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<blockquote data-quote="rootbeergnome" data-source="post: 150012" data-attributes="member: 3462">If you are wanting to give a feeling of suspense or horror and they are already paranoid, then one of the best things to do is to isolate single characters from the party.&nbsp; I recall reading something from a (I think) Dragon magazine article about a party of adventurers being stalked by a vampire through a dungeon.&nbsp; The vampire would sneak up behind the party and cast a Wall of Stone spell that would separate the rear party member from the rest of the group.&nbsp; The party could do nothing but listen to the screams of the isolated friend while they tried to break through the wall in futility.&nbsp; And, if the party member ever showed up any time later, they would all be paranoid that he was now a vampire.&nbsp; Well, you might not want to use this exact scenario, but isolation works well <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp; Happy DMing, maybe one day you will be as Eeeevil as Rune is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rootbeergnome, post: 150012, member: 3462"] If you are wanting to give a feeling of suspense or horror and they are already paranoid, then one of the best things to do is to isolate single characters from the party. I recall reading something from a (I think) Dragon magazine article about a party of adventurers being stalked by a vampire through a dungeon. The vampire would sneak up behind the party and cast a [I]Wall of Stone[/I] spell that would separate the rear party member from the rest of the group. The party could do nothing but listen to the screams of the isolated friend while they tried to break through the wall in futility. And, if the party member ever showed up any time later, they would all be paranoid that he was now a vampire. Well, you might not want to use this exact scenario, but isolation works well :D Happy DMing, maybe one day you will be as Eeeevil as Rune is. [/QUOTE]

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