Posts Tagged by Halloween
| October 31, 2010 | Posted by Patrick Benson |
Today is Halloween here in the United States, and of all of the holidays Halloween is my favorite for gaming! Even non-gamers get into the act of imaginative play and storytelling around Halloween. Halloween is a holiday that makes it easy for adults to let down their guard and indulge their childish and mischievous natures without fear of embarrassment. This makes it easy for people who consider RPGs to be restricted squarely into the camp of teenage entertainment to let their hair down and to…
| October 23, 2009 | Posted by Patrick Benson |
Recently fellow gnome John Arcadian and I attended “Con on the Cob” where we hung out with the crew from Windmill Game Co. They are the creative power behind the new Dread: Tales of Terror series which are supplements that provide wonderful scenarios and questionnaires for the fabulous game Dread. Now every year I run a very simple RPG for non-gamers around Halloween time. In the past I have used games like Fudge, or Savage Worlds. Both are simple and wonderful systems, and each can…
| October 31, 2008 | Posted by Patrick Benson |
Ah Halloween! Jack O’Lanterns, candy, kids in costumes, and everyone is just itching for something to scare them! But you, oh dear GM, should be thinking of more sinister thoughts. Like a zombie crawling from its grave to feast on the living and bring them into the folds of the undead, you too should be turning your ravenous eye towards those non-gamers and scheming as to how you will make them lifelong slaves to the cold mistress of polyhedral dice! And Halloween is the perfect…
| October 3, 2008 | Posted by Matthew J. Neagley |
October is upon us (by which I mean I’m writing this on the 1st, not that you’ll necessarily see it on the 1st). While I haven’t had to deal with one in well over a decade, I have no doubt that the “DnD* is a tool of the Devil” crowd are still out there and going strong, if a tad less vocal, and that one of the oddball bits of our hobby that make them point their finger with a bit of extra zealotry is that the leading holiday…
