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The Holy Roast

One Shot Tier 1 Complexity 1/5
Christopher Salicrup by Christopher Salicrup

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Session Zero

Table Setup

Goals

Establish that this is a collaborative, roleplay-forward one-shot.

Encourage players to embrace creativity over optimization.

Reinforce that the story balances comedy, mystery, and sudden danger.

Explain that player choices meaningfully change the finale.

Set expectations around teamwork, spotlight sharing, and improvisation.

Teach players that Daggerheart rewards cinematic and fiction-first thinking.

Topics to Cover

Tone & Themes: Whimsical folk-horror
Playstyle Expectations: Creativity over mechanics
Rules: Describe cinematically

World & Magic

Players should suspend disbelief around:

Comedic fantasy exaggeration

Food-themed religious traditions

Villagers accepting bizarre customs as normal

Dramatic shifts between comedy and danger

Monster hunters dressed like culinary crusaders

GM-Only Secrets

Father Plumpkin is Obeseus, Lord of Gluttony, disguised as a priest.

The Feast of Saint Gourmand is a dragon incubation ritual.

The contests secretly fuel or disrupt the ritual.

The players are teaching themselves Daggerheart mechanics through the contests.

Pickles exists to introduce suspicion without fully exposing the mystery.

The Sacred Knives are correct, but intentionally framed as disruptive and alarming.

The finale branches based on who the players trust.

Warmth and Suspicion are hidden trackers that control pacing and escalation

Notes

What is your character’s name?
What does your character think about festivals or community gatherings?
What skill or trait makes your character stand out in a crowd?

What food offering did you bring to the feast?
Did you make it yourself, steal it, buy it, or inherit the recipe?
What smell, flavor, or strange ingredient makes it memorable?

Adventure Details

Complexity

1/5

Concept

A cozy village feast is secretly a dragon egg incubation ritual, hosted by a beloved priest who is actually Obeseus, Lord of Gluttony. The party must decide who to trust before the celebration goes gloriously, disastrously off-menu.

Overview

The heroes arrive in Brindlebrook for the Feast of Saint Gourmand, where food offerings, contests, sacred eggs, and a suspiciously sweaty priest create a charming festival full of tiny red flags. When monster hunters crash the party and the eggs begin to hatch, the feast becomes an objective-driven Daggerheart disaster full of panic, gravy, and baby dragons.

Themes

Gluttony, Trust, Devotion

Tone & Feel

Whimsical folk-horror comedy; cozy festival weirdness turning into chaotic culinary catastrophe.

Touchstones

Shrek meets Gremlins in an absurd fantasy world.

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