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<blockquote data-quote="Wraith Form" data-source="post: 2122013" data-attributes="member: 10789">The old trick of asking the players to roll random dice (for no reason, but they don't know that) can be effective. The matter of when and where you have them do this will produce different effects--obviously if you do it in a dungeon crawl, they'll think it's for traps.&nbsp; If you do it while the PCs are having some sort of social interaction or walking through a town, it's a different &quot;feel&quot;.&nbsp; You don't want to over-do it, and you have to master the &quot;I'm smirking but trying to look like I'm hiding it&quot; look. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> &nbsp;Also, describing the feeling of eyes on the players, watching them even when there shouldn't be someone there, can be a subtle but effective way to ratchet up the paranoia &amp; tension. Occasionally you might even have an NPC appear to be following the PCs when they're in bigger cities/towns. Of course, when the PCs confront the &quot;follower&quot; s/he will deny it.... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid&nbsp; &nbsp; :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> &nbsp;The key is to not over-do it, as mentioned.&nbsp;Does that help?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wraith Form, post: 2122013, member: 10789"] The old trick of asking the players to roll random dice (for no reason, but [i]they[/i] don't know that) can be effective. The matter of [i]when[/i] and [i]where[/i] you have them do this will produce different effects--obviously if you do it in a dungeon crawl, they'll think it's for traps. If you do it while the PCs are having some sort of social interaction or walking through a town, it's a different "feel". You don't want to over-do it, and you have to master the "I'm smirking but trying to look like I'm hiding it" look. ;) Also, describing the feeling of eyes on the players, watching them even when there shouldn't be someone there, can be a subtle but effective way to ratchet up the paranoia & tension. Occasionally you might even have an NPC appear to be following the PCs when they're in bigger cities/towns. Of course, when the PCs confront the "follower" s/he will deny it.... :uhoh: The key is to not over-do it, as mentioned. Does that help? [/QUOTE]

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