tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958522416503442248.post1933816239815972355..comments2024-03-28T01:02:01.844-06:00Comments on Coins and Scrolls: Horror Games, Nervous Laughter, and Ridiculous FarceSkerpleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393779599461560431noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958522416503442248.post-37156600926419487222022-10-03T14:18:18.191-06:002022-10-03T14:18:18.191-06:00Hi Skerples and thank you truly awesome blog! New ...Hi Skerples and thank you truly awesome blog! New gm here, and i have get tons of useful tips on your blog, also sometime going try your Serpents dungeon and Kidnap the archpriest scenario too. <br /><br />Im going fresh campaign one ruleset where the world is medieval filled with horror elements, this post really help me go to the right tracks. Im wondering have you some good advices on roleplay books etc where i could further study how be good gm on horror campaign. Our ruleset is Praedor, so i think system free book would be best, but others could work too, most important is get better on understand how make horror tension and kept it going. Thanks!laurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00346995571743994578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958522416503442248.post-53360475125941130522018-10-22T01:57:22.984-06:002018-10-22T01:57:22.984-06:00I've never played in or run a horror game ... ...I've never played in or run a horror game ... though the serious/farce thing is an eternal thing with anything I've run. My baseline as a referee is to run it straight, and allow the players to riff jokes as they will--because as a player, my baseline is to crack jokes at every new situation, but to double down and take the fiction seriously when I need to. I don't see any contradiction in an evening of joking and seriousness while gaming. I'd like to try horror some time though, maybe things are different therein!<br /><br />To be pedantic, I would flip your senses of "terror" and "horror". Terror is the sharp fear, the loss of control that leads to panic and rout on the battlefield because the men are "terrified" of the enemy; Horror is the slow fear, the dread, the anticipation of what is to come and/or revulsion of what lies before, of being "horrified" at what one finds. Horror comes from the Latin for "hair standing on end" or "bristling" which is more anticipatory than it is sudden, I would tend to think.Cullenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06525346014856998303noreply@blogger.com