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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JesterPoet" data-source="post: 1406463" data-attributes="member: 138">While I've played in MANY great games, I think the one that stands out for me is a Little Fears game I played about a year ago.  It was HEAVILY roleplay oriented.  We all played children, generally around 10 or 11 years old.  I played a kid in a wheelchair, just to try something a bit different.Our GM, Adam, created an element of fear that I have never felt before.  He apparently based the storyline loosely on the game Silent Hill (which I've never played).Each character had a phobia, and we had to give a detailed backstory as to where the phobia came from.  Mine was a fear of water, after falling into a lake while on vacation with my parents.  It's what put me in the wheelchair.  One girl had a fear of guns, after seeing her friend shot...  another girl had a fear of being left alone, after being snatched by a stranger.  I can't remember the last one.I could never do the story justice.  To simplify it immensly, our train (which we were traveling on with our parents) stopped in Silent Hill, and the adults got off to see what was wrong, and never came back.  Eventually we left the train and wandered the abandoned town, occasionally coming across the most horrifyingly frightening abberations I have ever had the joy of imagining.  The game culminated in us "remembering" and coming to terms with the horrible things we did that brought on our phobias, and having to come to terms with it.Adam worked hard to maintain the game's serious tone, which is no small feat with our group (especially with me around).  Though we broke character occasionally, (i.e. "We're all gonna die, let's experiment with our sexuality), it was pretty rare.  In fact, I think the few times we did break character with a silly comment, it really was becuase the tension had gotten so thick it was REALLY freaking us out.  It was kind of a "release valve"I was literally spooked to get in my car and drive home alone after each session.  I loved it.There are games that come close, but I think that's the best I've played.</blockquote>

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