Greetings gamers from all systems, places, and timelines! No matter what flavor of game you are playing or what system you’re in, it’s nice to shake things up once in awhile so that things don’t get stale. When my girlfriend asked me to run a game for her birthday, where everyone got to play as … Read more
So, just in time for Halloween, here are some ideas to get your creative juices flowing, call up your friends, plan a night, and enter into a bone-chilling, creepy, and horrific game session.
It’s the scary season around our gaming tables, and that brings up one of the age-old questions about DMing: Can you reasonably expect to scare adult roleplaying gamers? Maybe, maybe not. But what you can definitely do is remove the illusion that they’re in control. Undermine that false comfort that their characters will be OK. Whether you’re threatening their hit points, sanity or character attachments, if you can shake the players’ sense of security, then you can scare them — and that’s what Halloween gaming is all about.
