D&D General Why fear is good for PCs

Velocitree

Cheerful peasant
I went through my DM thought process this week and asked myself: why do I think keeping my PCs afraid is so important?

Here’s what I came up with:


Hope this is valuable to a new DM: I ran a pretty flat campaign my first time out the gate, and it’s been a learning process ever since.

If you have any tips on how you scare your 5e PCs, pass them along please, I love hearing good tricks.

Right now mine are in a hostile ancient city with defenders of an equal CR, and there’s a mythos that hits the casters with Faerie Fire and wild magic every time they attack the guards with magic. And fifty foot walking statues with laser eyes that just dropped a building on them. But the tables will turn…
 

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