Need Ideas for one nighter scary Halloween game.

[clawingwolf]

So was thinking of not doing my usual Rifts campaign on the week of Halloween and instead doing a scary themed one night game. Not sure what game to go with and don't have any ideas what to do with the game yet so wondering what other people's ideas were.

I own BTS 1ed & 2nd ed, Dead Reign, Rifts, Heroes Unlimited, Palladium Fantasy, obviously leaning towards the BTS or Dead Reign, but if you have horror ideas for the other games let me know.

[Bill]

Rifts characters transformed against their will into bioborgs. I even have a pre-prepared set of six that you can use, if you like; link. They must escape the pyramid and Atlantis. Lots of opportunity for body-horror just describing how they've been mutilated, plus possible survival horror as they get killed off one-by-one. If you really want to mix it up, in addition to the Altarans and Kydians hunting them, they only escaped because an extra-powerful mutated monster busted loose and is killing everything that it encounters.

I'd recommend prepping hand-outs of alternate characters or letting them play hunters after they've been killed.

[arouetta]

I recently did a PF game where the townspeople were just fine during the day, but then that night preschool aged children walked up to the camp at the edge of town holding knives and singing children's songs. People throughout the village were holding ordinary conversations while stalking the party with knives and a group of townspeople were holding down an NPC that the group had met during the day while a black cloud tried to enter him (prior to that sight, the party had blamed the NPC). Finally in the church they found a power circle for dimensional portal that was letting in the tentacles of some unknown monster. Brave getting close to the portal, destroy the circle, and the portal slammed shut and all the townspeople came to their senses.

The next day, the townspeople reported finding a lot of adventuring equipment, bones in the pig troughs, and some possessed random travelers that had taken up residence while everyone was controlled. The PCs did not touch the equipment, hightailed it out of town, and whenever they had to pass through that town again (other game events made it a stopping point between two cities), they refused to even slow down and wave.

[The Oh So Amazing Nate]

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This! This is all you need for an AMAZING Fantastic 1 shot laugh your ass off, because you're to scared to blink (the dark lasts too long man) 1 shot campaign.

[Rimmerdal]

The PC's are drafted to escort a group of children out on a night of festivities..all seems to be going well till the other groups of children go missing along with there escorts. any search shows signs of teleport or other mystical means of travel and the local old church the people used is now belching out strange energies...along with that two rather odd gentlemen show...a pair brothers from some older time...coincidence?

also a good way to introduce a new villain. throw in few red herrings and a keep things interesting like a crazy with a monster movie fetish, a Historian with a love of old pre-rifts movies involving serial and Mystic style killers...some fairly blameable types. they could be guilty but there is another hidden power that may or may not be responsible. in the end it should be something unexpected...say a certain custom is tied to event the locals do regularly.

[mrloucifer]

There are a lot of Beyond the Supernatural adventure ideas available in the House of BTS (click on logo below). See the Adventures section for details. If none of these jump at you, feel free to P.M. me, we'll work on one together and post it in the house.

[MaxxSterling]

I did a shadowrun campaign once that included PC's trying to steal some data outside of a small town, from some yakuza. BUT.......... Another team tried to hit it at the same time and caused a traffic accident that sent a semi hauling toxic waste crashing into a power station (Causing an EMP) near a small stream and leaving the characters vehicle out of commission. So, they had to go into the town, but by the time they got there, the waste had caused the dead to return to life, but also mutated some local insects, so giant spiders running around as well, and the other shadowrun team was still in the town trying to get the original item they stole from the yakuza, who also sent back up to the town and later, the government came to try to contain it, and I had them find survivors and so on... And basically, just every bad thing you could imagine. It was quite a mess, but a lot of fun. The town was also only 1 road in and out and a bridge on both sides, and they of course got taken out by the military to contain it all. I'm sure this could be done in a similiar way in Rifts. The idea, is not just have 1 antagonist, but 5-6 crazy things happening all at once. Like AvP + Night of the Living Dead + James Bond + The Last Stand