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<blockquote data-quote="Elephant" data-source="post: 2810523" data-attributes="member: 17431"><p>This could be a dangerous post due to the religious connection, but please bear with me.</p><p></p><p>Background: I'm not Jewish, but my wife is considering a conversion, and she is thus celebrating Hanukkah. She tells me that, while the candles burn down, different families have different traditions. Some sit and talk, others pray, others play games...</p><p></p><p>Hmm, I wonder. What if we make a Hanukkah tradition to play a mini-D&D campaign while the candles burn down? It would be a great way to simultaneously keep the family focused together, teach future kids to play D&D, get my wife to play D&D (!), and learn a bit about the history of Hanukkah.</p><p></p><p>Speaking of which, Hanukkah came about because there was a war. The Greeks had conquered Israel, defiled the temple, and banned Jewish religious observance. Some of the jews, known as the Maccabees, rebelled against the occupying forces. They fought for three years, missing the important Jewish holidays, and they finally won in the month of Kislev (December). Because they'd missed Sukkot (another important Jewish holiday) a couple of months earlier, they celebrated it in Kislev, once they had rededicated the temple.</p><p></p><p>There's a story about a miracle of oil lasting for eight days, but as far as I can tell, that's not historically accurate.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, my idea is that the PCs would be members of the Maccabeean rebellion, and the D&D campaign would span eight sessions, each about an hour long (the time it takes for the Hanukkah candles to burn down each night). It would cover the high points of the war, ending with the rededication of the temple and the belated celebration of Sukkot - memorialized as Hanukkah.</p><p></p><p>I'm thinking the PCs would stay at a static level for the campaign, and it would be something that would be repeated in a similar form each year.</p><p></p><p>What does everyone think about this?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Elephant, post: 2810523, member: 17431"] This could be a dangerous post due to the religious connection, but please bear with me. Background: I'm not Jewish, but my wife is considering a conversion, and she is thus celebrating Hanukkah. She tells me that, while the candles burn down, different families have different traditions. Some sit and talk, others pray, others play games... Hmm, I wonder. What if we make a Hanukkah tradition to play a mini-D&D campaign while the candles burn down? It would be a great way to simultaneously keep the family focused together, teach future kids to play D&D, get my wife to play D&D (!), and learn a bit about the history of Hanukkah. Speaking of which, Hanukkah came about because there was a war. The Greeks had conquered Israel, defiled the temple, and banned Jewish religious observance. Some of the jews, known as the Maccabees, rebelled against the occupying forces. They fought for three years, missing the important Jewish holidays, and they finally won in the month of Kislev (December). Because they'd missed Sukkot (another important Jewish holiday) a couple of months earlier, they celebrated it in Kislev, once they had rededicated the temple. There's a story about a miracle of oil lasting for eight days, but as far as I can tell, that's not historically accurate. Anyway, my idea is that the PCs would be members of the Maccabeean rebellion, and the D&D campaign would span eight sessions, each about an hour long (the time it takes for the Hanukkah candles to burn down each night). It would cover the high points of the war, ending with the rededication of the temple and the belated celebration of Sukkot - memorialized as Hanukkah. I'm thinking the PCs would stay at a static level for the campaign, and it would be something that would be repeated in a similar form each year. What does everyone think about this? [/QUOTE]
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