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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 1444241" data-attributes="member: 1210">My favorite recent story regarding setting the mood in a game goes something like this... (I'm gonna put spoiler tags around it, for those who may not want to spoil any of Return to the Tomb of Horrors.)[spoiler]The previous game had ended with a pc accidentally stepping backwards through a terrible black hole that, as far as the pcs knew, destroyed anything that went into it.  The pc actually had the necessary 'key' on him to pass through it safely, but he didn't know that.  So when we started the next session, I locked him in my bedroom with a black light as his only light.  He was in a spooky, dead city of utter silence, frigid cold and near-total darkness.  Locking away the player like that served both to heighten his uncertainty and to freak out the other players- every time someone went to the bathroom they had to pass through my bedroom, with its trippy lighting and a player sitting silently like a zombie against the wall.  When the rest of the pcs finally got to the City That Waits, I moved the black light to my front room, where we typically game, and shut the music and most of the other lights off.[/spoiler]If you're interested, the story is <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1355102#post1355102" target="_blank">here.</a>[/pimp]</blockquote>