A tabletop roleplay game about saving Christmas. Or being hunted by aliens. Or fighting penguins… 

Cast away your pathetic, childish fantasies; this is no winter wonderland.

There are no toys here, no candy, no songs about tinsel and joy. 

This is a harsh, bleak wasteland of chemical spills, centuries-long elvish serfdom and utterly absent hope.

This is a land where the bells don’t jingle. They toll.

Operation S.A.N.T.A.

Operation S.A.N.T.A. is a “Festive” Roleplay Adventure set in a world where Santa is a horrible tentacled alien, and the North Pole is some kind of dystopian, nuclear waste spoiled horror-land, and there’s anarchistic penguins in the Arctic, and no one gets any presents ever again. You know, the standard Christmassy sort of story.

The zine includes a setting, characters, lots of thematic tables, a map of the grotty hole that is the North Pole, and an encounter to play as a group, or alone, if that’s your sort of thing. There is a Monster Manual for NPCs and monsters, and a safety disclaimer with content advisories.

It’s system agnostic, which means you can pick it up and play with any RPG system you are familiar with, such as D&D.  I’m including MÖRK BORG and Troika! stats to make things easier. (You can download free rules for MÖRK BORG here, and for Troika! here)

Content Warning

This is not a normal Christmas story. It is silly… and horrible. It is intended to be entirely tongue-in-cheek, but there is a risk that topics might come up that make you feel uncomfortable. Please be warned that its content spans multiple deeply objectionable areas.