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Ah, I feel it! It's getting closer, my favorite day of the year. So with Halloween fast approaching what are you doing this year? Plan to dress up and party? Give candy to all sorts of spooks and goblins? Run a horror themed game?
Personally I'll be manning the door and handing out the treats, but I'm also doing the latter mentioned. Since the start of this wonderful month I've been running a "zombie" apocalypse game for my groups. They all really love and it forces them to think on their feet (By the way trying to curb stomp a downed but not out "zombie" is NOT a good idea). The game is set in current time using the basic firearms info from the Pathfinder Campaign Setting.
The groups have had a hard time of thinking what to do next amongst the chaos. Do they search for their loved ones? Flee town and leave the others? Try to make since and stop it the source of problem?
Group A, my Saturday group, is going with fortifying there home and waiting out the doom. Only venturing out in need of food.
Group B, my Monday group, is hitting the road, after finding most of there loved ones dead. This idea especially hit home with one player who had to put her own daughter down o_O
So again what kind of strange, spooky, horrific things do you have planned?
Who says you have to bite them?
Doesn't every self-respecting heartbeat-challenged have equally infectious material under their fingernails?
Or, failing that, perhaps a blowgun and a supply of darts? Just poke yourself somewhere appropriate and *pfffwwtt* infection spreads.
Why settle for just one Patient Zero, when you can have 100?
Interestingly enough, I'm going to the Halloween Parade dressed as Louis from Left 4 Dead. My friends are either playing other characters or special infected. So far we've got a Smoker and a Hunter. I think one guy is going as the old military dude, and another is going as the preppy and the girl from the L4D2.
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Interestingly enough, I'm going to the Halloween Parade dressed as Louis from Left 4 Dead. My friends are either playing other characters or special infected. So far we've got a Smoker and a Hunter. I think one guy is going as the old military dude, and another is going as the preppy and the girl from the L4D2.
This is AWESOME
Just finished re-reading A night in the Lonesome October.
You guys go on and party. I'm going to be busy hunting
...or spend the night at work...
Also, enjoying all of these old Universal and Hammer Horror films on TCM while they last.
Unfortunately Halloween is not a big thing in Australia, Its end of spring so it gets dark late, if there are any parties they are held on the weekend. Some streets might organise amongst parents to do the trick or treat thing but it is very uncommon...
Which is all very strange - Australians will normally use any excuse have a party...
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You guys go on and party. I'm going to be busy hunting
...or spend the night at work...
Also, enjoying all of these old Universal and Hammer Horror films on TCM while they last.
Unfortunately Halloween is not a big thing in Australia, Its end of spring so it gets dark late, if there are any parties they are held on the weekend. Some streets might organise amongst parents to do the trick or treat thing but it is very uncommon...
Which is all very strange - Australians will normally use any excuse have a party...
I'm Aussie, and I'm going to three Halloween parties (well one of them is a spooky one shot Pathfinder Game). The other is a costume party and the third is an Aussie Horror Movie Marathon. (Wolf Creek, Rogue and Van Diemen's Land).
So you're right about one thing, we do like an excuse to party!
You guys go on and party. I'm going to be busy hunting
...or spend the night at work...
Also, enjoying all of these old Universal and Hammer Horror films on TCM while they last.
Unfortunately Halloween is not a big thing in Australia, Its end of spring so it gets dark late, if there are any parties they are held on the weekend. Some streets might organise amongst parents to do the trick or treat thing but it is very uncommon...
Which is all very strange - Australians will normally use any excuse have a party...
I'm Aussie, and I'm going to three Halloween parties (well one of them is a spooky one shot Pathfinder Game). The other is a costume party and the third is an Aussie Horror Movie Marathon. (Wolf Creek, Rogue and Van Diemen's Land).
So you're right about one thing, we do like an excuse to party!
Parties, yes but I don't see the same level of excitement that our US compatriots have for Halloween.
What movies - the Classics like Razorback, the Cars that ate Paris, Howling 3: The Marsupials or more recent ones like Wolf Creek or Rogue
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You guys go on and party. I'm going to be busy hunting
...or spend the night at work...
Also, enjoying all of these old Universal and Hammer Horror films on TCM while they last.
Unfortunately Halloween is not a big thing in Australia, Its end of spring so it gets dark late, if there are any parties they are held on the weekend. Some streets might organise amongst parents to do the trick or treat thing but it is very uncommon...
Which is all very strange - Australians will normally use any excuse have a party...
I'm Aussie, and I'm going to three Halloween parties (well one of them is a spooky one shot Pathfinder Game). The other is a costume party and the third is an Aussie Horror Movie Marathon. (Wolf Creek, Rogue and Van Diemen's Land).
So you're right about one thing, we do like an excuse to party!
Parties, yes but I don't see the same level of excitement that our US compatriots have for Halloween.
What movies - the Classics like Razorback, the Cars that ate Paris, Howling 3: The Marsupials or more recent ones like Wolf Creek or Rogue
Wolf Creek, Rogue and Van Diemen's Land. It's true Australia doesn't get Halloweenific like the USA seems to. It still annoys me that K-Mart already starts in on the Christmas stuff before Halloween even rolls around though.
Wolf Creek, Rogue and Van Diemen's Land. It's true Australia doesn't get Halloweenific like the USA seems to. It still annoys me that K-Mart already starts in on the Christmas stuff before Halloween even rolls around though.
Comercialisation of Christmas - Easter is just as bad...Feburary is when the Eggs start.
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Just finished re-reading A night in the Lonesome October.
I started this as a tradition a few years ago as well. I read each days happenings on the day. :) (For those of you who have not read this, it is a great book. Masterfully plotted and told. Each day starting with the end of September have events leading up to Halloween night and the events of that evening. You really should check it out.)
Get dressed up, go to a party, get drunk, and likely do something I will regret later. :)
Soo....How do you feel about PEELS?
Get dressed up, go to a party, get drunk, and likely do something I will regret later. :)
Be sure to eliminate video evidence. ^_^
Just finished re-reading A night in the Lonesome October.I started this as a tradition a few years ago as well. I read each days happenings on the day. :) (For those of you who have not read this, it is a great book. Masterfully plotted and told. Each day starting with the end of September have events leading up to Halloween night and the events of that evening. You really should check it out.)
My problem is that I can't get myself to stop and only read the single chapter.
hmm; usually I have my jack o lantern thread up and going by this time; Heathy and I usually banter back and forth with some others and come up with a jack theme; we did beholders one year; goblins last year; sheesh; guess I need to get some generated thought about what to carve this year.
I keep wanting to do something for Halloween, but it hasn't happened for years now. The best time I had was a few years back when we dressed my daughters as an elf and a dwarf (with a beard). But that was like . . . five years ago?
This year I'll be playing PFS at the FLGS, but I keep wishing I could do a Halloween themed game at some point in time. Much as I love Pathfinder, part of me thinks Savage Worlds would be a great one shot system for a Resident Evil style one shot.
My daughter and I have been working on her skeletal sythe for her Grim Reaper costume; is looking pretty cool; found a really nice, twisted branch for the base of it.
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Here in Italy Halloween is not really a big thing, but as All Saints' Day falls on Monday, we're prepping up for a 36-hour marathon session.
Get dressed up, go to a party, get drunk, and likely do something I will regret later. :)Soo....How do you feel about PEELS?
The salon service?
@ Turin - always do.
LOL no, it's an L4D reference.
Also, got almost everything together for the costume. Unfortunately, airsoft guns are illegal in NY, so we're going with..*sigh* NERF guns.
I have made suits of armor that look this good or better and takes a lot less money and work; its amazing what you can do with carboard; newspaper; bubble wrap, paper mache and paint. Personally, I dont wear any costumes that would inhibit my ability to eat or drink, so this sort of helmet is not for me. Still, it is cool; looks very hot to wear.
Comic book artists seem to have a lot of fun dressing up.
Samurai Batman FTW.