Mud Ghost Estate

Known by the locals as Mud Ghost Estate, Lai Gwai Public Housing Estate is one of the early public housing estates in Hong Kong, built in the 60s to accommodate the city’s rapidly rising population. The tower blocks now sit empty awaiting for redevelopment. You and your friends decide to explore the derelict buildings before the scheduled demolition in order to pay a visit to the Kṣitigarbha shrine at the heart of the estate.

Today is also the day of the Yulan Festival, aka the Ghost festival, where the veil between the dead and the living are at its weakest. Spiritual energy warps the geometry of the abandoned estate and turns it into a labyrinth, trapping your group inside.

Furthermore, your group has been infiltrated by an undead impostor who wants to swap places with the living.

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Mud Ghost Estate is a spooky tabletop role-playing game inspired by Hong Kong folklore and urban legends. You play as a group of daring teenagers exploring a haunted public housing estate in the 90s.

For 3-5 players age 13 and up
(With variant solo rules)

Requires a tumbling block tower, playing cards and an optional six-sided dice

(10 ten-sided dice may be used in place of the tower)

Average session takes 2.5 to 4 hours

Made for #FolkloreJam 2024

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Inspirations:

• Dread by Epidiah Ravachol & Nathaniel Barmore
• Star Crossed by Alex Roberts
• The Wretched by Chris Bissette
• You Meet In A Tavern, You Die In A Dungeon by Ursidice
• Betrayal at the House on the Hill by Bruce Glassco
• The Hong Kong horror movies I watched growing up

香港鬼怪百物語 by We are The Pigs (Published by Idea Publication) has been a great starting point for my research into Hong Kong folklore and urban legends