Re: [WW] First WeirdWars Session

[Sean Michael Whipkey <highway@cstone.net>]

gathomas4@juno.com wrote:
> The point is that horror is hard to do.  It's even more difficult when
> the PCs are all heavily armed and have the clearance to use their toys at
> will:
> 
> "Sarge, they look like....like they're part dog, with big teeth and ...."
> 
> 
> "Izzat so?  Tell ya what, Corporal, call Arty cuz he doesn't care what
> they look like."

If you haven't read it yet, I'd suggest getting a copy of "The Military
Dimension Mark II" by David Drake.  Drake is a military sci fi writer,
who served in Vietnam, and a few of the stories in there are horror
stories set in Vietnam.

Some spoilers for Military Dimension.





The biggest trick he'd do was set up a situation where the arty or air
support isn't available.  For example, one story has a group of GIs
facing what seems to be some Elder horror.  They have to make it long
enough to get a B-52 strike in but they're not going to make it just by
hiding, and if they run it won't hit.  Yet another features demonics
natives with mystical trees and my favorite has a typical squad that has
a vampire type creature in it.

SeanMike