D&D: Add Some Holiday Cheer With The D&D Holiday Specials
Add some holiday and gaming cheer to your life with a new batch of holiday-themed D&D games featuring some familiar casts of your favorite characters.
Holiday Specials invoke a time of wintry coziness, even if you live in a part of the world where the temperature doesn’t really get below 60 degrees until the dead of midnight in January. They’re a sort of genre all to themselves. You can count on things being generally cheery, with maybe some comic mishaps, and unless you’re watching the rare incredible special that genuinely plays with storytelling or breaks new ground, you can relax because they’re safe.
So it seems only fitting that D&D would be thrown into the mix. After all, if you can have high school comedy D&D, pirate D&D, noir D&D and beyond, surely you can have Christmas D&D, which is exactly what Wizards of the Coast has planned over the next month with four different D&D holiday specials. Odds are good someone is going to want to be a dentist, despite being an adventurer. Let’s check them out.
via Wizards of the Coast
27 November: 671 Easthaven Avenue
Kicking off our season of Holiday Specials is the first of two pre-recorded games from the UK. Can this group of petty bandits earn membership into a thieves’ guild by stealing a house on the outskirts of Easthaven? Go easy on the potions!
How to Watch
Watch on the D&D YouTube channel from 5pm GMT (9am Pacific, noon Eastern) on Friday, November 27.
- English-language subtitles available
- Family-friendly
- Please Note: This game was recorded in person (before the current UK lockdown), following strict COVID-19 social distancing precautions.
4 December: Comic Relief Plays D&D Episode 2
After our first stream with Comic Relief earlier this year raised an amazing £25,000 for COVID-19 support, we’re delighted to be working with them once more to bring you an all-new group of British comedians playing D&D for charity, LIVE.
Again, you will be able to influence their adventure through your donations, so please give if you can at comicrelief.com/dnd. Expect hilarious, unscripted chaos, and maybe even a special guest phone call or two should they hit their donation goals!
How to Watch
Watch LIVE at twitch.tv/dnd from 7.30pm GMT (11:30am Pacific, 2:30pm Eastern) on Friday, December 4.
- May feature adult language
11 December: 40 Stories of Adventure
Can this band of heroes successfully deliver more drinks to a Wintershield celebration in a Wizard’s tower? Welcome to the party, pals!
How to Watch
Watch on the D&D YouTube channel from 5pm GMT (9am Pacific, noon Eastern) on Friday, December 11.
- English-language subtitles available
- Family-friendly
- Please Note: This game was recorded in person (before the current UK lockdown), following strict COVID-19 social distancing precautions.
12 December: Acquisitions Incorporated
Dragons, Dungeons & other sources of mayhem await the trusty adventurers of Acquisitions Incorporated. Battles, betrayals, and over-ambitious KPIs await seasoned (and lightly marinated) heroes, led by the merciful and not at all terrifying Jeremy Crawford as the Dungeon Master.
How to Watch
Watch on the Penny Arcade YouTube channel from 3pm PT (11pm GMT/10am AEDT) on Saturday, December 12.
- May feature adult language
Happy Adventuring!
