Comments on: Taking The Mists Seriously For A Change http://www.stupidranger.com/2008/07/taking-the-mists-seriously-for-a-change.php Never Adventure Alone Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:02:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: daegunkoh http://www.stupidranger.com/2008/07/taking-the-mists-seriously-for-a-change.php/comment-page-1#comment-628 daegunkoh Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:17:00 +0000 http://www.stupidranger.com/2008/07/taking-the-mists-seriously-for-a-change.html#comment-628 I love that feel. In one setting, I set my PCs against the Mad Born (Five Nations, Eberron Sup.) I started with them finding abandoned villages with two kinds of footsteps, the dragging feet and soft, careful steps in the snow. Eventually, they found a fortified village. The overall hitter was that they didn't see a single one until the end. Instead, all I gave them were descriptions of them from the villager, who were barely able to defend themselves, and the MadBorn corpses via the Speak with Dead spell. With the spell, I had the corpses slip between "I" and the "We/Us" of the hive-mind. It's a great feeling when one of the players says "Someone is going to have to walk me to my car." I love that feel. In one setting, I set my PCs against the Mad Born (Five Nations, Eberron Sup.) I started with them finding abandoned villages with two kinds of footsteps, the dragging feet and soft, careful steps in the snow. Eventually, they found a fortified village. The overall hitter was that they didn’t see a single one until the end. Instead, all I gave them were descriptions of them from the villager, who were barely able to defend themselves, and the MadBorn corpses via the Speak with Dead spell. With the spell, I had the corpses slip between “I” and the “We/Us” of the hive-mind. It’s a great feeling when one of the players says “Someone is going to have to walk me to my car.”

]]> By: Ostar http://www.stupidranger.com/2008/07/taking-the-mists-seriously-for-a-change.php/comment-page-1#comment-627 Ostar Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:23:00 +0000 http://www.stupidranger.com/2008/07/taking-the-mists-seriously-for-a-change.html#comment-627 Let people's imagination fill in the blanks - it will be scarier than your description could ever be. The original Karloff Mummy (1930's) had a great scene that brought me chills.<br/><br/>A man is reading the forbidden scroll with the mummy in the sacrophagus in the background. The mummy's arm slowly moves. Cut to the man reading, and a bandaged hand slowly reaches in and grabs the scroll from him. The man looks up offscreen and freezes in horror. The man backs up against the wall, and just slowly starts laughing, louder and louder, as his mand has clearly snapped. The camera pans away to the doorway, were you see only two trailing wrappings on the floor disappear jerkily through the door as the mummy is gone. And the insane laughter continues. You never see the Mummy. And seeing it would not have made it as frightening a scene. Let people’s imagination fill in the blanks – it will be scarier than your description could ever be. The original Karloff Mummy (1930′s) had a great scene that brought me chills.

A man is reading the forbidden scroll with the mummy in the sacrophagus in the background. The mummy’s arm slowly moves. Cut to the man reading, and a bandaged hand slowly reaches in and grabs the scroll from him. The man looks up offscreen and freezes in horror. The man backs up against the wall, and just slowly starts laughing, louder and louder, as his mand has clearly snapped. The camera pans away to the doorway, were you see only two trailing wrappings on the floor disappear jerkily through the door as the mummy is gone. And the insane laughter continues. You never see the Mummy. And seeing it would not have made it as frightening a scene.

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