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This is a really big question because there are so many different types of horror stories. Let's start with actually trying to define...

A sense of threatened vulnerability.

I guess I've seen one too many official CoC adventures where the PCs were genuinely basically powerless against the final foe...

Oh re: mechanics again, I do think they matter, and like, as an example I'd contrast two mechanics from Mothership - Stress/Panic Checks...

I don't really agree. And when I think about effective horror adventures it wasn't the ones where we were truly powerless that worked...

Using your previous comment as a starting point: I think you can do it even when the rules do fight you, as Ravenloft even existing...

Tombs of Atuan, also very good. Third and final volume (I think) of graphic novels Once Upon a Time at the End of the World. This one...

I do wonder to what extent the issue people have with hard core optimizers is really about the power differential itself, versus being...

I live in Coppell.🤷🏾‍♂️

I don't know. But you and numerous others seem to be mounting a massive defence here of the bad behaviour of insulting people with a...

Optimisation isn't the problem. We all do that. It's over-optimisation when no one else at the table plays that way. I had this problem...

For sure. We had a few characters optimized for team playing, or for optimizing the party by basing concept on missing roles and skill...

I think optimization (of fill in the blank for the name) sometimes gets a bad name. I've been in this hobby for a long time, and I've...

My first name is French, Robert, pronounced with the hro- sound, however with English speakers it would be futile to try to use it that...

IANAL, but the most popular YouTubers in your profession don't strike me as the best folks in the game, just the ones most determined to...