How often should you Jumpscare your Players during the Campaign?
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How often should you Jumpscare your Players during the Campaign?
How often should you Jumpscare your Players during the Campaign?
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Once for every failed perception check.
Oh, I don't know, I'd say about once per
BOO!
You guys are too good for /tg/
and you should frick off the whole website. don't reply to me again namegay
How the frick do you jumpscare your players?
Like, physically, how?
Randomly shout. It's not scary, just starting and annoying just like a real jumoscare.
Point an unloaded pistol at them
OP doesn't want an answer, he just wants (you)'s
>How the frick do you jumpscare your players?
>Like, physically, how?
>Power "mysteriously" goes out and the room is plunged into darkness
>"Hang on guys I've got my phone right here"
>friend who was hiding in the closet with a mask comes out just in time to be briefly seen
>power comes back on, stranger is gone
Pneumatic piston under the table that launches everything into the air.
I did it once
>back in the day
>playing In Nomine (demons and angels) with the boys
>we had a gaming hangout where people would drop in and play whatever and hang out
>sometimes my friend would sit and listen to us RP, everyone was cool with it
>this time I get him to hide in a closet in the room
>about 2h in the players have a seance
>live candles, moody music on the boombox, lights off
>I do creepy voices sometimes and the players were prepared for it
>summon demon
>I blow out the candles
>demonic voice is heard in the pitch darkness
>wait, it’s coming from behind me?
>my friend finally exits the cupboard and seemingly materializes as a shadowy figure behind me as I chant
>players jump but stay in character and makes a pact with the demon
>it is still pitch black
>the pact is sealed and my friend lights a match in front of his face as he laughs
>he had a pretty elaborate latex demon mask on, classic horned devil
>players flee the room
We had an intermission and when the players returned after a minute, my friend had removed the mask and sat grinning in the now lit room
A jumpscare in horror rpg is a great way to release built up tension.
Ebin
>rocks fall, you die
Immediately
>I keep waiting for the gif to animate with the jumpscare
>It doesn't, it's static gif
frick you
If playing with a bunch of ancient grognards with dodgy tickers, never. Teens are good though, those frickers need waking up occasionally.
>dodgy tickers
what manner of idiotic british colloquialism is this
We say both of those things where I live in Colorado.
They're both a little old-fashioned, but not weird.
>OP has no fricking clue how TTRPGs are even played