Holidays in your world(s)

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I've gotten, I think, every one of the holiday PDFs available from RPG Now, and while there's a lot of good ones there -- I love the one where the kobolds pelt peasants' houses with apples -- I could always use more.

What holidays do you have in your homebrew world that are portable enough to go to other settings?

Here's one I cooked up for the Midwood setting I'm working on:

Tootenfest
This gnomish holiday involves a great deal of playing bagpipes, dancing jigs, giving of gifts (real gifts are hidden all over the community, gag gifts are given directly), eating lots of sweet foods, and playing games. No one from outside the barony has ever heard of Tootenfest, and it’s suspected that Rubik, Lord of Wit’s End, made it up himself, but no one’s complaining.

 

[Jackelope King]

Rose Petals of Málaga and the Feast of Roses

The city of Málaga in the old empire was renown for the Feast of Roses, a summertime celebration of the bounty given to the Faithful by Glorious Xialton after the first harvest. The celebration begins when rose petals are dropped onto the city from the highest point in town (almost always the High Fane of the temple). The winds carry the rose petals across the entire city, signaling the start of the Feast of Roses. The celebration became popular in other cities following the fall of the Hegemony, and many took the opportunity for a summertime celebration. Since the Feast of Roses became widespread, it has become an important religious event at which betrothals are announced and many marriages are held before the entire community amidst the falling rose petals. Traditionally, rose petals for the Feast of Roses always come from the city of Málaga, though with the destruction of the old world, people in Aedin have had to settle for ordinary roses. The Church does maintain a small garden of Málaga roses, which are cultivated specifically for the Feast of Roses at the Temple of the Anointed and other important marriages. Rose petals of Málaga are considered holy and while prohibitively expensive for most people, wealthy individuals will pay through the nose to have rose petals of Málaga scattered at their weddings. The Megidol believe that there is only one way to ensure luck in love, and that is by scattering rose petals of Málaga.

 

[Hairfoot]

How about a recreation of of original football, where the province stops work for three days to drink, feast and violently attempt to get a stuffed pig bladder from one village, across the fields, and into the neighbouring village's well.

It could be fun with subterranean races. For one week every year, the surface-dwellers could be menaced by gangs of dwarves/kobolds/gnomes/goblins appearing out of nowhere and tearing through town with the bladder before disappearing without trace.

 

[JVisgaitis]

I've gotten, I think, every one of the holiday PDFs available from RPG Now.

Who puts those out?

 

[philreed]

Who puts those out?

Ronin Arts has two.

A Dozen Festivals and Holidays

Festivals, Fairs, and Holy Days

Or use this to search "holidays" at RPGNow