Today my latest one-page rpg is out! ONE PAGE HOLIDAY sees you trying to survive a horror holiday movie. Celebrate not just Xmas, but 12 different holidays. Get ready for a bloody good time! 🩸🩸🩸
The Feast of Saint Rakhbar, a feast day for a half-orc martyr at which volunteers are stripped down, oiled, and publicly flagellated to absolve the community of its sins. Locals insist it's not a kink thing. No one is quite sure what else it could be. The feast day also features footraces, incense mixing, and a whole roast aurochs.
Hellebore Night, a celebration of life taking place in spring the first evening after hellebore flowers bloom in the graveyards. During this time, celebrants take the name of a deceased loved one and make up their face and clothing to resemble a risen zombie. In some regions, the celebration lasts an entire week, although the costume is usually only worn at night.
HurdyFest, an annual three-day hurdy-gurdy music festival. It started off as a very indie event but it’s gotten really corporate in the last few years. It’s still popular with bards who are trying to garner fame, but most who try realize they’re being completely drowned out by some of the biggest names in the hurdy-gurdy business.
Libration, a holiday that hybridizes winemaking with prison abolition. It is celebrated on the anniversary of a riot that destroyed a massive penitentiary and liberated thousands of starved prisoners, but it also happens to line up with the season for crushing grapes for wine, so over the years the two events have merged into one decadent, hedonistic festival.
Remembrance Day, a national holiday recently established in memorial to a particularly successful military general, several generations ago, of whom the current monarch is a special fan but nobody else really cares about his historical importance. It features pyrotechnics and prestidigitation effects to simulate war, sort of generically, and cakes iced to look like a generic elven man since no one really knows what this general looked like.
Starstone’s Eve and Starstone, a celebration that occurs the night of, and the day after, a particularly impressive meteor shower each year in midsummer. On Starstone’s Eve, spectators stay up until the wee hours of the morning to watch the beautiful display. Starstone itself is considered a day of rest for most after the night’s festivities. However, for metalworkers, it is often a day of hard work tracking down bits of cooling meteorite to use as materials for their craft.
Harvestman’s Toll, a ritual day that occurs at the start of a period of prescribed burning, usually after a harvest or before planting season. Throughout the day, the people clear strips of land to act as a firebreak and meditate on their status as stewards of the land and sustainers of the community. To kick off the burn, celebrants dance and sing unaccompanied on the chaff left behind in their fields, scattering reserved seeds with wild abandon. Only after the dancing has ceased and the fields are empty do the celebrants ignite the burn.
A nameless tradition practiced on the day of the first hard freeze, on which all other activities cease in favor of preparing The Soup. The Soup is a recipe that varies from family to family, but generally involves a very large cauldron, a lot of water, and the addition of any ingredient that won’t last until spring or which feels weather-appropriate. The Soup is eaten by the household, shared with visitors, and eventually foisted on passersby when the household gets sick of eating it. Fortunately, you can always visit a friend’s house to have a different variety of The Soup.
Deck the halls (of your imagination)! Bell's End is the ultimate TTRPG winter wonderland. 🔔 This festive cityscape includes a massive 56x34 map, a huge roster of charming NPCs, and holiday fun. What are you waiting for? ⛄
Petition to make December 20 (aka D20) a new holiday, Yule for Initiative
In which we celebrate our friends, chosen family, and party members by playing TTRPGs rather than spending time with the blood relatives we kind of loathe as part of a religious observation we don't actually believe in
- almost nothing except basic DnD combat&characters knowledge, and I tried to avoid spoilers
- karlach x wyll is a ship the fandom is sleeping on
yeah, couldn't keep my hands to myself and checked out their story and how are people missing out on them? Oh, well, at the very least they are amazing BFFs, have personal stories very much tied to each other, and have great dynamic between the two. I am just choosing to see all of that through the shipping glasses, but lemme tell you, they enhance the show a lot