HALLOWEEN FND!

Hello friends of FND!

This upcoming Friday - Halloween! - we will be having our special evening of Halloween gaming!

Costumes are encouraged (but not required)!  There will be a prize for the person with the best costume.  There will be snacks and pop - feel free to bring some or donate a couple of bucks (but absolutely do not feel obligated to do so).  Most importantly, we will be playing a lot of spooky themed games!!

Below are some of the creepy games that we will be playing!

Ultimate Werewolf

It wouldn't be a Halloween FND without playing some Werewolf.  We'll try to coordinate this so that everyone gets to play and so it's at a time before people start leaving - we'd like this to be a good sized group of people playing.  Werewolf is a classic social deduction game where some players are werewolves, some are villagers.  The werewolves want to eat the villagers, the villagers want to lynch the werewolves.  Great game.  Great fun.

Rampage

Rampage is a mostly silly game but it fits the theme reasonably well because it has awesome monsters!  In Rampage (now known as Terror of Meeple City because they apparently originally broke copyright laws with the title Rampage) players are monsters destroying a city.  You win by eating the most 'meeples' and destroying the most stuff. It is a dexterity game similar(ish) to Jenga but with way more fun involved.

Zombicide

Okay so originally I was going to feature as our big Zombie game of the night but then another game came out that is simply way better which I'll get to in a moment.  Nonetheless, Zombicide is the best straight-up 'let's go roll some dice and kill zombies' game.  I actually don't know how to play it yet but I'll try and learn it quickly before tonight in case anybody really wants to learn it.  It's exactly what you expect- shotguns, dice rolling, and TONS of plastic zombies trying to eat your brains.

Betrayal at House on the Hill

This is probably the most 'horror' filled game I know of.  Other games like Eldritch/Arkham Horror would probably be close (though we don't have them) but this one is straight up cheesy horror film in a box.  If you're a fan of Will Wheaton's Tabletop series on Youtube, go check out his video of Betrayal as it is quite amusing.  In this game everyone takes the roll of a person exploring a haunted house - it starts out purely cooperative until a random event triggers the actual scenario, at which point one player turns on the rest trying to kill them - perhaps he's trying to send them all to hell or he just wants to eat them limb by limb.  Either way it is entertaining fun.  Especially on Halloween.  This one will definitely be happening.

Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game

We've actually played this a few times over the past two sessions but I can't not feature it on horror night.  Dead of Winter came out this past month and is absolutely (in my opinion at least) the best game of the year.  It has zombies in it but it's a game that isn't just about zombies!  There's social deduction (sometimes there's a traitor), it's cooperative, it's theme is greatly developed in the mechanics... This game is great.  Everyone who has played it has very much enjoyed it.  Again, this one I suspect will definitely be happening.

If you have any other horror game (Elritch Horror, Fury of Dracula, etc.) feel free to bring them!  Normally I'm pretty chill about non-featured games being played, but tonight in particularly we're going to try and keep it Halloween-esque with these games of horror and death and fun!

Hope to see everyone out there!!