St. Patrick's Day Game Additions

[tennyson]

We'll be running the next session in our campaign relatively close to the upcoming St. Patrick's Day holiday, and I was wondering: what have you used in your games to add a little of the seasonal touch?

I don't want the addition to be a major NPC (or to extend past this session, although a reoccurance as a minor player/event down the road might be fun). Unfortuantely, my group is mired in a cavern far below the surface, filled with hostiles. It's my intent to have them resurface this session, but it may not be until the end of the session.

Anyway, I digress....any ideas or suggestion on how to capitalize on the holiday? Something humorous would work best, although I'm open to anything. Thanks in advance!

 

[jaerdaph]

An evil leprechaun as an annoyance and distraction rather than a BBEG is always fun.

 

[Barastrondo]

Fantasy Champions:

The players are called in to investigate the crash of the skyship Bifrost, which has gone down in the Frozen Reaches due to sabotage. It was carrying a magical cauldron that produced fine whiskey, as a gift to the culture most recently joining the Empire. The sabotage turned out to be Madcaps, the gobliny jester/assassins of the Pandemonic fae called the Teind, who had used magic beans to grow vines that ensnared the skyship's workings.

So, basically, searching for a pot of gold (the cauldron of whiskey) at the end of a rainbow (the Bifrost), dealing with the leprechauns (the Madcaps) and shamrock-like greenery (the huge vines). And the cauldron was giving off fumes that intoxicated any PCs who breathed them, to boot.

The best part is that the players didn't get it until later.

 

[tuxgeo]

We'll be running the next session in our campaign relatively close to the upcoming St. Patrick's Day holiday, and I was wondering: what have you used in your games to add a little of the seasonal touch?

I don't want the addition to be a major NPC (or to extend past this session, . . .
Anyway, I digress....any ideas or suggestion on how to capitalize on the holiday? Something humorous would work best, although I'm open to anything. Thanks in advance!

An illusory rock wall -- Sham Rock.
An inexplicably verdant, well-mowed bowling green in some otherwise-dark cavern, where the grass keeps up a constant stream of cursing blather -- the Swearing of the Green.
An immense and dark hole, hundred of yards/meters across, with curses and yells and swishing sounds and sounds of soft impacts coming from below, with the occasional, well-smashed serpent also coming from below -- the Driving Out of the Snakes.

 

[jaerdaph]

The PCs seek respite and relaxation at an outdoor tavern consisting of tables in a wooded glade with a Celtic theme and the proprietor is named Paddy O'Furniture.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Irish stereotypes are all well and good, but why don't you have them recreated the miracle that made ol' Patty famous in the first place?

Drive the Snakes Out!

Or in D&D, make it yuan-ti.

 

[Roger]

Yep, snakes would be good.

Or polytheistic cultists in a battle against monotheistic missionaries.

But mostly snakes.



Cheers,
Roger

 

[merb101]

I'm running a "green" D&D game this weekend at a St. Pattys party. Using the Jungle Temple map, I'm running a three-encounter adventure where the party is attempting to stop a cult of lizard men from summoning a green dragon to wage war on their enemies.

All my baddies are green, the location is green... If I can just get one player character jealous of another, my trifecta will be complete!

ME

 

[brunswick]

I dont know if you might have access to old Dungeon magazines but Willie Walsh (a fellow Dubliner) wrote a "suitable" St Patricks Day AD&D adventure called "Huddle Farm" in the late 1980s. It's Issue 12 from 1988. You can get a copy on the web for around $6, in case you dont have it.

 

[Holy Bovine]

I dont know if you might have access to old Dungeon magazines but Willie Walsh (a fellow Dubliner) wrote a "suitable" St Patricks Day AD&D adventure called "Huddle Farm" in the late 1980s. It's Issue 12 from 1988. You can get a copy on the web for around $6, in case you dont have it.

I ran that a few St Patty's Days ago and the players loved it. They eventually befriended the 'BBEG' and everyone enjoyed it.