Holiday Themed Sessions

[jdrakeh]

I've done stuff like this in the past. It works better IRL, but I don't have a regular group IRL right now, so I'm not running any 'holiday' adventures this year. That said, I hope to do this next year. In the past, I've usually done something 'zombie' themed for Halloween and at least something seasonal for Christmas (even if it was a CoC Silent Night, Deadly Night scenario).

 

[DonTadow]

Did anyone actually do the timewarp at the table?
And who is to blame, anyway?

That's awesome.

My DMs run some kinda holiday thing for Halloween, Xmas (Vampire Santa!), April Fool's and, occasionally, Thanksgiving (in Ravenloft. Feast of the Gobbler)

LOL several of them did the actual time warp during session. The forged had been turned into a statue by a beholder earlier and was stone. So they had to figure out how to get him to do the timewarp. So they tied cast a cantrip to make the stone at least movable, tied his hands and body to their appendages. So I told them i needed to see what they were trying to do. The war forged (the guy in the party whom I think secretly hates my style of animate gaming) reluctantly gets up and the two girls stand beside him and coaxh him into doing the timewarp.
Then after session as they existed the portal i played the video again and a couple of the girls danced along.

 

[diaglo]

A couple years back we ran the original I6 Ravenloft module as a Halloween one-shot. Fun and appropriate, though we didn't finish.

i almost quit D&D b/c of this.

not b/c of the group
not b/c of the adventure

it was b/c of the system. when looking at the PCs all i could see was the numbers. it became unfun to me to think that way.

i came dressed up for the session as my PC.

but once in play it became harder and harder to be my PC. too many times having to look for numbers on my character sheet.


edit: all i could do after the session was reflect on the first time i had gone into Strahd's place. it was so much different.

 

[Evilhalfling]

My players decided that our last game was halloween themed adventure - It was primarily a city game, but there were rumors of a ghost which they tried to track down, and they ran into a Dretch, who is described as a smelly pumpkin shaped demon - the PCs have started calling it Jack.

To me the game was my first city game in a long time, so it was focused of politics, gathering information and noncombat challanges, and of course, Shopping!

 

[freebfrost]

I just held my 8th annual Halloween game, and I think it went splendidly. I always try to tie in some horror elements with a bit of light-heartedness to make it memorable, as well as doing the decorations and providing a dinner menu that ties in with the adventure's themes.

I also ran a Christmas holiday adventure once, but found it was a bit harder to do thematically.

 

[Orryn Emrys]

We used to do Halloween themed games every year... then I got married...

... on Halloween...

... two years ago...

... now it's my anniversary.......

I guess I didn't really think that one through...

Anyway, we talk about it a bit in our new podcast. Some good memories there....

 

[Whimsical]

Years ago, our DM would run a Santa Slay adventure for us. We were instructed to create 12th level evil PC, and we could play undead or demons/devils if we wanted to. We were instructed by Iuz to take out Santa. We invaded his (Greyhawk) north pole installation (protected by pine tree treants & white pudding), encountered and overcame his helpers (winter elves, gnome toymakers, a gold dragon named tinsel, eight buffed reindeer, Mrs. Claus, animated full-sized toy soldiers, etc.) but was taken down by Santa, who was a 20th level half-elf cleric/magic user quasi-diety. For three or four years afterward our DM would run the same game again and we could never beat Santa.

Nowadays I don't have the stomache to play an evil PC.

 

[Thorin Stoutfoot]

Our Halloween special...

... I dug out my copy of "Betrayal at the House on the Haunted Hill", and we played 2 games of it before going back to our regularly scheduled RPG. Great fun!

 

[freebfrost]

... I dug out my copy of "Betrayal at the House on the Haunted Hill", and we played 2 games of it before going back to our regularly scheduled RPG. Great fun!

Great game that!

I'm just glad they put a FAQ and errata online, because some of the scenarios were really confusing as originally written.

 

[The Shaman]

One of these days I plan on assembling a Modern adventure around this...

BTW, does anyone have stats for a dire reindeer?