Anyone planning a BTS Halloween themed game this year?

[mrloucifer]

Ive started planning something Halloween themed like I did last year, but I've not decided the scenario as of yet.

Are any one of you planning something special for good ol' Samhain/Halloween weekend?

If so, feel free to share (as I will once I've decided on a scenario). Perhaps you'll influence others to do the same.

[mrloucifer]

So I've been thinking about what I'm goign to run on Halloween weekend and I think I have it.

Its going to be a victims campaign, partly for play testing for the sourcebook writing (which is about 60-70% written) and partly becasue it fits my game idea.

I'm going to set the game in the Catskills Mountains area of New York state. While its currently known for its campgrounds and resorts, fans of early American literature will recall its where "Rip Van Winkle" dwelled. The author, Washington Irving, had also written a favorite of mine "The Legend of Sleepy Hallow". In short, I'm going to have both stories collide.

The PC's will be decendants of the people & families that were involved both stories. The game will start with the PC's going to a halloween party at a family owned resort cabin, and when they plan to leave, they are suddenly assaulted by the headless horseman! The ghosts of Henry Hudson's crew and other iconic creations of the stories around this time will all be thrown in for the fun of it.

I'm still in the writting/planning stage, but I do plan to have the victims learning of their history somehow, and eventually needing to make thier way to the bridge by the old Dutch cemetary in Sleepy Hallow/Tarrytown, and cross the bridge as according to legend that the horseman cannot go beyond it.

Along the away will be the various ghosts, witches, devils and other supernatural goodies from the folks tales of the time period like Tam o' Shanter, the Wild Huntsman and others.

Keep ya posted.

[gaby]

Maybe you can show the stats for the Horseman and the others you come up with.

[mrloucifer]

While the actual stats of a "Victim Villain" does not need to be as fleshed out as the regular games, I will be glad to post what I come up with.

[Lord Z]

I will be at a Murder Mystery Larp this Halloween evening. I am playing the role of Perry Normal, host of the supernatural-themed television show.

[mrloucifer]

I will be at a Murder Mystery Larp this Halloween evening. I am playing the role of Perry Normal, host of the supernatural-themed television show.

Sweet! I wish we had something like that in my hood!

[Natasha]

When we were all together we started a tradition of playing BtS in an old cemetery where a squirrel moving through the leaves sounds like something is going to attack. And by "old", I mean the head stones - the ones that haven't fallen over or somehow disappeared - are illegible and there are rectangular holes in the ground where the coffins have rotted away. I don't think anybody ever goes there anymore; we only know about it from a 1950s era map. The old road that leads to it is grown over and its connection to the main road severed by a creek. It takes about 30 minutes of bushwhacking to reach. We'd spend the night there probably but not sleep.

I would like to do that again some time.