So I ran a Christmas Themed Pathfinder Game...


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I posted the following on Reddit but also thought I would share with the Paizo Pathfinder Boards as well.

Reddit links:
Pathfinder - http://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder_RPG/comments/2nwtge/so_i_ran_a_christmas _themed_game_for_my_group/

D&D -
http://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/2nwpvl/so_i_ran_a_christmas_themed_dd_ game_for_my_group/

So, my group was missing a player during an important session of our main campaign. I decided to run a one off instead of just canceling the game. I gave my players the character roll up restrictions and just told them that it would not be a dungeon crawl so plan to RP here and there. My players had no idea what I had in mind for this session being this close to Christmas...

I had my players start in a small town during the winter season that was at the base of a mountain range. I had a “Deerfolk” (Anthro Deer Race - Homebrew) stumble into the town that was badly wounded. The Deerfolk had a magically glowing noise that glowed oh so bright and his name was “Rudolph the Red Nosed Scout”. The Deerfolk Scout was being hunted by a group of evil Deerfolk that were brainwashed and followed an evil leader…the Warlord Santa Clawz. The Warlord had started a two day ritual spell that once finished would drain the blood of all other living creatures on and surrounding the mountain to give as tribute to his evil blood god. Rudolph and his tribe “The Windrunners” wanted to warn the locals about this evil spell. I then had that each of the party members fit a character that was part of The Windrunner tribe legends as the Prophecy Warriors.

After defeating the evil deerfolk, the party had Rudolph lead them into the mountains towards his tribe. Rudolph explained that his village elder had a plan on how to stop the Warlord Santa Clawz. During the trip to the Windrunner Tribe they were attacked by Santa’s chosen thug/assassin…The Frozen One but also known as “Frosty the Snow Monster”. The party survived an avalanche caused by Frosty the Snow Monster. The party then fought off Frosty and his army of evil, small-sized snowmen who had sharp teeth. After the party realized that Frostys magical hat was the sourced of his power, the fight went smooth.

The party then met the head warrior of the Windrunners “Dasher”, who was badly burned during one of Santa’s torture rituals. After calming down Dasher about strangers being in their village, they were then introduced to their village elder/sage. The elder went over his plan and how he had made “arrangements” with someone within Warlord Santa Clawz’s Fortress known as“The North Spear”. They were given a blessing by the elder and set on their way that morning (Last day of the ritual!). The Windrunner tribe was leading an assault on the front of the fortress while the PCs + Rudolph did a stealth mission. They came to an older wave gate/portal that had not been used in a very long time. They met their contact from the fortress that was also Santa’s favored sex concubine…Ms. Clawz (Not her real name, just the title that was given to her). Ms. Clawz didn’t want to risk dying last the one before her and powered the portal that lead into the fortress.

The party was teleported into the bottom of The North Spear and worked their way up from the fortresses bottom. They traveled through Santa’s Torture Workshop and fought some evil little gnomes also known “Santa’s Little Helpers”. The Windrunner tribe had most of the attention of the North Spear fortress with their assault. The party moved up to the top tower to Santa’s Ritual Chamber for the final fight. They found that Santa was in the process of casting the spell that would drain all the blood of innocents and then use it as the final material to open a portal for a blood demon (a lot of this was homebrew FYI). The party was able to destroy the crystal orbs that were used as focus for the ritual, which caused Warlord Santa Clawz to be taken by the blood demon into its home portal. The party then celebrated with the Windrunner tribe for their defeat of the evil warlord and the heroes were legends in the tribe’s history.

My players were speechless how high adventure could work in a Christmas setting lol.

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