Re: [WW] Goblins, etc.

["Jimmy Craig" <jimmythebarrel@hotmail.com>]

Good point Shane. I agree.

Also, if you want to take away from the D&D feel, never name them as a D&D 
critter, even after the session. If you want to put in carrion crawler, 
never acknowledge that they are those critters. Part of the game is that you 
take away the experiance and if you know you just fought a carrion crawler, 
it can take away from what you just experianced IMHO.
Name them something else if you want to give the party a name for them. 
Grave worms or some such name would take away the D&D feel.

Ya want to put a bugbear into the game?
Put it in a Nazi uniform and now it is a Nazi experiment in cross-breeding 
humans and animals. Don't name it as a bugbear and you can control the 
tension of the game more, and they can take away something more than "I just 
fought a bugbear.".

D&D critters are fine if you take away the D&D aspects of them and make them 
fit the genre with a few tweeks.

We should make a new bestiary with appropiate D&D critters renamed and 
tweeked to fit the WWII setting.

Just my thoughts

Jimmy the Barrel


>To me, that's one of the fundamentals of horror games--the naming process.
>They're either goblins and carrion crawlers or: "Small forms rush at you 
>from
>the darkness. They have green skin, beady eyes, tattered clothing, and dark
>jagged spears. Two of them sit atop long, transculent-skinned worm. A mass 
>of
>gangly tentacles hang from their mouths, reaching, stretching out as if
>groping for their path--or for food."
>
>See the difference? The moment you name something, you know all its 
>strengths
>and weaknesses and they become just another monster to kill. While we have 
>to
>name things to stat them, the GM should always try to describe things
>instead. (as I'm sure you all know). Good example: When we first played
>"Sunless Citadel" for D&D3, I had Zeke, Chris, and Lee crying for help with
>ONE BUGBEAR, just because I made it really creepy--a large lumbering thing
>stomping and feeling for them in the darkness.
>
>Shanester

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