A downloadable game

Welcome to RED EYE, a rules-lite horror rpg for the wee hours. You and your fellow players will take on the role of the insomniac regulars at the Red Eye Diner (24 Hours / Fully Licensed). Bathed in the piss-yellow light of your local haunt, you’ll wile away your nights digesting crap coffee and the unnerving little mysteries of your after-hours world.

Beyond the grease-printed windows, in the steady red strobe of the off-duty traffic light, the diner abuts a quiet intersection. By day it’s unremarkable, but come midnight or 1am a subtle shift takes place. The soup-skin of reality peels back, revealing a kind of crossroads, where the night things move and the just-right angles show through. A reluctant playground for the kind of shit you don’t really believe in, but can’t quite unsee.

Sometimes, you’ll go chasing it down. Maybe to try and stop it, but probably just to know. Sometimes it’ll come to you, an unfamiliar face in your favorite greasy spoon. Most of the time though, you’ll never really know if it was there at all, or just the overactive fancy of overtired minds winding each other up.

So put on a fresh pot and settle in. It’s going to be a long night…

Updated 16 days ago
StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
AuthorFeature Creep
Tagsd6, Horror, No AI, rules-lite, Tabletop role-playing game
Average sessionA few hours
LanguagesEnglish
ContentNo generative AI was used

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REDEYE.pdf 32 MB
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I appreciate the design, but it's close to unreadable for my crappy eyes, and the text can't be selected for copy/pasting.

If it wouldn't be too much work, a text-only version of the rules, or a document that allows copying out the full text would be amazing.

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Done! A text only version was added to the downloads. 

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That's so much easier, thank you so much <3

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A lite system that offers the chance to recreate some of your favorite creepy podcasts like Alice Isn't Dead, The Magnus Archives, or even Mayfair Watchers Society. 

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Thanks for the comment and the spooky podcast reqs

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this looks absolutely lovely! any chance we could get a single page format as well? or does that defeat the purpose? seems like a zine fold. regardless, looks really nice, great job.

Thanks! This is super dorky, but the format was a nod to the paper placemats you used to get at dinners, hence two individual flat sheets. They could also be tri-folded like a brochure, (with only minor wonkiness) and I think during actual play only the one sheet (with Challenge Rolls, etc.) would actually be needed.

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all good, thank you!