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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 8212721" data-attributes="member: 6802378">The horror feeling disappears when there is no hope and characters can't make the reader to feel empathy for them. If you aren't worried because they are going to be killed then it is not horror, but morbid repugnance. If I want then there is enough hope in horror story, thanks faith's characters. Maybe somebody doesn't survive, but his sacrifice to save others helps more he could guess, becoming a martyr his relics hurt unholy creatures. The defenders of the innocents can be a true nightmare for evil monsters. Have you killed a cute doggy? Then John Wick warns you to start to pray. Buffy the vampire-slayer was action-horror, but also it had got some piece of comedy, and it worked. Some players want a happy ending, even the possibility some dark lord could find the path of the redemption to be free from the curse. * Now I am remembering those old horror comics from 70's, and or supernatural young fiction, for example Brenna Yovanoff's The Replacement (I don't know the book to be good or bad, but I only mention it as example of possible future new Ravenloft novels).* Other idea is a dread domain with creatures from Gamma World, antropomorphic animals thanks transgenic enginering who betrayed and rebelled against their human creators, and a horrible relation with the evolutionated apes, who learnt the way to craft ammo and firearms. (the dark powers sabotage all no-magic machine-guns but if these are too old and "expensive relics", at least mini-motors to reload crossbows works, but the no-magic batteries aren't easy nor too cheap to be crafted) . Other idea is a plague of khytons, alien demons from 3rd Book of the Vile Darkness. The horror arrives when you discover the dark lord caused intentionally the plague, as a "pyromanian firefighter", the classic evil politician causing troubles to sell the solution. If the emergengy allows you to keep absolute power, then you don't want the end of the crisis. * American Horror Story shows us example of stories within "little spaces", for example a single-family house gave enough plot for the first season. * It would be fun, but nasty if characters from Sithicus find an escape to the prime material plane and they discover they are in the post-apocalypse Krynn where Raitslin become the one deity. (The good new is they are "welcome" or at least not hostile, because these "refugees" are an opportunity to rebuild his devastated world.</blockquote>

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