Holiday One-Shot Special

This Holiday One-Shot Special takes place aboard The Wandering Tavern. A colossal island-sized airship campaign setting inspired by the works of Studio Ghibli.

No need to worry if you don’t have it, this exciting adventure can be used with or without the 200+ page Wandering Tavern Setting Guide.

The 20+ page PDF for this Holiday One-Shot includes:

• A step-by-step guide to running this festive adventure
• Brand-New “Naughty or Nice” Mechanics
• Brand-New Dance Off Downtime Activity/Mechanic
• 3 Festive NPCs
• 4 Magical Items
• Yummy Seasonal Cookie Recipe
• System Agnostic Stat Blocks for creatures/NPCs encountered on this adventure

How this Holiday One-Shot came to be:

Earlier this year, HaTD launched the Wandering Tavern setting via crowdfunding on Kickstarter.
It was written by Emily Harrison and Bodhi Kambouris.
From here Emily has her own story to tell…
“Getting to show this book to my mom was amazing. She loved it, but has never played a TTRPG before and didn’t quite get it. I thought, running a one-shot for my family when I get home this Christmas would help introduce her to my world.”

So Emily got to work on my Wandering Tavern Holiday One-Shot Special.

“I wanted to get my whole family interested and engrossed in a holiday themed adventure that ties into the world that I wrote with Bodhi. I created 3 new NPCs that I knew would be fun for my family to bounce off in their roleplay. Bodhi’s mom Tracy helped me come up with a Holiday Cookie Tray Bake that I could whip up with my mom. Eventually, I realised that this idea might appeal to the wider TTRPG community as well.”

In the HaTD office, it was full steam ahead working on our next project (Scorched Basin).

“I am having a lot of fun writing Scorched Basin alongside Bodhi, but we don’t have much time at work for anything else. Taking things into my own hands, I wrote the holiday one-shot, to a publishable standard, in my spare time at home as a secret project. I decided to include Tracy’s amazing recipe in the one-shot for other people to bake and use as one of the 4 new magical items in this one-shot.”

While coming up with ideas make this adventure more festive, Emily invented “Naughty or Nice” Mechanics.

“These will reveal the players’ true nature and give players some very real consequences for their actions. Don’t get me wrong these aren’t there to simply punish “naughty” behaviour or reward “nice” behaviour, but rather to give the players a world that responds to their roleplaying choices and makes it more fun to lean into your character’s chosen morality or lack there of.”

“When I finally showed it to the HaTD Team, everybody was blown away and wanted to get behind it! I was over the moon of course.”

Alek (art.of.caustic) our long time friend and artist, even created some artwork for it.

“I’m so excited to run this for my family and watch their faces light up when I make the big reveal.”

We really hope you all have an amazing Christmas/Holiday Season whatever you choose to celebrate.

We know we will 😉

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