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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 3870876" data-attributes="member: 6957">Corpses and a call sign can work wonders....A scrawled message on the wall 'mantichora' - (translation 'manslayer'). An NPC left on watch is never seen again, but a drying puddle of blood is found.... That night a gentle sobbing can be heard, and will be heard in the ruins each night.An riding animal is found gutted, a guard dog is found hanging by the hind legs, its throat slit, but little blood found.Save the PCs for last.... The thing only attacks animals or creatures on their own, waiting, invisible. If one of the PCs is all alone then call him or her aside, describe in in sparse (but accurate) detail. If the PC loses then let him be found by the others, blood eagled....The thing dogs the party while they are at the ruins, and for three nights thereafter, then returns to the ruins and its lone brooding.Creatures that work well for this include hags, rakshasha (or other evil outsider), ogre magi, and some of the nastier fey you can come up with. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Try to set it up so that whatever critter you choose can almost take the party, all by its lonesome, between 2 and 3 CR higher than the norm. Whatever the creature it is enjoying the groups fear.The inexplicable can also be creepy, finding a large number of skeletal undead tilling a field or harvesting the grain. A zombie church procession, carrying an altar for a lawful good deity. Undead carrying a closed casket from which can be heard curses and a pounding as someone, or something, tries to get out....And believe it or not I have on more than one occasion scared a party by having a giant muttering 'fe fi fo fum, I smell the blood of a Christian man. Be he live, or be he dead' (smacks the wall with his club) I'll grind his bones to make my bread...' Mind you, the lair that they had found was a veritable abattoir. Having the slovenly, blood caked monster quoting Shakespeare was just the last bit.The Auld Grump</blockquote>

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