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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 7543513" data-attributes="member: 4534"><p>My last CoC campaign ended with a narrowly avoided TPK because one of the PCs managed to give birth to herself. CoC can be weird sometimes. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's hard to run a horror game when everyone isn't on the same page. I participated in an Esoterrorist campaign and we had one player who didn't have a lot of fun because he was the "kick the door down and punch the cosmic horror in the face" kind of a guy. We had another player who treated everything as a joke of little consequence even which kind of killed the mood. It made the campaign a bit difficult to get into. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think the toughest part is making a scenario that people can relate to. </p><p>So I usually make other humans the antagonist who are motivated by very human goals. Well, mostly human goals. So I don't make scenarios involving the end of the world or some apocalyptic event because when the stakes are that high it's hard to relate. </p><p></p><p>I have a scenario idea involving insurance fraud, the KKK, the drought of 1930 (American South), and I've thrown the mythos into the mix. I find that doing something like this leaves the players a little more invested in the scenario as they can understand the motivations of greed and racism whereas the mythos is mostly unfathomable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 7543513, member: 4534"] My last CoC campaign ended with a narrowly avoided TPK because one of the PCs managed to give birth to herself. CoC can be weird sometimes. It's hard to run a horror game when everyone isn't on the same page. I participated in an Esoterrorist campaign and we had one player who didn't have a lot of fun because he was the "kick the door down and punch the cosmic horror in the face" kind of a guy. We had another player who treated everything as a joke of little consequence even which kind of killed the mood. It made the campaign a bit difficult to get into. I think the toughest part is making a scenario that people can relate to. So I usually make other humans the antagonist who are motivated by very human goals. Well, mostly human goals. So I don't make scenarios involving the end of the world or some apocalyptic event because when the stakes are that high it's hard to relate. I have a scenario idea involving insurance fraud, the KKK, the drought of 1930 (American South), and I've thrown the mythos into the mix. I find that doing something like this leaves the players a little more invested in the scenario as they can understand the motivations of greed and racism whereas the mythos is mostly unfathomable. [/QUOTE]
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