Written, designed and laid out by Roberto Díez

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Photographs (cover, page 2) and proofreading: Marta Rodríguez
Playtesting: Álvaro, Joaquín, Juan and Roberto

- Dedicated to Marta, thanks for always supporting me. -

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Horrorama - English Version 1.0, June 2023

 Come on baby... don't fear the Reaper
Baby take my hand... don't fear the Reaper
­ (Don't fear) The Reaper, Blue Öyster Cult

H
ORRORAMA is a role­playing game inspired
by 80's horror movies and their clichés, from
the masked psychokiller stalking high school
teenagers to the monster from outer space that
spreads terror in a small American town. Not to
mention genre classics like zombies, creatures
created by government experiments or demons that
take the form of creepy children. They all have
something in common: macabre deaths and gallons
of spilled blood, stories where the fun goes hand in
hand with the body count.

CREATING THE CHARACTER

ATTRIBUTES
Character attributes range from 1 to 6 and are:
Body, Mind and Personality. When creating the
character, 9 points are distributed among these
attributes.

ARCHETYPES
Each character embodies a classic archetype of the
horror genre. Each time he/she behaves according
to that archetype, he/she will have a +3 bonus to
his/her next action roll. If the player plays the
character's archetype in an exceptional way, the
Master can also grant him 1 Drama Point,
maximum one per scene.

On the contrary, if his attitude is contrary to his

archetype, he will receive a ­3 penalty to his next
action. If he is totally incongruous, the Master can
decide to take away 1 Drama Point.

Examples of Archetypes:

• Ambitious Mayor: Everything has to be perfect

for the festival, it's the event of the year, the main
attraction for tourists and your chance to get in the

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papers. Who knows, it's small steps like this that
will allow you to aspire to a higher political
position. But first you have to put an end to all
those sinister rumors, this is the perfect town!
imposible.
• Partying Friend: Twelve cans of beer, bags of
nachos and a free house for the weekend, what
more could you ask for? You'll see the look on the
principal’s face when he discovers that someone
has filled his car with foam from the fire
extinguishers.
• Elderly Fortune Teller: Something evil is
coming, you have to warn someone, although no
one in town will believe you. You have a reputation
as an eccentric old woman, or worse, as totally
crazy one. Maybe one of those girls who come to
have their Tarot cards read will believe you...
• Easily Scared Cheerleader: Today the pyramid
and the last somersault didn't work out, the rest of
the girls are having a hard time learning your new
choreography, you’ll have to keep practicing.
Perfection is the way to be popular, and being
popular will make the captain of the football team
notice you...
• Asshole Sheriff's Deputy: This town is yours.
It's not official, of course, but you're the highest
ranking representative of the law here, second only
to the Sheriff, and you're going to make that clear
to everyone. The bikers, those kids who participate
in illegal races, even the ones who gather to smoke
and drink by the lake, they're going to find out.
• Erudite Librarian: So many years studying
ancient texts and now they tell you that they have
found strange symbols in the old galleries under
the city, just now during the planetary conjunction!
Is it really happening? You have to see for yourself.
• New Girl in Town: You have just arrived from
the capital, your father has moved for his new job
at the chemical plant and you are frustrated for
having to leave everything behind. On top of that,
your high school has made it a point to make life
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miserable for you. Luckily you're used to fending
for yourself.
• Bad Girl of the Class: This town sucks, and the
school sucks even more, they look at you like
you're an alien just for dressing differently. You
can't wait to finish and get out of here soon. You
carry a razor hidden in your boot... in case
something happens.
• Pedantic High School Principal: The Parents
Association, the alumni committee, the state
inspectors and those damn kids doing their pranks.
The only thing missing is for the janitor to come to
you now and tell you that he found something in
the sewers and... who the hell has filled your car
with foam?
• Wimpy Nerd: You spend your days trying not to
get bullied and shoved into your locker and doing
your chemistry and biology experiments on the sly.
You'd swear you saw something moving in the
swamp while you were collecting samples...
• Good-natured Security Guard: Patrolling the
mall is a quiet job. Occasionally a brat hides in a
corner to spend the night and win a bet, but other
than that there's usually no trouble. No one wants
to mess with a giant like you.
• Principal’s Cowardly Son: Your father is the
principal and everyone should show you a little
more respect, of course they should. Especially if
they want to get the answers to exams or avoid
being expelled.
• Head Camp Counselor: Camp Sunny Lake is
going to open its doors after several years and it is
your responsibility to make sure everything is
ready. You will have to teach discipline to the new
monitors, no night walks in the woods or skipping
work. There have been reports of noises in one of
the old cabins, someone will have to go and take a
look...
• School Bully: A day when you don't shove a
nerd into his locker or throw him headfirst into a
dumpster is a wasted day. They're asking for it,
being such weirdos.
• War Veteran Mechanic: You came back from
the front and things have never been the same. You
make a living tinkering in your workshop, but the
images of what you saw still give you nightmares.
Worst of all, you think you've seen some of those
things lurking around here.
• Goodhearted Biker: High school kids are stupid,
but as long as they don't get in the wrong place or
tell the police about your shenanigans or the illegal
races, everything will be fine. After all, they're just
kids.
• Sensationalist Journalist: You're tired of writing
the same columns about two­headed calves and the
danger of power lines, you need a good article,
some real in­depth report that will get you out of
this hick town. Maybe even write a book. The key
now is to keep an eye on that military convoy, they
seem to be carrying something suspicious…
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• Burnt Professor of Science: You used to work
at a prestigious university until you got fired and
ended up as a professor at this crummy high
school. They laughed at your theories, saying they
were nonsense fantasies, but now you are about to
make a historical discovery that will shut
everyone's mouth!
• Cocky Quarterback: Running, throwing,
tackling, the next game, the national championship.
Football is the most important thing in your life,
followed by partying with your buddies, drinking
beer and picking up girls.
• Close-minded Sheriff: You have worked hard to
make this one of the most peaceful towns in the
state and it will stay that way. You were just a kid
when it all happened, you know, the stuff nobody
talks about, but things have changed since then.
You don't care if you have to get tough and lock up
anyone who spreads unfounded rumors, you'll keep
the harmony at all costs.
• Soldier of the Military Base: In theory your job
is simple, patrol the perimeter, be alert, check that
the fence is still intact. Above all, prevent people
from the nearby village from approaching and
snooping around. Compared to the front, this is a
cakewalk. However, you are still intrigued by the
sergeant's words, why would he say "don't let
anything in or out"?
Did you hear that voice
Did you see that face
Or was it just a dream
This can't be real
That only happens, babe
On the movie screen
Oh, but he's back
He's the man behind the mask
And he's out of control
­ He's back (The man behind the mask), Alice Cooper
ACTING
The check to use a skill is done by rolling 2D6 +
Related Attribute against the corresponding
difficulty level, specified by the Master. The related
attribute will be given by the type of task to be
performed, for example: driving a car will be a
Body task, researching in a library will be a Mind
based task and convincing the security guard that
someone is chasing us, a Personality task.
The degree of success in the action will be
indicated by the difference between the roll and the
difficulty level.
A character can only use reasonable skills for his
archetype, although it is possible to use a Drama
Point to justify knowing someone else's skill.
There is no limit to the number of points that can
be used in this way, but the justification must be
credible each time. If the Master does not find the
explanation sufficiently convincing he may veto
the use of the skill and the player will lose the
Drama Point.
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COMBAT
In combat, the basic difficulty level will be 6 and
will apply both to targets that are not actively
defending themselves and to ranged attacks within
the first range of the weapon. The range of each
weapon is specified in its stats. Each additional
ranged range adds +3 to the difficulty level.
There are other modifiers to the difficulty level, the
most common are:
DIFFICULTY LEVEL MODIFIERS
Target surprised/distracted/terrified: ­3
Target taking cover: +3
Target on the move, in a car, on the run: +3
Small Target: +3
Large Target: ­3
In a combat against another opponent each
participant will make a roll of 2D6 + Body and the
winner will be the one with the highest score.
A successful attack will cause a wound of the
degree of the weapon used. Every 6 points
difference between the roll and the difficulty level
will increase the degree of the wound by one level.
In the case of a melee combat the difference
between the roll of the winner and the loser will be
counted.
For example, if the attacker, armed with a knife,
rolls a 10 and the defender a 7, the difference is 3
and therefore causes a Minor Wound. The same
attacker in the next round wins again and rolls a 13
against his opponent's 5, in this case the difference
is 8 points, so the stab is raised one level and
causes a Serious Wound this time.

HEALTH AND SURVIVAL
All characters start unharmed. The character's
health level will drop depending on the degree of
the attack suffered, as explained in the Combat
section.
Attacks of a lower degree than the character's
current health level will be ignored. For example, a
Minor Wounded character will not be affected by
successive Scratches. However, an attack of the
same level as the character's current level will
make him/her worse by one. In the example above,
if the character suffers another Minor Wound he
would become Seriously Wounded.
Each health level is associated with a penalty to
action rolls.
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A character that reaches the Dead state will die at
the end of the scene unless he receives first aid.
The first aid skill can only be used once per scene
per character and will heal one level of health. The
medicine skill will heal two levels of health but can
only be used by characters proficient in it and with
the proper equipment, otherwise it will only heal
one level of health.
HORRORAMA players should assume that their
characters are fated to suffer all sorts of gruesome
and bloody deaths. If the lethality of the adventure
is high the Master may allow each player to play
more than one character at once. In case a player
has lost all his characters, he can be assigned an
NPC or let him play the monster on duty at key
moments.
DRAMA
The character starts with 1 Drama Point, but the
Master can grant him more if he correctly
interprets his Archetype. These points are used to
have an advantage in certain situations. You can
use as many points as you want in a scene.
TYPICAL EFFECTS
• Roll +1D6 extra when performing an action
• Reduce by one degree a wound suffered in
that scene
• Find a useful object, which is not key to the
plot (a weapon, a gas can, car keys, etc)
• Justifying the use of a skill outside its
archetype
The characters and creatures listed in the Threats
section have their own Drama points. The Master
can use them to achieve these same effects,
however once spent they will not be recovered
unless their description indicates otherwise.
Blood on her skin
Dripping with sin
Do it again
Living Dead Girl
­ Living Dead Girl, Rob Zombie
THREATS
Here are some classic horror movie enemies:
• Alien Body Snatcher: A silent invasion is taking
place. People are disappearing and being replaced
by others who are identical... or nearly so. How do
you know who to trust? How do you stop them?
BOD 5 MIN 4 PER 3, Drama 1
Special: Can take the form of any creature of less
than his BOD. +1 to BOD for each victim he kills
and consumes. Can split into as many parts as
BOD points it has.
• Carnivorous Slug: Recently discovered in a
remote area of the Amazon rainforest, the purple
carnivorous slug was going to be the star of the
county science fair until someone let it
escape. Mixed in with the native species, it
reproduces uncontrollably, threatening to
devour everything.
BOD 1 MIN 1 PER 0, Drama 0
Attacks: Bite (Scratch)
Special: Always attack in large numbers (50­100).
Small Size, +3 to the difficulty level to hit it. A
Serious Wound is enough to kill it.
• Cursed Scarecrow: In the village nobody talks
about it, but it is no coincidence that pests never
affect their fields and the corn grows strong and
robust even during the worst droughts. The
Scarecrow is in charge of collecting his tribute and
watering the future harvest with the blood of
innocents.
BOD 6 MIN 2, PER 1, Drama 2
Attacks: Claws (Minor Wound)
Special: Drama 5 if found in the field or village he
protects.
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• Evil Spirit: He has waited a long time for the
right moment. Now he has been released from its
prison and has chosen a host. When the ritual is
complete nobody will be able to stop his wrath.
BOD 0 MIN 6 PER 5, Drama 3
Attacks: Consume Life (Serious Wound)
Special: +1 to MIN per successful attack. Immune
to normal body attacks, only holy weapons or
specific objects hurt him, each attack that causes
him a Serious Wound or greater subtracts ­1 to
MIN, if it reaches zero he is destroyed.
• Werewolf: The full moon is in the sky and the
call of blood is too strong... he has to go out to
hunt and calm his rage. The next day he will
remember nothing, only the blood stains on his
tattered clothes will remind him that he has done
something terrible.
BOD 7 MIN 3 PER 2, Drama 1
Attacks: Claws (Serious Wound) and Bite (Severe
Wound)
Special: Regenerates any wound not inflicted with
fire (Serious Wound) or a silver weapon at a rate of
one health level per combat round. If it wounds a
character he must make a Body roll against a
difficulty level of 9 or become a werewolf at the
next full moon. He can make a Mind roll against a
difficulty level of 12 to resist the transformation.
• Living Dead: A deadly virus, an experimental
chemical or radiation from a meteorite, something
is causing the dead to rise from their graves and
they will not stop until they devour the flesh of the
living.
BOD 1 MIN 1 PER 1, Drama 0
Attacks: Claws (Minor Wound) and Bite (Minor
Wound)
Special: Ignores Scratches and Minor Wounds. If it
wounds a character they must make a Body roll
against a difficulty level of 9 or become a zombie
after 3 scenes.
• Diabolical Boy Doll / Possessed Girl Doll: They
are not a simple toy, something dwells in them,
something dark and sinister. You can see it in the
glow of their glass eyes, watching everything from
the shelf. They will wait for us to be asleep...
BOD 1 MIN 3 PER 3, Drama 3
Attacks: Kitchen Knives, Scissors, Strangling Rope
(Minor Wound)(Boy Doll) or Telekinesis (Minor
Wound)(Girl Doll)
Special: +3 to any stealth roll. Once a day it can
disappear and appear wherever it wants within a
specific environment, such as a house. To kill him
you have to find his weak point, either by
performing an exorcism or by destroying a specific
part of his body.
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• Homicidal Redneck (Billy Ray): Those rich
city kids think they can come to our mountain and
do whatever they want. We'll teach them a lesson
they won't forget, right Bubba? And then maybe
we'll make us a nice stew out of their meat…
BOD 3 MIN 2 PER 1, Drama 1
Attacks: Shotgun (Severe Wound) and Bowie
Knife (Minor Wound)
Special: +3 to any stealth roll in your favorite
environment, be it the mountain, the family farm or
the abandoned town in which he lives.
• Homicidal Redneck (Bubba): Uuuuuuungh,
Bubba is hungry, Bubba wants fresh meat!
BOD 7 MIN 1 PER 1, Drama 0
Attacks: Axe (Serious Wound) and Fists (Minor
Wound)
Special: Ignore Scratches and Minor Wounds. +3
to any melee attack. Large Size, ­3 to the difficulty
level to hit him.
• Psychopath: Reclusive, anonymous, with no
distinguishing features, he attacks for the pleasure
of doing so, leaving obscure clues for the police
and wishing to find a worthy adversary who finally
understands his perverse logic.
BOD 4 MIN 5 PER 3, Drama 2
Attacks: Knife (Minor Wound)
Special: +1 to Drama for each victim.
• Supernatural Psychokiller: Who knows how it
happened, maybe some kids dug his grave on
Halloween and did a stupid ritual. Maybe his
remains came to life out of sheer thirst for revenge.
Be that as it may, he has made it back from Hell.
Once again he will put on his mask and go through
the places he is familiar with, brutally killing all
those who cross his path.
BOD 8 MIN 2 PER 1, Drama 5
Attacks: Machete (Serious Wound) or Chainsaw
(Severe Wound)
Special: Ignores Scratches and Minor Wounds. +1
to BOD every time the characters leave him for
dead and he returns.
• Member of a Dark Cult: The voice in his mind
is clear, the hour is at hand, the Old Gods will
escape from their ancestral prison and reclaim
their throne. Or perhaps it's the Prince of Darkness
who requires your services...
BOD 3 MIN 2 PER 1, Drama 1
Attacks: Ritual Knife (Minor Wound) or Pistol
(Serious Wound)
• Formless Horror: The international space
station has fallen to Earth, disintegrating into a
thousand pieces. One of them has crashed nearby.
The last distress calls told of an experiment gone
wrong, an organism raised in zero gravity mutated
into something unknown...
BOD 10 MIN 2 PER 0, Drama 1
Attacks: Acid (Serious Wound)
Special: +1 to BOD for each victim consumed. Can
divide itself into as many parts as BOD points it
has. Each part above BOD 6 is considered Large
Size, ­3 at the difficulty level to hit it.
by a person of true faith will cause the same effect.
Decapitation or a stake through the heart can also
kill him.
Every round of combat a vampire spends in in the
sunlight or on holy ground causes him to lose 1
level of health until he is destroyed.
Has a bonus of+3 to any roll to persuade,
interrogate or intimidate. Can turn into a bat, wolf
or mist at will. If he makes a successful Bite attack
he will recover 1 level of health. A person wounded
in this way will have to make a Body roll against a
difficulty of 12 or he will become a vampire after 3
days.

• Macabre Puppeteer: An abandoned hotel, an

old amusement park, a mansion in the mountains...
the scenery doesn't matter, what matters is the
game. More and more refined and lethal traps will
be slaughtering the poor unfortunates locked up in
the place.
BOD 3 MIN 7 PER 5, Drama 3
Attacks: Various weapons and traps
Special: +1 to Drama for each spectacular or
creative death.

• Vampire: They say that the old man who has

moved into the old mansion on the hill is a rich
European aristocrat, but no one has yet seen him
in person. Neither he nor his daughters come down
to the village, sometimes you can see his silhouette
at night in one of the windows, but for now
everything about him or what he does for a living
is a mystery.
BOD 6 MIN 4 PER 5, Drama 3
Attacks: Bite (Serious Wound) or Punch (Serious
Wound)
Special: Normal weapons only make him Scratch
Wounds, but fire or holy water will cause Serious
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FILMOGRAPHY BIBLIOGRAPHY
A Nightmare on Elm Street RPG
Amusement GURPS Horror, Fourth Ed.
Candyman
Child's Play NOVELS
Children of the Corn Stephen King
Dark Night of the Scarecrow Clive Barker
Dawn of the Dead
Dead Silence COMICS
Evil Dead Creepy
Friday the 13th Tales from the Crypt
Ghost Ship The Haunt of Fear
Halloween Vault of Horror
House of Wax
I Know What You Did Last Summer
IT
Jeepers Creepers
My Bloody Valentine
Night of the Creeps
Psycho
Reeker
'Salem's Lot
Saw
Scream
Terror Train
The Blob
The Body Snatchers
The Cabin in the Woods
The Crazies
The Hills Have Eyes
The Strangers
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Thing
Trick 'r Treat
Urban Legend
Wrong Turn
You're Next

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