Hello fellow dungeon masters đź‘‹, I'm a fairly new dm and was going to run a christmas one shot for my group.
My idea so far is to have the adventurers called to a distant wintery town for help as it is predicted that every certain number of years at winter that a krampus inspired character comes to terrorise the town. I was thinking of going for a festive / horror type theme for it.
Does anyone have any ideas or know how I would go about doing such a thing?
All help would be very much greatly appreciated, thanks for all who reply
Sounds like a cool idea. as far as making it horror here’s a couple idea, hope they help
- kids being kidnapped by krampus
- kids being replaced by “toys” actually automata like marionettes
- party will probably work it out but I wouldn’t reveal krampus immediately, give him minions, a dark parallel to santa elves so throw at the party iff with a few red herrings - maybe part of krampus “terrorising the town is to spike the mulled wine and the party start hallucinating
- also dr who has done multiple xmas special episodes with killer xmas trees, exploding xmas bubbles, robot santas etc which might provide some inspiration
Krampus minions could include imps, evil snowmen, constructs that are evil toys or corrupted reindeer.
Christmas themed magic items are fun like Coal tipped weapons that do extra damage to evil creatures, magical ornaments, and pieces of Santa's clothing.
You could have the Yule Cat be one of Krampus's allies. Yule Lads could also help him.
Maybe the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future come to offer aid to your characters which could be magic weapons, free casting of a spell, healing, or magically granting them special abilities.
Hello fellow dungeon masters đź‘‹, I'm a fairly new dm and was going to run a christmas one shot for my group.
My idea so far is to have the adventurers called to a distant wintery town for help as it is predicted that every certain number of years at winter that a krampus inspired character comes to terrorise the town. I was thinking of going for a festive / horror type theme for it.
Does anyone have any ideas or know how I would go about doing such a thing?
All help would be very much greatly appreciated, thanks for all who reply
Sounds like a cool idea. as far as making it horror here’s a couple idea, hope they help
- kids being kidnapped by krampus
- kids being replaced by “toys” actually automata like marionettes
- party will probably work it out but I wouldn’t reveal krampus immediately, give him minions, a dark parallel to santa elves so throw at the party iff with a few red herrings - maybe part of krampus “terrorising the town is to spike the mulled wine and the party start hallucinating
- also dr who has done multiple xmas special episodes with killer xmas trees, exploding xmas bubbles, robot santas etc which might provide some inspiration
Krampus minions could include imps, evil snowmen, constructs that are evil toys or corrupted reindeer.
Christmas themed magic items are fun like Coal tipped weapons that do extra damage to evil creatures, magical ornaments, and pieces of Santa's clothing.
You could have the Yule Cat be one of Krampus's allies. Yule Lads could also help him.
Maybe the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future come to offer aid to your characters which could be magic weapons, free casting of a spell, healing, or magically granting them special abilities.