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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkham" data-source="post: 1935591" data-attributes="member: 332">I was reminded of my biggest 2004 in-game regret as a GM.I was running a Fantasy Hero game in a conan-esque swords and sorcery world. The PCs were a bunch of rogues and cutthroats in the conan style, hyper-skilled and deadly. I had this plot idea as a side-line where their band of raiders travels through a land cursed by plague. But the plague was magical in nature and turned all the young girls into these nasty little cannibals who have consumed everyone else in the village before the PCs get there. Now the PCs wander through this eerily quiet village and there are a number of very cool city-of-lost-children moments, until the PCs are in a meadow surrounded by the hungry cannibal girls.And that is where my planning stopped. It was a great moment.And then the PCs fought back. ( Like I should have expected they would )And little girl heads, arms, and body parts go flying as the characters hack their way through the opposition.And what could have been an eerie cool session turns into the strangest RPG version of a Troma film ever.But I did learn a lesson. Be very, very, very careful when mixing genres.</blockquote>