It's been a while since I've done any RPGs with my group, and the urge to DM has been welling up in me again.
This weekend, I'm hoping to start a new campaign and I thought since it's Halloween and all, why not give a good horror adventure a roll? I want it to be terrifying enough to send chills down players' spines, but I feel like I end up recycling descriptive gore scenes and horror movie tropes.
I plan on running a homebrew system and a setting, sort of a dark fantasy so I'll be able to tailor the game to my needs, if it helps at all.
What are some plot ideas with potentials to be really scary? What kind of scenes do you find terrifying/disturbing? Any advice on running a horror adventure/writing a scary plot would be great.
Despite the Alpha Legion stealing the ORIGINAL genetic template of the Primarchs, they handed false information to Horus which would never have resulted in anything useful. Grey Knights are an "original" space marine chapter with NO known Primarch, with psychic powers, AND an unusual resistance to corruption, and supposedly improved genetic template When Malacador's Knight-Errants arrived on Titan there were thousands of recruits and the resources to make a Chapter there. The 1,000 Marines are only made when Titan is placed in the Warp by itself and they all get trained. 7th edition Grey Knights Codex hints that it has traits that none of the Legions Gene-Seed has (such as making the purer/more resilient to Warp Corruption (read Castellan Crowe's entry)) which would mean that they are an entirely new strain of Gene-Seed. The Alpha Legion's first victory in the Horus Heresy was claiming the Forgeworld of Paramar, which was left in such a state that Horus had to garrison the world with substantial forces earmarked for warzones elsewhere just to maintain control over it. When Horus called Alpharius out on this bullshit, the encrypted response was "The Devil is not Mocked" which is an oblique reference to a proverb (the full saying of which goes "When evil faces evil, the Devil is not mocked"); the moral being just because they're both evil doesn't mean they're on the same side, and that a major evil badass won't automatically consider a smaller, also evil upstart his equal. Omegon kept a hidden suit of armour on board his battle barge in addition to his "normal" legionary armour, one which he had planned a hidden purpose for to "strike unexpectedly like a serpent". This other suit was plain and unadorned. Unpainted power armour is grey, also it's what Malcador's Knight-Errants wore. The first Grand Master of the Grey Knights was named "Janus" the Roman god with two faces of "beginnings & endings" ie: Alpha & Omega
Sorry for the delay in starting, folks. The clocks have changed here in Britain and it's thrown me off a little.
>Last time on Tide of Ages Quest "Amazing..." You breathe, reaching out for one of the leaves. It sways away from you slightly, but as you touch its surface, it wraps around your finger lightly. It feels like it's covered in fine, short hairs. The light doesn't seem to emit any kind of heat either. "Brother, don't do something foolish-!" cautions Elia, just below you. The slope up isn't too steep, but he doesn't seem eager to get closer.
Something about his caution gets through to you. The leaf seems reluctant to let you go as you pull your hand away, like a baby holding onto an adult's finger. You slide back down the slope and discuss what to do with your companion. "We need to bring this back to the elders. They need to see this." "But what if it loses its fire in the meantime?" he asks, "That's putting aside the fact that this makes my gut ache with bad luck." "Hmmmh... What if I keep watch while you take one of the leaves back?" "I am NOT carrying one of those with me, are you moon-mad?!" "Fine. I'll go back with one then." "You think it's any more likely that I'll stay here watching that thing while you head back and leave me all alone? Nothing doing!"
The pair of you continue to argue over what's to be done, but as you do so, the light of the leaves flickers and flares suddenly brighter. Elia glances over and gives a cry, stumbling back and raising his spear. As you turn to look, you see something that clenches a fist around your heart.
From the branches of the bush, two eyes gleam out at you both, watching.
Why is a "double-edged sword" considered a bad thing? Yes, I know a stronger opponent can potentially push it back at you, but didn't practically all swords in most of Europe have two edges for over a thousand years? Why would that be the standard if it was a major flaw that got exploited frequently? Apparently the benefit outweighed the risk, or else they would've stopped doing it, since making two edges requires more work. But the way the phrase is used figuratively, it's like holy shit you madman you're going to suffer for this, when really an actual double-edged sword is nothing special.
On request of my players, I am quick-homebrewing up a system for them to play as complete piece-of-shit peasant nobodies, and allowing them to work their way into the realm of heroes. Pretty standard stuff.
The thing is, they love rolling on tables to generate characters (like in 40k RPGs, etc), and I wanted to come up with some hilarious "peasant background" tables for them to roll up. Can I get the wisdom of /tg/ to help come up with the best backgrounds for this table?
http://www.tappedout.net >Deck List Site: You can search for decks that other people have made. Authors often have comments that explain their deck’s strategy and card choices.
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/commander-edh >Another resource for commander discussion; they have an entire forum dedicated to discussing decks. People often make primers, which go into detail about how they built and play their deck.
http://www.edhrec.com/ >Statistically see what everyone else puts in their commander decks based on what is posted to the internet.
http://manabasecrafter.com/ >Find out what lands you can add to your deck, sorted by category, based on a chosen Commander’s color identity.
>CARD SEARCHING
http://gatherer.com >Official search site. Current for all sets but has a terrible UI.
