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Scared Stiff: The B-Movie Horror RPG is in stores now. Please ask your retailer about it and see if he carries it in his store. Please help us make a success of our game system by getting your local game retailer to carry Scared Stiff and keep it in stock. It is available from over two dozen distributors worldwide. As advertised in Knights of the Dinner Table and Games Unplugged and listed for release in The Gaming Herald and other industry periodicals. Over 30,000 copies of the FREE Demo have been distributed through RPGNow, the GamePlay Demo CD and this website.

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Go for great games, not guessing games. Try this free demo online at this website and then buy the full version here if you like it. It is combines the RPG-13 B-Movie Game System Core Rules and The Scared Stiff Horror Genre Rules but leaves out the art and strips down the layout in order to ensure a small file size. Why risk your money when a great game should stand on its own merits? We only ask that you try the free demo.

The Demo version is free at trythegame.com and rpgnow.com and has been advertised in "Knights of the Dinner Table" and "Games Unplugged" since January 2001. You may have also seen the banner ads at fiction-fantasy. net, game-information.com and rpg-information.com. You may already have read or played the very extensive Demo alongside a few thousand others and an updated illustrated version is now online. Still don't have the rules yet?

Get ready to rumble and revved for a race! Attack of the 50-Foot Girl Gang returns the Victims of Circumstance to the Fabulous 1950s (or a town with a 1950s feel), or at least, the B-Movie Version of it, where mortal struggles like the Korean War take a backseat to more pressing concerns like finding coonskin caps and learning to use hula hoops. In this Misadventure, the Victims get to re-experience the awkward physical changes, the horribly scarring acne, crushing conformity, and other assorted joys of high school life. Along they way, they'll have to put together enough clues to figure out the threat posed to their beloved school by the worst Juvenile Delinquents ever-The 50-Foot Girl Gang!

Experience Horrible Horror and Terrible Terror! Get Scared Stiff!

Scared Stiff provides the horror rules for the RPG-13 B-Movie Game System. It is the first release of several standalone games that will cover dozens of genres in depth. Won't pay $30 for a set of rules for a less popular genre you might not play too often? Pay a smaller amount and get 4, 8 or even 12 genres covered in-depth. At only a couple bucks apiece it makes it a great deal to start gaming a wide variety of genres. You don't even have to risk the single dollar per genre because you will be able to play all of these before they are out. You can start with Scared Stiff right now!

Many games copy schlock horror movies but miss the point. Scared Stiff is unique because it models the INADVERTENCE of the art form's failure. Bad horror is not comedy with vampires and werewolves but poorly executed horror that is accidentally funny. The Scared Stiff RPG allows players to play real horror with a straight face and the game design handles the inevitability of inadvertent escapades for them. The innovative design makes the campy glory of b-movie cinema unavoidable but play is enhanced rather than forced by the style of the design.

The game is written in a light style that causes many people to laugh aloud at the humour every few pages. Even although play is "serious" games should be fun to read. Although played deadpan, too many gamers spend more time reading games on the way to their grandmother's cottage than playing them at their weekly picnics. A carefully modelled genre model boasts fun mechanics, a light style of writing makes for a fun read, a full colour cover, dozens of black & white interior illustrations, 125 pages and no risk or guesswork before you buy it makes the Scared Stiff RPG a must have.

Misadventure #1 treats you to down home style! The tiny hamlet of Swampy Creek, Arkansas lies near the boggy haunts of the fabled "Swampy Creek Monster." Part man, part beast, and part swamp muck, the terrified locals' tales of sighting this legendary beast packed people into drive-ins by the trunk-load back in the 1970's when they were committed to celluloid as the box-office smash The Legend of Swampy Creek.

This, of course, led to Legend of Swampy Creek II, but the public's appetite for out-of-focus, grainy, darkly-shot, alleged bog-monster footage was seemingly sated by the first instalment in the series. In recent years, fading public memories of its Monster have led to declining tourist dollars for Swampy Creek, and in an effort to refill the town's coffers, its leading citizens banded together to fund and construct a gleaming symbol of hope and future prosperity for their once-famed burg: a dirt track for stock-car racing.

Not everyone looks to the impending tests of man and machine with unadulterated, rapturous joy. To some-the ancient, the untamed, the unfathomable-it is an unspeakable intrusion of the known into the unknown, and the price of such trespasses is to be paid in blood. This is the tale of when the Legend of Swampy Creek is reborn to settle the account. Mud and guts, auto racing and monster chasing await all of the poor innocent bystanders, victims of circumstance and hapless chumps that are plum fool enough to meddle with the macabre.

In Misadventure #2 you'll make a run to the border-- straight back home! Victims of circumstance are once again caught up in the efforts of a well meaning chump to save innocent bystanders and they must hope that he is some help to THEM! America has its own special heroes, but for the poor and the downtrodden of Mexico, justice appears in the doughy form of a mysterious masked man. No one knows from whence he comes, but his supreme grappling prowess has made him a hero of truly legendary proportions. He is El Fantastico, the Golden-Masked Man, the Heavyweight Wrestling Champion of All Mexico!

While others may use their gifts in pursuit of personal gain, in between his title defences El Fantastico uses his own awesome abilities to aid those in need-particularly those with wrestling-related problems. In any event, whenever a desperate, poorly-dubbed plea for help goes out, the Golden-Masked Man is always there to put evil down for the count of three.

In recognition of all his altruism and wrestling, El Fantastico has amassed a legion of devoted fans, and among them are a select coterie who have selflessly volunteered to aid the Golden-Masked Man whenever a dire need arises. During such times of peril, Los Amigos de El Fantastico stand side-by-side with their masked idol to form a champion tag team for justice.

These remarkable men and women find their courage and wrestling tested as never before, when without warning, a dark and unholy spectre manifests itself in the heart of Mexico. The fiend of fiends, Count Dracula, sets his ghoulish sights south of the border in a malevolent attempt to extend his diabolical dominion. Can even the mighty El Fantastico and his stalwart Amigos prevail against the Lord of the Undead himself?

On April 12, 1959, a stunned American public was first made aware of the terrifying truth of what science had wrought behind the Iron Curtain. It was on that fateful day a frightened free world first learned the Soviet Union had perfected the surgical know-how necessary to construct a two-headed canine.

Much as the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor had done a generation earlier, this one sudden, shocking event stirred all America to action, as the entire nation pulled together in an effort to close the gap in two-headed transplant technology. "Better two-headed than Red" became the credo of the day.

However, as time wore on, many Americans-particularly young people-openly began to doubt the country's two-headed transplanting prowess. Indeed, many of the nation's youth questioned the inherent scientific value of being able to sew an extra head on household pets, and their growing disillusionment gave rise to the socially turbulent decade that was the 1960's.

Dissatisfied with their country's inability to deliver so much as a multi-headed hamster, the youth of America turned to the open road for kicks, and became a new breed of motorcycle-riding outlaws in the 1970s and 1980s. Fueled by high-octane hogs, free love, freer drugs, and rock 'n' roll music, these biker gangs began a relentless nationwide campaign of terrorizing normal folks.

Scared Stiff: The B-Movie Horror RPG and The RPG-13 B-Movie Game System have exciting merchandise available at the Scared Stiff store and the RPG-13 B-Movie store. Get all kinds of great t-shirts, sweat shirts, baseball caps, hats, plush toys, mouse pads and countless other neat items and help us bring you more matrial each month!

We have secured the rights to do an RPG-13 B-Movie Game System version of Mutazoids. Mutazoids is the classic science fiction roleplaying game by Ken Whitman about gritty cops and horribly mutated fugitives. The RPG-13 version will have all the great features of that game system, special adaptations for tailoring the specific genre flavour (which differ from those of Scared Stiff quite noticably), and a more gritty tone. We will update you as things become more concrete once a contract is signed with Money Talks Enterprises. We believe that our version will be even better than the previous two editions!