penbed400
2010-03-24, 01:23 AM
I'm about to run my friends through a one-shot dungeon based in Ravenloft a couple of days from now. It's a horror setting and they all know about it and have submitted to being kind of drawn into it for the ride. I know that one of the big things about horror is not just that you as a DM need to provide a story but that the players need to agree to get into it as well.
So far I've been working on trying to find some good music to just play in the background. I've had trouble finding a good playlist of random dungeon sounds or creepy music that flows really well. Does anybody know of something like this?
Also I'll have somewhat dim-lighting and some candle light as well. The story line seems to work out quite well. I know one-shot dungeons make character connection a little difficult so all of the players have been required to write two page backgrounds and they all agreed. I took the backgrounds and applied some of their pasts into the dungeon because I thought that might make the link even better and cause some more horror feel to it. The party make up so far seems to be a fleshwarper who thinks humans are machines to be tinkered with, a gypsy flavored sorceror, a tactics focused crusader, a ranger and I can't recall what the last player is being.
Have you ever had any horror adventures that particularly stood out for some reason? Any good tips or hints to make it extra fun for the players?
So far I've been working on trying to find some good music to just play in the background. I've had trouble finding a good playlist of random dungeon sounds or creepy music that flows really well. Does anybody know of something like this?
Also I'll have somewhat dim-lighting and some candle light as well. The story line seems to work out quite well. I know one-shot dungeons make character connection a little difficult so all of the players have been required to write two page backgrounds and they all agreed. I took the backgrounds and applied some of their pasts into the dungeon because I thought that might make the link even better and cause some more horror feel to it. The party make up so far seems to be a fleshwarper who thinks humans are machines to be tinkered with, a gypsy flavored sorceror, a tactics focused crusader, a ranger and I can't recall what the last player is being.
Have you ever had any horror adventures that particularly stood out for some reason? Any good tips or hints to make it extra fun for the players?