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What's your pointers for running Horror in TTRPGs? (ttrpg.network)

submitted 1 day ago by Atlas48@ttrpg.network to c/rpg@ttrpg.network

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As the title says, I was wondering what'd make for good horror in the medium, and thought I'd try to ask here!

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[–] Ziggurat@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

My favourite tip take your time. Start with the boring life. The danger about online dating is to meet a walking soviet-parade of red-flags, not to meet a vampire who want to suck your blood. Spending a night camping in the wood is pretty fun, what you really fear is to be snitched on and get fined for "illegal camping" and an unplanned thunderstorm can definitely turn a fun evening into a bad experience, nobody really fears the witch from the woods, it's a talefor kids isn't it ?

Then once you took the time to play some "normal" elements, slowly put some uncany elements, a_ctually while you've feel like you spoke for hours with your date your watch tells you only 5 minutes passed, and your coktails are still full_. The night camping was pretty fun, but why is the forest so silent in the morning.

This help ensuring that there is a strong link between Player and character, and avoid falling in the comedy horror where fighting Zombie with blood up to knee is the new normal (Note that comedic horror is a genre by itself, and can be pretty fun to play too, but it's different than real horror)