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I have been really enjoying some of the half-way cheesy(or all the way cheesy in some cases) movies that SyFY channel has been playing, especially their originals so I wanted to post some thoughts on a couple that could be looked at for GM inspirations and stuff....
Husk-- A really neat mix or stuff here. Backstory is awesome if you really look at the clues tossed in randomly (would've liked to see more). The movie used some cool "Haunt" moments that remind me of the haunted mansion in Rise of the Runelords, and the Cornfield slayings really reminded me alot of the cornfield ghouls in Rise of the Runelord (second book I think?).
If I needed a one-shot for halloween I would grab the RotRL book, combine some haunt traps with the scarecrow cornfield, use the "one spirit hopping from scarecrow to scarecrow" effect in Husk and use beefed up ghouls or something. Party members would be NPC classes of low levels and expect to be slaughtered.
Primal-- Some Chuthlu mythos undertones here but tied to ancient cave? Interesting. Once again I would've loved a bit more backstory on this one. Perhaps some different flashbacks to earlier times...
Another good idea generator for a one-shot Halloween game. Bunch of young adults explore ancient cave drawings and unleash a disease that turns one of them into something sinister that wants to spread the disease and feast on the others....and provide food for an ancient evil to be reborn.
This is a remote wilderness area I see either ghouls, sinspawns, or maybe the "Savage Creature" template from Dungeon magazine's Savage Tide adventure path being used for the creatures. The ancient evil could be almost anything from an intelligent grick to an ooze, to a demonic octopus-thingy...basically anything with tentacles or psuedopods to lash out with and grab stuff. Once again Party members would be NPC classes of low level and lose a few of their own. As members are killed off have the players take over play as the creatures they become and perform attacks on the remaining party....keeps them playing and engaged, and the GM can concentrate on setting up ambushes and such without having to focus on running a bunch of new monsters.
Anyway I am hoping for some other people to post about some of the shows and how to use them for inspiration in a game.....
I have Primal on DVD (It's a great monster movie from Australia, and thankfully NOT A "SyFy original"). Haven't seen Husk but might have to go and look for it.
Curiously I had a "SyFy original" (Killer Mountain) streaming on netflix the other day, which seemed to feature...Behirs. Which guarded Shamballah. It...wasn't terribly good at all