Here’s a fright-fest for you: Scormey doing the show by himself again! Today he asks a simple question: Have corporations ruined Halloween? Intro (0:49) – Our plans for Halloween Video Games (9:59) – Is Halloween now just a Corporate holiday, especially in gaming? Wrap (32:17) – A couple of new* games for Halloween fun. “Alchemists […]
Tag: Spooky Season
Tales to Terrify: Running Adventures for the Spooky Season, that are Actually Scary
So here we are again, coming to the final weekend of Spooky Season, with Halloween but a couple of days hence. Perhaps you have held off on running a horror-themed adventure until now, waiting for this weekend in particular because… well, why wouldn’t you? It’s freaking Halloween! But now you have a problem. Maybe you […]
Something Vaguely Halloweeny – Loot Mechanics #243
Talking about this year’s crop of MMORPG Halloween events, and our favorite horror-themed board and card games! Intro (0:50) – Our week, in brief. Main Topic (2:47) – Let’s talk this year’s Halloween events in our favorite MMORPGs Other Bullshit (28:10) – Spooky Haunted Board Games! Wrap (44:10) – Final thoughts. Music from https://filmmusic.io “Pixelland” […]
Bracing for the Halloween onslaught in MMORPGs!
Well, the Spooky Season is kicking into high gear, right about now… which means it is nearly time for all of our favorite – and not-so-favorite – MMORPGs to wheel out their Halloween event! Whether they make sense thematically in that game or not, it’s Halloween in damn near every MMORPG on the market, whether […]
Interactive Lovecraft
So I picked up the new horror game from Bit Golem games, “Dagon”. As the title would suggest, it is indeed based upon the classic story from H.P. Lovecraft. What drew me to this game, if it indeed can be called such (I’ll get to that in a minute}, were two points in particular: First, […]
Gather ’round the Bonefire
Let’s face it: While there are plenty of great Horror-themed tabletop roleplaying games out there (I can name a dozen, at least), most people are playing “Dungeons & Dragons” or “Pathfinder”. Which is to say, classic High Fantasy roleplaying. There is nothing wrong with that, either. But whenever the Spooky Season comes around, and Game-Masters […]