What's your scariest in-game experience?

[Orryn Emrys]

Coincidental weather conditions have been my friend on more than one occasion. In fact, one of the creepiest Ravenloft sessions I ever ran was on a quiet, foggy night. The most specific event I recall, however, was during a completely different session during one of my Ravenloft campaigns. I've always been a little theatric about it, anyway, so my RL games were always played by candlelight. In addition to setting the mood, the low-light conditions kept the group's attention riveted to the table... casting shadows behind the players that easily threw the rest of the room into obscurity.

Well... one particular evening, everyone was glued to my voice and the tension was mounting when, at a crucial moment, the howling winds outside suddenly blew open the front door (which was apparently not closed very well). The player nearest the door, with his back to it of course, leaped out of his chair, spun about and nearly climbed backwards onto the table. It took the group but a moment to realize what had happened and resolve into rolling fits of laughter... and of course it rather ruined the mood of the moment... but it stands out in my memory as a most remarkable moment in my history of gaming.

Maybe it isn't exactly a horrifying moment in gaming... but I thought I'd share.

 

[guedo79]

The most specific event I recall, however, was during a completely different session during one of my Ravenloft campaigns. I've always been a little theatric about it, anyway, so my RL games were always played by candlelight.

How do you prevent things from catching on fire? I mean my group has a hard enough time not spilling drinks all over the table. I'd hate to think about candles being tipped.

 

[diaglo]

How do you prevent things from catching on fire? I mean my group has a hard enough time not spilling drinks all over the table. I'd hate to think about candles being tipped.

i think you answered your own question. i mean if everything is wet from spilt drinks how will it catch fire.

 

[Tewligan]

I was taking part in a game at a local store and (lucky me) got to sit next to a very fat, smelly, food encrusted wierdo. Part way through the game I felt his hand on my leg, which he proceded to rub.

Scared the hell out of me.

The guy called the police to try and get me charged with assualt when he got out of hospital.

Hang on, hang on. So, in the middle of a store, you start pounding on a guy for touching your leg, rather than loudly saying, "Hey, stop rubbing my leg, jerk!" He goes to the hospital, and you aren't charged with assault, despite multiple witnesses who saw you apparently hitting this guy in the face at least hard enough to break his nose. Oh, and as an afterthought, you remember to mention that he's a child molester who got his comeuppance. Hm. I'm not saying that this story is untrue. I'm just saying it bears an uncanny resemblance to the kind of story that homophobic high school kids make up to show what a badass they are.

 

[Amos_Sten]

Hang on, hang on. So, in the middle of a store, you start pounding on a guy for touching your leg, rather than loudly saying, "Hey, stop rubbing my leg, jerk!" He goes to the hospital, and you aren't charged with assault, despite multiple witnesses who saw you apparently hitting this guy in the face at least hard enough to break his nose. Oh, and as an afterthought, you remember to mention that he's a child molester who got his comeuppance. Hm. I'm not saying that this story is untrue. I'm just saying it bears an uncanny resemblance to the kind of story that homophobic high school kids make up to show what a badass they are.

You could atleast have the decency to call me a liar out and out, the whole "I'm not saying its untrue but" thing really isn't becoming. Atleast have the courage of your convictions.

Well I'm lucky I don't need to explain myself to you then, fortunately lynch mobs aren't in favour here. Or maybe I am lying and I'm really some sad nobody sat in his room suffering from strange feeling about the boys outside making stories up to impress people I've never met as you suggest.

Does it occur to you the police investigated it including talking to the witnesses and didn't do anything suggest something to you? Probably not as you seem to think I'm a homophobic school kid.

And it been awhile since I've been accused of being a school kid.

 

[Null Boundry]

You could atleast have the decency to call me a liar out and out, the whole "I'm not saying its untrue but" thing really isn't becoming. Atleast have the courage of your convictions.

Well I'm lucky I don't need to explain myself to you then, fortunately lynch mobs aren't in favour here. Or maybe I am lying and I'm really some sad nobody sat in his room suffering from strange feeling about the boys outside making stories up to impress people I've never met as you suggest.

Does it occur to you the police investigated it including talking to the witnesses and didn't do anything suggest something to you? Probably not as you seem to think I'm a homophobic school kid.

And it been awhile since I've been accused of being a school kid.

You forgot to mention the bit about not pounding the guy as your an expert martial artist trained to kill with his little finger. One blow would all it would have taken.

 

[Wraith Form]

You forgot to mention the bit about not pounding the guy as your an expert martial artist trained to kill with his little finger. One blow would all it would have taken.

Dang. At least I just made fun of a few Georgians who aren't even here to defend themselves by implying that if they're gay, Wiccan and making dinner they must be a cross between Hannibal and Deliverance. You guys just....sheesh.

 

[TracerBullet42]

You could atleast have the decency to call me a liar out and out, the whole "I'm not saying its untrue but" thing really isn't becoming. Atleast have the courage of your convictions....

Now now, children. Can't we all just get along? (Someone had to say it)

But seriously, this kind of stuff doesn't need to be happening here. Let's just move on.

--> Back to topic

Something else scary that happened in a game for me was when a bear stole our groups pineapple....I loved that pineapple. Sniff, sniff.

 

[Wikidogre]

Dude, not to start a flame war, but you seem very....rigid...in your views. Did any of these people try to do anything to you? Was the dinner they were cooking in the kitchen a HUMAN or something?

I'm not gay, nor Wiccan, and I wear a LOT of black but I'm not Marilyn Manson or something, nor am I even very "liberal"--so I'm not defending anyone--but you just come across in both of your posts as being very....I dunno...inflexible.

Whatever.

Um not to start a flame war, but umm you seem to be the one who is inflexible...your the one who just got down on a guy who said he was just a little uncomfortable, be it that the guy was gay or a pagen....2 things he even admitted he was not used too....inflexibly your the one who seems too think people from or who live in GA are inflexible...where might you be from, i bet people could say alot about you too, just from where you are and where you were born....so easy killer.

Sorry, i needed to get that out.
diaglo- i thought your story implemented anything other than nerves meeting someone new.

 

[The_Universe]

TEWLIGEN AND AMOS_STEN:

Talk about something scary, or TAKE IT OUTSIDE! Quite frankly, this little discussion between board members about just how accepting we need to be is starting to piss me off. This kind of talk works its way into nearly EVERY THREAD on these boards.

Is there some secret contest going on that I don't know about? Are there bonus points for saying "person X is an offensive, fiendish _____aphobic jerk, and I'm the most tolerant angel in the history of the friggin' universe!" ?!?!? Let's face it, not everybody thinks the same as everybody else, nobody's absolutely right, nobody's absolutely wrong. To use a christian metaphor, which I'm SURE will offend someone, and get ME branded as an insensitive neanderthal, you're (that's a general you, not aimed at anyone in particular) not a saint, he/she is not the devil, and you just come off as a pompous, arrogant dink when you try to make it seem like any of the above is the case. These are boards about RPGs and related nerdery--not a forum for contests of virtue!

The guy legitimately brought up a situation, game-related, that he found frightening. Diaglo did much the same, and we've spent half of this thread deciding whether or not it's okay to be uncomfortable around things that are different! Of course it's okay to be uncomfortable! It's what you do about the feeling that counts. Once things cross the line from the mental (feelings) to the physical (touching somebody's leg, biting, punching someone in the nose) it becomes an entirely different matter, and more extreme reactions are perfectly reasonable, and even (for the most part) legal.

I'm a 260 lb. heterosexual white male, and if I tried to 1) bite a guy or 2) rub a woman's leg, one of the following things would happen: 1) I'd get the crap kicked out of me (rightfully, I think) or 2) I'd get slapped. AND I THINK THAT THOSE ARE REASONABLE REACTIONS!

However, THAT IS NOT THE TOPIC OF THIS THREAD!

So PLEASE tell me something scary that happened in game, or with your game group, or near a game, or a game that's naturally scary, or SOMETHING...or get out. I don't want to hear it.

Please, (and I ask this with all the sincerity in the world) stop wasting my flavor.