So I build a holiday themed adventure for my group every year. This year, I'm having trouble settling on one. Let me know if any of these sound interesting, or stupid, or just need a little help.
1. A Feywild adventure with Santa leading the Wild Hunt (Harry Dresden style)
2. A cannibal Santa with a sleigh pulled by eight Wendigos
3. My players contract were-Santa disease and are compelled to give everything they own away one day every year.
I'm not a super fan with associated the Seelie with "all things candy coated whimsy" which a lot of run ups to WBtW had; but let's say Santa is a part of "the light side" of whatever Yule type tradition is celebrated in the game world. The unseelie. have Krampus, who practices a bit of harsh accountabiity . The PCs are somehow involved in this annual tension/conflict. Give Krampus the Wendigos. Give Santa mighty stags that can hold their own against Wendigos, and one who can cause radiant damage if need be. With those two as principle factions, just read liner notes from Transiberian Orchestra albums for the rest of your beats.
Maybe the party "wake" as Reborn "lost toys" and need to make it through Krampus's domain to reach Santa's ride so that they may be delivered, and their souls restored to their proper being before whatever magical mess up happens when so much arcane creative and child like energy is coursing the world and put them in toy like form.
Maybe they have to help Krampus save Santa from the Rat King who has really messed up the order of things this time around and is holding the holiday hostage far beyond his usual antics.
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These are excellent ideas! I particularly like the party being "toys" switcheroo. I also like the Krampus/Wendigo combo! This certainly gives me something better to work from. Thank you for taking the time to post your thoughts. I hope you and yours have a lovely holiday season!
Maybe all the players have to play a sort of Elf or Half-Elf and they live in the North Pole working for Santa and they have to go find their dad who lives in New York Lol. Happy holidays to you.
I did a mashup of Frosty the Snowman and and Terminator 2 where Frosty was a snowman construct with an Austrian accent and the villain was an ice T2 that could partially melt and form into different shapes. There were allusions to many of the popular winter (not explicitly Christmas) songs. The construct snowmen are given sentience by old silk hats they found. The adventure proceeds over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house (grandmother is a retired fighter who gives the party a magic weapon). Parson Brown makes an appearance as an NPC cleric.
The PCs were all level 1 kids with reduced stats. Frosty is a higher level character who helps them out. Everybody started with a utility item of their choice to encourage creative non-combat solutions.
I used a cheesy scenario in which Santa (who essentially has godlike powers to do the things he does) was kidnapped by a goblin assisted beholder named Shazamathar. Shazamathar had created a gate portal (with magic on the edges and just the gate in the middle) and used his antimagic cone to disable Santa while the goblins (a staple of Tolkien's Santa Letters which were yearly sent to his kids) pulled Santa into the beholder's lair. Santa's Kingdom is instantly in turmoil and the party, aided by protective pixie dust and a one-shot fly ability as provided by Mrs Christmas, must solve the mystery. Leads are to the goblin territories or to the specific hideout if the party works out how to operate Santa's snowglobe Crystal Ball (by shaking). Through potentially problematic use of Santa's sleigh they can get to the lair, fight the goblins and a now exhausted beholder and, protected by pixie dust which could even (one-off) bring disintegrations back together, save Christmas.
Perhaps take some inspiration from The Nutcracker: the party must help a prince whose is soul trapped inside an automaton to defeat his ancient enemy - the evil Mouse King, a wererat ruling an army of rodents - by awakening an army of constructs; if they succeed they might break the curse and restore the prince to his former, natural, existence again.
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Last year I DM'd two groups through an adventure to assassinate Santa and steal his coat, since after Santa dies you just have to put on his coat and you'll become Santa Claus.
Last year I DM'd two groups through an adventure to assassinate Santa and his coat, since after Santa dies you just have to put on his coat and you'll become Santa Claus.
Last year I DM'd two groups through an adventure to assassinate Santa and steal his coat, since after Santa dies you just have to put on his coat and you'll become Santa Claus.
With one group it was given to a little goblin girl who was raised with Santa's elves and was intended to be creepily obsessed with Santa. In the other group is it was given to aasimar Karl Marx just because he already had the beard.
Oooohhhh. Now THAT's an idea for my other group that works for Charissa Grosko in Neverwinter! So did she make the robot Santa or does she want the party to get it for her? Hmmm... Clockwork nutcrackers... This is definitely an idea I like! Thanks much for posting it! Happy holidays!
Oh wow! So, I have two different groups I run adventures for. One is a wilderness group and the other works for Dannar's in Neverwinter. You presented two excellent ideas that I could split between the two groups! Evil mouse king/were-rat adventure for the wilderness group and Nutcracker constructs for the Dannar's group! Thanks much for tpking two birds with one idea! Have a lovely holiday!
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So I build a holiday themed adventure for my group every year. This year, I'm having trouble settling on one. Let me know if any of these sound interesting, or stupid, or just need a little help.
1. A Feywild adventure with Santa leading the Wild Hunt (Harry Dresden style)
2. A cannibal Santa with a sleigh pulled by eight Wendigos
3. My players contract were-Santa disease and are compelled to give everything they own away one day every year.
Happy holidays everyone!
I'm not a super fan with associated the Seelie with "all things candy coated whimsy" which a lot of run ups to WBtW had; but let's say Santa is a part of "the light side" of whatever Yule type tradition is celebrated in the game world. The unseelie. have Krampus, who practices a bit of harsh accountabiity . The PCs are somehow involved in this annual tension/conflict. Give Krampus the Wendigos. Give Santa mighty stags that can hold their own against Wendigos, and one who can cause radiant damage if need be. With those two as principle factions, just read liner notes from Transiberian Orchestra albums for the rest of your beats.
Maybe the party "wake" as Reborn "lost toys" and need to make it through Krampus's domain to reach Santa's ride so that they may be delivered, and their souls restored to their proper being before whatever magical mess up happens when so much arcane creative and child like energy is coursing the world and put them in toy like form.
Maybe they have to help Krampus save Santa from the Rat King who has really messed up the order of things this time around and is holding the holiday hostage far beyond his usual antics.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
These are excellent ideas! I particularly like the party being "toys" switcheroo. I also like the Krampus/Wendigo combo! This certainly gives me something better to work from. Thank you for taking the time to post your thoughts. I hope you and yours have a lovely holiday season!
How about the party has to set up traps to defend a house against robbers during the holidays
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Hmmmm... And every party member is named Kevin. I like it! LOL. Thank you for sharing your idea. Have a great holiday!
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Maybe all the players have to play a sort of Elf or Half-Elf and they live in the North Pole working for Santa and they have to go find their dad who lives in New York Lol. Happy holidays to you.
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You had me at, "Cannibal Santa".
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I did a mashup of Frosty the Snowman and and Terminator 2 where Frosty was a snowman construct with an Austrian accent and the villain was an ice T2 that could partially melt and form into different shapes. There were allusions to many of the popular winter (not explicitly Christmas) songs. The construct snowmen are given sentience by old silk hats they found. The adventure proceeds over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house (grandmother is a retired fighter who gives the party a magic weapon). Parson Brown makes an appearance as an NPC cleric.
The PCs were all level 1 kids with reduced stats. Frosty is a higher level character who helps them out. Everybody started with a utility item of their choice to encourage creative non-combat solutions.
I used a cheesy scenario in which Santa (who essentially has godlike powers to do the things he does) was kidnapped by a goblin assisted beholder named Shazamathar. Shazamathar had created a gate portal (with magic on the edges and just the gate in the middle) and used his antimagic cone to disable Santa while the goblins (a staple of Tolkien's Santa Letters which were yearly sent to his kids) pulled Santa into the beholder's lair. Santa's Kingdom is instantly in turmoil and the party, aided by protective pixie dust and a one-shot fly ability as provided by Mrs Christmas, must solve the mystery. Leads are to the goblin territories or to the specific hideout if the party works out how to operate Santa's snowglobe Crystal Ball (by shaking). Through potentially problematic use of Santa's sleigh they can get to the lair, fight the goblins and a now exhausted beholder and, protected by pixie dust which could even (one-off) bring disintegrations back together, save Christmas.
Ice-T2 has me thinking of something totally different.
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Or you could do what my DM did, party of goblins having to rob a house where some kid has set up traps.
Perhaps take some inspiration from The Nutcracker: the party must help a prince whose is soul trapped inside an automaton to defeat his ancient enemy - the evil Mouse King, a wererat ruling an army of rodents - by awakening an army of constructs; if they succeed they might break the curse and restore the prince to his former, natural, existence again.
Want to start playing but don't have anyone to play with? You can try these options: [link].
Last year I DM'd two groups through an adventure to assassinate Santa and steal his coat, since after Santa dies you just have to put on his coat and you'll become Santa Claus.
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Who killed Santa and because Santa claus?
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With one group it was given to a little goblin girl who was raised with Santa's elves and was intended to be creepily obsessed with Santa. In the other group is it was given to aasimar Karl Marx just because he already had the beard.
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How about an Eberon game where the Lord of Blades becomes Robot Santa?
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LOL! That's awesome! O'll be baack...for my haat. Love it! Thanks for sharing that gem! Happy holidays!
Oooohhhh. Now THAT's an idea for my other group that works for Charissa Grosko in Neverwinter! So did she make the robot Santa or does she want the party to get it for her? Hmmm... Clockwork nutcrackers... This is definitely an idea I like! Thanks much for posting it! Happy holidays!
Oh wow! So, I have two different groups I run adventures for. One is a wilderness group and the other works for Dannar's in Neverwinter. You presented two excellent ideas that I could split between the two groups! Evil mouse king/were-rat adventure for the wilderness group and Nutcracker constructs for the Dannar's group! Thanks much for tpking two birds with one idea! Have a lovely holiday!