Some Halloween ideas...

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Halloween ideas

Being some things that popped into my head if you wanted to, oh, slot a Halloween-themed adventure into your superhero campaign.*

*Might not be suitable for all superheroes. Might not be suitable for all campaigns.

The problem with superheroes and holidays is that superheroes imply control and power, and being frightened implies not. But I'm willing to steal the trappings for the holiday.

• Superheroes chase the ghost of Jack the Ripper (or cause of Jack the Ripper) before he kills again.
• Werewolves invade from another dimension. When they're not wolfy, they look just like regular folk, so it's hard to find them.
• Superheroes journey in the nightmares of a catatonic superhero who can save the world, making a fantastic voyage to the trauma at the source of all of this catatonia.

• Death takes a holiday...and in the midst of suffering folk who cannot die the heroes discover that Death has in fact been kidnapped by an elderly sorcerer who wants to live forever. (Image: Death is trapped in a snow globe paperweight, which each of the characters suddenly seems to own...)

  Of course, the early part of this adventure needs to involve a Punisher-style vigilante who is being chased by the people he's trying to kill. Because if you can't kill them, you aren't nearly as much of a threat to them...

• Ambrosia Valentine has a goal: the elimination of all monsters. And all she has to do is kill a few people who are important to the PCs, to get the ingredients for the ritual that will transfer all of their abilities to her. She asks the heroes to kill her after she completes the ritual...and she doesn't bother to mention the necessary deaths. (Hey, she's willing to lay down her life for this...what's a few loved ones of superheroes extra?)
• An occult research comes to the heroes with news: their powers are weakening the walls between universes and inviting the bad Lovecraftian things. Do the heroes give up their powers, especially given that kaiju are about to attack the city? And is it all secretly a ploy by their arch-enemies, Malice in Plunderland?