This was purfect! Only thing was that it was not really for 1st-2nd but it still worked.

A fantasticly fun OneShot that is well worth whatever you decide to pay for it.

It is also a great adventure to get people in to the game!

Ran this for a group of children aged 6-9, with appropriately flavored characters (a Reindeer monk, a snowman fighter, a Christmas elf wizard, Sugarplum fairy cleric, gingerbread man barbarian). They had an absolute blast. There's a lot of room to play around, there's a few fun surprises here and there, and the last battle is quite satisfying.

Just a note that this adventure is supposed to be levels 1-5, but many of the encounters are far, far, too easy for a level 5 party, even the last one, and will need to be scaled up a lot to make them of appropriate difficulty. I'd suggest running this at level 2-3 and maybe scaling down the final fight a little bit and it would probaby work fine.

I ran this as a holiday one shot and my players loved it. It was funny and so fun to play.

I ran this one-shot for some festive fun as a public library program for teens; they got a real kick out of it! I think there were great notes about scaling the difficulty of the adventure, and decided to let the players present add any magical items they recieved from Santa's gifts to their inventory. The side missions to help elves almost felt like sidequests, and I loved using a witchy voice while DMing and playing Eldara. The teen's eyes grew huge when the Santa Claus became Claws, and one of the parents said their teen talked about the adventure for several days after. It was easy to run and very engaging.

I really enjoyed this one! I ran it with a group over the Christmas holiday. Having all the maps was amazing, it was clever and well written. Thank you for a fun adventure!

I downloaded this for free and played it with my group over the Christmas break. We all had a blast! It's a fun little Christmas adventure that we finished in one night. The entire adventrue took us a little more than 5 hours and I did not do all the battle encounters. I just went in a bought it because it was well worth the $4.00 (I'm Canadian)! Thanks for a fun evening.

I have yet to dm the one shot but this is about setting it up before the players get in the picture. Its very detailed in the discription of things and even though the story in details could use a bit of work for the most part i enjoy that eldara is an invisible villan it adds some tension. But now i have a little issue that i think cold be solved either with re writing this one part or adding another map/adding more detail to the one alreay made. specifically page ten 8a. the locked stairway door it says that the door out is blocked and a dc15 investigation check will unlock the door theres no issue with that. the issue comes where if they fail "if all the party fail their checks the locked door bursts open" they fight the monsters win and then it states that the key they recieves opens the 2 locked doors and the door that the monsters came out of. i was under the impression that one of the doors was the entrence and spent 5 minutes trying to find out what was the other door. I think an easy way to fix this is by labling the stairway 8a and then adding one other door to show the entrence to the room. i know 2 people who gotten confused by this too so its not just me.

Pretty decent module. I definitely prefer it over the "Not a creature was stirring" module I also bought, but did not run primarily because it had some strange bad guy I doubted the players would be invested in. Surely they'd want to rescue Santa!!! And it wouldn't be hard for them to imagine the North Pole.

I was running if for level 1 players. I took some liberties and made the final villain The Grinch instead of the sister of Santa, . Found a version of the Grinch for 5e online somewhere, gave him onion poison breath as his primary weapon and he escapes down the trash chute when his HP get below half.

If I ran it again, I'd probably make some kind of immediate attack when the sled lands at the north pole to get the attention of the players from the outset.

Played this as a Christmas one shot for my friends. I had them do a secret santa to make each others characters which was a big hit!

The theme of the monsters, the items and saving Chritsmas was very fun. BJ Keeton is really good at making the monsters and items. But I found that this adventure lacked in certain ways. This one shot is very combat heavy, I would have appreciated some puzzles or riddles. So I recommend doing what I did and change some of the doors to locked through Christmas riddles.

SPOILERS

The story line did not make much sense, the reveal of who is doing this and why only comes up through the rambling of some monsters during the story, the design of a key(?) or at the end once the day is saved through Santa's monologue. I wish there was greater understanding in motivations. To give more context I ended up changing the jack and the box room to a library with the jack and the box so that I could include family record books to explain who the villan was and her relation to Santa. The final fight had fun elements but the way that death of the "villan" seems to be the solution makes for a pretty dark ending to a Christmas story. I know non lethal damage is a thing but my players forgot and its hard to describe an swinging for 15 damage to someone with 2 hp left in a way that would not be gruesome. In the end my players had killed her and Christmas was "saved" but it felt awkward. Since the whole, she gave up her birthright by being an independed woman who wanted to explore the world, gives a bad message and made my players question if Santa was actually the bad guy all along. I think if it was not his sister but instead an evil monster the story would have more to stand on and the players could feel better of what they had done.

Final thing... Mrs. Claus is given a first name? I thought maybe it was going to be relevant to the story or from history. But it seems as though that is not the case so I do not understand why it was put in there. Maybe I missed something.

Edit based on reply I had a hunch that Ms Claus had been given a name to make her a more fleshed out character. I think it is great to give woman a personality beyond the notion of them being a wife. I hope you can find a way ingrain that into the story, possibly through dialog, motivations and other relations. I am looking foward to the updates you will make, I will try to run this again next year!

Had a lot of Jolly laughs and a super good time with this ine shot. definitely recommend for a holiday intermission in any campaign

A+++++++! my first time dming and it was great the party enjoyed it very much and we all had a very good time playingplayingthoroughly recommend this one shot as it was easy to figure out andThismmanand allows a lot of room for creativity in terms for your own ideas

Wonderful one-shot for the holidays. Christmassy, but still a solid D&D adventure.

This was som much fun. My Family still talks about this as one of the best sessions we have played.

Never DMed before. This is a great intro to that nightmarish world.