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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 3394338" data-attributes="member: 926">Aberrations, Outsiders, and Undead.I'm a Lovecraft kinda guy.  Almost all of my games have at least one of these three types as bad guys, and the best ones have all of them (sometimes in the same creature!)Oh, how I long to use my 15th level Psychic Warrior Pseudonatural Yuan-Ti Anathema Lich in a game.  Oh, that will be a glorious day, indeed...Interestingly, at game yesterday, while taking a snack break, the DM started reminiscing about old games (he'd had me bring over my Fiend Folio to borrow, and looking through it brought up some memories), and he said that he's only actually ever really gotten a genuinely scary feeling from a game once.  He then told everyone about the time when his Paladin and the rest of the party, all around 18th level, were on an arctic plain in search of an ancient temple of the insane alien god Abomination, and in the distance on the horizon saw a giant, tentacled  thing moving across the ice towards them.  As it got closer, they could see it was a giant, severed head, with tentacles, entrails, and assorted gore hanging from the stump of the neck, dragging it along the ground toward them.  (a Pseudonatural Crawling Head.) The battle that ensued cost two members of the party their lives, left the rest mentally scarred, and one completely insane.  He told everyone that that was the only time a game had ever freaked him out or actually made him feel the least bit of fear, and one of the best single gaming sessions he'd ever played in.This guy is our main DM, and has been since I started playing D&D; he's the guy that taught me to play, taught me what it meant to be a DM.  He's the best DM I've ever seen, and one of my best friends.I was honored because I ran the game he described; the only campaign I've ever been able to run through to completion (up to about 25th level.)  For him to say those things about it, that it actually made him feel things... I was amazed, honored, and touched more than I can express.  It made me feel that perhaps I'm not as bad a DM as I've always thought... he told me that that campaign was one of the funnest he had ever played.  After that I've decided to start planning a new campaign, to start whenever he wants to take a hiatus DMing.  I think it's going to revolve around a conflict between the 2 Evil gods of my world (Alterra); the Abomination and the Adversary.  This is going to be fun thinking about <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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