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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AFGNCAAP" data-source="post: 1796706" data-attributes="member: 871">Have 2 different ideas in mind for a horror-themed game for Halloween: 1 fore Marvel, the other for D&D.  This year, it looks like it'll be the D&D one (in the midst of a Lankhmar campaign right now).The Halloween-themed adventure I have in store for D&D is a "side trek" (to borrow a term from Dungeon): the PCs (as well as a few accompanying NPCs/pre-gens) must survive the brutal attacks of a cannibalistic clan during their travels through the middle of nowhere.  They kill travelers they encounter passing near their lair, then eat the flesh, use the skin as leather, animate the bones as servants/assistants, and use/sell the clothing & gear that their victims carried.  Notable members of the clan are the barely-alive/nearly-undead patriarch, the insane necromancer, and the massive misshapen greatsword-swinging brute who has taken to wearing the faces of his victims.Yes, for the most part, I pretty much based the idea off of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (both the original & the remake).  Many of the NPCs/pre-gens will bite the bullet, and if the players aren't careful, then some of the PC will die as well.  I'm currently running a Lankhmar campaign (UA generic classes, humans only, low magic, action points), and the PCs are still at very low levels (1-3); hopefully this will help increase the challenge/terror of the adventure since the PCs won't have access to much magic other than spells.  This is more or less a bizarre, macabre encounter than the PCs have in the midst of going from point A to point B (in regards to the main storyline/plot).  Then again, if there are any survivors of the family after the PCs encounter them, then I may have them crop up in future adventures....If I were in the midst of my Marvel campaign, then I was going to use this idea:A vampire sets up shop in the PC's hometown/base of operations.  The vampire has infiltrated the local Vampire LARP community, and has started to use them as livestock & minions.  Quite a few members of the LARP group don't know of the vampire's true identity, while those who do are either dead or willing cohorts in the vampire's service.  The PC heroes get involved when one of the bodies of the vampire's victims is found in a local park; not long afterward, the PCs stumble across an attack by one of the vampire's converted minions.A red herring in store for the PCs is a lone werewolf on the loose in the city at the same time (who's nowhere near as secretive as the vampire in its activities).  It'll take a bit of investigative work by the PCs to determine that the werewolf isn't the only thing threating the city at night....This idea was sorta inspired from a few friends' experiences participlating with the local Vampire LARP community (before WW took over the Cam); I was just entertained by the idea of a real vampire infiltrating, manipulating, and using a group of people who frequently entertain themselves by roleplaying vampires (with many bad/creepy/problem players being victims, thralls, or minions to the vampire).</blockquote>

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