Xmas D&D

Old Hob

Old Hob

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Hi folks. Not an Oldhammer post per se, but I figured someone on here would be able to help.

The kids play 5e D&D with their mates (separate parties) and have requested a family game over the Xmas holidays. Obviously, I am happy to oblige and even Mrs Hob is going to play! Anyway, I've said I'll DM (although I'll need to learn those new fangled rules - Red Box era was my jam).

Can anyone point me in the direction of a low level scenario online? Preferably something lighthearted and a bit knockabout which we could get through in a couple of sessions. And for free would also be nice. I'd really appreciated any help with this. Cheers.
 
Not a Creature Was Stirring and The Darkest Night are both Christmas themed very short adventures (you can choose to pay £0). Neither is going to win awards and both are journey to the monster, bash the monster when it boils down to it (so I'd get them and read them before deciding if you want to donate for them!). A local friend did them with his kids some years back and mentioned them to me so I've got them in my RPG folder. Looking through my links if you want an "evil" scenario then The Night Before Wintermas might suit (you're hired by the bad guys to stop Santa in essence), I did that with friends years back as a Christmas pub outing with friends and I seem to recall it was amusing. Anyhow I expect some of the RPG sites will have lists up of such things.
 
Eric said:
Not a Creature Was Stirring and The Darkest Night are both Christmas themed very short adventures (you can choose to pay £0). Neither is going to win awards and both are journey to the monster, bash the monster when it boils down to it (so I'd get them and read them before deciding if you want to donate for them!). A local friend did them with his kids some years back and mentioned them to me so I've got them in my RPG folder. Looking through my links if you want an "evil" scenario then The Night Before Wintermas might suit (you're hired by the bad guys to stop Santa in essence), I did that with friends years back as a Christmas pub outing with friends and I seem to recall it was amusing. Anyhow I expect some of the RPG sites will have lists up of such things.
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Awesome. They sound just the ticket. Thanks @Eric .
 
I've had 'Getting away from most of it' on my must do one day list for years. It's a AD&D tournament game from White Dwarf 93 for level 2-4 characters with five pre-gens (druid, fighter, magic user, paladin & thief). It is holiday though not Xmas themed.
 
Old Hob said:
The kids will definitely want to go Dark if I know them. :)
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Well you'll need to buff up the characters a bit if you do that last one as it's designed for Level 5 characters (our DM had just generated some characters for us since it was a one-off game). The basic rules are available online for free, which given the Player's handbook is about £40 these days is probably no bad thing for a one-off, so you could probably use that to do some pre-generation. Although I expect there are lots of pre-generated characters and character generators online. I kinda stopped playing AD&D with 2nd edition and these days (ha if I ever find the time) my main motivation would be WFRP 1st so I can't offer much 5E advice!
 
I've downloaded the Night Before Wintermas - murdering a demonically possessed Santa on behalf of a tobacco company is perfect. Nice one.
 
Eric said:
Well you'll need to buff up the characters a bit if you do that last one as it's designed for Level 5 characters (our DM had just generated some characters for us since it was a one-off game). The basic rules are available online for free, which given the Player's handbook is about £40 these days is probably no bad thing for a one-off, so you could probably use that to do some pre-generation. Although I expect there are lots of pre-generated characters and character generators online. I kinda stopped playing AD&D with 2nd edition and these days (ha if I ever find the time) my main motivation would be WFRP 1st so I can't offer much 5E advice!
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Youngest got the players manual for their birthday. I was going to put them in charge of rolling up characters for everyone. If it looks like they're all about to die I'll probably just cheat. Well, it is Wintermas after all.
 
The pull of D&D 5E, I'd been trying to steer mine towards Advanced Fighting Fantasy given the system is much simpler, but in their eye's 5E is where the street cred is ;)

It's been so long since I really did any serious D&D I don't quite remember how advancement worked, idly searching just now I have just found https://fastcharacter.com/ which generates characters. Maybe you could compare some 1st to 5th and then just wing a few buffs after they have rolled up their characters rather than pouring over the "actual rules". Although as you say in a friendly game half the fun is the cinematic stupidity of things just "magically working", zip line heroics using a dandy cane on the wire, that kind of thing.
 
Eric said:
The pull of D&D 5E, I'd been trying to steer mine towards Advanced Fighting Fantasy given the system is much simpler, but in their eye's 5E is where the street cred is ;)

It's been so long since I really did any serious D&D I don't quite remember how advancement worked, idly searching just now I have just found https://fastcharacter.com/ which generates characters. Maybe you could compare some 1st to 5th and then just wing a few buffs after they have rolled up their characters rather than pouring over the "actual rules". Although as you say in a friendly game half the fun is the cinematic stupidity of things just "magically working", zip line heroics using a dandy cane on the wire, that kind of thing.
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It's been a loooong time since I played RPGs regularly (D&D, Judge Dredd, Cyberpunk) and I think we mostly just made it up as we went along anyhow.
 
I did my main RPGing at university (although some Advanced FF before that), given it was exponentially harder to have a collection of miniatures around than to have some books and dice on the shelf whilst at Uni. Then on and off ever since, although with "life" in the way only ever in little bits (much to my shame I'm still trying to GM a game here, but have totally failed to find time even after a full year!). Back in the day it was mostly WFRP, AD&D 2nd, Vampire the Masquerade, SLA Industries and Paranoia with a smattering of LARPs thrown in for good measure!
 
Never played any D&D… have recently got back into occasional oneshot games online and at MORPCon. My games were WFRP, FF, CoC and the Vampire games back at school.

Hope the games go well with your family! :grin:
 
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