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Rolling dice with the holidays
> So, you want to run a holiday-themed adventure for your tabletop
> roleplaying game (RPG) campaign. Let’s skip ahead: yes, you really want to
> run one. No, you don’t care that they’re usually contrived and heavy-handed
> attempts to run a joke into the ground. Alas, you don’t have any other
> ideas right now – or, worse, you have this one killer idea, and you’re all
> agog to make your vision a reality. Have I summed it up properly?
>
> …
>
> Second… everybody’s done Halloween, everybody’s done Thanksgiving,
> everybody’s done Christmas. Maybe try a different holiday to mine for
> ideas? Easter may be cutting it a little too close to the bone for your
> more conventionally religious players (yes, we exist); but have you
> considered the roleplaying possibilities in, say, Arbor Day? That sounds
> like a reasonable holiday for something suitably druidic, particularly if
> there’s a rampage involved. Also, very few people get upset about a
> campaign messing about with the very idea of Arbor Day.
>
Via Instapundit [1], “Gaming Out the Holidays, and Why You Should Think Hard
Before Doing It | PJ Media [2]”
In all the years of playing an RPG (Role Playing Game) I don't think I ever
recall playing a holiday-themed adventure. And I've played in some very off-
the-wall RPGs over the years (piñata golems [3] anyone?).
[1]
http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/220075/
[2]
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2015/11/29/holiday-rpg
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem_(Dungeons_&_Dragons)
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