YAHTFOYPP (Yet Another How To Freak Out Your Players Post.)

[Bob5th]

Start use music during battles that conveys the feel of the battle. At some point when they are mid to high level describe that they hear something coming at then through the forest and start playing the Godzilla theme music.

 

[Stone Angel]

Use the children thing like in The Blair Witch, "As the party awakes you notice thousands of little tiny foot prints all around your bed rests as if left by small children.

 

[Dr Midnight]

I tried something this week that further cemented my opinion that scaring players is all but a lost cause. Piratecat argues with me on this one every once in a while, but I keep losing.

Every spooky description or eerie in-game anything I tried was met with a player joke, and "I go up to it and touch it. Is it real?" or something like that. Absolutely no immersion or imagination... arrgh.