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<blockquote data-quote="med stud" data-source="post: 28451" data-attributes="member: 1211">I use a combination of mystery and fear when I want to scare my players. My favourite so far is when a vampire was the bad guy. A vampire is an ordinary enough bad guy when described as such. But vampires IMC are such abominations against nature that their presence kills plants. They wither and die in seconds.So, once, on a visit in a castle, I told a PC that the flowers in his room was dying. He ran out of the room, and got the party members, the cleric was turning undead all over the room and they fine combed the room until it was clear. Then everyone slept in that room, keeping double guards.After that, the PCs had two matters to take care of; the diplomatic mission that was their business in the first hand, and the hunt of the creature of the night, which they didnt know what it was.From time to time, the vampire did sudden attacks on people, striking from the shadows, and retreating immidietly after the attack. When the vampire attacked, it was always described as a dark, hulking little man with leathery hide and hollow black eyes.The vampire got the party on their toes, and they were very emotional when they finally killed the creature, who really was Rog 4 Vampire against a party of average lvl 6.The key was the surprise, the lack of knowledge, and the knowledge that the creature was there somewhere, always ready to strike out against the PCs.It was great&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="med stud, post: 28451, member: 1211"] I use a combination of mystery and fear when I want to scare my players. My favourite so far is when a vampire was the bad guy. A vampire is an ordinary enough bad guy when described as such. But vampires IMC are such abominations against nature that their presence kills plants. They wither and die in seconds. So, once, on a visit in a castle, I told a PC that the flowers in his room was dying. He ran out of the room, and got the party members, the cleric was turning undead all over the room and they fine combed the room until it was clear. Then everyone slept in that room, keeping double guards. After that, the PCs had two matters to take care of; the diplomatic mission that was their business in the first hand, and the hunt of the creature of the night, which they didnt know what it was. From time to time, the vampire did sudden attacks on people, striking from the shadows, and retreating immidietly after the attack. When the vampire attacked, it was always described as a dark, hulking little man with leathery hide and hollow black eyes. The vampire got the party on their toes, and they were very emotional when they finally killed the creature, who really was Rog 4 Vampire against a party of average lvl 6. The key was the surprise, the lack of knowledge, and the knowledge that the creature was there somewhere, always ready to strike out against the PCs. It was great :) [/QUOTE]

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