BBy Black Label
September 2006
One of the best ways to celebrate the holidays with your MMOG buddies is to create an online holiday
themed role playing guild events. With Halloween coming soon and Thanksgiving, Christmas and New
Years around the corner, this is the perfect time to plan for those events. Plus, most gamers are home with
nothing to do during the holidays! After a heavy Thanksgiving dinner, there’s nothing to do except some
hard core gaming! As guild leader, you can create unique events tailored to each of these holidays. Not only
can you increase your guild uniqueness, but you will increase guild morale and increase guild activity! Most
MMOG gamers will appreciate these tailored events (even the cheesy ones). Here are some examples and
ideas to help you start!
Halloween
Halloween is all about tricks and treats! Treat your guild to a mystery event such as a mystery kidnapping or
a mystery murder! In keeping with the theme, revolve the storyline around ghosts, zombies and/or vampires!
No matter what genre of MMOG you play,
there is always a role for these undead beings! Start the event in a graveyard, an abandoned house or any
creepy zone your MMOG is bound to have. Here are some possible plot lines.
- Someone’s been murdered. Find out who is responsible and discover the closet vampire in the guild.
- Someone’s been murdered. Find out who is the Dr.Jeckel/Mr.Hyde (or werewolf) in the guild and the
experimentation gone wrong.
- Investigate the haunting at the Museum. The ghost of the museum has a puzzle for your guild to
solve
- Investigate the graveyard and the overturned tombstones. Who are the grave robbers and
encounters with zombies!
- Start a costume contest! Dress up as your favorite hero! Ghost and ghouls! Or TV character!
- Gather at a graveyard and form a bonfire. Exchange scary and creepy stories! An online ghost story
telling contest! Bound to get laughs and the creeps!
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a day of giving thanks to those who have made a difference in your life. This is a perfect
day to unite with fellow allies or guild members and reflect on the guild and the past. Thanksgiving is also
traditionally associated with feasts and festivities. Therefore, Thanksgiving events should always be started
and associated with a big gathering at an area with a large table and a fireplace such as an inn or tavern. A
forest of red/yellow trees or a pumpkin field can also work as it sets the autumn theme. Here are some
possible guild events!
- A role playing feast and festival of all your guild members and allies.
- Award ceremony to outstanding guild members chosen by the leaders and by the members.
Categories may include best rookie, best guild mate and “turkey of the year”!
- Rescue the soldier from war and bring him home to his mother for Thanksgiving. (A Saving Private
Ryan theme which involves finding the soldier and escorting him back safely.)
- Grandma is making the famous pumpkin pie. Get the “strange ingredients” that she requires. Guild
goes on a scavenger hunt!
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