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That's asking someone to put their own interpretation on another person's words, and say that's definitely the meaning... People do that...
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Haha, that sounds amazing! What a great setting! The other sounded also cool but a lonely boat house at the coast of maine in a rainy...
Jun 24, 2025
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It's all in the description, really, and not the mechanics. Apparently I'm just good at giving scary descriptions.
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In some ways, I think that your immediate environment can have a big effect on player fear levels. Two examples that I was personally...
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For us I think we benefit in three ways from open licenses: (1) our game becomes a robustly supported game even beyond the robust...
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Speaking for ourselves there’s no evidence we can see that we’ve taken one iota of loss, and plenty (albeit anecdotal) that we have...
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WOTC isn't the only one to release their material in the CC. Evil Hat, EN World Publishing, Jonathan Harper, Shawn Tompkin – lots of...
Jun 23, 2025
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Yeah. It’s far more about tone and mood and punishing mechanics than actually, honestly scared players sitting at your table. You don’t...
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Fear is pretty subjective. I was watching Nightmare On Elm Street at the age of 6 because my parents DGAF, and now almost nothing scares...
Jun 23, 2025
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Really I have seen scared players all the time. Not even in horror games, just regular D&D. Afraid of their PC dying, afraid of NPCs...
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I’ve worked in the entertainment industry for years as an executive, and I’ve seen this a lot… Especially with newer production...
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After a billion years of doing this, I've found the best setup for me is: #. Plain-English Room Title. Keywords. One-sentence overview...
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I dunno…it’s hard to explain how not to do something. I don’t quite “zero-prep”; I usually think of an encounter scene or two on the...
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But it's not Christmas! How will they meet their Scrooge-quota this year?!
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