Christmas/Holiday Adventures

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 2:22 pm

I'm one of those people who likes the idea of holiday-based adventures. Usually I think about doing an adventure specifically made for Halloween, but Christmas is another tempting one. Especially since my "Bearable Xmas" playlist on Spotify has two versions of Mr. Heatmiser on it, and Heatmiser and Coldmiser would be really easy to make for D&D.

Has anyone done a holiday-based adventure, especially for Christmas? How did it go?

TheFlatline · Post by **TheFlatline** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 4:07 pm

I did a one-off cooked variant of Toon that took place in the Nightmare Before Christmas pantheon of holiday worlds.

It was goofy but fun.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 4:39 pm

I've run a number of Santa-themed adventures which were pretty well received, mostly based on corners of the mythology featured in Comicsalliance articles. It turns out that there are a lot of awesome stories about Santa, and if you switch him (and/or his allies) out for some PCs, they make pretty great game fodder.

Goblin horde-breaking based on Tolkien's Father Christmas Letters.

I have not time to tell you all the story. I had to blow three blasts on the great Horn (Windbeam). It hangs over the fireplace in the hall, and if I have not told you about it before, it is because I have not had to blow it for over 4 hundred years: its sound carries as far as the North Wind blows. All the same it was three whole days before help came: snowboys, polar bears, and hundreds and hundreds of elves.
They came up behind the Goblins: and Polar Bear (really awake this time) rushed out with a blazing branch off the fire in each paw. He must have killed dozens of Goblins (he says a million).
But there was a big battle down in the plain near the North Pole in November, in which the Goblins brought back hundreds of new companies out of their tunnels. We were driven back to the Cliff, and it was not until Polar Bear and a party of his younger relatives crept out by night, and blew up the entrance to the new tunnels with nearly 100 lbs of gunpowder that we got the better of them — for the present.

Binding demons to service with the chains of Saint Peter.

Link to the full comic.

Hell, I could (and would like to) run a whole campaign based on St Nicholas' one-man war against Artemis. Your party must fight off her hit squads of cultists, myth-beasts, and minor deities; all while you journey across Greece and Asia Minor destroying shrines and temples in preparation for the big showdown at the Artemision in Ephesus. That sounds like a better adventure path than most of Paizo's, at least to me.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 5:22 pm

Last week while driving I had the random idea of adapting Home Alone into a D&D adventure. While it's possible to put the PCs into the role of Kevin, fending off assailants with improvised traps, I think it's much more in keeping with D&D, and much more fitting the way D&D works, to put the PCs in the role of the assailants, being fended off by some snot nosed brat, maybe the Big Bad's kid, with hero level traps made from stuff they had lying around.

Post by **fbmf** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 5:23 pm

I ran the original Ravenloft module (I6) on Halloween once. Went over well.

In my old 1990s era 2E game ( the one I played with my minister and the bishop's warden), the DM had us fight a fruit cake golem that had a petrifaction based breath weapon during our December session. Sometimes I miss you, 2E.

Game On,
fbmf

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 5:29 pm

Ah food golems. There need to be more of those. I remember the calzone golem from some 3.0 adventure, that thing was fun.

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Fri Dec 25, 2015 8:37 am

I've run a number of Santa-themed adventures which were pretty well received