tombshroud
Explorer
Rechan said:I know it's obvious, but let the PCs find the aftermath of something they will face, but don't immediately follow up on it.
There was a book for modern roleplaying, I think it was called "The Book of Unremitting Horror?" Part of each creature's descriptions contained a section called autopsy/coroner's report that described what a victim killed by said creature would look like. This is one of the absolute best gaming books I've ever read (and I don't even play D20 Modern!) I've tried to think of creatures that PCs usually don't think much of and find a way to explain how the victim looks. Basically looking at special attacks of creatures and finding a better way to describe what their victims would look like. For example: Mind-flayers, the books say it extracts the brains using four tentacles but there can be different ways this can be done. I've had corpses with missing eyes and hollow skulls where the mind flayer went in through the eyes to get the brains, it could also work w/ stretched nostrils, gaping mouths w/ holes in the roof of the mouth.
Anyone have any ideas for what kind of damage other creatures could do and how the woulds look, creepier ways to describe it?