Happy winter season holiday event!
I have very little to add other than that, and I hope your holiday has been fun and safe (unlike mine, where after an otherwise lovely Christmas with the folks I had the joy of breaking up a fight between my dogs over a rawhide bone and got bit/scratched in the process).
I was looking for things to read today, and realized something: a lot of D&D/gaming Blogs talk about a Halloween game, but has anyone run a winter-season/holiday-themed game? I'll get the dialogue started with the one I ran a few years back. I'll make it quick, since it's kinda uncomfortable to type. :(
Back in, oh, 2004-ish, I ran my D20 Modern game through an adventure based off of "The Nutcracker Suite." A group of harmless wererats living in the sewers were being slaughtered by a strange construct, and the PCs were sent to take care of the threat. The beast itself was a large nutcracker built by a deranged scientist. The group encountered the construct and had an incredibly tough fight (the dwarf Strong/Tough hero would have been "nutycracked" to death if he hadn't picked up the Remain conscious talent), but they eventually prevailed. All in all, it was an awesome thematic adventure, and my group clamored for more (alas, that group dissolved due to infighting between friends). I've even scheduled my CoCT game to have the final encounters coincide with the in-game equivalent of Christmas, just because climactic encounters in the dead of winter are, at least to me, really COOL. :)
So, anyone else run one of these?
I was looking for things to read today, and realized something: a lot of D&D/gaming Blogs talk about a Halloween game, but has anyone run a winter-season/holiday-themed game? I'll get the dialogue started with the one I ran a few years back. I'll make it quick, since it's kinda uncomfortable to type. :(
Back in, oh, 2004-ish, I ran my D20 Modern game through an adventure based off of "The Nutcracker Suite." A group of harmless wererats living in the sewers were being slaughtered by a strange construct, and the PCs were sent to take care of the threat. The beast itself was a large nutcracker built by a deranged scientist. The group encountered the construct and had an incredibly tough fight (the dwarf Strong/Tough hero would have been "nutycracked" to death if he hadn't picked up the Remain conscious talent), but they eventually prevailed. All in all, it was an awesome thematic adventure, and my group clamored for more (alas, that group dissolved due to infighting between friends). I've even scheduled my CoCT game to have the final encounters coincide with the in-game equivalent of Christmas, just because climactic encounters in the dead of winter are, at least to me, really COOL. :)
So, anyone else run one of these?