I’m trying to work out some fun, tropey character ideas for a holiday one shot. My ideas I get are artificers or barbarians. I need more diverse ideas!
I have a warforged fighter for a toy soldier, human ancestral barbarian to play as Scrooge kicking ass with the spirits, bugbear artificer to be the grinch, and Jack Skeleton as a reborn spirits bard
What other festive characters can you think of to use?
The Frost Giant Jack Frost (Its like a Tribe Called Quest, you have to say the whole thing.)
A Harvest Born (Crooked Moon) who wants to spread joy, but mostly spreads terror.
Ogresh (Grim Hollow) named Gorak wanders the country side, visiting towns to judge the children and adults alike. The dishonest and troublesome get a paddlin, while the well behaved folks get a candy made from local ingredients.
Jingle Jam, diminutive half elf bard with round ears, tried to study medicine but never got proper schooling for it.
Rakin + Bax. A Rakin and Tabaxi duo with dreams of becoming famous playwrites, currently trying to come up with ideas for a children's play.
The Hog Rider, an Ork racer who operates a high speed sleigh. On the appointed time, on the appointed day, he makes a hyper speed run through the land, starting an abandoned lumber yard that was once the site of a wood worker merchant's empire, and disappears into parts unknown. As he passes through villages and towns, dropping crafted wooden goods and furniture in his wake, the sound of his screaming can be heard by all. Many have attempted to capture him over the 723 years as he makes his annual run, but none have succeeded.... yet on the 724th year, he did not show..... nor the 725th year....nor the 727th year. (
Adventure hook: Party is escorting a scholar which to research the possible origins of the Hog Rider. The party finds a small crystal that activates and sucks them into the past, back to when the workshop is still in operation. The owner obvious has no idea who these people are, and thinks the Hog Rider story is some kind of joke if the party mentions it or is trying to warn him. The scholar presumes the Hog Rider might be their only chance to return to their own time, and set about with the knowledge that he WILL be there some time over the night.
The twist: the Hog Rider was a burglar pulling a heist of wooden goods, and was going to use a planar portal to escape. But crystal used to create the portal shattered as it was activated, and the Hog Rider was duplicated and shunted into all 723 years simultaneously, all following the same escape plan. The party interrupts the Hog Rider's escape, and gets caught up in (or are responsible for the crystal shattering), getting shunted to the 729th year after the first sighting.... 1 year from when they took the escort job. Now they have to give chase to get answers to whats going on.
The climax: When they reach the end of the trail (not hard since they know most of the route through stories of past runs), the party discovers another portal leading to some unknown realm. There they encounter the remains of 724 sleighs, and an aberration who is cranky because its annual ork meal hasn't shown up the last 5 years.... and its Hungry. How you want to end this up to you..... but have fun with the concept.
I am currently writing my Home Alone one-shot. The players are tasked with robbing a house, but the child inside has soo many traps and is furiously annoying.
But the movie has given me so many dnd elements. Biff's Spider? Definitely a great monster to fight. The old man with the shovel is slowly hunting them. It's been really fun to work on and the soundtrack is a great ambiance for the game.
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I’m trying to work out some fun, tropey character ideas for a holiday one shot. My ideas I get are artificers or barbarians. I need more diverse ideas!
I have a warforged fighter for a toy soldier, human ancestral barbarian to play as Scrooge kicking ass with the spirits, bugbear artificer to be the grinch, and Jack Skeleton as a reborn spirits bard
What other festive characters can you think of to use?
The Frost Giant Jack Frost (Its like a Tribe Called Quest, you have to say the whole thing.)
A Harvest Born (Crooked Moon) who wants to spread joy, but mostly spreads terror.
Ogresh (Grim Hollow) named Gorak wanders the country side, visiting towns to judge the children and adults alike. The dishonest and troublesome get a paddlin, while the well behaved folks get a candy made from local ingredients.
Jingle Jam, diminutive half elf bard with round ears, tried to study medicine but never got proper schooling for it.
Rakin + Bax. A Rakin and Tabaxi duo with dreams of becoming famous playwrites, currently trying to come up with ideas for a children's play.
The Hog Rider, an Ork racer who operates a high speed sleigh. On the appointed time, on the appointed day, he makes a hyper speed run through the land, starting an abandoned lumber yard that was once the site of a wood worker merchant's empire, and disappears into parts unknown. As he passes through villages and towns, dropping crafted wooden goods and furniture in his wake, the sound of his screaming can be heard by all. Many have attempted to capture him over the 723 years as he makes his annual run, but none have succeeded.... yet on the 724th year, he did not show..... nor the 725th year....nor the 727th year. (
Adventure hook: Party is escorting a scholar which to research the possible origins of the Hog Rider. The party finds a small crystal that activates and sucks them into the past, back to when the workshop is still in operation. The owner obvious has no idea who these people are, and thinks the Hog Rider story is some kind of joke if the party mentions it or is trying to warn him. The scholar presumes the Hog Rider might be their only chance to return to their own time, and set about with the knowledge that he WILL be there some time over the night.
The twist: the Hog Rider was a burglar pulling a heist of wooden goods, and was going to use a planar portal to escape. But crystal used to create the portal shattered as it was activated, and the Hog Rider was duplicated and shunted into all 723 years simultaneously, all following the same escape plan. The party interrupts the Hog Rider's escape, and gets caught up in (or are responsible for the crystal shattering), getting shunted to the 729th year after the first sighting.... 1 year from when they took the escort job. Now they have to give chase to get answers to whats going on.
The climax: When they reach the end of the trail (not hard since they know most of the route through stories of past runs), the party discovers another portal leading to some unknown realm. There they encounter the remains of 724 sleighs, and an aberration who is cranky because its annual ork meal hasn't shown up the last 5 years.... and its Hungry. How you want to end this up to you..... but have fun with the concept.
I am currently writing my Home Alone one-shot. The players are tasked with robbing a house, but the child inside has soo many traps and is furiously annoying.
But the movie has given me so many dnd elements. Biff's Spider? Definitely a great monster to fight. The old man with the shovel is slowly hunting them. It's been really fun to work on and the soundtrack is a great ambiance for the game.