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RainbOSR's Secret Santicorn 2026

Hello Friends!

This year I was privileged enough to be able to co-ordinate the RainbOSR Discord's Secret Santicorn, and get to see some absolutely delightful prompts and clever and intriguing gifts fulfilling them.  I was hoping that I'd have time to at least pocket review the submissions here, but due to a week with unexpected lack of Internet connectivity, that didn't happen.

To wrap up, I'm sharing the gifts here, along with the topic donors, to share for Internet Posterity.  

ForTopic
500poundsofnothingThe origin of undeath.
Aggie (Gourd Dwarf)Never Meet Your Heroes: Encountering Infamous Adventurers
ArnoldFun diseases and/or curses! You'll be sad once you recover.
ConnorA table of Crimes and Punishment, as specific or general as the chef prefers. Random or weighted random generation would be a plus.
DomopunkMundane looking objects and the pocket dimensions that exist within them (like a book that can pull people into the story)
energycrow666Carousing tables themed around winter and/or its attendant festivals, such as solstice, yule, and the new year.
Errant ThinkingGame mechanics for experiential or diegetic character advancement. Bonus points for some emphasis on social experiences.
Ethaniel in a field of snowA couple special forges for creating thematic magic items
H.W.(A.T.B.B.BSM)Weird shops, who take non standard payment
HoundmoonSet of useful downtime activities & the locations and characters they’re attached to
IsaacThePersonThe value of various parts of bodies and souls.
James YoungD20 fantasy clickbait newspaper headlines (and societal effects of each in the city)
John VakmosStealing situations from books, movies, and videogames for fun and profit.
Katt Kirsch4-6 interlinked little noncombat dungeon puzzles to put on different floors of a dungeon.
KhajeetCold. A cold setting, a cold monster, ways of running cold environments, whatever you want, as long as it's cold.
Kirt GrogmyerBest not-silly ways to temporarily write out a character when their player is sick.
MetasynLanguages, writing, and literacy in games, can go into mechanics for modeling proficiency, learning, .etc
msquixoticWhat You Would Do Differently This Time: Reflections on your last campaign and what would you change if you ran it again
PhrixisA list of gods or other entities that cults worship and some ideas for rituals that would awaken and/or summon them.
RookA new character class, anything you like but not-silly
shutteredroomd6 to d12 masks you shouldn't wear but that you might be tempted to.
Slightly middling daygloWhat fuck do adventures eat?
Sylvanas_iiiA dX table of medieval dragons that look nothing like any self-respecting dragon should (e.g. the original French tarrasque)
Warren D (icastlight)4th level in-world titles specific for fighters, clerics, thieves, & wizards to gain and the 3 things they have to do to get them

Thank you to all of the gift givers above, and to the back-up gift givers: John Vakmos, Ghostly, and Vance! 

Did any of the prompts above inspire you to write something?  If you were one of the gift-givers, did you see a different prompt you would have rather gotten? Was there something you would've done differently?  Have you thought of something you'd want to do for next year's Santicorn?  Share in the comments below!

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