Home Kobolds

Devise Rube Goldberg-esque traps to inflict horrific comic violence in this parody retelling of the classic holiday movie Home Alone.

In the spirit of Christmas, this title is Pay What You Want. Who will you choose to be?

Santa Claus. You see the ridiculous $12.25 (get it?) suggested price and say to yourself, “Ho Ho Ho! It’s been quite a year! Why not make it $20.21?” 

Bob Cratchit. You toil long hours, so you understand fair pay for fair labor. Let’s be honest, this thing is worth maybe two bucks. If hardship won’t allow spending on such a frivolity, consider this my gift to you, although Tiny Tim tugs at the tail of your tattered jacket. “Father cough cough surely we can spare a shilling ($0.25 USD) so the download counts towards Best Seller Metals.” 

Ebenezer Scrooge. You have more than enough, but why let others pick your pocket? You put a big fat 0 and download it here because it’s even easier than piracy. It should be on Midwinter that one drinks to the health of such an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling person!

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As your adventuring party relax at an inn or tavern around the time of the Midwinter holiday, they are approached by a kobold who offers to share a tale of Midwinter adventure.

A tribe of kobolds had taken up residence in the old dilapidated mansion of a fishing industry magnate. In honor of the gaudy trophy mounted above the fireplace, the kobolds dubbed their home The Silver Tuna. 

Every year, the tribe would travel to a large Midwinter festival. This particular year, however, a number of the kobolds had been quite naughty and the tribe concocted a reason to leave them behind. A pair of bandits calling themselves the “Wealth Enrichment Troupe” had become active in the area, robbing homes, haunts, and hideouts while their occupants were away.

The Silver Tuna kobolds used the threat of the WET bandits as an excuse to leave the naughty kobolds behind to guard the mansion, making a show of dubbing them the “Kobold Emergency Vanguard of Immediate Necessity.”

The KEVIN kobolds were more than happy to see the rest of the family gone. After all, the others were just a bunch of big jerks who were always picking on them.

When the WET bandits arrive looking to score the silver tuna, your players each take on the role of one of the KEVIN kobolds, devising clever traps to impede the bandits’ progress. After all, it’s their home—they have to defend it!