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Message: <blockquote data-quote="grimslade" data-source="post: 3103671" data-attributes="member: 6061">Styles of playI guess it comes down to immersion in your character. If your group plays with a certain level of detachment, where the rules and meta-game are part of the fun, you need to have palpable rules based effects to the character. Horror is achieved by both in-game and meta-game purposes, i.e. the old skool level drain. The harsh rules lend the immediacy to the event. Now a group that is heavily immersed in their characters is going to get its chills by ambiance and storytelling. The actual threat isn't what is horrifying it is how the threat is portrayed. A level one Commoner poses little threat but if he is grilling up the last bits of the town's mayor on the BBQ, he becomes a little spooky. In the movie Se7en, Kevin Spacey isn't a real physical threat, even though he does trash Brad Pitt early on, but he is horrifying by his actions and the great unknown: what he will do next.</blockquote>