What is the least likely word to come out of an adventurer’s mouth?

[Forrester]

I'm looking to add a little "horror" to my campaign . . . last session I came close, I think.

Everyone here familiar with the Hairy Spider in Monsters of Faerun? You are, even if you don't know it . . . it's just a 1hp tarantula, at BEST a foot wide (with legs), with a lousy 1hp of damage per bite and a DC11 poison that does a point of Dex damage.

The party was going Mega-Spider Hunting in a Hellmouth (yes, it's a Buffy homage.)

I decided things would be more interesting if they encountered, oh, I don't know, 10,000 Hairy Spiders. Like in one of those B-pictures . Normally they'd be able to easily outrun them, but the terrain, it *was* rocky, treacherous, and slowed them down mightily.

They narrowly got away, but they had to use most of their resources to do it -- it was a *great* encounter. I highly recommend it to all the Rat Bastard DMs out there looking to put some fear into the PCs' hearts.

 

[John Crichton]

Re: What is the least likely word to come out of an adventurer’s mouth?

How can we as DMs place the fear back into the game?

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Do you want your DM and module to be a challenge, a cakewalk, or on my god it ate Jack and its still hungry?

Not a problem for my group. The ranger runs from his favored enemy, Orcs. And since there is an avariel in the party, any sign of fire puts her in to retreat mode.

Altho honestly, the last DM that ran for us killed off 2/3 of the party in a D&D adventure (took 2 rounds to kill the two 8th level PC's that were at full HP) and when running CoC brain neutered 2/3 of the party (1 round = 2 vegetable PC's). So when I run an adventure, they are thinking that every fight could kill them.

So I guess this proves that (fairly) killing off a few PC's is a decent way to instill some fear.

 

[Mark]

"Can I take a level of commoner and retire...?"

 

[Heathen72]

I've rarely heard "Sorry, I was in the wrong" (unless a sword was being held to their necks)

 

[Cedric]

Not sure about single words, but the most unlikely phrase to come out of an adventurer's mouth...

"Let's carry out all the copper pieces."

Cedric