Dive Into Horror Mystery With Osprey’s When Nightmares Come
January 9, 2024 by brennon
Patrick Todoroff has joined forces with Osprey Games to bring a new miniatures game of supernatural horror to the tabletop later this year. See what you make of When Nightmares Come: An Investigative Wargame Of Supernatural Horror.
When Nightmares Come // Osprey Games
When Nightmares Come is a solo or cooperative skirmish game that is as much about investigating the mystery as it is about battling the supernatural entities that you come up against. Set in the modern day, you'll be taking on the role of paranormal vigilantes, occult specialists and monster hunters who form the Nightwatch. You will investigate the strange disturbances plaguing your city of choice.
At the core of the game is an Action Dice Pool mechanic which means that gameplay is fast and bloody. Your enemies come in a huge variety of flavours offering up different challenges and your player characters can be tweaked to make them as unique as you like.
As mentioned, When Nightmares Come seems to be as focused on roleplaying and storytelling as it is on combat. You'll find a lot of non-combat challenges in the game as well as dramatic encounters that you'll need to work through. I like this and almost seems like it pushes the game towards the journalling style of gameplay that we've seen in the roleplaying sphere for a while.
I think this could be great for groups that like games like The Silver Bayonet. Switch your clashes during the Napoleonic period for a battle against shadowy forces on the mean streets of a modern-day city.
Will you be checking out When Nightmares Come in March?
"When Nightmares Come seems to be as focused on roleplaying and storytelling as it is on combat..."
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Hmm.. rules light Dresden Files or World of Darkness alternative… might be interesting
I am already imagining using my HeroForge made Dresden to do some exploring of Chicago
I’ll be keeping an eye out for this when it’s released. Osprey games always worth a look.
Colour me interested….end of March too
Same author as Zona Alfa, so that’s tempting!
I still need to see how they can pull off the investigative and roleplaying elements. When I GM’ed Call of Cthulhu, it was the adventure that built up the tension, not the game mechanics.
I know there are already a very few Cthulhu miniature skirmish games out there. See the Lead Adventurers forum.
The timing for this seems odd as there’s not long been an expansion released for the original Nightwatch game, no doubt I will end up getting both. I’d be tempted to push it back to a Pulp era so I could use my Pulp figures, if I ever finish painting them.