tokens placed and hidden where appropriate and dynamic lighting for pro subscribers, so jumpscares hide in the darkness until players move to reveal them. Here are some great horror genre titles in this category!
Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club
Four short adventures inspired by Eddie Munson’s unfinished campaign. Each makes a great horror one shot to play with your friends, brimming with eighties nostalgia.
The Curse of Strahd
It’s a classic adventure for a reason. There’s no better time to start this epic vampire hunting adventure than during spooky season. Plus, your tarokka cards give the adventure a lot of replay value and several encounters can be used to build interesting one shots from, like the Amber Temple or saving the wereravens from the cult of evil druids on Yester Hill. To pass through the mists is to fear what awaits you!
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
The Domains of Dread outlined in this book make incredible horror fueled settings! There’s also a guide for the key elements of different horror subgenres to help you nail the feel. Plus, using this book with Roll20’s D&D sheets allow you to build characters with haunting backgrounds or with horror steeped species like the Reborn, the Hexbood, and the Dhampir!
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
This survival horror sandbox provides a modular quest line that allows you to play the full adventure or pull out individual quests that make great one-shots. The Black Cabin invites adventurers to solve a mystery by communicating with a lingering spirit and face undead revenants sent by the Frostmaiden to punish them for defying her. Or perhaps you want to lean into the primal horror of surviving the frozen landscape to climb Kelvin’s Cairn, brave an avalanche, and fight off yeti in order to rescue what remains of a missing expedition. Whichever places of interest you don’t visit in chapter 2 make great one-shots for your table later on.
Subscribers can Claim a FREE Horror One-Shot this month!
Roll20 Subscribers get access to “Reserve,” offering a new free map, adventure, or tool to claim every month. This month’s feature is Happy Jack’s Fun House.
We can also recommend The Madhouse of Tasha’s Kiss – available for both 2014 and 202r rulesets by the same creator. In this adventure, the party finds an abandoned pageant wagon in a desolate village where everyone is missing except for a small boy who claims they followed a jester into the cart. Within, the players discover a portal to the madhouse and must survive its horrors to solve the mystery. This is a great one shot that’s scaleable for levels 3-10 and easily added within any Domain of Dread!
DMsGuild offers a ton of community content – especially for Curse of Strahd that can help you build out your games.
She is the Ancient: This is your ultimate guide for genderbending Strahd and some of the other NPCs you might encounter during your adventure.
Monster Loot: Curse of Strahd: When brave adventurers face the dread and danger around every corner, they deserve a reward! This supplement provides individual loot for each monster in Curse of Strahd, as well as a basic crafting and harvesting system that works well with 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons.
Curse of Strahd Companion This comprehensive guide to running the fan favorite advneture dives through every chapter of Curse of Strahd and incorporates Wyatt Trull’s mithral-bestselling module, The Wedding at Ravenloft as the campaign’s climax.
One Night Strahd: This title condenses and remixes the 200+ hour campaign of Curse of Strahd into a replayable short with replay value, including 150+ illustrations, 12 maps, 16 encounters, 27 new magic items, and 60+ quick-play charts.
Tomes of Ravenloft: This is a collection of 23 player handouts intended to enrich your Curse of Strahd campaign with twelve tomes, letters, and proclamations mentioned in the campaign, alongside new creations.
Castle Ravenloft Battlemaps: A collection of custom maps and over 280 assets to bring Castle Ravenloft to life if your party dares to explore Strahd’s iconic lair. Setting the scene
Weekend at Strahd’s: You’ve just killed Strahd but his body remains?! How can this be?! Lead your party on a retro journey through Castle Ravenloft to collect five pieces of a powerful artifact known as the Pentaforce to summon a powerful entity that can put an end to Strahd’s reign once and for all in this two hour adventure.
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