Posts Tagged by tension

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Need Creepy Background Music? 14 Free and Reasonably Priced Dark Ambient Albums
October 31, 2012 Posted by
halloween-2012

I recently got to run two sessions of Call of Cthulhu for my group, and when I was prepping for the game I decided it was time to freshen up my horror background music playlist. I normally use an “applicable to most RPGs” playlist (Sinister, part of my three-playlist system for BGM) that draws from all sorts of soundtracks, but a little web research suggested a new tack that sounded fun: dark ambient music that fades into the background, its atmosphere of tension pervading the…

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Challenge and Complexity Does Not Equal Drama And Action
August 19, 2009 Posted by

As gamers we tend to think of high mechanical difficulties as bearing more drama and action. The less likely it is for us to make a roll or succeed at an action, the more exciting and tense the gaming will be. Sometimes this is true. Pulling off an incredible feat by rolling the natural 20, watching 10s explode to push you over the edge of  the required number of successes, or having to spend a point to raise a die type  in order to hit…