This is Death on Tour (1985) and it is the most Scooby-Doo of the Chill adventures I have read and it functions as a sort of mini-campaign. The first part involves a series of deaths at the concerts of the rock band Van Helsing, in which a person in the crowd suddenly drops dead, empty of blood. The culprit is the guitarist, Jackson Jammer (can’t decide if that name is the worst, or the best), a time stopping vampire. After dispatching him, it becomes apparent that two other monster bands are touring the country – the Carnivores, a new wave band made up of ghouls, and Felicia Fey, a jazz pianist who is also a werecat. Their manager, the big bad, is a werewolf named Max Mogul. Woof.

This one is good fun, probably the Chill scenario to best capture the campy fun of B-movie horror. There are some cool ideas, some decent spoops and plenty of silliness. It is also one of the earliest examples of a music-centric RPG scenario. Other games that prominently reference music subcultures were still years away: TMNT Adventures (1986), Cyberpunk 2013 (1988), Shadowrun (1989), Nightlife (1990) and Vampire: The Masquerade (1991) all come to mind. And Queen of the Damned, the third of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, in which Lestat forms a rock band called The Vampire Lestat, came out in 1988. For what it is worth.

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