Halloween Encounters and Monsters! Submit yours here.

[El Coro]

With a little over a week to go until Halloween, some people might be interested in running a holiday-related encounter or adventure, full of spooky stuff and scary monsters.

I thought it would be awesome if people could create a quick, fun halloween-themed encounter, and we'll post them here for people to see and download. I'll be making a couple myself, as well as a few monsters.

If people start getting into it, I'll format the entries and put them into a downloadable PDF (for free) and host and feature it on my website, with full credit going to the authors, of course.

Anything is game, scary solo creatures (I'm looking at you, Mesh Hong), encounters, skill challenges, anything spooky and holiday related. Feel free to adapt old stories and known monsters into 4E creations.

So haunt those houses and jack those lanterns, if you dare!

 

[El Coro]

Well no one seemed that interested in making stuff, so I thought about not posting this, but I said I would and didn't want to be a liar.

So here's my Halloween encounter: By Skin & Teeth

The town of Remulos has a dark past. A century ago, as legend tells it, a strange disease crept over the city’s residents, triggered by moonlight and transforming many people into fearsome monsters. These abominations slaughtered most of the population, flaying the skin from their victims and devouring the rest. The townsfolk fought back and killed all of the monsters, burning the bodies and dumping the remains into a nearby chasm, condemning the monsters, and the memory of them, to the depths of the abyss.

 Ever since, the ancient mine shafts leading to the abyss have released a ghostly wind, howling incessantly as it swirls through the tunnels below. There are few alive who believe the story, though even the skeptics were unwilling to enter the howling mines of Remulos, and, when the moon is full, the streets are empty—doors locked and windows bolted.

 Now, a hundred years after the events supposedly transpired, strange things have started happening. Bodies have been found, partially-eaten, the skin removed. People have become ill, often disappearing within days of the sickness. Rumors of monsters—giant wolf-like creatures—prowling in the forest surrounding Remulos, have been spreading throughout the houses of the terrified townsfolk—rumors that are all too familiar. And a full moon shines so very bright.