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They did dig too deep So one of the things that has always creeped me out the most in the lord of the rings trilogy is the origin... or lack there of of the watcher in Moria. The simple explanation of they dug to deep for the origin of this unique and horrible (though mostly unseen beast) was...

So I was talking with some friends of mine who are going to the upcoming Lovecraft film festival, now they always make a joke about were there going and last year it was the st Hastors day celebration. This year they decided on the jubilee of the black pharaoh. This gave me a neat idea for a...

I personally prefer the odd component (not the same thing as expensive) restriction... first it keeps magic item's from being a dime a dozen (thirteen actually because to make them sell it has to be the bakers dozen), secondly as was already mentioned it can become an adventure in it's self or...

There is a species of fish I remember hearing about in college that is all female and parasites the DNA of males of other species; what happens is that they reproduce in a normal sexual manner, but at the next generation none of the fathers DNA makes it into the offspring (only the...

I think that's because we (as reasonably well adjusted adult humans) are programed to care for and protect young children, thus turning them into an object of fear or an enemy to be destroyed causes an inherent conflict.

I like the door idea Lord Xtheth, so how about fighting Zombies that are a skeleton encased in a mass of multicolored worms with some kind of large trilobite for the heart (removing or destroying it puts the things down).

OK I'm going to have to keep the tong eating bug from nightmare fuel in mind for next time I want to scare the pants off my PC's... you cant quite understand what he's saying... no he just mumbling.

What about tables for names professions (in the city) and quirks for all the random NPC's that you don't want to actually do a wright up on. Another fun thing could be fairly macro level dungeon tile sets (where a small dungun would be one tile and then you can just put a few together for a...

Best repeat bad guy I've seen done was actually the brother of the starter dungeon necromancer so he had a good reason to want to off the PC's, he had plate that could make him ethereal which was the ultimate getaway item and thus he could not be killed only hobbled and forced to flee.

What about throwing the PC's into a decent sized city wherever it would make sense for them to be, then have some high level NPC's epic battle lay waste to the city. By the end of the first section the PC's are all together perhaps in a hospital or near dead in basement beneath a collapsed...

One way to resolve the level scaling for the sandbox is the Pandora's box like ancient evil that the PC's inevitably let out. So your general adventure range is between 1-10 until the PC's go after some super KEWL treasure or are sent to collect some mcGuffen or other (by someone who is...

I thought I'd throw in one of the city's from a game I was in; the city of the air baron was a city whose layout was actually planed by a ruler who was far longer lived then the primary human population. The air baron was also paranoid to the point that it would be considered a derangement in...

I was visualising that the writing would transform into a moving calligraphy of fire as the words were read, and then as the spell was completed the calligraphic fire become a two dimensional fire of an unnatural color for a moment as the spell actually casts leaving behind scorch marks on the...

Assumptions For making a new and hopefully unique setting I think it behooves one to look at what you basic assumptions are. For instance is your world round, or can you actually sail off the edge, what kind of rotation does your world have or does it not rotate at all so that each solar year...

For your wizard assassin I also like the silent still eschew combo, but if you can add in heavy armor proficiency (no arcane spell failure for the stilled spell) just to allay suspicion. Another one is a silent still sleep spell and then a ku-dygra on the unconscious foe.

The cult of the septic womb This is taken from something I posted on the creepy thread last year, have a secret sisterhood of serial killing prostitutes who impregnate themselves with the fresh seed of the the men they kill only to give birth to blighted horrors, you could have them empowered...

How do you scare the crap out of your players What do people think are the top ten technique's are for scaring players? I remember being in a CoC game once where the DM lit a couple of the small candles in the tin cups by us (I think one candle per two players) and then on a table at the other...

How well do you guys think non-standard monsters can do to help spice things up and keep monsters scary?

It's always scarier when you don't see the monster? So there are a lot of old sayings about things always being scarier when left unseen, I'm wondering if you guys think that is true or just the product of bad special FX? Do you like to show the creature or just hint, do you describe it in...

Fallen from Grace So who has gotten good use out of supposedly upright individuals who are either corrupt or deluded operating in cahoots with unmentionable beasties? The two archetypes that spring to my mind are the Zealous priest who has been deluded by demons or other nasties and acts as...