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Liminal Horror Writing Seminar 1: Adapting a Mystery

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On this episode, we’re joined by the Liminal Horror writing team to discuss the tips and tricks for taking existing adventures and stories and adapting them for use in your home games and third-party supplements.


  • 0:00 Start
  • 3:21 Presentation Begins
  • 5:36 What is a Twisted Classic?
  • 7:56 Choosing what to adapt
  • 18:06 Determining what to save
  • 38:55 Adding to the horror
  • 50:44 Writing clues
  • 1:00:13 Stress & fallout
  • 1:05:55 Stat Blocks
  • 1:15:18 Stat Blocks - Cheats
  • 1:20:20 Sanity
  • 1:24:08 The Doom Clock
  • 1:31:53 The Doom Clock setup
  • 1:38:08 The Voidcrawl
  • 1:50:11 Custom fallout
  • 1:59:02 Practical examples
  • 2:17:04 Questions
  • 3:00:09 Outro

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