This is Halloween!


Not counting Groundhog's Day, Halloween is my favorite holiday. I have made quite a few Halloween-themed posts over the years and thought I would compile them in one place for DMs who might want to mine ideas for a Halloween-inspired session.


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Section 4-B

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SECTION 4-B ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT Established: 1943 Formalized: 1947 Current Authority: National Security Act classified amendments      The Section 4-B protocols were initially developed in 1943 under the direction of Brigadier General Nathaniel Adams as a wartime measure to identify, coordinate, and retain access to personnel possessing unique operational capabilities not addressed by existing military classification systems.      The rapid expansion of global conflict resulted in encounters with: experimental weapons systems; unconventional enemy capabilities; unidentified biological phenomena; irregular warfare environments; personnel exhibiting exceptional effectiveness under extraordinary conditions.      Existing military personnel classifications proved inadequate for the management of such individuals and units.      Section 4-B was established to ensure continued access to personnel resources possessing dem...
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Road Trip to the Dragon Isles (Styx - The Plan)

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10 Newkolt 349 AC "Fine," she said. "I'll talk to the Venns. I'll find out who still has a little courage left. Too many strangers appearing at once and every spy in Styx will notice." She looked toward the couple across the room. "Let me get the harbor people moving first. Let me make sure the distraction has somewhere to go." Then she looked back at Arthur. "Tomorrow night. Sunset." Helena looked out of the window. "They'll be changing watches. The city will be busy. People will be moving home, soldiers will be moving to evening posts, and no one expects an attack from outside the walls." Arthur followed her gaze outside and then looked back at her "Sunset tomorrow night it is then. By night's end hopefully this city wont be ruled by the likes of them anymore." - - - - - Bren waited until he had blended into the sparsely crowded streets of Styx before heading for the city gate. He slowed, trudged past th...
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Sithelnost - Aftermath (Part 2)

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08 Newkolt 349 AC Once the elves had been freed and ushered to the manor of Lady Nihriome, Parnitha walked the streets of Sithelnost to assess the damage and determine what buildings the invaders had prioritized for occupation, seeking clues as to their intended next move. - - - - - Grotto continued to take dragon scales from the fallen beast. After he had plenty to supplement his plate and shield, he made his way to the makeshift hospital which was the manor house. He looked for his friends first to see that his most powerful allies are healed. He then made his way to the rest of the wounded and healed them until all his magic and daily charges of his items had been exhausted. For the rest, he went about things the old-fashioned way with bandages and his alchemical salves. He offered drugs to those in most distress to dull the pain of the wounds from abusive captivity and battle. After he completed his rounds, he told another healer in the group that he must go rest and pray and that...
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The Intersect (Yes, the One from Chuck)

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      The Intersect was developed as a joint CIA/NSA project in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, when the intelligence community was directed to improve cooperation and information sharing between agencies. The CIA and NSA recognized that the primary challenge was no longer the collection of information, but the ability to analyze the enormous volume of available intelligence and identify connections that individual agencies had failed to recognize.      The solution was the Intersect: a computer system capable of consolidating massive intelligence databases and encoding the information into the subconscious mind of a compatible human subject. Rather than providing information through a traditional computer interface, the Intersect allowed a user to access stored information through subconscious recognition, producing brief "flashes" triggered by relevant sensory input.      The chief architect of the Int...
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US Archer

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Man, looking back, the 80s were frickin’ weird.   Ignore for a moment Glam Rock, Parachute Pants, New Coke, and Flock of Seagulls haircuts and think about the how the Decade of Excess gave birth to some of the most iconic and enduring pop culture icons of all time: Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, He-Man, Thundercats, and the list goes on and on. The character I’m going to talk about today is not on that list. Anywhere. And for good reason. Ulysses Solomon Archer was the product of a merchandising tie-in between Tyco Toys and Marvel Comics.   The series lasted for 12 issues before being cancelled and while the character himself has cropped up a handful of times, most notably with She-Hulk, a team-up Deadpool, and when he applied for a job as the nanny to Luke Cage and Jessica Jones’s daughter, he is one of those characters that … well, could have only existed in the 80s. But, like Turbo Teen , Condiment King , Perry the Platypus ,...
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Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Musket

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I am thinking  about a prequel for the Western campaign I am going to run. It would be based on my own world but use concepts from the Colonial Gothic setting and 3.5e rules for compatibility with my other campaigns . Magic would exist but practitioners stay mostly hidden because of the Salem Witch Trials, the Inquisition, etc . The party would be mostly spies, saboteurs, and troubleshooters in the employ of the Continental Army or the Sons of Liberty. There would be some Steampunk-esque inventions running around but these would be one-of-a-kind items and only rarely encountered.  One example of this technology would be Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Musket . This weapon is made of stout red oak and reinforced with brass fittings. When the trigger is pulled a forked bolt of lightning erupts from the weapons twin barrels. The bolt has a range of 150' but is wildly inaccurate, incurring a -4 penalty to attack rolls. The weapon is powered by a battery that sits on top of th...
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