Adventure Calendar 2021 18: Warhammer

Adventure Calendar 2021

18: Warhammer

The Old World of Warhammer Fantasy is not our history, so its holidays are not our historical holidays. But they also sort of are.

Not quite as much as Hogswatch Night on Discworld is, but in that ballpark.

The winter solstice has fires to ward off wolves as well as gift-giving and keeping a log burning. (Some of this is established in its titular not-so-festive adventure.) And New Year’s Eve is also basically Halloween.

The proprietor of Black Lion Games has a legendary Warhammer one-shot about Pie Week as well, as a band of furious heroes take action against the vendor responsible for giving them food poisoning on the first day.

So we have mangled and mashed-up holidays as well as room for real traditions long abandoned. And a suitable place for warped fairytales in time for panto season too. The Nutcracker has a living toy fighting a seven-headed mouse king, for example.

The Princess And The Pirate

A great solstice feast in Delberz is interrupted when the daughter of the region’s Elector runs away from an arranged marriage. Will the adventurers return her for a hefty bag of coin, or actually do the right thing and help her escape? May feature: Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles...