(cont)
"When the time comes be ready. They Won't Be."

"You've never once gotten seriously hurt. Perhaps you're invincible."

"Regrettable, but necessary. Life feeds on life."

"Until you cut it out, we will always be able to track you"

"It's weAring his skin. iT's watChing you frOm behind hiS eYes"

"Please wake up. None of this is real. You're just having a nightmare. Please wake up."

>>12541547 "It's weAring his skin. iT's watChing you frOm behind hiS eYes"

man, don't do random capitalization unless you want your players to derail the game trying to work out the hidden message.

>>12541614
I'm not OP, but most of the people I play with can read and write at a fairly high level of comprehension and facility.

>>12541614
I think that might make it better.

>>12541628

What's that got to do with anything? the problem with it is, it LOOKS like a clue. My players resort to fucking Betchley Park style cryptography every time I give them a handout. Eventually I have to just point blank tell them "No, it's just a train schedule, there is no secret code to decrypt. For fucks sake, guys"

There are some good meta-game ones as well, particularly if used together:

To Player Y: "I think Player X is cheating, watch his rolls for me, ok?"
To Player X:"Why is he watching you? What does he want?"

>>12541650
Clearly they want to decrypt things.
Start giving them Betchly Park style crypto.

>>12541541
>that image
you are already dead

Best thread on /tg/ right now.

>"Grin knowingly at the player to your left, then deny everything"

>"They know"

>"What is the frequency, Kenneth?"

OK, kinda obscure reference on that last one. I could have sworn we had a bunch of threads on the same topic in the past, but sup/tg/ has nothing.

"Do you wear gloves? You should."

"They watch from the corners."

"Behind you? No, in front."

Holy shit this is awesome, more plz and now

>>12541752
>kinda obscure reference on that last one
R.E.M is obscure now?
I must be getting old...

"What if you got everything you ever wanted?"

"It is now tea time."

"Your compatriots appear to be avoiding certain words and phrases, why do you think that is?"

"Just how stable is the foundation of this building?"

"Sometimes fear is the correct response."

"How long have the others been speaking in Italian and why can you understand them?"

"God is dead."

"Like a caterpillar to a butterfly, soon you too will [left blank, scratched, inkblotch, etc]"

"How long is that damn dog going to keep barking?!"

>>12541703
over THreE failed sanitY tests, hand oveR thrEe pieces of paper

the code, Which you prepAred in advance, conTains a Coded and HIddeN messaGe

i bet their sanitY will nOt be helped once they Understand the messages

(Bonus points: work out from the capitalisation in this post what the message is.)

>>12541763
"that doorway you passed through.... did the door frame seem longer than normal? Like the space between the inside and the outside was greater than the thickness of the wall?"

I have a thing for corners and 'spaces between'

"Read this note, laugh, and then return it to me. Do not tell the others what is on it."

"Your character dies in eight turns. make the most of them."

Pass these out to all Players: "You are not the imposter. Find out who is."
Alternatively to all Players: "You are the imposter. Tell no one, conceal this from the others."

"You have to escape. Otherwise, they will catch you."

"Read this note, make some rolls, and then look knowingly at the player to your left. Do not tell him what the rolls are for."

>>12541547 "Until you cut it out, we will always be able to track you"

Fuck. Yes.

Maybe combine it with another note saying something like "You feel an odd lump on the side of your neck. And that scar, isn't it from an injection?"

With luck, you can get your players to start slicing themselves open looking for tracking chips

>>12541541

"So red inside, so wet and red and dark."

"Smell is the only sense that's linked directly to your brain, what you smell is in your brain."

"Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"

I've always been a fan of good creepy, and I just got finished reading the Mars exploration game from hell in the archives.

As for things for notes, I've always been a fan of the simple "I see you."

If you're patient, have a premade note where you scribbled 'I see you' a thousand times, sometimes capitalized, sometimes normal, maybe even sometimes backwards.

"The secret word of the day is sunshine."

"Someone has been messing with the clocks. You aren't sure what time it really is. Why would they do this?"

"We hid it in your friend's right leg. Or was it his left?"

"The most beautiful music emanates from the back-yard window, seemingly from the spot the last lady of the house perished in a terrible accident." (this works best when there is actually no house, back yard or past history of death)

"THERE IS NOTHING HERE THERE NEVER WAS, TIME TO MOVE ON."

"Your shoes are feeling a bit tight right now."

>>12541806
Time's up!

The answer was

THEYRE WATCHING YOU

Thanks for playing!

>>12541703
make it seem to mean nothing at all, however when shit hits the fan it all makes sense, oh terrible terrible sense

>>12541793
I have not once heard of REM being anything but a medical acronym. I am 23.

>>12541895
I consider this proof that it's the end of the world as we know it.

(And I'm 20. And feel fine.)

>birds dommined
No, the words are "birds AND SNAKES, a hurricane..."

>>12541908
An aeroplane, I thought it was.

...did we just derail a horror thread into REM?

>>12541895
rapid eye motion, google it faggot

>>12541895
>same age
>was favourite band during high school
huh... funny how things like that happens...

>>12541916
Oh yeah. And yes we did.

(Although you might be able to use a few lines from REM songs as notes to players failing SAN checks. End Of The World would be easiest because nobody actually knows all the lyrics, even REM.)

"The sound, the lights, the taste of coconut."

"The screaming is the worst part, the screaming was the worst part, the screaming will be the worst part."

"Nothing can stop, The Smooze."

"The ringing, the RINGING...THE infernal RINGING!!!!!"

"it would be over so quick, a slip, a splash, an bob's yer uncle."

"Who said that?"

"Doubting your sanity is a sign of sanity, so thinking you've gone completely bonkers must mean yer a model of mental health, yeah, I'm fine, totally fine, no problem Micky."

i got one for you.

possibly homosexual? must investigate further.

"Are you shivering? Are you cold?"

A crudely scrawled eye. It doesn't have a pupil.

Randomly chosen lines from Edgar Allen Poetry.

'Never linger in a doorway, you might fall between'

'You notice that everyone but the party members talk in the same voice, male or female."

'Watch youself around the party, they outnumber you (# of party members plus note reader) to one.'

'Avoid eating meat, it will only increase your hunger'

"Don't let their blood touch you!"

'You notice that all the shadows are covered in blood stains'

"You can tell the party is working for it, they don't have fingerprints."

'Something is humming, constantly.'

'How long has that window been there? Can you remember?'

"Why aren't you wearing your mask?"

Best sprung on a single player in a high-despair game.

"No one will remember you."

"Two months. Two months after you are gone your name will fade."

"You will pass unmourned and unmarked, and the world will pass you by."

When I was more depressed I had those come to me as the most harsh things I could say about people.

"Play with me?"

"Something red drips softly from the wall."

"You know, I really like butter."

"Are you divergent, friend?"

i met a lovely monster

on my way to thebes

and then, the story's this

I made the monster me.

"Don't go out in the rain. Don't go out in the pouring rain."

"You have seven leaves. 999,993 to go."

"It suddenly occurs to you that you don't have three eyes."

And:

"You wonder if the others know."

"Why's he getting a note? Maybe he knows."

"They know."

"They've figured it out. Now you have to kill them."

You pass one to each of the party members.

"For some reason you can't remember the faces of anyone from before you joined the party."

"You can't stop thinking about dice, for some reason. Dice and equations."

asiwaswalkingdownthestair
isawamanwhowasn'tthere
hewasn'tthereagaintoday
iwishthatmanwouldgoaway

>>12542070
yesterdayuponthestair
imetamanwhowasntthere
hewasntthereagaintoday
ithinkhesfromthecia

"I'm whatever you don't want me to be."

I like to lead my players into circles.

Player 1: "Player 2's eyes seem to be darting about rapidly. He seems to have taken a fascination with Player 3. Watch him closely, he may be planning a murder. Player 5 is your friend."

Player 2: "Player 3 won't answer your questions. He/She may be one of them, and may be plotting to kill you. Player 1 just won't stop watching you. They're plotting against you."

Player 3: "Do not speak to Player 2, or he may detect that you are weak. Player 1 is not to be trusted either, because he seems to be intently waiting for Player 2 to do something."

Player 4: "You mustn't allow anyone to die. You are all needed for the final moments. Be weary of Player 5, he is untrustworthy."

Player 5: "Player 4 is your ally, Player 1 is your enemy. Prevent them from talking."

Player 6: "They're imposters. Kill them all."

>>12542138
That's almost Paranoia-worthy, except you do it at the start of the game, and it merely sets preferred termination order instead of setting them specifically against one person.

>>12542161

I've...never played Paranoia. or CoC. Or any game based on a San system.

Sometimes a simple, "what was that," is all it takes to make them all jump.

Or, "where did that sound come from."

Or, even, "Did it just get cooler/warmer in here?"

"You keep seeing things out of the corner out of your eye. They're not all black, either, but they're never there when you look."

After an important event, "Now, why'd you go and do that? That just pissed him off."

An old classic, "Don't blink," with a sadistic smile drawn under it.

"He sees you when you're sleeping," in crayon, and, "I CAN DO MORE THAN THAT," scrawled in red, right before time to make camp.

"I'm so hungry. Your friends look nice, I'd like to meet them."

>>12542186
Paranoia doesn't really have a SAN system. It's more focused around "everyone backstab everyone else". (There are sanity checks, but they're not used particularly consistently and are more sort of used just to make someone easier to shaft when the box they're carrying suddenly turns into someone's hand thanks to egregious misuse of shapeshifting mutation.)

>>12542265

Oh...Sounds creepy. Like you're trying dick everyone else over.

>>12542273
It is...if you're playing it in Straight mode.

In Classic mode, it's closer to a parody of RPGs in general and the team vibe of D&D in particular, and in Zap, it's basically Looney Tunes characters blowing up each other in Eastasia. I play Classic.

after a long CoC campaign (7-8 sessions, long in CoC terms anyway) my players met an old man in an impeccably clean suit, playing guitar at a crossroads at night in louisianna, they had broken down so they didn't see anything else but to share this mans campfire and booze, and listen to him play. It took them a while, but they finally realised he was calling them by name without having been told their names. Bricks were shat.

He offers a harmonica to one of the PCs, to join in with his playing, and refuses to listen to any claims of inability to play. The night goes on, and they all wake up on the crossroads, man gone, noone quite reembers how the night ended, and the player who took the harmonica has a it in his pocket, with a note wrapped around it.

It read; "Be seeing you."

They had to pry the gun out of his hand before he shot himself. Fuckyeah, sanity loss without the sanity loss mechanic.

>>12542350
wow... have your players never heard of the crossroads or are they really that good at not metagaming?

>>12542350
>impeccably clean suit
Damn, I knew he was trouble right then and there. Your players must be straight off the bus.

>>12542385
Well we not american, we are irish, so its not really common knowlege over here, one of them kind of twigged what was going on when the man said "Please allow me to introduce myself, Im a man of wealth, and taste" but I enforce a strict death-for-metagaming policy in my horror games.

>>12542394
What, the rolling stones don't exist in your game world? You heathen.

A journal with pages that are filled with nothing but this.

>>12542398
but only one of the players recognizes it.

I am definitely breaking from the intial topic, but only a little.

Perhaps something like this if no one is taking it seriously.

>>12542395
set in the 1930's, so they really only have one or two albums out at this point, they aint minstream yet. I kind of threw this in off the top of my head, I didn't intend for it to go anywhere but rather to set the creepy tone, but it integrated well, when the Man in the Clean Suit seemed to be helping them from behind the scenes. Seems he isnt too fond of what the elder gods had planned on what he considered his turf.

so how exactly do these work?

>>12542398
That's idiotic.

Instead, a journal that is, in fact, blank. hand each player a note with what they read from it.
One person found a diary.
The second sees a journal.
A third is looking at a picture book.
And what have you.

But the last player can only see an empty book.

>>12542435
These notes are to inspire fear and paranoia in your characters.

>>12542447
I'd say that it's to inspire the players rather than the characters... but at that point we're just splitting hairs

>>12542435 so how exactly do these work?

Hand a folded note to a player when they fail a sanity check and tell them to keep what it says to themself.

They aren't actually supposed to scare your players, just help them RP their character being scared.

>>12542457

See, I like to take a different approach to these things.

When a decent San check is failed, i send the player in question out of the room, and tell the rest of the group if he's developed a dementia.

On pain of death, they aren't allowed to tell.

If he does, I tell the group so and get their help in acting it out. For paranoia for instance, there would be a marked increase in note passing, in-jokes, dice-rolling, and whispering that he's not part of.

These are, of course, mostly meaningless. Mostly.

If he hasn't, he comes back to a room that treats him no different than before. And he knows this ritual.

So he gets to sit there, completely unaware of whether or not he's crazy.

I love a good horror game.

>>12542483

This is great, but what happens when you have multiple players or most of the group being affected this way?

>>12542489
"Well, hes definately insane, he is just to far gone to know it. Me? No, Im still sane, obviously. I mean, Im probably the sanest person in this room."

How about passing a note to the insane char's player saying: "whenever you pass me a note with player's name, something will happen to them". If he does, have the chosen player be attacked, get lost for a while or something, preferably as soon as the note is passed. After a few notes do nothing to chosen players. If insane char's player asks what's going on tell him that you never followed his notes and those were all just coincidences.

>>12542489

That's sort of the entire point.

This isn't the only way this would happen. Sometimes only ONE person would be aware of a certain thing, be it of themselves or someone else.

Sometimes they can share this information. Sometimes.

The group should almost always be on the point of collapse and abject horror.

The gauge i use to measure is that if you're doing real-life SAN damage, you're doing it right.

this thread is the best thread i have seen here in literally months.

Archive?

>>12542597
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/
If you want to do so.

>>12542605
On it.

>>12542614

Would love a link when finished.

I voted for it.

Here it is:

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12541541/

"It's okay, you're safe."

"Stop pointing your weapon at that."

"Ever imagined something so beautiful, you weren't sure it existed? You have now."

"When was the last time you used bathroom?"

It's good because no player would EVER roleplay their bathroom breaks.

>>12542385
Maybe I'm just too young, but it's not ringing a bell with me. Care to elaborate, or at least link me to where I can find more info?

I remember this from some creepypasta a while back.

Hand a note to one (or all) of your players.

"You remember the journal you keep with you. Maybe you should write in it one day"

If they decide to, give them the next one

"The journal is covered in your neat hand. Repeated over and over are the lines '12:38am I awake for the first time. 12:41am It is now when I am truly awake. 1am Despite earlier writings I am fully awake for the first time in years.' And so on. You carefully write down on the next fresh page: '7:17pm. I am awake properly for the first time in my life' and then close the book"

Yoyu like your gun, but you cant trust it, it LIES!

They burn silently, too silently.

Give each player an identical note: "You feel amazing. You feet light on your feet and you have boundless energy. You haven't felt this energetic since you were a child. You wonder why everyone else is moving so sluggishly and having trouble keeping up with you."

Or play with limited synesthesia. "You start to notice that every time you get close to anything colored Blue, you feel itchy and smell an acrid, spoiled smell in the air." (A friend of mine actually suffers from an allergy to all the most common blue colors dyes and paints that produces this effect. He always complains that 'blue smells funny', and breaks into hives if he wears blue jeans for too long. As that's a very rare condition, I think it would be better to describe physical sensations attached to colors as a psychological instability.)

Been a while since I've GM'd last. So long that I actually forgot a lot of the basic rules for even GURPS.
And GURPS is my favourite system for horror particular because it doesn't reveal anything at all, even if you tell people "it's a horror campaign" it reveals nothing of the nature of the horror; is it slasher/gorror, paranormal horror, psychological horror?

But I have completely forgotten how fright checks work... And I'm a lazy bastard, too lazy to hook up my external harddrive and reread the books... Anyone wanna freshen it up for me?
And how do you use it in conjunction with notes?

>>12543046
At random times, tick random boxes on a sheet of paper in the middle of the table without explaining what they stand for to your players.
Then decide arbitrarily they have hallucinations and/or derangements.
(Fun fact: it's also the way SAN, Morality and Mental Balance work)

bump

>>12543046
It's a straightforward Will test. Will is IQ, unless you have Strong Will or Weak Will. Unfazeable normally does away with fright checks, but according to GURPS CthulhuPunk, Mythos Fright Checks overrule Unfazeable.

You will laugh three more times before you die.

"Have you left the safety on?"

"HONK"

"Someone is laughing."

"Hey, who turned out the lights?"

"HELP ME IM TRAPPED IN A NOTEPAD FACTORY"

"The other player's dice have more sides than yours. Investigate."

>>12543167
Whoo, I almost had a soda accident.

"What's behind you?"

CHRYSSALID!

Has anyone ever tried gaslighting with your players?

Move little but noticeable things each time they leave the room, and deny anything has gone wrong.

Or just slip something huge into a random sentence, then deny anything was wrong with that sentence.

"The room is murky, and full of dust. There's an armchair, a fireplace and some bookshelves. Above the corpse shoved into the fireplace is a mirror."

"Wait, WHAT?!"

"I said above the fireplace is a mirror. What's wrong?"

>>12543215

DON'T FUCKING PULL THAT SHIT GOD DAMN NIGGER

>>12543221
Need one hell of a POKER FACE

>>12543257
Why not.

>>12543265
Oh yeah. BUT IF YOU CAN PULL IT OFF.

>>12543275
Oh hell yeah.

"What window?"

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Had an idea:

Players are going along as usual, Player 1 takes SAN loss, and gets a note saying:

"You see a blurry, wormlike shape slithering across your eyesight. You attempt to pick it out with your fingers but realise that it's inside your eye."

Then, have him gradually get notes mentioning hive minds, the "hive queen", the serving of said monarch in pursuit of new hosts, and so on.

The idea is that his brain is slowly being eaten by worms, which are then taking over his mind and forcing him to keep up a facade of normality.

Eventually, cap it off with a note saying something like:
"You are now a living hive. You must keep this secret, and only reveal your nature when you have the chance to infect others. Go forth, and spread the will of the Queen."

If he asks for information about the worms, or of any new abilities he has gained, give it to him.

But now here's the fun bit:
If he plays along and tries infesting anyone, the worms will be proven to be real and will infest folks.

If he doesn't play along and tries to warn anyone, then mark off the worms as just a hallucination and have them never actually appear.

It is essentially a Schrodinger's Cat situation. The worms may or may not be real, but the only way he can find out is by playing along and acting like they're actually in control.
Where you go with this afterwards is up to you.

>>12543359
My players would sooner have their character AN HERO than let it get to that point

>>12543377
>Trollface.jpg
Just as planned.

>>12543387
That's more "bad GMing" than "just as planned".

>>12542860
Wait, I actually remember this. Not the creepypasta, but where it must've originated.

Some guy with both retrograde and anterograde amnesia. Hold on, I'll see if I can find it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Wearing

>>12543359
>>12543377
Have it an infectious disease that makes you think you are FULL OF WORMS MINDCONTROLLING YOU

That way the brains splatter all over the wall and it looks normal.

Until the next guy goes down screaming about worms inside his brain.

>>12543432
Was thinking along the lines of sci-fi alien infestation, but your idea sounds good too.

I've thought of a couple as I've been reading this:

"He said it was a beautiful day today."

"The sun seems closer than normal."

"You notice that there are more stairs going up than going down."

"Perhaps tomorrow you can fix it."

"You were just here a couple of days ago, doing the exact same thing."

"Surely they're joking, look in their eyes it's all there."

"7211 Boulevard... She's waiting."

On this topic of horror games, do you think it's a good idea to establish a certain thing, such as a sound, as danger?
I mean, the siren from Silent Hill, for example. Whenever that was heard, you knew, that shit is about to get jiggy, if you understand what I mean, fellow gentlemen.

>>12543479
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2jUhnCU9iA

>>12543479

Atmosphere is nice to add with various sounds and stuff but its kinda hard to get it at the right moments. Unlike video games where you can script the sounds, a tabletop game's pace constantly varies making it hard to know when to play a certain atmospheric sound.

That's just my opinion on it though. Usually I just set background music.

>>12543502
Idea: have something that's basically a recurring environmental hazard, like THE DARKNESS from Silent Hill, and make it so that it occurs seemingly at random whenever IT feels like it. Then you use a sound cue set to go off at certainly intervals and leave it on autopilot.

Or, like Inception, the sound cues are pre-arranged beforehand and will go off after a certain length of time in-game.

bump

>>12542858
no one's answered this yet?
Shame, /tg/...

You're probably long gone by now but in case someone reading the archive shares your wish for knowledge
check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_%28musician%29#Devil_legend

tl:dr
the crossroad is where you make the deal with the devil. famously, blues singer Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul for an amazing musical ability at a crossroads.

>>12545527
also his son later claimed the same thing. Crossroads story anon here, back from work, in that same game, the players were investigation a mansion in louisanna willed to a friend by a mathematician who killed himself, they wandered the house for a while, and every room description I gave mentioned casually the half full wine bottles littering the place.

It took them a while to get it, and then one of them who didnt realise the significance, and was getting frustrated at the planning before opening each door sat down at a pianp and swigged from the bottle sitting on top of it. He immediately blacked out and slumped over on the keys, startling the other players.

I had him awaken in the house, but now it was pristine clean, no dust or damp like the one he just left. he wandered around until he noticed that the windows didnt show anything, not blackness like dark, but..nothing. He would look at a window and then find himself seconds later looking away, with no memory of what he saw.

I had him sit in a walk in closet for this part of the game, and I communicated with him via walkie talkie. I had hidden a cd player in there, with a very low humming noise, which gradually builds up..

>>12545904
fucking field length. it gradually builds up into an overbearingly loud hum, I described to him finding a machine in the library, the one which they deduced was missing by investing the IRL library, he walked up to it, and started messing with controls, turning it on. It began humming louder (through fluke, the loudest part of the recorded humming kicked in right around now) He panicked and shit and tried to escape.

Im too tired to type the rest, but tl;dr a second player managed to save him from this alternate world, but when both returned, they could hear the humming, continously, in the background of everything. Magor SAN loss. I initally had them wear headphone connected to the cd player while they played, but it proved to be to realistic, they were going insane in out of game.

>>12545959
Do go on.
I love shit like this, and I need to learn how to properly fuck with my players.

"The room is filled with dust, simply opening the door sent enough into the air to make a thick, if temporary, fog. Only a small amount of light filters in from the room's only window, hindered slightly by the thin moth-eaten drapes. The scant lighting makes it difficult to make out the details of any of the room's paintings, or the face of the crying child in the corner, and in fact the small amount of light may account for the way the mold growing on the walls seems to shiver and crawl ever so slightly. Across the room is a door with a small bloody hand-print which seems to be beckoning you."

"Alright, I'm going to approach the child cautiously with my hand on the hilt of my sword, and ask her what's wrong."

"What little girl?"

"The... The little girl crying in the corner?"

"What the hell are you talking about?" <GM trollface> "sounds to me like you're hallucinating. take 1 point of sanity damage"

>>12546036
(cont)

Then you just keep inserting similar "hallucinations" into your descriptions:

"As you walk into the room, it's bright and well decorated, with a light floral pattern covering the walls, and pinks and oranges everywhere. Beautifully furnished, with an iron-footed Victorian tub which contains your dead corpse, the place looks almost like a movie set rather than a washroom, something out of a production about the wealthy elite of society..."

If the players "see" them, they take sanity damage. If they ignore them, eventually one of the apparent hallucinations turns out to be a real threat.

>>12546036
>>12546066
I've always thought that to be bullshit and one of the worst GM tricks out there.

>>12546066
Ogodyes
I can do this, but it will require a shit ton of writing beforehand

>>12546074

Oh, it's not something you want to overuse, but how else are you going to have a player "hallucinate" convincingly?

Maybe sanity damage for it is a little rough.

>>12546074
Agreed

This is not for you.

>>12546036
>>12546066

In order to be done effectively, you must first make them roll appropriate level will/sanity/whatever saves periodically.

If they fail saves, don't tell them. Just make them roll and poker face it. Then it's not just you fucking with them. If you just start telling them shit that's blatantly a lie and then penalizing them for believing you, you're just being a dick.

>What is he smiling about?

>Aren't you glad you picked that up?
or, alternatively
>You knew you should have just let that thing be.

>You have too many people. Fix it.

>You won't like that door. Or the next one.

This one only works if it's handwritten:

"above all else, don't forget <illegible scrawl>"

>>12546279

Half the fun of running a CoC game is getting screwed over by a relentlessly dickish DM.

>>12546351 Half the fun of playing a CoC game

FTFM. Although it's fun for the GM to screw over players as well, of course.

>>12546158
It ends up encouraging players to ignore your description.

That's not great dming.

>>12546521
Actually, good players will listen attentively and put themselves on edge whenever they hear a part of a description which is obviously a "hallucination", because they are still too paranoid to ignore it.

That's called good roleplaying. No real person in that situation would just calmly ignore everything they see. They couldn't, in fact.

Also, a GM tip for using that effect:
Roll out multiple, large lists of numbers (as many lists as you have players) before the game session begins, then randomly decide which character is assigned to which list. Also, keep the lists hidden from yourself, revealing the numbers one at a time so you're not tempted to cheat by using the player's good numbers up on unimportant tests, etc.

>>12546756
I do the list thing. It makes the area behind the DM/GM screen look like a corporate mail room.

But I can handle it, and like to handle it, since I'm an accountant.

>*sobs*

>>12547216

It also helps to not break immersion with the sound of rolling dice.

Hey Parinoia fags, I've been thinking of playing, but I'm curious. How quickly do people die in that game?

My idea was to have everybody bring a six pack of beer and every time they die they have to finish their last one and start a new one. [My players love drinking games, but it'd only work if I can expect them all to use up their lives in one game.

Also, is the system simple enough for this?

>>12549225
Also, also, what edition of the game is the best?

"Tekeli-li"
"(When something is injured) You see little shapes dancing in his/her/its blood. They sing, dance, cry and die, as the wound starts to clot. It's the most beautiful thing you've seen in your life. You have to see it again."

OP: print out this and hand it to them

This is Nyarlko, a cute anthropomorphized version of Nyarlathotep. When your players look confused, tell them that Japan is making a parody anime of the Mythos starring her and Cthugha as cute little girls. Then watch as your players SANity drops double digit points and enjoy the nerdrage.

>>12549225
I prefer second edition of Paranoia, but that's just because it's the one I've played the most.

The life of a clone is directly proportional to the intelligence of his player modified by a function based on the intelligence of the other players. So it really depends. I don't think a six-pack per game is unreasonable, depending on how eager your players are to out (kill) each others characters.

>>12541857
>Mars exploration game from hell

link?

>>12549897

Wasn't there some erogame or anime a few years back with Nyarlathotep as a busty librarian, the Necronomicon as a loli, and Herbert West as a guitarist?

>>12549225
It varies, but it's usually pretty fast. Probably best to make it light beer, otherwise permanent liver damage may ensue. (This will vary depending on how the DM handles it, but if there are plenty of blind alleys, dark rooms, and R&D weapons that are dangerous to the user and everyone around, the resultant pile of corpses should be pretty high.)

>>12550081
Demonbane, is what I believe you're thinking of

"The stars seem brighter than usual"

"One of them is a deceiver, one is an ally"

"Did you always have green eyes?"

"They have been watching from the beginning"

"You havent of happened to see your dice have you?"

"Your not the messenger, your the message"

bamph

>>12550051
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12130366

>>12550869
:D

thx guy

>>12550152
This is a group where the lightest drinker will 6-7 beers in an evening where the heaviest will have 20 or so. They're usually Lit as well.

>>12550869
Holy shit...

That guy... is GOD!

maybe you should ask /x/ for ideas?

I gigled when I got to
>Although I thought it was funny that the "Sounds of Uranus" has the comments section closed.

"If only you could roll higher perception checks."