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<blockquote data-quote="Rune" data-source="post: 164613" data-attributes="member: 67">My players seem to think that I'm a rat bastard, so here goes:All of these are from the campaign linked to in my sig, because my memory is fuzzy.<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Have you ever led the PCs deep into a dense, rotted forest where they have to march single file and get clawed up by the tight webbing of branches?&nbsp; Have you ever had them run like crazy out of said forest while it burns down around them?&nbsp; Try it.&nbsp; It's great fun! 
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<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Have you ever made unreasonably realistic spider minis for a game (huge-sized) out of colored pipe cleaners and cotton balls and used them to represent a whole city crawling with them for your level 3 characters?&nbsp; And then pulled out the colossal mother spider with the lovingly crafted egg-sac just when the players were beginning to doubt your sanity?&nbsp; Try it.&nbsp; It's great fun! 
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<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Have you ever frightened your players so badly that they could not sleep the night of your game with a single zombie (admittedly, one with a template which allowed it to come back to (un)life over and over again) that never even hit them once?&nbsp; This is done solely through use of atmosphere-building horror techniques and the limiting of undead present in the campaign to...well, just the zombie, so far.&nbsp; Try it.&nbsp; It's great fun!</li>
</ul>That's all I've got for now.&nbsp; Maybe some other time, I will relate Cthulhu goodies, such as using yourself as an NPC who has terrible things happen to it.&nbsp; Terrible.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rune, post: 164613, member: 67"] My players seem to think that I'm a rat bastard, so here goes: All of these are from the campaign linked to in my sig, because my memory is fuzzy. [list] [*]Have you ever led the PCs deep into a dense, rotted forest where they have to march single file and get clawed up by the tight webbing of branches? Have you ever had them run like crazy out of said forest while it burns down [i]around[/i] them? Try it. It's great fun! [*]Have you ever made unreasonably realistic spider minis for a game (huge-sized) out of colored pipe cleaners and cotton balls and used them to represent a [i]whole city[/i] crawling with them for your level 3 characters? And then pulled out the [b]colossal mother spider with the lovingly crafted egg-sac[/b] just when the players were beginning to doubt your sanity? Try it. It's great fun! [*]Have you ever frightened your players so badly that they could not sleep the night of your game with a single zombie (admittedly, one with a template which allowed it to come back to (un)life over and over again) [i]that never even hit them once[/i]? This is done solely through use of atmosphere-building horror techniques and the limiting of undead present in the campaign to...well, just the zombie, so far. Try it. It's great fun! [/list] That's all I've got for now. Maybe some other time, I will relate Cthulhu goodies, such as using yourself as an NPC who has terrible things happen to it. Terrible. [/QUOTE]

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