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 Hello and welcome to Halloween week! Lets do this Halloween up right this year instead of all of the other years that were full of socially awkward gently caress ups. Let's foist dusty indie games on unsuspecting drunk people! Let's unironically play zombie games! Let's douse our regular Friday night campaign in pig's blood and lets kill some goddamned PCs!  Woo! Halloween! Jerks!
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 My favorite horror RPG is Dread. Dread is That Jenga Game. Buy the PDF for $3. Do you know how to play Jenga? I ask because the last time I played this like no one knew how to play Jenga except for the school teacher of the Severe and Profound. Players complete a questionnaire for their characters. There are no hit points, initiative, or miniatures. Just the tower. If what you are trying to do isn't reasonably covered in your questionnaire, you pull a block from the tower. When the tower falls, your character dies and the tower gets setup again with a few extra pulls. You can choose not to pull and you will fail at your task but you will not die. If you haven't played, it's difficult to describe what a physical presence of choice and anxiety the Jenga tower becomes throughout the session. This game puts tension on autopilot for you and all you have to do is slip in a few themes like gore or the supernatural to make it hum. The book's scenarios cover sci-fi, creature feature, and slasher flicks. Basically, you can run any horror scenario with this game.   Rules-lite, easy to pick up, super intense. One shot with player death. Dread gets 4 dancing skelingtons out of 5 THIS Halloween season! fosborb fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Oct 30, 2014 |
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Oct 28, 2014 05:01
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 Dragons Blood Punch 1 (64 ounce) bottle apple juice, chilled 1 (64 ounce) bottle cranberry juice, chilled 2 (32 ounce) bottles ginger ale, chilled 1 bottle of vodka red food coloring 1. To make the hand, fill rubber glove with water. Tie at the wrist with string and freeze one or two days. Unmold. Sometimes a finger will fall off when unmolding, this only adds to the ghoulish effect. 2. To make a base for the hand, fill coffee can about 1/3 full with water. Insert the hand and freeze until firm. To remove, run water on the outside of can. 3. When ready to serve pour half the chilled juices, ginger ale, and vodka into the punch bowl. Insert hand ice mold in the center. Fill bowl with remaining juices and soda. Place a few drops of red food coloring on the tips of the fingers just before serving. Braeunk Vhos Trolkh 1 ounce vodka 1 ounce coconut rum 1 ounce peach schnapps 1 ounce dekuyper sour apple liqueur 1 ounce prepared sweet-and-sour mix 1. Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well and pour over ice cubes in an old-fashioned glass. Serve with a lime wedge. The Drunken Drow  8 ounces vodka 4 ounces parfait amour liqueur 1 ounce blackberry liqueur 2 ounces tarragon simple syrup (recipe follows) 1 ounce fresh lemon juice 1 ounce lavender syrup, available at most liquor stores 4 lavender sprigs 8 blackberries dry ice 1. Prepare the tarragon simple syrup by placing 1 cup sugar and 1 cup water in a small saucepan. Heat over medium-low heat until it reaches a low boil. Add two sprigs of fresh tarragon and reduce heat to low. Heat for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove tarragon and allow syrup to cool. 2. Place 2 blackberries on each lavender sprig and set aside. 3. Cut and juice lemon. Strain to remove pulp, if desired. Add spirits, syrups and juice to a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake until very cold (about 20 seconds). 4.Pour drink into beakers, add a small piece of dry ice and a lavender-blackberry skewer.
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Oct 28, 2014 05:21
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Elves aren't very spooky.
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Oct 28, 2014 12:11
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Counter point: What the gently caress is wrong with you? Elves can be very spooky! You don't even have to go back to root mythology. Think Elves of the Mirkwood. Stealthy, ancient, alien killers in a haunted forest. Tons of red herrings in every other creature that lives in those woods. Body horror with their hosed up ears. If you're a dwarf, creatures that are 3 times your height in their natural hunting grounds. Throw some of those assholes in an otherwise straight-laced, modern crime investigation and that's a great starting point to a creature feature horror one shot.
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Oct 28, 2014 14:22
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What's the best spooky elfgame 1 shot adventure? System and setting don't matter.
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Oct 29, 2014 21:00
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Jailbreak for Unknown Armies. Turns out the spookiest thing in gaming is the other players. Who knew?
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Oct 29, 2014 22:05
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Capfalcon posted:Jailbreak for Unknown Armies. I did this once and it was pretty cool and I established an 'in-game time conversion' that morning comes and the storm breaks at x hour and the game ended up with the house on fire, several characters dead, and a bunch of convicts crammed into a tiny car with sirens blaring. Best one-shot, would recommend. Also it's available free on the Atlas Games website? Or at least google freely shows it. So as long as you can understand the rules (roll-under price is right percentile system, roll under stat is good, roll under skill is better, insanity triggers are either a mind or soul roll, I forget) you can pretty much get going right away. https://www.atlas-games.com/pdf_storage/jailbreak.pdf Really though the best part of that game was the convicts going one by one to see the piano girl, and freaking out one by one. Downside: The dog is a great part of the game, but at the start of the scenario, players will usually cooperate on both sides to lock him in the bathroom every time. bewilderment fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Oct 30, 2014 |
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Oct 30, 2014 00:19
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We have the first edition of Betrayal at the House on the Hill and the rules are complete loving garbage. Every other room and Haunt has errata, and quite a few scenarios have fun breaking balance issues. Is the 2nd edition better? Worth rebuying? Or should we look to other boardgames for the Halloween night party?
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Oct 30, 2014 01:54
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fosborb posted:We have the first edition of Betrayal at the House on the Hill and the rules are complete loving garbage. Every other room and Haunt has errata, and quite a few scenarios have fun breaking balance issues. If you're worrying about balance in Betrayal you're playing the wrong game. Sometimes you just spelunk around a house for a while and then Bob turns out to be an invisible vampire with a blood dagger that murders all of you mercilessly. Mansion of Madness is basically the same game but actually balanced and good tho. Also everyone should play Tannhauser for Halloween, great sort of Xcom meets Indiana Jones type game.
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Oct 30, 2014 04:49
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El Estrago Bonito posted:If you're worrying about balance in Betrayal you're playing the wrong game. Sometimes you just spelunk around a house for a while and then Bob turns out to be an invisible vampire with a blood dagger that murders all of you mercilessly. Unbalance Uncle Bob in the Entire loving House with his Super Blood Dagger of Invisibility wouldn't bother me except sometimes even if you know the battle is entirely one sided it still takes an hour after the reveal to finally put players/the traitor out of their misery. :serious-halloween-boardgame-opinions:
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Oct 30, 2014 05:09
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How is Mansion of Madness better than Betrayal at the Longest Name in Boardgmae History? e: it's FFG so I assume it comes with 1,000 plastic and cardboard bits to track in a very spooky... manner
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Oct 30, 2014 05:12
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fosborb posted:How is Mansion of Madness better than Betrayal at the Longest Name in Boardgmae History? Well, you don't tend to end up with one dude that has all the power ups and is an untouchable god. Honestly, it's kinda like a game of CoC with heavier rules but really good props. You even have one person play all the monsters and such as a kind of GM.
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Oct 30, 2014 05:15
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Oh cool! That sounds pretty fun Incidentally, if anyone's tempted to drop 50 bucks on Arkham Horror to play some ELDRITCH fiddly mechanics in two days, the game will play much better the first time if one person is playing as a GM. The GM will read the card text, make quick and final rules calls, and generally keep the pace moving. It's actually kind of a fun role to play, especially if you can do spooky voices. oooOOOOoo, draw a card, move some of those trapezoidal horrors along the white path, and everyone do something arbitrary now sorta related to the big bad terror monster at the end of the game that you all already know about.
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Oct 30, 2014 05:31
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Lately I've been preferring Eldritch Horror to Arkham Horror although they are really similar games, Eldritch just sort of feels like you did a back to basics reworking of the game that tried to jettison all the baggage of the previous editions.
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Oct 30, 2014 05:44
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fosborb posted:We have the first edition of Betrayal at the House on the Hill and the rules are complete loving garbage. Every other room and Haunt has errata, and quite a few scenarios have fun breaking balance issues. 2nd edition quality is garbage. They really went cheap on the cardstock used in the game.
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Oct 30, 2014 07:08
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Well gently caress. Then what is a good spooky boardgame to replace this early 00s basic broken boardgame bitch?
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Oct 30, 2014 07:12
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fosborb posted:Well gently caress. Then what is a good spooky boardgame to replace this early 00s basic broken boardgame bitch? Ghost Stories? e: nvm Dark Darker Darkest sounds like garbage But looking up Horror games on BGG, how many players are you looking for? Claustrophobia only plays 2, but Fury of Dracula might work. City of Horror and Mall of Horror are zombie themed games where you get to vote on who to kick out into the zombie mob and are pretty rad. S.J. fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Oct 30, 2014 |
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Oct 30, 2014 07:51
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I didn't manage to do anything on Halloween proper, but on Saturday, I'm going to be running my first ever game of Dread. I'm just doing Beneath a Full Moon from the book, because it seems pretty simple. Anything to watch out for, both with that adventure and with the game itself?
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