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"Blood On The Snow", A Christmas Adventure
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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 9141101" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>I guess a more succinct ask would have been better than extraneous contextual explanation. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /></p><p></p><p>I am now wondering if the new Monster of The Week expansion would be a good fit. </p><p></p><p>But the PCs aren’t mortal beings of crude matter, but beings who embody some part of winter and the Yule season. </p><p></p><p>Since my players don’t read enworld forums, I can say that Santa Claus began in the darkness before humanity dreamed it’s first dream, born when the first hungry wolves gave desperate chase to some unfortunate deer in the dead of winter, in the moment when desperation turned to hope as the blood of the prey hit the snow, and the pack instinctively knew that it would survive to see spring. </p><p></p><p>And as humanity grew and evolved so did he, becoming all the things that come in midwinter on the longest nights and give hope to the weary and desperate who struggle to remember the sun, and eventually he understood that he needed to build something, to become more than one being and to give a greater light of hope in the darkness, and he became the Yule King, and Father Christmas, and Saint Nicklaus, and Santa Claus. </p><p></p><p>But the core remains, no matter how you grow and evolve. The wolf remains a wolf, even if only in some quiet part of the mind known only in dreams, and at his core Claus remains the moment in the morning of the longest night when blood hits the snow. </p><p></p><p>And I can do that in D&D. 100%. But why not use this opportunity to run through something new, that is made to handle characters of a different nature, in a different kind of story? </p><p></p><p>So any recommendations or advice or thoughts would be very welcome!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 9141101, member: 6704184"] I guess a more succinct ask would have been better than extraneous contextual explanation. 😂 I am now wondering if the new Monster of The Week expansion would be a good fit. But the PCs aren’t mortal beings of crude matter, but beings who embody some part of winter and the Yule season. Since my players don’t read enworld forums, I can say that Santa Claus began in the darkness before humanity dreamed it’s first dream, born when the first hungry wolves gave desperate chase to some unfortunate deer in the dead of winter, in the moment when desperation turned to hope as the blood of the prey hit the snow, and the pack instinctively knew that it would survive to see spring. And as humanity grew and evolved so did he, becoming all the things that come in midwinter on the longest nights and give hope to the weary and desperate who struggle to remember the sun, and eventually he understood that he needed to build something, to become more than one being and to give a greater light of hope in the darkness, and he became the Yule King, and Father Christmas, and Saint Nicklaus, and Santa Claus. But the core remains, no matter how you grow and evolve. The wolf remains a wolf, even if only in some quiet part of the mind known only in dreams, and at his core Claus remains the moment in the morning of the longest night when blood hits the snow. And I can do that in D&D. 100%. But why not use this opportunity to run through something new, that is made to handle characters of a different nature, in a different kind of story? So any recommendations or advice or thoughts would be very welcome! [/QUOTE]
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