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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 2078166" data-attributes="member: 9254">I've done it as both DM and player.  I ran a D&D game where the party ended up in Lloth's chambers.  It was completely unplanned so I opened the dark, scary door in my mind and let it all pour forth.  I don't remember most of what I said but in addition to having a character go comatose to avoid seeing several things, at least one player had to leave the room.  I did this almost a decade ago and people who aren't in the game get the creeps just from 2nd and 3rd hand stories.  As a player I had a Sabbat vampire, one of the judges that make sure no one is  drawing *too* much attention.  He was fairly innocuous in combat but had buttloads of social skills.  He was also horribly, horribly intelligent.  The weird part in playing him was that I unlocked that little sociopathic genius that lives in the back of my skull.  When I played him I became nightmarishly intuitive and had an immense ability to divine every nuance of the DM and other players' plans.  I completely derailed several stories by making totally unfounded leaps of logic that turned out to be completely correct while at the same time manipulating the rest of the party mercilessly in ways I had never done before and haven't done since.  And he was evil, with that frightengly distant form of evil that harbors no personal malice towards anything yet has no compulsion against anything.  Worst of all, he was likeable because he was this calm person who seemed to have a genuine interest in everyone; no one could tell that interest was solely so he could identify the personality hooks required to manipulate them and to catalog their strengths and weaknesses.  I stopped playing him because it took longer and longer to get out of character once I dropped into that mindset.</blockquote>

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