[Loremaster]

Come on, surely you've wanted to do a Halloween-themed game night, right? Do you focus on zombies and more zombies, is it a good time to run a World of Darkness campaign, or even a Halloween-themed-but-otherwise-Random Game Night?

If you need some ideas, start here:

First, a light card game. Maybe the Cheapass game, Pass Me the Brain, where everybody fights over a single brain, which you must possess to do your tasks in the fast-food dead-end job you work. It's like you work with a bunch of zombies or something! Or is that not Halloween enough?

Next, a solid board game. Flying Frog Productions has two: either a Touch of Evil, or Last Night on Earth. Take your choice of 19th-century mystery, hunting down the villain while he plots ways to end the lives of the town elders. Will you fight the Vampire, the Werewolf, or the Spectral Horseman? Or, play either humans or zombies in LNoE, with many scenarios that feel like you're in a Freddy Kreuger movie. Or at least, Shaun of the Dead.

But, if you don't want to shell out the fifty bucks for one of those, surely you know somebody who has a copy of Zombies! Lay down your 3x3 city blocks, gather those life and bullet tokens, and try not to get overrun by the zombies! There's what, at least seven expansion sets for it now?! Don't forget to collect the pages of the Book of the Dead.

Last, unless you really want to run Vampire or Hunter or (gasp!) Rage, why not do a D&D or other campaign with a decidedly horrific feel? Clerics and Rogues and Wizards can hunt down the cause of the superstitious town folk, why their crops are going bad and the sun doesn't shine any more. Perhaps a particularly foul troll, one that got his hands on a Unhallow-generated Blackskull relic? Or witches that really ride around on broomsticks and really do lay curses, Charms and enchantments on players, even when unseen! Nothing like trying to hunt down a hidden witch in her laboratory as she seems to rain down curses and magical death from above and below.

Or... what are you doing for Halloween?

[Kuinn Stormbringer]

For many years I was in a regular D&D gaming group, and every year we would have "Halloween D&D" which consisted of eveyone dressing up in fantasy costumes, and the one with the best would be given something cool by the DM, usually something to use in that night's adventure. Whoever was DMing (Me or my friend) that time would go all out in regards to props and visual aids to make it special. It's been a long time, but I have a photo album with pics from every year that we costumed!

[lionrampant]

I'm partial to Arkham Horror for Halloween gaming, myself.