Setting Discussion

Ok, so here we will discuss what kind of game and the setting. So I found some good summer camp maps. The best one is a Baptist summer camp with a lot of cool features. We can say the Baptist camp closed down a few years ago under mysterious circumstances and was sold, or we can play up the religious aspect. Do we want a more serious splatter vibe, or a more campy one? Are we playing F13 1/2 or 6/7?

Camp map:

I'd vote for not 100% serious but closer to that end of the spectrum, with some tropeyness to lighten it up.

I'm with bowlofspinach; mostly serious, with a few tropes of the genre.

I'm good with that as well.

Cool map. Fine with serious. What's FF13?

Sounds good!

More Scream, Less Scary Movie.

Well, Scream is a send-up too.

Whoops, hit F twice by accident. F13, Friday the 13th.

Ah, thought as much, but was not sure. Cool.

What year will it be?

F13 Part 7... That was my first foray into slasher films.
Jason whapped a girl into a tree in her sleeping bag... That blew my mind.

I'm more for a serious vibe.

Yea, Scream is already a good bit farther from the Serious end of the spectrum than I'd vote

This is a good question. I'm fine with modern day if you all want. 80s or 90s is also viable. I'm not familiar enough with anything beyond that haha.

Did anyone have a preference if they want it to be a religious summer camp or not? The pro is it will be unique cuz I've never seen that done before. Con is obviously religious stuff is always touchy and I don't want to force players into certain character traits. I think the middle ground is that there is a religious history to the place, but it was sold off to a secular company that reopened the camp.

I'd just vote for modern day. With no cellphone reception or mobile internet at the camp, obviously

For religious, I'm fine with it any way we decide to go with. My character is just there for the money, so she doesn't care if it's a religious camp or not 😄

...or perhaps the phones are collected and returned at the end. Some camps do these things!

I'm okay with the religious angle or not. Could be a cool take, but agree -- if someone has sensitivities in that area, we should probably just avoid.

But then we as counselors would probably still have ours

Yeah, I think kids would have theirs taken. But counselors can have phones, it just means there will be a hurricane that springs up and outside help can't get there :) or other supernatural shenanigans.

Indeed! Bad kids can also steal our phones to demonstrate the inequity and fight the man!

The scariest part about being a camp counselor is not the monster, but having to take care of all of these little goblins.