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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 5694603" data-attributes="member: 58416">A short, yet very good post.  I agree.  In the vast majority of the old Alfred Hitchcock movies, you never actually see anyone get killed or mangled, yet many of them are terrifying - I'd say more scary than some of today's gorefest movies which toss blood and guts everywhere.  Tone and feel are things which are often overlooked; anxiety is a powerful tool.In all seriousness, even if you don't play the system at all; I highly recommend GURPS Horror.  The book was just released in a revamped 4th Edition copy.  It does have some mechanics, but a lot of the book is advice on how to create a horror atmosphere, and discussion on how to apply that atmosphere to a game.  <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/horror/" target="_blank">GURPS Horror</a>I also agree with what wingsandsword said.  I think there are a lot of great monsters among the collective mythologies of our own world which are forgotten.  I was speaking with a friend of mine yesterday about how I thought it would be cool to create a setting around classic fairy tales.  (He then pointed me toward a system called Grimm which I was not aware existed.)  If presented in the right way, I believe that being mauled by The Big Bad Wolf or the witch from Hansel and Gretal trying to eat the PCs would be just as terrifying (if not more so) than owlbears and kobolds.</blockquote>