The Dungeon Before Christmas

[ThirstyStirge]

What holiday-themed monsters, traps, tricks would you put in a Christmassy dungeon?
Obvs, the BBEG would be the evil Old Elf himself surrounded by his dire reindeer minions. (I wonder what diabolical toys the Drow make...)

[bobjester]

I'd have to think longer & harder for actual dungeon stuffers, but as for diabolical drow toys...

Drider pull-toy constructs.

Riding lizard sweaters.

Mind Flayer collectable bobble-heads.

Pin the poison dart in Drizz't's heart game.

Artificial Fungi tree, now with Continual Faerie Fire lights.

Spider Webbing tree tinsel.

Beholder, Kuo-Tou & Umber Hulk tree ornaments set.

Demon Queen of the tree-topper Lolth ornament.

Baby's first sacrificial ritual play-set, with real obsidian bladed dagger. Sacrificial slave not included.

...and the number one drow gift for the Lolth - Our Lady of the Demon Web Pits holiday season is...

a Free Assassination of the Rival Noble House Matriarch gift card! (only 100pp value cards currently accepted. No trade-in for monetary value or refunds allowed, gift card expires 30 days after purchase.)

[T. Foster]

That's pretty much what this thing is, right? Not to say you can't make another one of your own, but it's probably worth at least taking a look at this one before devoting a lot of effort to reinventing the wheel...

[Juju EyeBall]

Cursed Mistletoe
Coal of Fireballs
Stockings of Holding
Gingerbread Golem
Figgy Pudding

[austinjimm]

What holiday-themed monsters, traps, tricks would you put in a Christmassy dungeon

That's pretty much what this thing is, right? Not to say you can't make another one of your own, but it's probably worth at least taking a look at this one before devoting a lot of effort to reinventing the wheel...

Yes! Quite an array of new Christmassy magic, monsters and traps in HG1. I have to run right now, but I'll try to put together a PDF of the new monsters from HG1 later tonight.

[austinjimm]

Here's a PDF of the New Monsters & Magic sections of Module HG1:

http://freepdfhosting.com/ae68c665d5.pdf

Feel free to copy and share this file if you want. And-- by all means!-- feel free to use any of this stuff in your home D&D Christmas adventures.

[Cloak n' Dagger]

Mimics that look liked gift wrapped boxes.
Cookies and Milk of Healing
Jack Frost the Cryomancer
Goblin Grinch

[francisca]

Here's a PDF of the New Monsters & Magic sections of Module HG1:

http://freepdfhosting.com/ae68c665d5.pdf

Feel free to copy and share this file if you want. And-- by all means!-- feel free to use any of this stuff in your home D&D Christmas adventures.

Thanks man! Merry Christmas to you and yours!

[ghendar]

The PCs enter a room and see.....

A plain metal pole. (The Festivus Pole) - This plain metal (it's aluminum but how could the PCs possibly know that) pole radiates magic. When viewed it forces PCs to make a save or suffer one of the following effects. (roll 1d4 for each PC who fails the save)

1 - Feats of Strength. PC(s) chooses another PC, henchman, hirelings, etc at random in the party and attempts to wrestle him/her/it to the ground.
2 - Airing of Greviences. The PC(s) loudly begins to berate and criticize all other members of the party one by one. 30% chance the PC doing the berating loses their train of thought and the effect ends.
3 - Rain Blows on another PC. Run up to another party member and begin to pound on him/her/it with fists. 75% chance of destroying one non magical, soft item such as an item of clothing, or belt pouch, etc
4 - PC will donate all carried monetary wealth to the first non-party member he/she sees, and declare it vocally to the creature to be a gift on behalf of the Human Fund, Money For People. This will not take effect until they see a non-party member. When this happens, the PC(s) will stop, dig out all monetary wealth, approach the creature and give him/her/it the wealth. 50% chance of confusing said creature enough to prevent it from performing any action for 1-2 (1d4-2) rounds.

All effects (except #4 which is instantaneous) last 3-6 rounds (1d4+2) and have a 75% chance of attracting wandering monsters.