Heroes of Horror

Heroes of Horror is an accessory for the 3.5-edition of ruleset.

"Designed to bring all the horrors of your Dungeons and Dragons adventure to life, or unlife, as realistically or fantastically as possible. Ways to make any adventure a Dread Adventure, making Dread Creatures and Dread Characters. How to manipulate fear, tension, and mood to make a scary story into a horror story.  New ways to handle taint and corruption, the residue left behind by True Evil which marks people, places and objects as forever evil.  How to purify and bring light into a world filled with horrible creatures and people.  How to save and redeem... And how to keep fighting evil even after the Taint has left its mark. "

Contents

 * Introduction
 * Chapter 1: Dread Encounters
 * Chapter 2: Dread Adventures
 * Chapter 3: A Horror Campaign
 * Chapter 4: Rules of Horror
 * Chapter 5: Heroes and Antiheroes
 * Chapter 6: Creatures of the Night

Description
Heroes of Horror is intended for use by DMs who want to incorporate elements of horror into their game. It contains ideas for pacing and other elements of horror drama into the game, new rules for horror themed games (including the third iteration of the taint mechanic), as well as horror themed base classes, feats, prestige classes and NPCs.

Credits

 * Designers: James Wyatt, Ari Marmell, C.A. Suleiman
 * Development Team: Mike Donais, Stephen Schubert, Rob Watkins
 * Editors: John D. Rateliff, Gary Sarli
 * Editing Manager: Kim Mohan
 * Design Manager: Christopher Perkins
 * Development Manager: Jesse Decker
 * Senior Art Director RPG: Stacy Longstreet
 * Director of RPG R&D: Bill Slavicsek
 * Art Director D&D: Karin Jaques
 * Cover Artist: David Hudnut
 * Interior Artists: Daarken, Wayne England, Randy Gallegos, Des Hanley, Michael Phillippi, Eric Polak, Steve Prescott, Wayne Reynolds, Dan Scott
 * Graphic Designer: Dee Barnett
 * Cartographers: Todd Gamble, Yasuyo Dunnett
 * Graphic Production Specialist: Erin Dorries
 * Image Technician: Sven Bolen
 * Production Managers: Josh Fischer, Randall Crews