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<blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 2210490" data-attributes="member: 198">The funny thing I've noticed is that besides maggots (which don't bother me at all, but then nothing does), the one thing that freaks players out is anything to do with children, as many of the stories on this thread indicate.An example:About a year ago, the PCs in my game were helping an elven town fight off an undead army, which had supposedly destroyed a couple of elven villages. They were placed in charge of a small detachment of troops and had a lot of fun setting up tactical positions and making plans. As expected, the undead attacked and after firing a couple of volleys into their ranks, the PCs charged into them. While cutting through the first ranks of skeletons, they could see the zombies behind them. The first thing they noticed was that some of the zombies were smaller than others. And it's only when they got really close (the battle was in the evening) that they realized that fully a quarter of the zombies were children. Little elven children with dead, staring eyes, marching stolidly into battle in ranks, still wearing the little frocks and pinafores (no sailor suits - even I'm not that evil!) that they wore when they were killed, some clutching the toys that they had with them when they died, reaching for the PCs with little clawed hands. Apparently dragons don't make my PCs turn a hair, but when a dead little elven girl with skin rotting off her face hits them with a doll and pipes, &quot;Where's my mommy?&quot; they have issues with it. Some people are so sensitive <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious&nbsp; &nbsp; :]" data-shortname=":]" />&nbsp; Ooooooooh, pretty <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shilsen, post: 2210490, member: 198"] The funny thing I've noticed is that besides maggots (which don't bother me at all, but then nothing does), the one thing that freaks players out is anything to do with children, as many of the stories on this thread indicate. An example: About a year ago, the PCs in my game were helping an elven town fight off an undead army, which had supposedly destroyed a couple of elven villages. They were placed in charge of a small detachment of troops and had a lot of fun setting up tactical positions and making plans. As expected, the undead attacked and after firing a couple of volleys into their ranks, the PCs charged into them. While cutting through the first ranks of skeletons, they could see the zombies behind them. The first thing they noticed was that some of the zombies were smaller than others. And it's only when they got really close (the battle was in the evening) that they realized that fully a quarter of the zombies were children. Little elven children with dead, staring eyes, marching stolidly into battle in ranks, still wearing the little frocks and pinafores (no sailor suits - even I'm not [I]that[/I] evil!) that they wore when they were killed, some clutching the toys that they had with them when they died, reaching for the PCs with little clawed hands. Apparently dragons don't make my PCs turn a hair, but when a dead little elven girl with skin rotting off her face hits them with a doll and pipes, "Where's my mommy?" they have issues with it. Some people are so sensitive :] Ooooooooh, pretty :cool:! [/QUOTE]

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