Shoot the Shaggy Dog/Tabletop Games: Difference between revisions

* If you want a bleak RPG where [[A Fate Worse Than Death]] awaits and [[Failure Is the Only Option|failure (and death) is often the only option]] for characters in the long run, try ''[[Delta Green]]'' (which is basically ''Call of Cthulhu'' meets secret society Special Ops).

* ''[[Kult]]'', a Swedish roleplaying game with its gloves off, the setting of which can be summed up as "[[Splatter Punk]], [[Cosmic Horror]], [[Mind Screw]] and lots of [[Squick]]". In ''[[Kult]]'' you can sort of "win", and become an [[Eldritch Abomination]] that you were before the Demiurge trapped you and the rest of humanity. Of course at that point there isn't exactly much left of you as you were as a human.

** [[Status Quo Is God|End?]]

* ''[[Don't Rest Your Head]]'' is made of this Trope: literally every game mechanic represents a different gradual (or rapid) slide of your resources dwindling away, as your life becomes more and more a nightmare. With a little luck and a kind GM, you may manage to save whatever is most important to you as you are destroyed in the process. If not... then [[Captain Obvious|this trope.]]