Saint George's Day is the Catholic feast day of Saint George, usually celebrated in England (as St. George is England's patron saint). Saint George is celebrated as a slayer of dragons, which most player characters can find an appeal in.
It can be useful to think of this in terms of worldbuilding- what saints and heroes do your players know of in the world's history? What legends have shaped their development, and what archetypes do they look up to and aspire to emulate? You can also flavour this for creatures in your world, and use it to lay groundwork for new creatures that you want to introduce. How you can use Saints' Feast Days in your game: - Having a Feast Day can be an excuse for a festival in a town or city, one that involves all sorts of interesting dressing-up, pantomimes, and memorial activity. This can be a great opportunity for performers, thieves, or just characters who would like a day off. It can also be an excuse for you to delay things a little, if you haven't got a session prepped. - You can use this to recount and spill forth some lore. If you need to tell people about Saint Huloro, who freed a hundred gentlefolk, defeated King Rannock, and refused a crown, then attending a puppet show or hearing about his story from a local minstrel can do it. - This can also lay groundwork for sacred relics that the PCs could recover from a tomb, monsters that have returned because the saint's bones have been disturbed, or a comet signalling future badness that they can recognize. Also posted on Game Masters Stash on 23 April 2020. Comments are closed.
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