# Scared Stiffs

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{{Short description|Tabletop comedy role-playing game supplement}}
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{{Infobox RPG
|title=''Scared Stiffs''
|subtitle=An Ethereal Adventure
|publisher=[West End Games](/source/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](/source/D6_System)
|genre=[Comedy](/source/Comedy)
|designer={{Unbulleted list|[John M. Ford](/source/John_M._Ford)|[Bill Slavicsek](/source/Bill_Slavicsek)}}
|web=<!-- None -->
|isbn=0-87431-062-8
}}
'''''Scared Stiffs''''' is an adventure published by [West End Games](/source/West_End_Games) in 1987 for the light-hearted role-playing game ''[Ghostbusters](/source/Ghostbusters_(role-playing_game))'', itself based on [the movie of the same title](/source/Ghostbusters).

==Contents==
The Ghostbusters ([player characters](/source/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](/source/Hot_Rods_of_the_Gods)'' and ''[Ghost Toasties](/source/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](/source/John_M._Ford) and [Bill Slavicsek](/source/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](/source/Graeme_Davis_(game_designer)) reviewed ''Scared Stiffs'' for ''[White Dwarf](/source/White_Dwarf_(magazine))'' #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](/source/White_Dwarf_(magazine))  | issue =92  | pages =2–3  | publisher =[Games Workshop](/source/Games_Workshop)  | date = August 1987  }}</ref>

==Other reviews==
''Gateways'' Vol. 2 Issue 5 (August 1987, p.27)

==References==
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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

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