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It's all in the description, really, and not the mechanics. Apparently I'm just good at giving scary descriptions.

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...

Yeah. It’s far more about tone and mood and punishing mechanics than actually, honestly scared players sitting at your table. You don’t...

Historically, cross culturally, the average age of marriage for women tended to be mid-20s. Teen marriages have mostly been abnormal or...

You also don’t need to like, jump scare players to have a good horror game with plenty of “oh screw you” moments and shudder inducing...

Shudder. I'm not playing in any of your horror games. 😂

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...

So the lockpick roll… I’d use one roll to determine the outcome overall. I wouldn’t require a lockpick and then a stealth roll to pick...

The line of discussion came out of an example of @pemerton provided of his Burning Wheel game in a response to a point unrelated to fail...

Scares the bejeebers out of the players?

I disagree with this because of the input of the dice and the players. As long as you are good at that sort of improv, I think the...

The thought I've seen expressed, that seems to suit my thinking best, is on the lines of "Prep what you don't feel comfortable...

Oh, I really don't think Daggerheart can do everything. It's not rules light, it's not "death is cheap", it doesn't support detailed...

Would also use a custom rule that getting a scar is automatic and not up to a dice roll when you pick the fall unconscious death move —...

And I'm going to disagree hard. Daggerheart's mechanics with a couple of fairly simple rules in the campaign frame do more to support...