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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Traveon Wyvernspur" data-source="post: 5700858" data-attributes="member: 73201">I have to agree and disagree with you here. Yes, we have been over stimulated with intense images of progressively scarier monsters as the times have changed, but at the same time the ability to be scared hasn't changed. I feel that if you throw a 1950's Creature from the Black Lagoon at a group of players they wouldn't be scared, but if you flavor it right and make it menacing with your descriptions. My thinking on this is to play to their senses. Don't give anything away with light hand-waived descriptions like "you see a black creature emerge from the lagoon," go more in-depth, "rising from the murky depths very slowly you see a midnight dark creature, it's eyes glowing a horrid green, moss covers its body in an almost armor-like fashion, claws the size of small daggers spring forth out of its hands, you can smell its fetid breath reeking of rotten carrion from 20 feet away as it opens its mouth and emits a terrible screech that deafens your ears, it springs forth with unnatural speed and attacks!" MORE DETAILS! Get the players involved, get them invested, get them immersed in your story. That's my feeling. People still get scared at the movie theaters, they just need "more" to do it, better makeup, better special EFX, better sound, and better picture quality (high definition/3D). So if DMs take a bit more time to give their "audience" of players "more" they can achieve the same thing.</blockquote>

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