Halloween: What's the geekist thing I can go as related to DnD?

[randomhero00]

Generic wizard? Mistaken for gandalf. That's all I can think of though...

[Drakevarg]

Go as Pun-Pun?

[Terumitsu]

Go as a fully statted out and highly optimised character sheet. Ask for 2d4 bits of candy when the option presents itself.

[randomhero00]

I'm not sure how I'd put either of those costumes together?

[AslanCross]

A Gary Gygax Zombie.

[LOTRfan]

Illitihid. Good luck with that.

[Aron Times]

One poster here has an avatar of a Team Fortress 2 spy disguised as Roland St. Jude (basically a guy in a suit with a Roland paper mask).

Dress up in a suit and wear a paper mask with Gary's face on it. Bonus points if you have a Dead Ringer pocket watch. It's double geeky as it references two popular games.

THE GYGAX IS A SPAH!

[Douglas]

Go as Pun-Pun?

I'm not sure how I'd put either of those costumes together?
The classic best known Pun-Pun build would be a kobold wizard shapeshifter with a viper familiar. So, dress up as a kobold somehow (maybe justify your size as having cast Enlarge Person on yourself), add wizard paraphernalia like a pointy hat and staff, and carry a small fake snake. Also look up Master of Many Forms in Complete Adventurer to see if there's anything in the first 3 levels that you could add something to represent.

[DragonBaneDM]

Paint face black, buy white wig, carry two scimitars, wear a cloak, and get pointy ears.

I doubt anyone will think it racist given the wig and ears.

[One Step Two]

You silly people, how can you forget?

Go Dressed as Nodwick!

[Cyrion]

Go as a 20-sided die. A little more challenging than a Rubik's cube because of the number of sides, but you like playing with cardboard, don't you? :smalltongue:

[OracleofWuffing]

Gelatinous Cube.

Get a square-ish box, cut eyeholes, paint it white or something (since clear generally isn't an option), boom, you're done. Then bring it out next time you're DMing as a miniature for the BBEG.

Yes, that B stands for Big. I thought we understood this?

[panaikhan]

Go as a Rules Lawyer, or possibly, MinMax The Unstoppable.

[Eldan]

Gelatinous Cube.

Get a square-ish box, cut eyeholes, paint it white or something (since clear generally isn't an option), boom, you're done. Then bring it out next time you're DMing as a miniature for the BBEG.

Yes, that B stands for Big. I thought we understood this?

Actually, making it from a transparent material, say plastic wrapping material over a frame would mean you could then disguise yourself as a corpse eaten by the cube.

[Duke of URL]

You are all off-base. The optimal geeky D&D costume is the dreaded GAZEBO!

[grimbold]

how about getting a cardboard box mildly book shaped. (so its wide and talll but not deep) and then paint on the cover of the DMG? big nerd glasses get extra points

[JeenLeen]

If you spend any time serving candy at your house to trick-or-treaters: dress as a generic wizard, but have various dice dangling from your staff. Around your wizard's hat have a DM's screen, and have a few sourcebooks somehow attached to your belt.

When the children approach, tell them they have entered the dungeon crawl. They must roll 1d20--hand each a dice--to determine what loot they find.

If they roll a 1, they get no candy. Make sure you quickly flee inside to avoid assaults.

If they roll a 20, they get double candy. Other results vary by number. Very good costumes give a circumstance bonus of +1 to their roll.

Edit: or have this stuff and go to a party as the DM houseowner during Halloween :smalltongue:

[prufock]

Go as a 20-sided die. A little more challenging than a Rubik's cube because of the number of sides, but you like playing with cardboard, don't you? :smalltongue:

I was going to suggest a d12, because it gets so little love.

[Eldan]

A d20 would be easier to build though, triangles instead of pentagons.

[Psyx]

I doubt anyone will think it racist given the wig and ears.

On the other hand, 50% of the population has a below-average IQ...



Go as a Rules Lawyer

Suit, rules under arm, shark-fin.... easy. Nice one!


Go as a fantasy warrior and carry a dire-flail and a gnomish pick-hammer...

[Sipex]

If you spend any time serving candy at your house to trick-or-treaters: dress as a generic wizard, but have various dice dangling from your staff. Around your wizard's hat have a DM's screen, and have a few sourcebooks somehow attached to your belt.

When the children approach, tell them they have entered the dungeon crawl. They must roll 1d20--hand each a dice--to determine what loot they find.

If they roll a 1, they get no candy. Make sure you quickly flee inside to avoid assaults.

If they roll a 20, they get double candy. Other results vary by number. Very good costumes give a circumstance bonus of +1 to their roll.

Edit: or have this stuff and go to a party as the DM houseowner during Halloween :smalltongue:

If you can get cheap dice do it, then you can give them the dice or at least afford to lose them if kids take them and run.

[Cyrion]

I was going to suggest a d12, because it gets so little love.

Yes, but I'm a Killer Bunnies fan, and in Killer Bunnies d12s get ALL the love. I think of d20s as more iconic to D&D.

[grimbold]

I think of d20s as more iconic to D&D
this is exactly right
d20s are basically the main thing that 'true' fantasy rpg game mechanics are based off of. other genres often use different sided dice as their main die (like star wars d6 or sure killer bunnies)

[dsmiles]

You want some serious geek points?

Go as a FLUMPH! :smallbiggrin:

[grimbold]

Go as a FLUMPH!

brilliance Dsmiles
you have won the thread

[Duke of URL]

Yeah, gotta go with Flumph. Even better than my Gazebo idea.

[dsmiles]

Yeah, gotta go with Flumph. Even better than my Gazebo idea.

Flumphs are scary, right?
Scary lame, that is.

[Telonius]

Get some Groucho Glasses, and carry a sign: "I rolled a 1 on my Disguise check!"

[grimbold]

Get some Groucho Glasses, and carry a sign: "I rolled a 1 on my Disguise check!"
2nd most brilliant idea
very clever

[Kaulesh]

I know it's a bit late to order something online, but you could always be "that weird guy down the street" and buy a few Pounds-O-Dice from Chessex then have the kid roll for how many he gets. That would make for an expensive Halloween, though - $18 a pop at the cheapest.

Still have to come up with a costume, though.

[Dr.Epic]

Beholder, the iconic D&D monster

[Worlok]

Why, going as an Illithid should be easy enough: You buy a squid, you punch some holes through it for you to look through, eviscerate the whole thing and pull it over your head like a sock mask. Shower in any sort of harmless pink paint and put on a bright-blue bathrobe... Sorry. :smallbiggrin:

[Dr.Epic]

Why, going as an Illithid should be easy enough: You buy a squid, you punch some holes through it for you to look through, eviscerate the whole thing and pull it over your head like a sock mask. Shower in any sort of harmless pink paint and put on a bright-blue bathrobe... Sorry. :smallbiggrin:

But illithids can easily be mistaken for Cthulhu (even without the wings). I had an idea and feel free to use it. Rather than go as a mindflayer, convert a like squid hat into an illitid by attaching like a doll's body to it, wear the hat and say a miniature mindflayer is latched onto you skull.

[Morph Bark]

Create a robe made of old dice. Wear a fedora. Get a notepad on which to write what you guess people's stats to be. Create a fake Press ID. Introduce yourself as a journalist for the Sigil Weekly.

[Gametime]

It wouldn't work for treat-or-treating, but for distributing candy...

Divide your candy into ten levels. 0th-level candy is the smallest/least good, 9th-level candy is enormous/mind-blowingly delicious. Stock 4-6 candies of each level. Congratulations, you're Vancian candying.

For bonus points, you could completely refuse to stock any candy of a certain type in order to gain 1 extra candy per level per day.

[dsmiles]

It wouldn't work for treat-or-treating, but for distributing candy...

Divide your candy into ten levels. 0th-level candy is the smallest/least good, 9th-level candy is enormous/mind-blowingly delicious. Stock 4-6 candies of each level. Congratulations, you're Vancian candying.

For bonus points, you could completely refuse to stock any candy of a certain type in order to gain 1 extra candy per level per day.

That's sick. Hilarious, but sick. :smallbiggrin:

[Kaulesh]

It wouldn't work for treat-or-treating, but for distributing candy...

Divide your candy into ten levels. 0th-level candy is the smallest/least good, 9th-level candy is enormous/mind-blowingly delicious. Stock 4-6 candies of each level. Congratulations, you're Vancian candying.

For bonus points, you could completely refuse to stock any candy of a certain type in order to gain 1 extra candy per level per day.

Bonus points if it follows a Vancian spellcaster's number of spells per day.

[big teej]

But illithids can easily be mistaken for Cthulhu (even without the wings). I had an idea and feel free to use it. Rather than go as a mindflayer, convert a like squid hat into an illitid by attaching like a doll's body to it, wear the hat and say a miniature mindflayer is latched onto you skull.

....must. have. squidlike. hat....

[Jayabalard]

I initially thought of these (http://www.fasthack.com/posts/1196/)

[LOTRfan]

I know its a little late, but you know how I suggested Illithid? I was just joking, but someone actually did it. (http://www.critical-hits.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/mindflayer.jpg)

[Jallorn]

What about going as the Darkness?

[Amiel]

A flumph or the dreaded gazebo.

[faceroll]

You should carry a door and do the reverse-trick-or-treat: ring door bells, and when they're answered, coo over the occupants cute costumes pinch their cheeks and distribute candy.

[Eldan]

See, that Mindflayer is pretty cool. But it's not this:

http://http://static.wix.com/media/0408ab8293371612582f5f051cbe52cb.wix_mp_256


or this one, from teh same person:


http://http://xbc.xanga.com/9bca6266c453270616566/b47481774.jpg

[Eloel]

You shouldn't go. Stay home and play DnD :smallbiggrin:

I also heartily endorse the Gazebo idea.

If you're a girl (or even if you aren't), Lady of Pain. Try inflicting some actual pain, and they'll guess your name quickly enough.

[grimbold]

maybe the MONSTER IN THE DARKNESS?
Wear a black cloak that hides your face and have a hello kitty umbrella

[Amiel]

You could also dress in a Hello Kitty outfit; that'd be scary in and of itself.

[Aotrs Commander]

A cheap option would be to simply slice off your own head and then go as the Head of Vecna...

[Gametime]

Or cut off your hand and pluck out your eye to go as Vecna himself!

[grarrrg]

But illithids can easily be mistaken for Cthulhu (even without the wings). I had an idea and feel free to use it. Rather than go as a mindflayer, convert a like squid hat into an illitid by attaching like a doll's body to it, wear the hat and say a miniature mindflayer is latched onto you skull.

This reminded me too much of these (http://billybob884.deviantart.com/art/Futurama-Brain-Slug-Assembled-82211012?offset=20)

http://th07.deviantart.net/fs30/PRE/f/2008/098/7/c/Futurama_Brain_Slug_Assembled_by_billybob884.jpg

Personally? I think you should go to the brain slug planet and walk around not wearing a helmet

[shadowmage]

How can every one forget. Dress up like a duck with a sign saying "Pick me up."

[Eldan]

okay, I always wanted to know: where does the "picking up a duck" joke come from?

[monkey3]

A Gary Gygax Zombie.

Hmmm... In bad taste and geeky on multiple levels.

You sir get my vote!

[Dr.Epic]

What about going as the Darkness?

As in the monster in the? (nah, I know what you mean) Go as a giant d20 and make lame jokes:

You costume rolls a 12 scary.
These cookies rolled a 17 in tasty.
My jokes rolled a natural 20 in cheesiness.

[Dubious Pie]

One poster here has an avatar of a Team Fortress 2 spy disguised as Roland St. Jude (basically a guy in a suit with a Roland paper mask).

Dress up in a suit and wear a paper mask with Gary's face on it. Bonus points if you have a Dead Ringer pocket watch. It's double geeky as it references two popular games.

THE GYGAX IS A SPAH!

You rang, sir?

[Trundlebug]

Haha that is an excellent avatar and costume idea. The mini illithid is a gooder as well. Thumbs up!

[Raimun]

Vin Diesel.

[Kaulesh]

Vin Diesel.

For the ultimate in funniness (nah, not really), dress up as any of the "famous" D&D players in the role you would least expect for them. Vin Diesel as a wizard, Wil Wheaton as a BSF, etc.

[shadowmage]

okay, I always wanted to know: where does the "picking up a duck" joke come from?

One of the originators of D&D, I think it was, had the

Duck of Doom

The duck of doom found in dungeons. You should never pick this up. If you pick up a duck in a dungeon you lose 2 levels, and can be in risk of being eaten by Satan duck.

[Raimun]

One of the originators of D&D, I think it was, had the

Duck of Doom

The duck of doom found in dungeons. You should never pick this up. If you pick up a duck in a dungeon you lose 2 levels, and can be in risk of being eaten by Satan duck.

This description still explains nothing but it makes sense.

[Savannah]

Rig up a way to hang a piece of white posterboard on your front and back, then make the posterboard into the front and back of a character sheet. Stat yourself up.

[shadowmage]

My understanding was one of the originators had a Duck in a Dungeon that was the Duck of Doom. That's it. Just one of the creators was messing with his players and it got around.

[Dr.Epic]

For the ultimate in funniness (nah, not really), dress up as any of the "famous" D&D players in the role you would least expect for them. Vin Diesel as a wizard, Wil Wheaton as a BSF, etc.

Felicia Day as an assassin.

[ashmanonar]

What about going as the Darkness?

It's not like people aren't already going as coked-up British rock bands though.

[Raimun]

My understanding was one of the originators had a Duck in a Dungeon that was the Duck of Doom. That's it. Just one of the creators was messing with his players and it got around.

Hmm, might it have any relation to the Duck of Death...

[Coidzor]

Eldan: Broken links there, mate.
Felicia Day as an assassin.

He said least expect! :smalltongue:


This reminded me too much of these (http://billybob884.deviantart.com/art/Futurama-Brain-Slug-Assembled-82211012?offset=20)

Glad I'm not the only one, haha. x.x


Or cut off your hand and pluck out your eye to go as Vecna himself!

...Now you've got me imagining Vecna the pirate. :smallsigh:

[Dr.Epic]

He said least expect! :smalltongue:

Hardcore, CE, assassin that kills anything (nothing like any characters she plays).

[Raimun]

Hmm, might it have any relation to the Duck of Death...

Or worse yet *gulp*... to the Duck of Defenestration.

[Dr.Epic]

Or worse yet *gulp*... to the Duck of Defenestration.

Duck of Many Things!

[Amiel]

Vin Diesel.

One thing will be sure, moose will be terrified of you.


Felicia Day as an assassin.

In glorious spandex/lycra

[Cerlis]

Gelatinous Cube.

Get a square-ish box, cut eyeholes, paint it white or something (since clear generally isn't an option), boom, you're done. Then bring it out next time you're DMing as a miniature for the BBEG.

Yes, that B stands for Big. I thought we understood this?

light metal rods in cube form + plastic wrap = Adventuerer in a (Gelatinous) cube

Being a skeleton underneath might be better

[Coidzor]

light metal rods in cube form + plastic wrap = Adventuerer in a (Gelatinous) cube

Being a skeleton underneath might be better

Failing that, PVC pipe with joint fittings can make the framework as well.

And skeleton costumes they do makes.

No idea about the lime jello-coloring though...

[dsmiles]

Duck of Many Things!

Duck of Disrobing! :smalleek:

EDIT: What'd you end up with? (I would hope you settled on something by now.)

[Eloel]

Whatever you go as, keep a towel with you at all times.

[Dr.Epic]

In glorious spandex/lycra

You just described my favorite dream.:smalltongue:

[Ravens_cry]

Hmm, how about a d20? Hard to get more geeky then going as a icosahedron.

[Shatteredtower]

Bag of Holding, with a ten foot pole sticking out the top.

Just don't go as a breath weapon. That always ends badly.

[Eloel]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/tr/1/14/Pazuzu.jpg
This guy here.

[dsmiles]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/tr/1/14/Pazuzu.jpg
This guy here.
This guy here.
This guy here.
This guy here.

Does that count?

[Eloel]

This guy here.
This guy here.
This guy here.

Does that count?

Depends. Do you have scales?

[dsmiles]

Depends. Do you have scales?

um...no? (At least, not last time I checked.)

[Eloel]

um...no? (At least, not last time I checked.)

Nope, that doesn't count then... Sorry.

[dsmiles]

Nope, that doesn't count then... Sorry.

I haz a sad. :frown:

[Knaight]

There are some great costume ideas in this thread. My original idea of a space filling model of glucose just found some stiff competition, and its not even my idea originally.