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RPGs / Re: What makes you scared, and How can you make a RPG game truly frightful???
« on: May 19, 2010, 04:17:50 PM »
Oh, and the second thing.
The scariest rpg i have ever played, thrilling like Dead Space or Alien
It was a solo, and it was FANTASY ;] So i wasn't exactly powerless.
It started slowly, i arrived at an inn or a big tavern near a forest road. It seemed abandonned. At some point i went to the stables. Perhaps i heard someone scream.
I rushed in. There was a body laying in a pool of blood, one of the horses checking it out nervously, but no trace of anybody who could have done it. I walk in slowly, sword in my hand, ready for a surprise attack. I approach the body slowly to check if the guy's still alive. Guy's dead. Nothing big happens, but suddenly i start to remember, without a word more from the GM about it, that when he described the stables he said that the horse was a bit funny looking. And then i realize that IT IS NOT A HORSE AT ALL. It's a freaking THING you could take for a horse in a dark stable.
It was so frightening i run the hell out of the stables and spent the rest of the session on the second floor of the abandonned inn, hoping this THING can't come upstairs. It was built like a horse after all. The even creepier thing was that it didn't seem interested in me. There was a dwarf in the inn and we kept checking through the windows what is the monster doing. When we lost him for a minute we freaked out. At some point we started looking for answers in the inn, there was a kind of a mystery. At some point when the tension wasn't that high, replaced by curiosity, i opened the door and the beast was there, its creepy head in my face.
The monster wasn't EVER even described. Just the few lines when i didn't pay attention, suggesting this horse looks a little off. He let it grow on me and when it hit it kept me uneasy for the rest of the session and day. I'm sure you can emagine some creepy imitation of a horse you wouldn't want to meet in an abandonned inn.
The scariest rpg i have ever played, thrilling like Dead Space or Alien
It was a solo, and it was FANTASY ;] So i wasn't exactly powerless. It started slowly, i arrived at an inn or a big tavern near a forest road. It seemed abandonned. At some point i went to the stables. Perhaps i heard someone scream.
I rushed in. There was a body laying in a pool of blood, one of the horses checking it out nervously, but no trace of anybody who could have done it. I walk in slowly, sword in my hand, ready for a surprise attack. I approach the body slowly to check if the guy's still alive. Guy's dead. Nothing big happens, but suddenly i start to remember, without a word more from the GM about it, that when he described the stables he said that the horse was a bit funny looking. And then i realize that IT IS NOT A HORSE AT ALL. It's a freaking THING you could take for a horse in a dark stable.
It was so frightening i run the hell out of the stables and spent the rest of the session on the second floor of the abandonned inn, hoping this THING can't come upstairs. It was built like a horse after all. The even creepier thing was that it didn't seem interested in me. There was a dwarf in the inn and we kept checking through the windows what is the monster doing. When we lost him for a minute we freaked out. At some point we started looking for answers in the inn, there was a kind of a mystery. At some point when the tension wasn't that high, replaced by curiosity, i opened the door and the beast was there, its creepy head in my face.
The monster wasn't EVER even described. Just the few lines when i didn't pay attention, suggesting this horse looks a little off. He let it grow on me and when it hit it kept me uneasy for the rest of the session and day. I'm sure you can emagine some creepy imitation of a horse you wouldn't want to meet in an abandonned inn.