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🎄 🌟 ❄️Gremlins in the Workshop : A Mini 5e Adventure! 🎄 🌟 ❄️

For this month’s Quest Pack we decided to ask our patrons to suggest and vote for anything they wanted us to make, and a Santa’s Workshop adventure came out as one of the winning options! We’ve tied it into our Jolly Goods Item Card & Minis Pack from the shop to create a short one-shot you can run for friends or fam this holiday.

A huge thanks to our Patrons for making this cute adventure a reality!

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steampunk or otherwise Different Reality setting. think late 1890s/early 1900s aesthetic 

takes place at the funeral (and specifically inside the mansion) of a very eccentric and blasphemously rich inventor who’s left the bulk of her fortune to a great-niece who no one’s seen in some years, having been away on fabulous foreign adventures since she was a young lady. some have speculated that she too is either dead or disgraced and the family has just covered it up  

enter our main character, a daring lady thief™ who’s hatched a daring plan: pose as the Mysterious Missing Niece and bluff her way through the funeral services to make bank.

unfortunately, this is isn’t going to just be a single day of condolences and fake crying. in true Eccentric Billionaire fashion, the dearly deceased has arranged for her funeral to be a multi-day party complete with games and puzzles to earn certain items from her personal collection. she thought a little fun would help ease the grieving process, but what actually ensues is a cutthroat competition between her family and colleagues to secure access to her many patents and research. 

understandably curious, our Lady Thief begins poking around the mansion trying to discover what this rich old weirdo’s deal was while maintaining her cover as the Missing Niece. needless to say, secret rooms, zany traps, and conspiring fellow mourners abound. hot air balloons factor into this somehow, I just know it. 

there’s a sassy butler, obviously, keeping an uncomfortably close eye on our Lady Thief because he’s been onto her bullshit since day one. 

and there’s this Intrepid Reporter Woman who our Lady Thief can’t seem to avoid, who keeps popping up in places she shouldn’t be and knows far more about this family than even a particularly determined reporter should. who is she? what’s her game? and why does our Lady Thief want to kiss her in the moonlight?

is the Intrepid Reporter Woman secretly the real Mysterious Missing Niece, going undercover at her great aunt’s funeral for her own amusement? or maybe to take the target off her back and make sure the inheritance is split up justly? you bet your britches. 

they team up to zag on the greedy relatives and nasty competitors, take the money, and run away together on a train

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

I recently ran out on my YUM pins, so I’m gonna be restocking them! Now’s a good time to preorder it, along with a new one: DELICIOUS. There’s a preorder exclusive sale to get both of them that won’t show up again.

me: hi! so where are you guys from :D

normal people: I am from Russia/Brazil/Italy/Australia/etc :)

european: where are you from

american: i’m italian

european: omg same! da dove vieni?

american: wait what lol i don’t speak mexican i only speak english

and

european: where are you from?

“But Texas is so different from Oregon! People need to know which state I’m from because they’re all so different!” We don’t care. We are going to see you as an American, not as a Texan or a Californian or whatever, just like you’re going to see someone from Bavaria as a German, someone from Normandy as a Frenchman or someone from Piedmont as an Italian, not as a Bavarian, a Norman and a Piedmontese. European countries have regional differences too, even more than US states yet we don’t feel the need to specify that to foreigners when they ask us where we’re from unless they ask us to elaborate.

“But the US is so big! Some of our states are even bigger than your countries!”

Russia is the largest country in the world and undoubtedly more diverse than the US. If you were to ask a Russian where they’re from they would say that they’re from Russia, not Komi or Tuva unless they’re speaking to another Russian or someone they know to be familiar with Russian geography.