Happy Holiday TTRPG Adventuring!

It’s Christmas, so mix it up with some holiday-themed adventures for D&D and Pathfinder!

Dungeons & Dragons 5e

• D&D 5e Holiday Adventure – The Darkest Night – Tribality
  The Darkest Night is a holiday-themed adventure where players battle an ancient evil to save Krinklefest. For four 1st-level characters.
• Santa Claus & Buddy the Elf Stats
  Why not brew up some eggnog, put on your elf hat, get the movie streaming, and play along with your own 5e version of ‘Elf’.
• The Nutcracker – DM’s Guild
  The Nutcracker is a classic Christmas tale of magic, mystery and sugar plums for 5th level. A retelling of an 1816 German story by E.T.A Hoffman.
• Bag of Krampus – Ultanya
  Legend holds that Krampus captures terribly naughty children in his bag and then takes them to his lair.
• Solstice Shenanigans: A Wintry One Shot – DM’s Guild
  The Winter Games are in full swing on the demiplane controlled by the powerful archfey lord of winter, Jack Frost. Games and challenges await the players, along with a baker’s terrible mistake and a bout of mysteriously disappearing trees!
• Not a Creature was Stirring – DM’s Guild
  Helpful and fun for beginners, this Christmas-themed adventure was created for new DMs and new players.
• The Christmas Heist – DM’s Guild
  Assemble your heist team and steal the naughty and nice list from Santa’s icy fortress.
• How The Lich Stole Christmas – DM’s Guild
  Save the missing children and the day from Christmas swiping Lich.
• Claus for Concern – DM’s Guild
  Oh, no! Santa has been bamboozled! Something is wrong in the toy factory, and the workshop is overrun with frosty foes, wintry wrongdoers, and North Pole ne’er-do-wells. A team of Santa’s elves manages to escape the workshop warzone and recruit a party of adventurers to take back Toyland.

Pathfinder

• Krampus Christmas Carnival – Kobold Press
  3 part adventure available for free. Kobald says, “The first Krampus in our collection lurks within the Pathfinder system.” (search for “Krampus” for all three parts)

Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition

• Santa Claus Monster Stats (PDF) – Wizards of the Coast  –(Thank you, Wayback Machine!)
  Stats for Santa and his helpers – straight from the horse’s mouth.
• Christmas Elves – D&D Wiki
  Just the thing when you have a LOT of presents to deliver and not a lot of time.

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