Fangoria talks to Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz about the anniversary on video.
The mixture of creepy close encounters, some very dark MOTW episodes, and people in coats being charmingly deadpan made for a surprising breakout hit as it felt made for people like me.
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| And one of its best scares was changing the title sequence. |
It never got an official RPG, perhaps because its metaplot was made up as it went along, but between various horror RPGS and the very obvious Conspiracy X (which actually put the PCs in the know, to the extent that the main UFOlogy-based alien species were described on their side of the original screen) and Delta Green there were and are plenty of ways to play it. (And Stalking The Night Fantastic predates the series.)
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| How to reflect the subject matter but not get the tone. |
I ran a DG adventure for it, making it a bit less fatal as a possible recurring thing. And I could have done more. I made this.
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