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Villains who are absolutely unscrupulous. Of course, while screaming more and more people have a reason to think you're, well.whatever )Įver read the novel 'EX' from (I think it was) David Ambrose? Man, just the idea to make things real with just thinking and believing in them. If you manage to make your descriptions vague but with enough details that yor players have 'room' to substitute things with their own real fears, than you've done it!īeing arrested and thrown into psychiatry when you're absolutely SANE, but you start screaming that you are NOT INSANE and nobody is believing you. In this way there is always enough room for the reader to put his own fears into the thing. He described things without giving you too much detail. Change their sense of perspective/horizon so that what appears to be a huge blob rolling up to crush them may actually be the side of a pea.

Or put them in an environment in which they get no tactile feedback - like a frictionless ocean of proto-matter - so they can't tell if they are moving or at rest. So, thrust the PCs into situations in darkness, or silence, or both.

Many people are scared of the dark because it forces us to rely on hearing (and to a lesser extent, smell and touch) which tends to be not as developed. Then again, maybe there are no ill effects.)īack to the Lovecraft quote, you can make things seem unknown by limiting sensory input. (Maybe the slime has on onset delay of a day, or three days, or even three months or three years. Have the PCs make a bunch of Fort and Will saves, but don't tell them what the slime is doing to them. Maybe the alien creature's way of sensing its environment is to extrude psuedopods and cover things (trees, buildings, adventurers) in ectoplasmic slime. What is it doing? Scouting the area? Resting? Waiting for the PCs to make contact with it? How do you even communicate with it? Maybe it's just on its way from here to there and if the PCs leave it alone, it won't do them any harm.

Imagine a huge, horrible-appearing monster that appears out of nowhere and then. Then watch the players get scared (or maybe 'nervous' is a better word) when their usual tactics don't work.Īnother highly effective way to create fear (or at least unease) is to have creatures that are so utterly alien they don't interact with the players in ways the players can understand - an idea obviously cribbed from Lovecraft. You can create new monsters, new spells, new locations, new demiplanes, new gods, new whatever. Fortunately, you're the DM, so you can use your god-like powers to make up new stuff that is by definition unknown to the players (and thus their PCs). To scare your players, you must confront them with the unknown. The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear,Īnd the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. I think it is real hard to make the players feel the character's fear. I've seen Frankenstein, The Thing, Dracula, and various others done as adventures, but they just don't really capture the horror feel since players can get up and go for a soda at a climatic action they aren't really scary

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I don't think standard movie type horror works well in D&D. I think there used to be a horror score in the Ravenloft campaign that allowed monsters to be scary, but now it all comes down to making a fear Wil Save or running away.īut whan players think that if they make the wrong choice, or that if their dice fail on 'This one roll' that their character is going below -10. I think that there are no monsters that are scary, it is all about what the monsters do.

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Anything that can take a character belor -10 in a single hit, or that continues to hurt a PC once they are unconscious will have the players fearing for their characters. Level draining used to do it, but now the odds that a character loses a level and can't get it back are a lot less.įrom my experience, Gorillians with their four attacks and multiple possible rend attacks always have my players pacing around the table.

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