Killer Ratings | Trick or Meat: A Halloween Special

Creating your character

🎭 Creating your paranormal TV disaster is fast, easy, and gloriously ridiculous. 👻📺✨ First, pick your role on the show. You might be the spotlight-hogging Face 🎤, the long-suffering Camera Person 📹, the completely fraudulent Charlatan 🔮, the Face’s parasitic Buddy 🤡, or the broke-and-regretful Academic 📚. Doubling up is fine, and the game encourages broad, colorful characters over detailed backstories. Next, give your character a suitably terrible reality-TV name. 💅🕶️ The sillier, tackier, or more shameless, the better. If someone at the table laughs at the suggestion, you’re probably on the right track. 😈 Then we’ll invent your wonderfully awful ghost-hunting show together 👻📺, establish a few relationships between the cast 💔🤝🔥, and divide 5 points between PROVOKE and SURVIVE. PROVOKE measures how good you are at stirring up drama—and possibly the dead—while SURVIVE measures your occasional ability to make decisions that won’t get you killed. 🎲💀 Each stat gets at least 1 point. That’s it! No homework. No lengthy character builds. No agonizing over equipment lists. 🎃🕸️ Just show up ready to become the kind of paranormal reality-TV personality who sees a blood-covered door marked DO NOT OPEN and immediately says: “Get the camera. We’re going in.” 📹🚪🩸👻

Preparing for the session

🎃 To join the hunt, you’ll need: A free Roll20 account 🎲🕸️ - we’ll use Roll20 for the virtual tabletop, character information, dice rolling, and any spooky visual aids the spirits decide to provide. 👻 Discord 🎧💀 - we’ll use Discord for voice chat during the game. Please make sure your microphone is working before we go live. 📻🔪 You do not need to own the rules or prepare a character in advance. We’ll create our terrible paranormal-TV personalities together at the table. 📺🎤🔮 A desktop or laptop computer is strongly recommended for the smoothest experience. Before game time, make sure you can log into both Roll20 and Discord and that your audio is behaving itself. 🦇🖥️ Then dim the lights, ignore the scratching from inside the walls, and get ready to make some killer television. 🎃📹🩸👻

What Ukulele Mike brings to the table

🎃 I’ll bring everything you need to stumble confidently into the haunted darkness. 👻🕯️📺 You’ll get: A ready-to-play Roll20 game 🎲🕸️ with everything set up for the session. Character materials and rules support 📚💀 - no need to buy the game or study anything beforehand. Guided character creation 🎭🔮 so we can quickly build a cast of unforgettable paranormal-TV disasters. Atmosphere, visual aids, and spooky surprises 🏚️🩸👁️ to help bring our Halloween special to life. A Discord voice channel 🎧🦇 for the session. Clear rules explanations as we play 🎲👻 - this is a simple game, and I’ll teach you everything you need to know at the table. A safe, welcoming table 🎃🤝 with Lines & Veils, the X-Card, Open Door, and breaks as needed. Most importantly, I’ll provide the haunted location, the escalating paranormal chaos, and every opportunity for your terrible reality-TV personality to make an absolutely catastrophic decision on live television. 📹☠️🔥 You just bring the willingness to provoke the dead. The ratings will take care of themselves. 👻📺🩸

How Ukulele Mike creates a safe table

🕯️ Safety & Table Comfort We’re here for spooky fun, ridiculous reality-TV drama, and the occasional screaming ghost . . . not for making anyone genuinely uncomfortable. 👻🎃🩸 Before we begin, we’ll establish Lines & Veils 🚫🕸️ so everyone knows what content should stay completely out of the game and what can happen only off-screen. Horror can get intense, but nobody needs to prove anything by pushing past their own limits. During play, we’ll use the X-Card ❌💀 if something needs to stop or change immediately, and the Open Door 🚪🦇 means you are always free to step away from the game for any reason, at any time, with no explanation required. We’ll also take breaks ☕🎃 during the session so everyone has a chance to recharge, stretch, grab a drink, and make sure the shadows in the hallway are still where you left them. At the end, we’ll use Stars & Wishes ⭐🌙 to talk about what we loved and what we’d like to see more of in future games. The goal is simple: scare the characters, not the players. 👻📺🔪 We can make the haunted house dangerous, the ghosts horrifying, and the reality stars absolutely unbearable . . . while still keeping the table respectful, comfortable, and fun for everyone. 🎃🕯️💀