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<blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8102718" data-attributes="member: 6855114"><p>If you consider CoS as a full horror genre, I must disagree. It does have a horror theme, but, as the characters become stronger, the horror feel starts to erode fast. Especially if the get their hands on the sunsword or even the symbol of Ravenkind. </p><p></p><p>I am one of those that say that D&D can do horror. But a full campaign? It can be done, but not on a regular basis and it takes a lot of work to pull it off. It is certainly not something an inexperienced DM will be able to sustain. But for a few sessions it will work quite fine.</p><p></p><p>As for other systems. I ran a full horror campaign in BTS for a year and a half and it worked smoothingly. I played a Cthulhu campaign in the 80s and it went on for almost two years (we all ended up in a psychiatric hospital screaming maddly about monsters in the oceans...) but we had a blast. Our CoS lasted about 7 months each (I have two groups). Both groups succeeded but with a lot of difficulty. Horror was there but not at every step of the adventures. It was more episodic horror than a full blown horror genre. But the stress was there. I used Strahd to the best of his abilities and though both groups succeeded, only 5 characters out of twelve survived their final encounter with Strahd. (Three death in one group, two in the other).</p><p></p><p>So yes D&D can do horror. But not on a regular basis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Helldritch, post: 8102718, member: 6855114"] If you consider CoS as a full horror genre, I must disagree. It does have a horror theme, but, as the characters become stronger, the horror feel starts to erode fast. Especially if the get their hands on the sunsword or even the symbol of Ravenkind. I am one of those that say that D&D can do horror. But a full campaign? It can be done, but not on a regular basis and it takes a lot of work to pull it off. It is certainly not something an inexperienced DM will be able to sustain. But for a few sessions it will work quite fine. As for other systems. I ran a full horror campaign in BTS for a year and a half and it worked smoothingly. I played a Cthulhu campaign in the 80s and it went on for almost two years (we all ended up in a psychiatric hospital screaming maddly about monsters in the oceans...) but we had a blast. Our CoS lasted about 7 months each (I have two groups). Both groups succeeded but with a lot of difficulty. Horror was there but not at every step of the adventures. It was more episodic horror than a full blown horror genre. But the stress was there. I used Strahd to the best of his abilities and though both groups succeeded, only 5 characters out of twelve survived their final encounter with Strahd. (Three death in one group, two in the other). So yes D&D can do horror. But not on a regular basis. [/QUOTE]
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