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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emperor Valerian" data-source="post: 1374667" data-attributes="member: 15043">Hmm... lets see...- Using a PCs background in a tragic manner (ie. killing off the brother of the PC to make the group hate the baddies more)- Creating lovable NPCs only to have them die at the hands of the evil the PCs are up against- Loved NPCs slowly turning evil as the group watches (a slow turning where the group feels powerless can be far more... distressing than a sudden change)- NPCs betraying the group (more fun than the slow turning)- Being chased (happens alot)- Assassins (lets see... they've had how many hits put on them now? 5?)- Royalty (Dealing with snobby princesses annoys them)- Loved NPCs being captured by the baddies and carted off- Nimblewrights (the group fighter was very annoyed that attack rolls of 26 and 27 missed the two nimblewrights sent to kill the group...)- Me randomly pulling out the MM or MM2 while the party is talking- Hearing the sound of random dice the DM is rolling- Suspenseful buildups to something mundane ("Make a listen check... make a spot check.  You see a housecat wander close to the fire, then leave")Many of these, they tell me, are "good" annoyances... I'm not sure how to take this  <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    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>