It was an eleventh hour game put together outside of any regular gaming campaign so I invited my players to create new characters specifically for use in this one-shot adventure. All three players chose to make characters that they wouldn't normally play (as one-shots are great opportunities to test-drive character concepts), this meant some new models. Andrew provided his own Half-Orc Monk model and I made figures for Grant and Adam.
Grant decided on a Kenku Rogue. Kenku are bird-men, Reaper and Darksword both make suitable models but neither were immediately available on short notice. I ended up using a Frostgrave soldier body with the head from a Games Workshop Gryph-hound. My putty work around the hood area didn't turn out exactly how I had hoped but in a pinch it worked.
Adam was playing a Goblin Trickery Cleric armed with a crossbow. I was a bit surprised to discover that somewhere along the way I had used all my Night Goblin miniatures so I didn't have the pool of figures I thought I did. Having said that I still had a few of the excellent WizKids Pathfinder Goblins laying around. I chopped the arms off and replaced them with a set of crossbow arms from the Frostgrave soldiers sprue. The existing hood and cloak made it fairly easy to hide my putty-work on the arms. Adam requested a festive holiday colour-scheme so some bright red and green with white trim later and we're ready to roll.
The game was fairly short (completed in roughly 3 hours) and featured some interesting problem solving along with a few interesting combat encounters (more on those tomorrow).
For anyone looking for a fun quick easy to run adventure I can highly recommend Winter's Splendor.
-Jay
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