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Horror role playing game

Beyond the Supernatural is a horror role playing game published by Palladium Books. It has seen two editions released, both of which have introduced innovations to Palladium's standard mechanics. A versatile horror themed game, it lends itself well to wildly different play styles and narrative tones, from schlock splatter horror to intense psychological horror, with an entire spectrum of terror (humor, or action, etc.) in between. Beyond the Supernatural is implicitly set in the modern day, wherein magic and psychic powers are real and monsters and demonic cults exist, but out of the public eye. This, however, is not set in stone, and most of the character classes are flexible enough to account for variant settings or time periods.

The first edition of Beyond the Supernatural, a 255 page book, was published September 1987 as a joint project between Randy McCall and Kevin Siembieda, the president and lead game designer of Palladium Books. In November 1990, Palladium also published the supplement Boxed Nightmares, a collection of adventures as well as a faux tabloid. Much of the art for both titles was created by Kevin Long, although the cover art of the original book was created by Richard Corben.

Boxed Nightmares is a collection of horror scenarios/adventures with a faux tabloid for use with Beyond the Supernatural first edition. The book contains a separate sixteen page newspaper players' handout covering the adventures. In November 1990 Palladium published the supplement with much of the art for the titles created by Kevin Long, and cover art of the original book created by Richard Corben. Boxed Nightmares is over eighty pages containing six adventures, three new monsters plus villains, rules for creating secret organizations, the arcanist thief, GM tips, and the newspaper was packaged with the book.

The second edition of Beyond the Supernatural was released in January 2005 after a lengthy development period. Like its predecessor, it is set in a modern version of Earth, where supernatural forces act out of sight of most of the populace, but may be altered to fit into other time periods or settings. Unlike the first edition, however, it does not have a section on magic nor an extensive bestiary; the two supplements that are to have detailed these aspects were to have immediately followed the core rulebook but have yet to be published. The second edition maintained several things from the first edition. For most characters, education and occupation are still independent of P. C. C., reflecting the more modern and realistic veneer of the setting. All of the previous P. C. C. s, except the Arcanist, returned, and were joined by other P. C. C. s reflecting other aspects of psychic ability, such as the pyrokinetic Firewalker and the Autistic Psychic Savant. Many P. C. C. s were updated, and the idea of purchasing powers directly with P. P. E. was abandoned except in the case of the Psi Mechanic and Genius/Natural Athlete; additional powers are selected, not purchased. The second edition, however, made some very significant changes to maintain the mystery of the setting, preventing characters from bringing "proof" of monsters or psychic powers to the world at large. Psychic powers are difficult to recreate under laboratory conditions, and totals of Inner Strength Points (I. S. P.), the "fuel" for psychic powers, are very small when not under a direct supernatural threat. Furthermore, supernatural creatures dissolve completely when destroyed, leaving nothing behind to be analyzed or photographed.