So Halloween is just around the corner. What are people doing for Halloween?

[Simple Bluff]

I don't think I'll be doing much that night. My friend is having her birthday party very close to Halloween, and I'd rather go to that. I can't really do both because I'm incredibly busy and woefully short on cash lately. But I dunno, we'll see what happens.

 

[Flatfrog]

Round here the obsession among the ten-to-thirteen-year-olds in my kids' circle of friends is 'creepypasta'. So my daughter has been busy mask-making and plans to go out as Eyeless Jack, while my son will be gracing the streets as Jeff the Killer. Among their friends we will also be finding Ben Drowned, Jane the Killer, Slenderman and sundry others.


I personally find the whole thing rather baffling.

 

[Mr Fixit]

Sadly nothing more than work & home for me... A friend of mines son is going to dress up as Harry Potter & he said I should be Ron, because well ginger & all that. I think I'll pass on that one though.
I'll probably just head home & watch some TV or play a game. I'd love to go out & grab a few drinks with friends & people watch, but most of us will be very broke & I doubt that it'll happen.

 

[SkullKing84]

Dress up, take my kid out trick or treating, and when thats all done... Play Pathfinder with my friends (while still dressed up).

Probably dressing up as a Candy Skull look, or something.

 

[TheTJackson]

I live in Australia, so we don't have a Halloween holiday as such, but I'm having a party of sorts with friends for laughs.

 

[SerithVC]

We mostly play Pathfinder but i'm gonna use 2nd Ed AD&D for any campaigns related to being terrifying and such just because of the difference in mortality rate. I was thinking of using the D6 or Call of Cthulhu systems for this but i figured it's be easier for them to use 2nd Ed. Hoping to lead it into an ongoing campaign.

That makes a lot of sense, and is part of the reason we don't use Pathfinder for horror either. Have a stack of AD&D 2nd edition books I bought at a goodwill place nearly 10 years ago, and am about to start actually playing it for the first time ever once the current campaign is finished. I can hardly wait!

None of this has anything to do with your original question. I realise this, and apologize. Will try not to distub the thread further.

Fear not. I'm rather lax about what people talk about on this thread so long as there is a reasonable cause for them to talk about it. An example being this chain of conversation as it all links back to previous posts.

 

[Little Woodsman]

I work the 30th & the 31st so no big plans, if in-between all the regular obligations I get the chance to watch Luna Eclipsed & Sleepless in Ponyville with my kid I will be very grateful.

 

[AngloDoom]

A friend and I are having a day out, then going to a hotel for the night so we can watch scary films in an entirely unknown place and (hopefully) scare the bejeesus out of ourselves.
She also has hinted several times that we should get a double bed; as a man she refers to as "my gay best friend, who isn't gay" I'm not entirely sure what to think of this.

 

[saoirse13]

I will be going to a Horror Fright Night in a forest then on to a costume party. Its actually pretty cool. But since I have just returned home from Orlando where I spent most of my holiday at Universal's Halloween Horror Nights walking through houses set like Walking Dead, Evil Dead, Cabin in the Woods, An American Warewolf in London and Resident Evil and trying to avoid getting scared and snuck up on by "zombies". Its safe to say the Fright Night Forest scare will most likely be a let down in comparison.


I do have to say I love Halloween. And yes I love it far more than Christmas but thats mainly because i find Christmas and winter in general a depressing time of year.

 

[Dfskelleton]

I'm having a horror movie marathon/costume party with a group of friends.
I am dressing up as Macgyver.
I've got the bomber jacket, the mullet, the aviators, the work boots, and a roll of duct tape. I'm set.

 

[Foolery]

Carve pumpkins. That's it. After that, go to bed. I have work in the morning, so no late night shenanigans for me.

 

[lostlevel]

The same thing I do every year pinky, try to avoid all mention of the "holiday".

I find this "holiday" to be one of the most annoying, everything takes on this "scary" facade, I'm looking at a packet of cake bars that instead of normally being called Cadbury cake bars, they are now "spooky" cake bars (I bought them 'cos they are cinder toffee), they are also individually wrapped by mummies. It has this tacky aura to it.

I can understand why kiddies like it, free sweeties and I understand why party goers like it, get drunk wearing clothes you don't usually wear. I just don't why others go nuts for it, I guess it shakes up the monotonous day to day life but I'm tired of fake bats, plastic ghosts and packaging going "scary".

Do love pumpkin art though, some seriously awesome carvers out there!

I get where your coming from, I generally find holidays a bit tedious it is a good excuse to meet up with people you?ve not seen in a while and family but I think that is more my years working in retail has dulled the generic experience of fake bats and cobwebs.

I never really did Halloween as a kid but last year I thought I?d give it a go. I went to a Halloween party with the usual dead celebrities theme which was silly but fun and then a Christmas/New Year?s party with an elaborate setup mimicking one of the doomsday cults with a video installation of rhetoric from a cult leader mixed in with a playlist themed around the end of the world. It was a weird combination of generic spooky decoration and smoke machines with reconstruction and props, probably better suited for October come to think of it.

It was odd but fun, I've got renewed respect for people that make a real effort and do something elaborate. It makes a nice change.

 

[ngl42398]

Sit alone in my house, play videogames, eat candy, masturbate, the usual.

Although I might get LEGO Marvel and go play that with my friend instead.

 

[Something Amyss]

Not sure what to dress up as yet but my friend and I are considering going as weeping angels and just photo bombing everyone.
If we can, appear in the back of photographs and move closer each time if more are being taken.

We're very sad people.

Hell no, that's fucking awesome!

I'm trying to get my brother to dress up as Slender Man and just stand around town. We're both tall, but he's tall and thin as a rail.

Myself? I want to dress up as something terrifying. As I live in 'Murrica, my first thought was empathy. But since I can't figure out how to do that, the next choice is a fresh vegetable.

 

[Someone Depressing]

I'm going to throw rocks at kids who even fucking look at my house.

Little fuckers.

 

[Colour Scientist]

Not sure what to dress up as yet but my friend and I are considering going as weeping angels and just photo bombing everyone.
If we can, appear in the back of photographs and move closer each time if more are being taken.

We're very sad people.

Hell no, that's fucking awesome!

I'm trying to get my brother to dress up as Slender Man and just stand around town. We're both tall, but he's tall and thin as a rail.

Myself? I want to dress up as something terrifying. As I live in 'Murrica, my first thought was empathy. But since I can't figure out how to do that, the next choice is a fresh vegetable.

Oh, harsh.

What if, instead, you went as America!

Spoiler: Well, bits of America.

 

[Johnny Impact]

I will be working all night and hating life. My job is crazy on Halloween, and I don't mean in a good way.

 

[BleedingPride]

I'm going to bring my girlfriend around, and we'll eat candy and I'll introduce her to horror games. Not sure how to start with that though, I don't know if I should do Reasonably Scary (Slender the Arrival), Unreasonably Scary (Cry of Fear), "OH DEAR GOD WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME" scary (Amnesia the Dark Descent), or Diet Scary (Dead Space). Would appreciate some input, actually.

 

[Starik20X6]

I think some friends are organising a Halloween party, so if that happens that's where I'll be going. Hopefully reserve some time on the weekend to play some horror/halloween themed games... That's about it. Halloween isn't as big of a deal over here in Aus.

 

[EHKOS]

If I could get a bottle of Chianti without getting carded, I would place it and a bowl of beans on the front window sill and just lick my lips at everyone who passed by. But I'm on food stamps so no giving out candy this year, not that I would due to religious reasons, so I'll just sit in my apartment with every light out playing Candy Crush in the bathroom tub until everyone goes home.