Our Halloween game night was incredible! I will never forget this session!

Our Halloween game night was incredible! I will never forget this session! 

We played The Society of Dreamers. In this one, your characters are a group of turn-of-the-century ‘researchers’ trying to determine the nature and motives of creatures that live inside your dreams called mnemosites. The gameplay involves first exploring the childhood of each of the main characters, including their formative experiences with the mnemosites, and later the actual formation of the Society and their attempt to understand the mnemosites through an afflicted person who has come to them for help. The game does that really cool emergent mystery thing that some games do (like Ocean and PSI*Run). 

For our Halloween game, I went for ambience. We played in the dark, with just a few candles lit, which made for a very creepy experience! Sometimes it got quite intense, like when we did one of the special Dream scenes, in which one character ‘dives’ into a dream and describes what they experience, while another character gives them directions on what to explore and where to go next. You do those scenes with your eyes closed, which even further intensifies it. 

Thanks to David LaFreniere Scott Owen and Jeff Burke for a Halloween unlike any other!