I'm making a Christmas one shot and have got the general idea - santas elves are making presents but all of a sudden Santa disappears. The party fight evil snowmen and toys gone 'bad' the party go searching for Claus in the Sugarplum Forest and try to find and save St Nick but I need some ideas for the BBEG. I orginally thought Krampus, but the whole oneshot is going to be silly and ridiculous with names like Mistletoe, Cranberry, Figgy, etc, so I need an equally ridiculous BBEG.
I'm making a Christmas one shot and have got the general idea - santas elves are making presents but all of a sudden Santa disappears. The party fight evil snowmen and toys gone 'bad' the party go searching for Claus in the Sugarplum Forest and try to find and save St Nick but I need some ideas for the BBEG. I orginally thought Krampus, but the whole oneshot is going to be silly and ridiculous with names like Mistletoe, Cranberry, Figgy, etc, so I need an equally ridiculous BBEG.
Any ideas?
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I'm making a Christmas one shot and have got the general idea - santas elves are making presents but all of a sudden Santa disappears. The party fight evil snowmen and toys gone 'bad' the party go searching for Claus in the Sugarplum Forest and try to find and save St Nick but I need some ideas for the BBEG. I orginally thought Krampus, but the whole oneshot is going to be silly and ridiculous with names like Mistletoe, Cranberry, Figgy, etc, so I need an equally ridiculous BBEG.
Any ideas?
There's always the Grinch. There's also giant toys, giant snowmen, trees (perhaps a Treant). But I think the key is to come up with a truly terrible pun.
What about a Toymaker who is losing business every christmas because of Santa, so conspires to kidnap him. No-one will suspect a toymaker of being the bad guy, so he could even be an NPC they meet or "save" earlier.
Alternatively an elf who is fed up of traditional toys, and wants to make "progress". His toys are all steam powered, noisy, oily, and military. They are an Artificer and overlord-type character with lots of minions. He is trying to take over Santa's workshop.
Or throw in a twist, and have Santa actually be the bad guy (maybe he's possessed), and the "kidnapping" was the elves trying to get him help without alerting all the other elves. In saving him, you release him as the BBEG, and have to find a way to save him. Perhaps a succubus is plying him with the best cookies ever, and causing him to stray from his duties.
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You could make the BBEG Tiamat, who wants to kill/capture Santa to obtain his horde (Think about it, he's got to be loaded!!!). Once the party frees Santa from whatever mind control/paralysis/etc. he's under, he magically nerfs her to something the party could reasonably be expected to drop. If nothing else you get to use a hell of a mini on your tabletop!
If you're looking for something campy that's not D&D, you could go with:
The Easter Bunny (or punxsutawney Phil) who is tired of being second fiddle to Santa's main attraction
Rudolph has finally had enough of being harassed about his nose. Or ALL the Reindeer can be in open revolt against Santa, due to the working conditions.
Jeff Bezos, because he wants to bring Santa's workshop and logistics operation under Amazon's control (bonus: he has a badass construct henchman he calls "Amazon Prime")
Another Christmas villain you could use is Gryla, a witch from Iceland. One of her henchthings is Yule Cat, who eats people who aren't wearing new clothes. And, she has 13 sons known as the Yule lads who get up to all sorts of mischief (slamming doors, eating leftovers, stealing sausages, etc).
I'm making a Christmas one shot and have got the general idea - santas elves are making presents but all of a sudden Santa disappears. The party fight evil snowmen and toys gone 'bad' the party go searching for Claus in the Sugarplum Forest and try to find and save St Nick but I need some ideas for the BBEG.
I orginally thought Krampus, but the whole oneshot is going to be silly and ridiculous with names like Mistletoe, Cranberry, Figgy, etc, so I need an equally ridiculous BBEG.
Any ideas?
Santa "Claws". A polar bear dressed up like Santa because it always wanted to spread holiday cheer.
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There's always the Grinch. There's also giant toys, giant snowmen, trees (perhaps a Treant). But I think the key is to come up with a truly terrible pun.
Based off this one Christmas short story thingy they made us write in 5th grade.....
nutcracker mafia/black market.
You could even modify twig blight stats or something.
or gremlins
What about a Toymaker who is losing business every christmas because of Santa, so conspires to kidnap him. No-one will suspect a toymaker of being the bad guy, so he could even be an NPC they meet or "save" earlier.
Alternatively an elf who is fed up of traditional toys, and wants to make "progress". His toys are all steam powered, noisy, oily, and military. They are an Artificer and overlord-type character with lots of minions. He is trying to take over Santa's workshop.
Or throw in a twist, and have Santa actually be the bad guy (maybe he's possessed), and the "kidnapping" was the elves trying to get him help without alerting all the other elves. In saving him, you release him as the BBEG, and have to find a way to save him. Perhaps a succubus is plying him with the best cookies ever, and causing him to stray from his duties.
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I like a bunch of the ideas above, but here are mine
You could make the BBEG Tiamat, who wants to kill/capture Santa to obtain his horde (Think about it, he's got to be loaded!!!). Once the party frees Santa from whatever mind control/paralysis/etc. he's under, he magically nerfs her to something the party could reasonably be expected to drop. If nothing else you get to use a hell of a mini on your tabletop!
If you're looking for something campy that's not D&D, you could go with:
Good luck picking a villain!
this, do this
Another Christmas villain you could use is Gryla, a witch from Iceland. One of her henchthings is Yule Cat, who eats people who aren't wearing new clothes. And, she has 13 sons known as the Yule lads who get up to all sorts of mischief (slamming doors, eating leftovers, stealing sausages, etc).
Iceland's Christmas Witch, Gryla