Bad Signal

Bad Signal: Cell Phone Horror Tricks To Make Your Players Fear the Phone

When it comes to the horror genre, you could hand your players a laser sword, and it will ultimately do less damage to tone, atmosphere, and setting than the bane of the modern horror story, the ultimate nanny, ally, teacher, and weapon- the cell phone. How do we tell contemporary stories in the face of this everyday, modern miracle?

By enlisting it's aid in our horror.

Bad Signals is a supplement for The Old Ways, but can be plundered for ideas in any modern horror settings.  Contains charts & rules for community reactions to cell phones, strange supernatural effects upon them, signal clarity, phone as tool, phone as obstacle, a set up based on cell phone coverage, and character options.