Does your setting have holidays?

[thatdarncat]

Hey all

I've hit a bit of writers block. I'm looking for suggestions for holidays - religious or secular.

Thanks!

 

[Brimshack]

Why not get some ritual of inversion in there, a day where rolls are reversed, peasants get to act as nobles and visa versa. Perhaps some temples even swap leadership.

Of course planting and harvest festivals are good.

World renewal ceremonies at the Equinoxes are good.

And of course re-enactment of sacred events is always good.

 

[Crothian]

Yes it does. I have 4 general holidays

Spring Holiday (Equinox) celebrates the melting of snow and road and sea lanes becoming safe to use. It is a day that celebrates surving the winter and blessing of the fields. It is a day of travel and visiting frineds that one could not becasue of the great snows.

Summer Solsitce is a two day festival. It is known for contsest of many skills and gives thanks to all sorts of things.

Autumn Equinox is a day of getting ready for the long winter. It is usually the final day of casual travel from town to town. People get together for great feasts during it.

Winter Solistice is a day of darkness and solitude. It is a day of quiet rembrance of those that have died.

 

[fusangite]

My current setting is quasi-medieval so it's full of Christian holidays; although usually the PCs are in so much trouble, they end up having to work on the lord's day.

 

[Ebonyr]

Religious holidays: Tithe Procession, The Day of the Dead, and the Day of Atonement.

Hope this helps!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Yep. I loaded up with the Top Fashion Games holiday PDFs and sprinkled them throughout the Praemal calendar. My campaign even had one surprisingly (to me) pivotal adventure that took place during a holiday.

 

[Hairfoot]

My campaign peasants sort of get holidays. To quote Alexei Sayle, a holiday is when the king stops kicking you for a bit.

 

[Tonguez]

Winter: New Years - starts with the rise of a particular constellation and ends at the Solstice. A Month of celebration of the coming New Year

Summer Solstice: Feast of the War God The Work of Spring has ended and the Harvest is still to come so what better excuse is needed to make war upon ones enemies

Harvest Festival - to remember those who have fallen and to prepare for the coming cold

Also IMC a 30 day Lunar calendar is used and the two 'Full Moon' days are Holy Days given to prayer and tithing

 

[VirgilCaine]

A ceremony where cities take a large magic top (yes, like a huge version of a child's toy) and spin it around the outside of the city to renew (symbolically or actually) the protective wards around the city.

[Based on an actual medieval ritual...which I have no idea where I read.]

 

[Olaf the Stout]

My game is currently set in Freeport. They have Swagfest, a 4 day festival that celebrates when the pirate ships would traditionally come back to Freeport, loaded up with booty that they had "liberated" from their cruel former owners.

Olaf the Stout