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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pdzoch" data-source="post: 6947964" data-attributes="member: 80982">I have not really incorporated holidays into may campaign world.  They exist, but they haven't driven the campaign, so they seldom come up.  They are mostly used as a reason for certain events in the game, but they have never been anything that the players or characters would track.  Any religious holiday associated with my druids, clerics, and paladins have never come into play during the campaign, and none of my players expressed any interests in role playing those obligations for their character.Several festival occur in the game, mostly tied to harvest and planting seasons.  I tend to use these to establish seasons in the campaign, but the players have never planned or prepared for the upcoming events (unless is was the objective of the mission, e.g. ensure Brother Davin makes it to the Feast of Harvest celebration in some town safely and on time).Fairs are local events and occur once per town per year, but these are market/money producing events, not holidays.  Though much of the activities are the same (depending on the solemnity of the religious holiday).I've run a campaign or two where annual celebrations of a famous victory are celebrated.  In one case, this was a war between two races (dwarves and elfs).  Tensions always rose during the celebration as the city was now racially mixed and the tension became excuses and diversions for misconduct. A military parade of veterans and soldiers was one of the events associated with that holiday.I do run "one shot" adventures for my group that are holiday themed (a little of topic from the original thread question).  This year, the group recovering an artifact from the Winter Goblin, a powerful goblin who wear white fur lined red coat and hat (sort of twisted Santa).  The artifact is located in the Winter Goblin's "workshop", where a band of goblins hammer out crude contraptions on an assembly line.  The contraptions are delivery via a sleigh (because they live in a snowy environment) pulled by wolves enchanted to fly.</blockquote>

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