{{Notability|date=April 2025}} {{Short description|Tabletop comedy role-playing game supplement}} {{Italic title}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox RPG |title=''Scared Stiffs'' |subtitle=An Ethereal Adventure |publisher=West End Games |date={{Start date and age|1987|br=yes}} |image=Cover of Scared Stiffs, a Ghostbuster role-playing adventure, 1987.png |caption=Cover art by Fred Oppenheimer |system=D6 System |genre=Comedy |designer={{Unbulleted list|John M. Ford|Bill Slavicsek}} |web=<!-- None --> |isbn=0-87431-062-8 }} '''''Scared Stiffs''''' is an adventure published by West End Games in 1987 for the light-hearted role-playing game ''Ghostbusters'', itself based on the movie of the same title.
==Contents== The Ghostbusters (player characters) are going to be the guest speakers at the first annual convention of the Quasi-Unearthly Association of Clairvoyants, Kismetologists and Spiritologists (QUACKS for short),<ref name="WD92"/> but soon find themselves at the center of an alien plot to steal Earth's ghosts.
==Publication history== Following the success of the 1984 movie ''Ghostbusters'', West End Game published the licensed role-playing game in 1986, and immediately followed that with two adventures the same year, ''Hot Rods of the Gods'' and ''Ghost Toasties''. A third adventure, ''Scared Stiffs'' was released in 1987, a 32-page softcover book with a cardstock map, written by John M. Ford and Bill Slavicsek, with interior art by Timothy Meehan and cover art by Fred Ottenheimer.<ref name="HW">{{cite book|last=Schick |first=Lawrence|title=Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games|publisher=Prometheus Books |year=1991|isbn=0-87975-653-5 |page=248}}</ref>
==Reception== Graeme Davis reviewed ''Scared Stiffs'' for ''White Dwarf'' #92, and stated that "A nice adventure, exactly in the spirit of both film and game, ''Scared Stiffs'' is well worth a look from all Ghostmasters. But then you didn't need me to tell you that."<ref name="WD92">{{cite magazine | last =Davis | first =Graeme | author-link =Graeme Davis (game designer) | title =Open Box | magazine =White Dwarf | issue =92 | pages =2–3 | publisher =Games Workshop | date = August 1987 }}</ref>
==Other reviews== ''Gateways'' Vol. 2 Issue 5 (August 1987, p.27)
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Category:Ghostbusters (role-playing game) Category:Role-playing game adventures Category:Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1987 Category:Works by John M. Ford