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Originally Posted by vicky_molokh
I'm not sure I like the idea of misleading the players into thinking it isn't horror.
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I'm quite sure I don't like it. Two important factors:
1) If I'm approached to play a particular sort of campaign and I agree to play, it's because I want to play that kind of campaign. If it's really a
different kind of campaign, maybe it's one I'm not interested in, and even if it is, I might want play a different sort of character from the one I made for the first type of campaign. If the GM does a bait-and-switch, I'm almost certainly not going to have a good time, and I'll probably resent the GM and not trust him in future campaigns.
2) Horror campaigns are all about mood, so more than most other kinds of campaigns, they require serious buy-in from the players. If you don't start with that, Monty Python jokes and Star Trek references will turn your horror campaign into a bizarre farce.