Editing Don't Rest Your Head (section)

==Setting==

Start with the movie Dark City.  Add a little steampunk, maybe some American McGee's Alice...

Oh hell, just ask your players about any reoccurring nightmares they have and sneak them into the game.  Fuck with their heads.  Spiders on scrotums.  Seriously, this is an opportunity to see your players squirm.  Even how the dice mechanics force the players to undermine themselves will them them feeling doomed.  It's a horror game -- make 'em pay.

:''My players had a lot of fun dealing with a killer they called "the Coupon Cutter" who was slashing his way through the city's Paper Boys. Imagine newsboys but actually made of newspaper. They just about lost their shit when they found this half-alive Paper Boy stapled to a wall through his hands and feet, bleeding ink, and he looked up at them and murmured "Help... wanted..."''

This game would be good for some old-school Cthulhu gaming, since insanity is built in right there.  Just rename "Madness" to "Arcane" and put it in a 1920's setting and you're good to go.