Naughty or nice -- killed any Xmas elves yet this year?

[Driddle]

I considered attaching a survey to this, but didn't want to limit the focus. So the floor's wide open: Share your most interesting Christmas-themed RPG adventure, or what you've got planned for this year.

I'm gonna fireball the Fat Man when he flies his sleigh within range. ... Venison rations for everyone!

 

[Crothian]

I'm working on something for tonight but it's not coming together that well.

 

[Matchstick]

D20 Modern, Bureau 13.

The holiday spirit has disappeared, and only Santa knows what the container it's in looks like. The Bureau team will have to rescue Santa from a group of human sized (and defective) Ken dolls, then figure out a way for the unconscious (and emaciated from lack of spirit) Santa to show them where the spirit is.

Once they do that they'll arrive at a huge warehouse where they will find the holiday spirit and the vessel that contains it in a lead lined crate (labelled "Fragile", if you know what I mean). After the crate is opened (during the fight hopefully) guns and tech weapons will cease to work, and all beings in the warehouse will have to make a save to keep from dropping their weapon and hugging the being next to them as the spirit floods the room.

In a last ditch effort the bad guys open a portal in a back room of the warehouse to their home base (an island, I think you know which one) and send through a golem made entirely of defective toys (with an umbilical stream of toys keeping it regenerated). Santa will arrive to combat the unkillable golem, to keep it busy while the players not only fight off the cultists that are trying to recapture the holiday spirit's vessel (using non-tech weapons) but also try and figure out a way to cut off that portal/umbilical so the golem can be finally slain.

The goodwill of the world depends on that Bureau team, let's hope they can pull through!

 

[Driddle]

It's been many years ago, so I can't recount all the details with clarity, but I can remember our party stumbling through the woods in search of a "falling star" or some blazing object that shot out of the sky. The first sounds we heard at a distance were of battle and nasally high-pitched voices (the DM did a great job) yelling things like, "Don't fire! We've got gifts!" and "Protect the Big Guy!"

We rescued Santa and a few of his elves from a wandering orc patrol, but he had been badly injured and needed a medic's attention. We took on a few of his deliveries to a series of three locale-scenarios: some poor shmuck who had been polymorphed into a troll, a storm giant's castle, and an obnoxious witch's hut. In the latter's case, it looked like she had kidnapped two children and was ready to eat them, but they were just cooking gingerbread.

Santa provided a bit of magical time overlap of some sort (he didn't share the details), so our tasks didn't take nearly as much time as we thought. Once we returned, he thanked us with some nifty gifts of our own before he took off.

We had a blast. We sorta knew we weren't really ever in serious danger, even though it looked that way once or twice. Just a romp in the snow.

 

[Kaodi]

I won't likely ever have a chance to run an idea like this, but after watching one of those old Christmas specials a night or two ago, I got thinking of how I could adapt Santa Claus to Eberron. I only have part of the idea down so far, though.

Basically, Santa would be an elven cleric of the Valenar, who worships the Spirits of the Past. The patron ancestor of his line would of been a great toymaker from the Age of Giants, so instead of having one Santa, it's more like a line of Santas. Based out of the Frostfell, his army of helpers would be Glacier Dwarves.

Err, ack, have to split right this moment. Everything after that was fuzzy anyway. Maybe he has bitter rivals in House Cannith or something who hate his free toys.

 

[Herobizkit]

After watching the Futurama christmas episode, I can't help but imagine a CE Warforged Santa who tries to destroy the naughty kids of the world... namely all of them, because he's crazy like that.

 

[Driddle]

... Eberron.

How about Santa as an early model warforged? One of a kind. They broke the mold after him.

 

[Nuclear Platypus]

My idea is (or would be) rather shamelessly stolen from a half seen episode of Jackie Chan Adventures. As best I remember, some of the elves are the Secret Service to "Big Red" and protect him as best they can from Daolon Wong (voiced by James Hong), who sought to steal Santa's immense good chi for himself. The head of security appears at Uncle's shop, requesting help (Uncle is very powerful chi sorceror and only magic can defeat magic!). Naturally since Jade knows that yes, Santa -is- real, not only does she volunteer Tohru and Jackie, but reassembles the J-Team. Since someone big is needed to fill Big Red's shoes, Tohru gets the job while Jackie, El Toro and Viper attempt the rescue. All the while, Daolon Wong is attempting to break into Santa's Workshop(?), which is like an immense snowglobe as the last defense the elves were able to setup before Daolong Wong kidnapped Santa back in this synopsis' second sentence.

D20 Modern probably but no guns, other than possible popguns or Nerf style ones in case a player wants to go John Woo, stick fights with giant candy canes or other standard Jackie Chan weapons, etc. Hrm. Taking a page from Calvin and Hobbes (and Kim Possible), there's a swarm of evil snowmen to wade through as well.

I might do a twist like on Robot Chicken and have the Easter Bunny as the mastermind (Kill Bunny) or even more bizarrely have the DBZ Christmas version ("Ah! My Dragon Balls!"), which had Rudolph shooting lasers from his nose.

I think there's an old RPGA adventure with Anti Claus, possibly a "Save Fluffy" one.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

After watching the Futurama christmas episode, I can't help but imagine a CE Warforged Santa who tries to destroy the naughty kids of the world... namely all of them, because he's crazy like that.

The Futurama Santa was the first thing I thought of when this thread came up. I could see a D&D or a D20 Modern adventure being made out of that one.

Olaf the Stout