{"id":9287,"date":"2018-04-01T14:59:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T18:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&#038;p=9287"},"modified":"2023-08-01T14:19:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T18:19:43","slug":"horror-clowns","status":"publish","type":"jetpack-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/portfolio\/horror-clowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we all know, the collective for &#8220;clown&#8221; is &#8220;a horror of clowns.&#8221; Last month, I wrote &#8220;Can&#8217;t Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me&#8221; for Trilemma Games&#8217; Patreon-sponsored blog. You can find it <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.trilemma.com\/2018\/03\/cant-sleepclowns-will-eat-me.html\">here<\/a> for <strong>free <\/strong>to use and enjoy in your games. It&#8217;s a deviously clownish adventure about a town that suffers from dangerous insomnia after a circus comes to town.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9286 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/41-Clowns-thumb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed writing this adventure. It didn&#8217;t take terribly long, and Michael was great to work with, very understanding about my weird ideas for this town.<\/p>\n<p>The concept came to me at 4 AM, for a dungeon where nobody can sleep. PCs can&#8217;t take a long rest, but neither can the monsters, so the only ones functioning even close to normally are undead and constructs&#8211; beings that are immune to the needs for sleep and rest. I ended up scrapping the undead when I decided to add the carnival angle to it, which gave me an excellent place for re-programmed constructs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Some very creative people have been fleshing this out and posting their results!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/catsoftindalos.blogspot.com\/2018\/04\/why-not-make-dream-eater-monster-of-week.html\">Why Not Make the Dream Eater a Monster of the Week?<\/a> (for MotW) by Mark Tygart<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+MarkTygart\/posts\/9S7ZGSktS5x\">All you need to run this for Dungeon World<\/a> by Mark Tygart<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+MichaelPrescott\/posts\/R8FXt2pEYhn\">A Doppleganger wakes up from a nightmare<\/a> &#8211; crowdsourcing ideas for doppleganger nightmares by Michael Prescott<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we all know, the collective for &#8220;clown&#8221; is &#8220;a horror of clowns.&#8221; Last month, I wrote &#8220;Can&#8217;t Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me&#8221; for Trilemma Games&#8217; Patreon-sponsored blog. 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