D&D 5E Holiday Worlds as D&D settings

[Henadic Theologian]

Holiday World

The Holiday Worlds of Old are separate realms that are each linked to each other and the outside world. The seven Holiday Worlds represent Independence Day, Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, St. Patrick's Day, and Valentine's Day. Each Holiday World provide whichever holiday it is...

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Does any one else find this to be a cool seed for a setting, a bunch of Holiday worlds with portals in each to the others on trees in hinterlands?

You give each their own D&D twist.

 

[DeviousQuail]

It's been a few years since I last watched The Nightmare Before Christmas. Going to have to fix that. As for D&D, a setting where the players are all in service to the rulers of the holiday realms would be fun. Perhaps a variant of the destiny rules from Theros book for each holiday. They have to keep the peace, do the dirty work, fend off invaders from the outworlds, etc.

 

[MNblockhead]

I think it would be a cool adventure for Mutant Crawl Classics. A friend of mine ran a MCC one-shot with an X-mas/Santa theme, which I expected to be pretty bad but fun in the way bad-movie nights with good friends is fun. But it was actually a good adventure and worked very well in that setting and with that system.

 

[RoughCoronet0]

Most of the holiday’s in my world are based around the holy day’s of the deity-like entities that are revered by the mortals of the world, or days that mark major events that happened in the plane’s past. The various races also have holidays specific to them.

 

[Laurefindel]

I’d be tempted to give them a « realistic » feel. A Christmas winterland, more forested Siberian than Arctic, with somewhat legit reasons for people to decorate fir trees around the house, and a semi mythic ruler bringing gifts to his good subjects and bad stuff to the naughty (criminals?) ones. Or perhaps there are hundreds of these red-clad bailiffs and they are everywhere simultaneously in a country where reindeers make better beasts of burden than horses.

a plane of everlasting spring where the currency takes form of decorated eggs. Bunnies are considered sacred and source of good fortune. Children are told that bunnies lay money (eggs). That isn’t true of course, but it teaches kids to be nice to them.

A Halloween town on a transit plane where the souls of the deceased pass on their way to the afterlife at night. Most will leave you alone, but the bad ones will try to trade place with you, sending you to the realm of the dead to take your place there. Better disguise yourself as the dead if you got to go out at night, least the bad souls recognize you as a living.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

It occurred to me that these Holiday Worlds would be cool as interlinked Domains of Delight.

 

[Laurefindel]

It occurred to me that these Holiday Worlds would be cool as interlinked Domains of Delight.

It would work remarkably well indeed

 

[Henadic Theologian]

It would work remarkably well indeed

Yeah it's my favourite idea so far. I would have to of course replace Independence Day World, Thanksgiving World, and any Saint Holiday Worlds with D&D Holidays like Shieldmeet.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Independence Day World, Thanksgiving World

Some of these don't travel well...

 

[humble minion]

Some of these don't travel well...

Indeed. Locally for me, we'd have Labor Day world, Cup Day world, Grand Final Eve world, ANZAC Day world, and Queen's Birthday world, which is not in any way related to the day the queen was actually born on. That's some weeeeird and obscure Domains of Delight, right there...