The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is a delightful story by L. Frank Baum with an intriguing mythos. Rankin-Bass produced a claymation adaptation, which is where Katie and Jonny first discovered it. There have been a few other incarnations as well, including a Japanese anime.
Jonny always thought it would serve pretty well as a fantasy RPG setting, so when Katie suggested a one-shot game based on it, he heartily agreed. There will be two “adventuring parties” if you will- the immortals of the forest of Burzee, and the children of the laughing valley of Hohaho. Katie will act as a storyteller for the children, and Jonny for the immortals. The two groups will have separate adventures leading up to a unified finale. We will have pre-generated characters. We’ll be using the Reign system, which is based on the One-Roll Engine.
(Note from Ross: I was a player in this game but I forgot the names of all of the players. If you were there, post in the comments and I’ll update it.)
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Actually that is one of my FAVORITE Christmas shows.
I loved this show. I particularly enjoyed both styles of conflict resolution. I noticed the group GM’d by the woman with the wonderful voice roleplayed their characters really well once they got into it. And the other group that included Ross had a very aggressive “kick ass” style of game play. Great show guys! I’m looking forward to the next one!
Another good show. I think that this would be a good campaign setting to be honest. was there some kind of problem on the kids end thought, i only got part of what is a larger story i think.
Here’s a cast list:
Kids:
Sadie Carter
Matthew Ackerman
Dan McDowell
Immortals:
Gabe Taylor
Bill Sundwall
Ross Payton
Alisha Philips
I think that’s all!
I need a setting help for the play the life and adventures of santa claus