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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9883432" data-attributes="member: 4534">If you mean Nightlife, which also came out in 1991, I owned it but never played it.  I'm not too proud to admit I bought it partly because of the salacious cover.  1991 was a very different time.  [ATTACH=full]432822[/ATTACH]I've encountered this problem in a few other horror games as well.  In the very first game of Vaesen I ran, the player characters find out Castle Gyllencreutz is haunted and one of them seriously lobbied the others to just burn the place down before they even looked into it.  Thankfully the others decided they wanted to play the game for more than thirty minutes.  I had a player react the same way to the Corbitt house in a Call of Cthulhu scenario.  "You want to burn down this house you were hired to investigate?  The house that's in a densly packed neighborhood made up of other wooden houses?"  Every game needs player buy in, but nothing kills the vibe of a horror game quicker than players who don't get want to engage.  I've seen Call of Cthulhu games stymied with players too afraid to read books or explore musty attics for fear of losing their sanity or coming to physical harm.  Uh, to their characters I mean.  Yeah, their characters.  Not the players.  Chill was another game I never played though a friend of mine owned it.  He described a creature in the game that could only be killed by blowing on a flute carved the the heart of a particular type of tree that was a certain age.  I think the flute had to be carved in the moonlight or something too.</blockquote>

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