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GM Lich
post May 8 2012, 05:49 PM
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So I’ve been running campaign for a while, We’ve had our pink mohawk moments along with with our trenchcoat moments. I’ve been leaning mostly towards trench coat. Now I’ve felt inspiration from the other campaign I’m playing in. What he did was basically sent a possessed vessel body. While that doesn’t sound that scary the way the GM did was great, we investigated a mansion. We learned about the history of the owner of the mansion. We then found the body, and bam, came to alive, the way the GM described it we considered not even fighting it. We thought it was rather hopeless, until we had no choice but to fight it. The idea was to fight it while the others found exit. Turns out it was only a force 5 so it died to focus fire.

So feeling slightly inspired by that GM’s horror idea, I’ve decided to make a “horror” based run.
The most effective ways I think is:
Isolation, this is a classic horror trope, losing contact with outside. So that means no matrix connection, if there is it is static at the best
Disarm the PCs, Horror isn’t that scary if all it takes is a couple of heavy weapons like Gauss rifles and take them on
I was thinking of perhaps placing them in an area where they can still use heavy weapons but if they miss it could easily doom them. Ex: A abandoned system of tunnels thats not longer structurally sound.
The Monster should be incomprehensible, the monster shouldn’t be able to be negotiated with, also the less they know about the monster the better. I’ve noticed in most media the less you know about the monster that is lurking about the scarier it is.
I would like to avoid using spirits against them for the sake of making not seem like I just copied the other GM. A little bit of magic to mess with them perhaps.

I’m still stuck on what I actually want to do, but I figured you guys may have some ideas.
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- GM Lich   Horror based run   May 8 2012, 05:49 PM
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- - CanRay   The group's favorite bar is shot up. All that...   May 8 2012, 10:01 PM
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- - Whipstitch   This is probably stating the obvious, but I'd ...   May 9 2012, 12:58 AM
- - kzt   Yeah, if your scenario says to some players ...   May 9 2012, 01:14 AM
- - thorya   I agree entirely with Whipstitch. I think anoth...   May 9 2012, 02:46 AM
- - Whipstitch   Yeah, I'm not trying to be Debbie Downer here-...   May 9 2012, 04:02 AM
- - Blade   Taking all the toys from all characters is difficu...   May 9 2012, 09:42 AM
- - The Jopp   If you want the pink mohawk to stay on just make i...   May 9 2012, 10:55 AM
- - ZeroPoint   You should be able to take away everyone's goo...   May 9 2012, 02:26 PM
- - Sir_Psycho   There are plenty of ways to deprive runners of the...   May 9 2012, 05:42 PM
|- - kzt   QUOTE (Sir_Psycho @ May 9 2012, 11:42 AM)...   May 10 2012, 03:48 AM
|- - Sir_Psycho   QUOTE (kzt @ May 9 2012, 10:48 PM) The re...   May 11 2012, 03:55 AM
|- - kzt   QUOTE (Sir_Psycho @ May 10 2012, 09:55 PM...   May 11 2012, 04:01 AM
- - GM Lich   I think I can use a lot of this feedback. I need t...   May 9 2012, 10:25 PM
|- - EKBT81   QUOTE (GM Lich @ May 8 2012, 07:49 PM) Th...   May 9 2012, 11:30 PM
- - MADness   The first thing that comes to my mind is The Attic...   May 9 2012, 11:55 PM
- - Neko Asakami   I've always wanted to try an run an alien or S...   May 10 2012, 05:52 AM
- - Midas   I agree that running a horror run tends to hinge o...   May 10 2012, 09:43 AM
- - Lansdren   Not long ago I had my team run a horror themed sto...   May 10 2012, 10:30 AM
- - Azrael   If you have access to them, the New World of Darkn...   May 10 2012, 12:51 PM
- - Sir_Psycho   AGL? Automatic Grenade Launchers? Thick Walls? Chu...   May 11 2012, 05:19 AM
- - Ryusukanku   I would like to suggest for the Hackers and Techno...   May 12 2012, 05:57 AM
- - Angelone   QUOTE I've seen horrors... horrors that you...   May 12 2012, 03:25 PM
- - Vegetaman   I love a good horror game... I always used to do o...   May 12 2012, 04:58 PM
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- - Glyph   I think vivid descriptions, dangerous enemies, and...   May 12 2012, 06:18 PM
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- - Paul   Start them off an a run gone bad. Let them know up...   May 13 2012, 12:22 PM
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|- - Wounded Ronin   QUOTE (Dr.Rockso @ May 15 2012, 03:39 PM)...   May 16 2012, 07:52 PM
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- - VykosDarkSoul   ::tapping foot and stroking goatee:: Now....how d...   May 18 2012, 04:48 PM
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