How To Run A Successful Festival
Added 2016-05-26 12:53:49 +0000 UTCFestivals are staple of the fantasy genre, and this article from Jeff Gomez presents over a dozen festival games to spice up your game world. With festival sizes ranging from a village to a worldwide event, and contests including Bop the Rat, Coal Holder, Shot for Shot, and Ring the Bell, your PCs will easily spend an hour or two exploring the show! Illustrated by Ellis Goodson.
Comments
This one was well before my time, but I imagine that it's not intended to be exclusively for PCs with that feat. You might let adventurers make an ability check using rope to get the pin, or some kind of teamwork tactics using cantrips and subtle spells, or other roleplaying solutions instead should nobody in the party have that feat or any similar mechanical access to mundane pinning.
Mike Myler
2022-04-19 11:54:49 +0000 UTCI really like these, but is Catch the Pig supposed to be unwinnable without the Grappler feat? You need it to even try to pin someone in 5e (which seems silly, but that's how the rules work).
Jeff Potato
2022-04-18 15:03:42 +0000 UTCStarting this tomorrow.
Bill French
2016-06-18 00:52:47 +0000 UTCI think this is a great idea, and I'm thinking of starting a new adventure for a mixture of beginner and advanced players at level 1. To get the beginners used to various rolls and tests. The adventure will ultimately take a turn when a couple of thieves steal something, and from there lead into a different adventure. It makes a fresh change to starting an adventure in an inn or palace.
Robin Lees
2016-06-17 15:11:55 +0000 UTCA really handy article for a GM to have on hand for trips to town. Doesn't even need to be full festival. Can get some of these going as tavern games etc. Some could have had more than win/lose or added levels of difficulty, like competitors going for the greased pig. Some do, like arm wrestling, I really like how you need 2 in a row to will. Can go back and forth that way. Has some obvious items, whist other obvious ones are not there (like archery), but that was an article on its own from memory. Prizes are fairly mundane too, but that can be easily adjusted with a roll on the Trinkets Table from PHB ;) Very handy article and the type I really like as a GM. :)
Evil GM
2016-06-01 06:56:12 +0000 UTCHi, I have a problem printing this. The first page is blank, but everything else is printed. Is there a flattening issue with page 1 or is it just my printer being stupid?
Trond
2016-06-01 06:06:59 +0000 UTCMore like this, maybe some tavern games.
J.M.L.
2016-05-27 06:05:47 +0000 UTC
