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Matthus
Senior Scribe
Germany
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 Posted - 28 Nov 2007 : 12:45:07
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Do you play special Christmas games with your players, or rolepalying group, or where ever?
Traditionally I wrote some adventures for the last play-day before the end of the year, where the theme was about stolen cookies, a missing or late Santa Claus, a big snowball fight, things like that. The one evening fun normally has no connections to ongoing plays, doesn’t need to be in the cannon lore of FR, and is just for a lot of fun, while we all are nibbling our own cookies and are sipping mulled wine …
Running almost out of time and having none myself, I would like to ask if you have related fun games in your group and, more important, if you like to share your ideas for this year with me  .
Thanks for any in-put!
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Gelcur
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 28 Nov 2007 : 13:29:20
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May I suggest this wizards webpage. It contains some holiday themed D&D content that I found amusing a few years back.
Happy holidays. |
The party come to a town befallen by hysteria
Rogue: So what's in the general store?
DM: What are you looking for?
Rogue: Whatevers in the store.
DM: Like what?
Rogue: Everything.
DM: There is a lot of stuff.
Rogue: Is there a cart outside?
DM: (rolls) Yes.
Rogue: We'll take it all, we may need it for the greater good. |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 28 Nov 2007 : 13:51:20
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| Santa would be a resident of the Great Glacier in the realms perhaps>? |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 28 Nov 2007 : 15:56:12
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Originally posted by Gelcur
May I suggest this wizards webpage. It contains some holiday themed D&D content that I found amusing a few years back.
Happy holidays.
Very cute stuff in that link. |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 28 Nov 2007 : 17:29:44
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Now this would be a nice occasion to give those gnomes some focus.
The trolls have stolen the packages they planned to sell the Dalesmen for Christmas. The players need to get to the great glacier to talk to the old winter conjurer of the holidays (no, not Roy Wood) and try to get a good deal for the Dales before Elminster finds out that he will not get a new pipe. This will get him in a very bad mood for the holidays, something that can lead to panic among the lusty ladies of Faerun. Now, what the players don't know is that the holiday conjurer has made a deal with the small hairy people of the underground near the Dales and they have already sent their best men to steal the presents back and make this a wombling holiday for everyone.
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Kuje
Great Reader
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Posted - 28 Nov 2007 : 17:39:13
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Grins,
Maybe Santa is a evil proxy/chosen/high powerful cleric of Auril that she unfreezes every year to torment people with. :) |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 28 Nov 2007 : 17:46:04
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| That's not possible...Santa is the kindest man in the world, in any setting. |
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Aravine
Senior Scribe
USA
608 Posts |
Posted - 28 Nov 2007 : 17:57:47
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| so does he have reindeer pulling his sleigh, or polymorphed dragons, or a cross breed of reindeer and pegusi(if that's how you spell it)? |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 28 Nov 2007 : 18:07:27
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
That's not possible...Santa is the kindest man in the world, in any setting.
He doesn't have to be. :) |
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Edited by - Kuje on 28 Nov 2007 18:10:09 |
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Hawkins
Great Reader
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Posted - 28 Nov 2007 : 18:32:14
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Originally posted by Kuje
quote:
Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
That's not possible...Santa is the kindest man in the world, in any setting.
He doesn't have to be. :)
Especially if you have seen Santa's Slay. |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 28 Nov 2007 : 19:38:06
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No Santa's a good guy, but he has an evil twin. Actually that is a clone created by Auril that sends out junk-mail carrier pigeons and catalogs from magic shops to all the small children of the Realms. Auril knows that the insanity of these offers will make the season one of dread for all people in the Realms
The gnomes and their wombling friends have seen through this a long time ago and have promised the great wizard that they will find the impostor and give him a lesson. They will make him listen to the latest holiday songs and poems of the bards of new-Olamn whilst cataloging all the Wish-lists given by the mages throughout the last year. |
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BARDOBARBAROS
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Greece
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Posted - 28 Nov 2007 : 20:19:17
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| We here in my village in Andros island- Greece from the 6th of december until the 31, we play every evening (after 6 'o clock), in the coffee bars (they look like inns) of the village, poker with walnuts (the walnuts are sold from the cofee bars).. the persons who gain the walnuts they take them home each day in order to make a greek christma's sweet which is called PASTELI...it's a custom here every year ... |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 28 Nov 2007 : 23:03:40
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Originally posted by HawkinstheDM
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Originally posted by Kuje
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
That's not possible...Santa is the kindest man in the world, in any setting.
He doesn't have to be. :)
Especially if you have seen Santa's Slay.
I think movies like that are evil. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 28 Nov 2007 : 23:06:55
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Originally posted by Kuje
Grins,
Maybe Santa is a evil proxy/chosen/high powerful cleric of Auril that she unfreezes every year to torment people with. :)
Oooh! I love this idea.
And maybe he'll "slay a dragon or two." 
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Edited by - The Sage on 28 Nov 2007 23:08:15 |
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Matthus
Senior Scribe
Germany
393 Posts |
Posted - 29 Nov 2007 : 13:04:58
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Thanks for the suggestions so far, it looks like some sledge dragon racing for the nice Santa - cause Elminster is waiting for his new pipe. All the while his evil twin is blasting the party with the frosty and freezing breath of Auril, waiting for the gnomes to arrive with the latest holiday songs – or something like this  .
And PASTELI sounds great too, don’t know if I can get the hands on something similar here. 
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 29 Nov 2007 : 13:56:58
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Don't forget that the bad twin has the help of Aurils special servant, the feared priestess Frosty the No-man.
Somewhere in this story there should also be a treant with a love for large amounts of jangling jewellery, but I cant really fit it in with the rest. |
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Aravine
Senior Scribe
USA
608 Posts |
Posted - 29 Nov 2007 : 14:58:25
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| Very Funny! but why is santa the pied piper? |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 29 Nov 2007 : 16:52:12
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| SO what would Santa's stats be? Is he epic level? Probably wizard with low CON score (due to his big belly) and he definately has a bag of holding... |
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Aravine
Senior Scribe
USA
608 Posts |
Posted - 29 Nov 2007 : 17:14:41
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| Alisttair, may I sugggest you use the link? but if you can't Santa is a druid13/clr6?/rog2. his sleigh allows the driver to cast timestop infiately(only on december 25) and he is NG. what is he a cleric of? himself? |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 29 Nov 2007 : 19:48:20
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Originally posted by Jorkens
Don't forget that the bad twin has the help of Aurils special servant, the feared priestess Frosty the No-man.
Somewhere in this story there should also be a treant with a love for large amounts of jangling jewellery, but I cant really fit it in with the rest.
You're killing me.
Forget being a cleric--Santa should be a god. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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Mace Hammerhand
Great Reader
Germany
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Posted - 29 Nov 2007 : 19:56:33
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| Being someone who looooooves Christmas (that was sarcasm boys and girls), and whose all time favorite Christmas movies include classics like Braindead and The Boondock Saints, I'd prolly have the players invade Santas home and give extra XP for creatures killed with ingenuity and enthusiasm... colorful slayage so to speak |
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Ayunken-vanzan
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Germany
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Posted - 29 Nov 2007 : 20:49:29
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| They must overcome the permanent sanctuary-aura in his home - on any attack made. |
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AlorinDawn
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 29 Nov 2007 : 20:52:44
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You could do the old cliché here of rescue the maiden in distress, but replace her with Santa hehe. Have Santa captured by a various evil organization or local ruler and have the PC's bust Santa out and help him recover his sleigh, flying reindeer or whatever, and his one-of-a-kind huge bag of holding.
You could have a bunch of his followers, which are fey-touched gnomes, or halflings contact the PCs to bust their boss out. There have been a decent number of "villains" in the many Christmas specials that have been on TV over the years you could tweak to make a convincing opponent.
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Aravine
Senior Scribe
USA
608 Posts |
Posted - 29 Nov 2007 : 21:07:24
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Originally posted by Ayunken-vanzan
They must overcome the permanent sanctuary-aura in his home - on any attack made.
even if they succeed, they can't attack. what's the point of rolling? |
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Matthus
Senior Scribe
Germany
393 Posts |
Posted - 30 Nov 2007 : 10:51:15
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It seems to get even more interesting than I thought… Thanks to all of you
The whole bunch of ideas, suggestions and incitations only need to be melted in a really great adventure - wish it would have been done already 
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Brynweir
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USA
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Posted - 01 Dec 2007 : 13:18:45
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| Nightmare Before Christmas anyone? |
Anyone who likes to read something that's really dark and gritty and completely awesome ought to read The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks. You can check out a little taste at www.BrentWeeks.com I should probably warn you, though, that it is definitely not PG-13 :-D
He also started a new Trilogy with Black Prism, which may even surpass the Night Angel Trilogy in its awesomeness.
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