Need ideas for holiday scenarios

[sespe]

The scenario is complete, all good-guy warbands complete.  I'm waiting on making the teddy-graham bad guys until right before the game.  But as a teaser, here is the Big Evil Bad Guy:  Santa With Muscles

[von Lucky]

Hilarious.

[housealdwell]

I just posted both the rules and pictures of the snowmen that my family will be using for our Christmas game.  This years battle is a snowball fight between the minions of the Rat King who are raiding one of Santa's pre-positioned gift depots and a village of snow people nearby who attempt to fight them off.  Using snowballs, of course! 

You'll note in the rules that while the "naughty" rats get the first turn (by cheating) they are actually prevented from winning the game.  This is a feature of all of our Christmas games -- the bad guys never win!  Even if they win, they lose. :-)

I'll be posting an AAR shortly -- we're using GW skaven for the Rat King's forces and the snow-people we made ourselves out of Fimo clay.  That was a stroke of brilliance on my part - two family oriented activities out of one game!

Link to the rules via my website: http://colony13.blogspot.com/2015/12/christmas-game-2015-snowball-alley.html

Best,
Nick

[sespe]

I'm going to have to check the rules on my laptop, the tablet wouldn't download them.  I like the 2 for 1 crafts idea! 

Tonight I made the minions that will be helping Santa With Muscles:



There is something delightfully evil about toasting the little teddy graham feet over the fire and then melting them into the chocolate!

Olaf the snowman was supposed to have a spell that creates a wall.  Since he was into "summer", I wanted him to make a wall of beach umbrellas.  But a search through 4 dollar stores tonight didn't find any.  I need to change his ability at the last second...

[sespe]

Finally played the game on New Year's Eve. Much less movement and spellcasting than I expected.  And I have never had a kid say, "no thanks, I've eaten enough chocolate" before!

Writeup and scenario rules here:  http://wanderingview.blogspot.com/2016/01/christmas-game-part-1.html


(Spoiler alert:  Christmas was saved)

The heroes and their helpers:


The battlefield at the start.  That was a lot of bad teddy bears!


Next?  I'm thinking Frostgrave for Easter...

[von Lucky]

Nice one - you couldn't have planned it to be more Hollywood.