Welcome to St. Cloud

Welcome to St. Cloud, a quiet little town in Washington State, surrounded by dense forests and mountains, with the isolated fishing community of Lynch Bay just a few miles away. There’s a sawmill, a diner, a church, a cheap hotel, a local radio station and a carnival that has seen better days.

People work, have fun, fall in love and complain about their neighbors. They also keep secrets. Dark secrets.

Something is wrong in St. Cloud. Strange stories circulate about the woods east of town. Respectable citizens lead double lives, people disappear under suspicious circumstances, and disturbing dreams sometimes reveal things that nobody should know. When violence finally comes to town, old grudges and buried secrets begin to surface.

Welcome to St. Cloud is a complete surreal horror role-playing game powered by MicroRed, a streamlined version of the Red rules. Inspired by Twin Peaks and other tales of small-town horror, it offers a setting where ordinary crimes, human depravity and inexplicable supernatural events are often difficult to tell apart.

Play ordinary townspeople, nosy outsiders or unwelcome investigators. Explore St. Cloud and Lynch Bay, meet their peculiar inhabitants, uncover family scandals, investigate murders and disappearances, and venture into the surrounding woods, where something far older than the town may be waiting.

The book includes character creation and game rules, an extensive town guide, a large cast of NPCs with their own secrets and agendas, supernatural entities, adventure hooks,
and (Not) Wrapped in Plastic, an optional sequence of events that can provide the basis for an entire campaign.

There is no single explanation for St. Cloud and no fixed mythology behind its mysteries. The Game Master decides what is real, what is coincidence, and what should never be explained at all. Every campaign can uncover a different version of the town.

Come to St. Cloud and stay for a while. We bet you will never leave!