For especially difficult tasks the Host may ask for more than one Turn. If a major arcana card does come up, the task fails, and the player suffers the results as outlined below, based on the card revealed. If a Major Arcana card does not come up the task is a success. To use the tarot cards, the host has the player 'turn' over one or more cards on the top of the Tarot Deck and put them in a discard pile.

For a 'Dread Fate' Game I highly recommend the Gothic set by Joseph Vargo

Gothic Tarot cards take that a step further, by directly invoking horror images on each card. I Suggest acquiring, if you can a set of 'Gothic Tarot Cards.' One of the reasons I choose Tarot Cards over standard playing cards was their innate connection to the occult, use in the horror genre, and the beautiful artwork on the cards. This is the standard resolution for most tasks and parallels the Jenga tower, but with several caveats. A detailed description of what these are and how they are used in play follows the description of the task resolution systems. While I have gone into some detail to describe how these systems work, in actual play it resolves quite rapidly, so don't be intimidated by the length of the descriptions.Ĭharacters have two attributes. The Host may ask for any one of them, a combination of the three, or any number of variations based on the action the character is trying to perform. Rather than pulling, they are called 'The Turn', 'Death', and 'Cthulhu'. The three systems below replace the 'pull' Jenga Tower systems from the Dread RPG game.

Dice with SKULLS for the ones are idealģ6 Glass tokens, 18 each of two different colors Ideally, get the 'Cthuhlu Die' from Steve Jackson Gamesģ six sided (Death Dice). Recommend the Joseph Vargo Gothic Tarot Deck.ġ or 2 twelve sided Die. I call the variant of the rules 'Dread Fate' for reasons that will become obvious, below.ġ Standard Tarot Card Deck. This system not only adds more dynamic options to the game, and eliminates the need for 'manual dexterity' on the part of the actual player, but also lends itself to multi-session stories and campaign based play, while still maintaining the 'Dread' tension of the original rules. This alternative to the standard Dread RPG rules introduces a completely different set of task resolution systems and uses those in place of the 'pull' and use of the Jenga tower.

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