My party really enjoyed this oneshot - it's lighthearted fun and they really enjoyed the rhyming narration. The questions about the characters' history and different versions of their lives integrated into the introduction were really fun as well. The stat blocks for the enemies have some nice flavour.

It's heaviest on the combat pillar - there's very little exploration, and the social pillar is a bit light as well, though a party that leans heavily into roleplay will find the opportunity to do that. But because of this it's pretty easy to keep to time - my party tend to overrun, but we comfortably completed this within about 3 and a bit hours. If your party are more efficient or you're looking to fill a longer slot, I recommend running the combat with Missile-Toes, which my party avoided with roleplay instead.

One thing I felt was missing was some consequences for failing the skill checks for repairing the sleigh or when delivering the toys at the end - my party didn't succeed on either of the checks to repair the sleigh (and the DCs can be a little steep if you're running for lower-level parties), so I ended up improvising having a party member make checks at the end of each round to keep control of the sleigh and some mishaps that could occur if they were unsuccessful, but it's not a major complaint.

Overall, this was pretty much exactly what I had wanted out of a free festive oneshot, and the description being written in rhyme made it really memorable. My party really enjoyed themselves.

I ran this one twice with different groups over the holiday break. I liked the rhyming narration - though it was a bit hard when I had to ad-lib because then I had to think up rhymes to keep things going. The only real critique I have is it would have been nice to have some more stats for Van Grump's sled since I had a party attack the sled rather than the wizard as their opening move and I wasn't prepared for it. Otherwise a great experience, thank you!

Have run this scenario today. Players were very excited! They admired poetic narration and funny storyline and asked more such games :) 5/5, no doubts!

This is a great Holiday-themed run filled with exceptional narritive, ryhme, and cheeky puns.

We had a blast keeping the storybook rhyming/double entendre going in there action description and dialogue, with inspiration for especially good ones. A sure way to bring laughter to any session. Watch out for those Nasty HumBugs!

Ran this for my group as a oneshot. I had a blast running it and they loved playing it. The read-aloud text was, for once, a huge hit. Was easy to prepare, too! Would have loved some suggested VTT maps, but I found a few that worked well pretty easily. Loved that it was free! But I would have paid a few buck to run it, anyway!

We just finshed running this and had a blast. The group included my wife and 11 year-old daughter, and they both loved it. Nice balance of action and story, with a clever approach using the poem to guide us through the adventure. I toned down the violence and the one instance of 'language' for the daughter, easy enough to achieve. Our characters are at the upper end of the range the adventure is scaled for, and were able to easily defeat the foes, though one or two characters took their licks. Some good supporting characters and adversaries. Very easy to prep on the DM side. Nicely done!

There's a lot of great content here and I appreciate the work gone into it. However, the information architecture could use some improvements. It could benefit from:

• defined callouts to denote what should be read aloud (as opposed to inconsitent text fonts)
• better adventure hooks
• defined section about who the kids are, approx ages, what they know, and where they're from. The kids names are defined in one small paragraph, the ages are defined in prose several paragraphs down, and where they're from/heading to is defined on the next page

In general, I would probably give this more stars if it improved the information architecture.

This is great! The fun Christmas theme works really well, and it's really easy to follow as a DM - I loved the colour coding! Totally recommend this, all the players had a lot of fun.

My players really liked this one. Some features felt a little OP, but even my only-spellcasters party made it through. Kind of passed the thought the final encounter might've been too easy if there were some non-spellcasters, but when scaling it to children-friendly, I don't think it's understandable, so full 5/5!

If anyone is looking for a fun quick 3ish hour Christmas adventure, The Toymaker and the Bag of Gifting is a lot of fun!

Super fun and challenging. Played as a player character. Super clever and a great way to get into the holiday spirit.

This is really fun. The rhyming in the descriptions/flavor copy really adsa christmas flavor to everything. There are some celver puns hidden throughout that made our players laugh. The final fight is fun and has a lot of oppurunity for unique spell/ability usage.

Another great adventure from Dale.