Thanksgiving

Dungeons & Dragons players are not averse to gathering around a table with family and friends.  I imagine that for a lot of us it's something that we look forward to doing and something that we wish we could do more often.

Today is Thanksgiving Day in the (tenuously) United States, and so many of us are home for the holiday and preparing to sit down at a table covered with turkey and fixings rather than dice and miniatures.  However, I hope that we are all just as excited for this as we are for game night- and I certainly hope that the options for edibles are much better at your 'Turkey Day' table.  Although maybe some folk are fine with Doritos and Mountain Dew on this day as well...

I started to wonder what Thanksgiving would look like in the myriad of worlds that we gamers occupy in our free time.  In places like Greyhawk, Faerun, Eberron, and the homebrewed worlds and multiverses across the world there are a panoply of PCs and NPCs that have plenty to be thankful for.  I imagine that my oldest 'living' character (a mid-level halfling rogue from my 2e AD&D days) is thankful to be retired from the life of adventure.  He's taking it easy in the city of Arabel and using his ring of telekinesis to avoid as much manual labor as he can.  There's also Aldym Stamaraster of Halruua, and I imagine he's thankful on this day (and most all others) for his magical aptitude- and he's also thankful that the whole Amn-Tethyr conflict was resolved?  Erky, Esko, and Gloin are thankful for their tinkering abilities and their reputations as The Wondersmiths.  They're also thankful that they're one of a handful of NPCs that I work in to any Forgotten Realms campaign I run...

I can imagine a lot of things that the PCs I played and (more commonly) the NPCs I DM'ed are thankful for, but most of all I am thankful for this amazing hobby and the friends I have made because of it.  I am thankful for all the 20's and the 1's I've rolled this past year and I'm thankful for my positive HP value and a decent constitution.  And if you have a moment today to think about what the gamer in you and the you in the game is thankful for- head over to @critthulhu on Twitter and let me know.