Handbook of Erotic Fantasy: Black Tentacles
Added 2018-03-16 03:55:07 +0000 UTC
There’s something special about black tentacles. Nothing says “alien and unnatural” quite like a suckered appendage sliming its way across the floor and towards your unsuspecting grapple check. You’ll find similar rubbery limbs attached to illithids, chuuls, otyughs, and even high-end BBEGs like krakens and Cthulhu. In my mind, such monsters are shorthand for “aberrant weirdo,” and (for me at least) they have a way of inspiring all manner of unreasoning dread.
As Magus so ably demonstrates however, what frightens me is BY NO MEANS universal. Other players might cringe at critters with compound eyes, multiple mouths, weeping sores, or any of the stuff that appears on the hesper’s mutating touch table. Individual players have individual buttons to push. That’s why, regardless of the actual body parts in play, it pays to know the details that will inspire dread in your players.
Figuring that out is no easy task. It’s a long, slow process of trial and error over many campaigns and sessions. It’s worth the effort though, because zeroing in on your players’ weak points is an amazing opportunity as a GM. That’s the difference between what we do as game masters and what authors or filmmakers or video game developers have to put up with. The ability to tailor a campaign to your audience is what makes this hobby so special. Make sure that you’re taking full advantage of that fact. If your players are anything like my favorite catgirl, they’ll probably thank you for the experience.
Comments
Do it!
Laurel Shelley-Reuss
2018-03-17 22:26:10 +0000 UTCThe Golarion setting has an obvious Japan analogue nation in Tian Xia. I will admit that I have always considered the silly in-reference of a Tianese Wizard with the Black Tentacles spell. Perhaps an apprentice at a school of Wizardry. ...a schoolgirl, as it were.
2018-03-17 21:36:11 +0000 UTCThis is why Magus is best girl. <3
Laurel Shelley-Reuss
2018-03-16 23:16:59 +0000 UTCOne of my last characters in Pathfinder was a Dark Tapestry Oracle... fun times :D
Laurel Shelley-Reuss
2018-03-16 23:16:51 +0000 UTCThis is...uh...so in my wheelhouse it HURTS. xD
Jayne Lindgren
2018-03-16 19:29:17 +0000 UTCI'm a big fan of mutations, tentacles, and all sorts off things that go squish in the night. Both in normal RP, and the lewd kind. I appreciate stuff like this. Consentacles is great.
Nate Wright Jr.
2018-03-16 11:51:49 +0000 UTCThat's some serious dedication!
Laurel Shelley-Reuss
2018-03-16 05:20:33 +0000 UTC
