Holiday: The Shattered Cheer
Four kingdoms. Fractured traditions. A world worth saving.
An original fantasy tabletop roleplaying campaign designed for the 2024 fifth-edition rules.
Currently in development
The Premise
The world of Holiday was once united by shared traditions, celebrations, and the bonds between its kingdoms.
During the Festival of Eternal Cheer, something goes terribly wrong. The four Great Kingdoms begin to change, old tensions resurface, and the connections holding Holiday together start to unravel.
As the crisis spreads, the player characters must venture into the kingdoms of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year to uncover what happened. Along the way, their choices will shape the fate of the kingdoms and determine what can be restored.
The Journey
Each of Holiday's four Great Kingdoms faces a different crisis, challenging the player characters to confront what happens when the purpose of celebration becomes distorted.
Halloween
Fear & Courage
A kingdom caught in the belief that fear is the only thing keeping its people safe.
Thanksgiving
Scarcity & Plenty
A land where abundance has become control, hoarding, and hunger.
Christmas
Control & Wonder
A realm where wonder is increasingly measured, recorded, engineered, and enforced.
New Year
Certainty & Renewal
A kingdom trapped between the desire to know the future and the need to allow something new to begin.
Choices That Matter
The alliances formed, decisions made, and consequences faced throughout the four kingdoms carry forward into the campaign's conclusion.
Designed for the Table
Holiday: The Shattered Cheer is a full-length fantasy tabletop roleplaying campaign designed for the 2024 fifth-edition rules.
The campaign features Minor Holiday Sparks, original playable species and character options, distinctive challenges across four kingdoms, and player decisions whose consequences carry forward throughout the adventure.
The published campaign is being developed with Game Masters in mind, with an emphasis on clear guidance, practical adventure preparation, and the flexibility to respond to the choices players make at the table.
Whimsy with a Darker Edge
Holiday combines whimsical holiday fantasy with darker themes of fear, scarcity, authoritarian control, loss, grief, and supernatural horror.
The holiday realms are original fantasy interpretations inspired by familiar celebrations, with their own cultures, conflicts, and traditions.
Currently in Development
Holiday: The Shattered Cheer is currently undergoing editorial development as BooneBerry Press refines the campaign's story, player options, and Game Master materials.
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