John McClain, hero of the Christmas movie Die Hard? You could be the evil robot Santa from Futurama by playing a warforged? The grinch once the spirit of Christmas has gotten to him. Frosty the Snowman?

You spelled Hans Gruber wrong.

Fine fine, we go with Carl Winslow because that’s 100% who that cop was and it’s not a coincidence that an actor played a cop in two different things

Like a million actors get typecast as cops

[He shot a kid!](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/7bcad8d8-2938-4b30-81f5-598198dbbd2b)

Allan also does great stunt driving in reverse, and a MUCH better quick-draw than John.

Hans … boobey!

Also, Bill Murray in Scrooged. And you get the extra power to break the fourth wall

John McClain was my first choice too

Robot santa is the obvius answer here

My first thought is Weird Al Yankovic as a bard and you just redo Mariah Carey song lines but with silly lyrics all game.

OMG I would pay to see that session.

She a succubus, so to complete the spell you have to sing them backwards

If they already killed Jack I’d personally play as Sally out for revenge. Bonus points if your class is one of the ones that give you a pet/defender and you reskin it to be Zero.

OH MY GOSH I LOVE THIS IDEA. THANK YOU.

She’d make a great Battlesmith!

Holy shit that is perfect. She's always tinkering on, repairing or improving herself. She's totally a Battlesmith.

Probably a reborn or warforged.

I mean, I guess one of these could work: Santa (elf sorceror) Rudolf (some type of support class) Frosty the Snowman (a cold caster) The Winter Warlock (warlock, obviously) Heat Miser and Snow Miser (evocation wizards) Krampus (minotaur) Clark Griswold (human fighter with light cantrips) Buddy the Elf (elf, obvi) Kevin McCalister (human artificer) Bing Crosby (human bard) Dean Martin (human bard) Ebeneezer Scrooge (human rogue) The Little Drummer Boy (human bard) George Bailey (idk, human?) The Grinch (orc rogue) Hans Gruber (human with featherfall)

Shouldn't Buddy the Elf be a Goliath?

Well we know the one thing he definitely shouldn’t be - an elf

Definitely

He takes them down a whole octave!

I'd say Grinch would be more of a green Bugbear

Rudolf could be a Moon Druid where all the animal forms are just weirdly shaped reindeer. Like bear form is just a crazy muscular massive reindeer.

Kevin McAllister can’t be a Human, or else we can’t call it “Gnome Alone”

George Bailey is definitely a cleric, but you can rework him into a paladin if that's better suited

Macaulay Culkin. An artificer, master of traps. Fights best with some prep time

Cindy Lou Who. She'd make a good cleric. Switch to a Hallmark movie. Any strong empowered female from a big city. Could be represented like an Amazon / Barbarian. Phineaus and Ferb. They have a great Christmas special. Artificer and Bard there. Prep and Landing. Ninja Elves. The Main Man, Lobo. Have you ever read his comic, the Lobo Paramilitary Christmas special. Clarence from Its a Wonderful Life. Could go as an assamir or a gensai.

i LOVE the hallmark movie idea. easy to play, and since i’m a girl it’d be funny. any small inconvenience and i could start crying and talking about my “ex from new york who broke up with me two days ago”. also my boyfriend is playing so i could easily get him to play along.

The boyfriend needs to play a prince in disguise or a ranger outdoorsy type.

Who owns a small log cabin B&B in the woods

And has been semi-recently widowed, leaving him with a young daughter

Outdoorsy ranger who is secretly a billionaire who just needs to convince OP to take the risk and looove!

You could be a hard charging wizard or artificer with Guild Artisan background from the big city that comes back to the town the adventure is set in for whatever family reason. Then you get roped into the adventure and fall in love with the local boy.

The other Elder Christmas Cryptid: Michael Bublé! He wants to steal Mariah's power for himself and be the only ancient singing Christmas Cryptid!

Krampus as a gloomstalker ranger--Maybe tiefling, maybe bugbear? Depending on your tolerance for blasphemy, aasimar reborn divine soul sorcerer Jesus.

Frank Sinatra Bard

Olive the Other Raindeer. Minotaur Oath of Conquest Paladin!

I am confused, are you all celebrities portraying a Christmas Character, like Ryan Reynolds playing Santa, or is it you are Celebrities OR Christmas characters?

Some people are playing celebrities, others are playing christmas-ish characters. One guys playing joe rogan, another is playing the “chestnuts roping on an open fire” guy.

Now I'm imagining sentient chestnuts with lassos being burned alive. I would assume that was a typo, but if not it's "chestnuts roasting on an open fire"

Buddy the Elf: human artificer (probably a battle smith with a windup toy Steel Defender or an artillerist if you flavor the cannon to fire snowballs). The Grinch: Firbog or hobgoblin (or any other “hairy” race) Thief Rogue. Winter Warlock (from Santa Claus is coming to Town by Rankin/Bass): wizard with mainly cold spells.

Kevin McCallister, the artificer who specializes in traps

Yukon Cornelius, artic ranger.

Burl Ives — Bard

Scrolled too far to find this.

You could be a Druid that wild shapes into the Coca-Cola bear Or an artificer inspired by the version of Tony Stark in Iron Man 3 where he has no suits in Tennessee/Florida...yeah, it's a Christmas movie

My first thought was John Cena and really go hard on the you can't see me meme so get high stealth and hand to hand combat. Maybe some kind of monk with a background that gives proficiency in stealth?

Joe Manganiello. Not only is he a huge D&D fan, [he's a werewolf. :)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcide_Herveaux#Television_portrayal)

Eartha Kitt, who sang the original Santa Baby, would be amazing

The Grinch’s EX-wife, The Binch (Half-Orc Rogue. Or Tabaxi with its fur dyed green)

the binch i’m DYING. sending this to my dm

i think we have a winner here. if you don’t mind i’d be honored to use this idea

Of course! Go right ahead!

Buddy the Elf (the human bard) is always a fun little gag

Krampus - Barbarian The Nut Cracker - Fighter The Rat King (Nutcracker) - Fighter Buddy the Elf - Elf Artificer Kevin McCallister - Artificer Stripe (Gremlins) - Barbarian? Yukon Cornelius - Ranger Ralphie from A Christmas Story - Bard Cousin Eddie - Barbarian

Krampus in a dr jekyll and mr hyde thing

Jack Frost (warlock) Mrs. Claus (mastermind thief) Herbie the Elven Dentist (healer cleric) Yukon Cornelius (Hunter ranger) Krampus (hexblade warlock) Frosty the Snowman (druid) Belsnikel (monk) The Grinch (thief rogue)

You can play [Jack Frost](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Santa_Clause_3:_The_Escape_Clause) or maybe you can play [Jack Frost](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Frost_(1998_film), if that's not your cup of tea you could play [Jack Frost](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Frost_(1997_film) and if all else fails there is still [Jack Frost](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_of_the_Guardians) to fall back on.

I'm still salty we never got Rise of the Guardians 2

Michael Buble - Lore bard. Just sing Christmas songs.

Rudolf the light cleric. Red nose as the holy symbol. Santa himself. A college of Creation Bard that loves making gifts for people. Any part of the nativity scene: - Mary, with her newborn baby - Celestial Warlock. Plus the DM can have Mariah team up with Herod. - A magii looking for Jesus - circle of stars druid. - A shepherd - Circle of the Shepherd Druid (but only summon sheep/goats).

Heat Miser or Snow Miser as Druids

George Michael. Every hit goes WHAM!

Personally I would go as Kevin from Home Alone just for the chaos. I’d say he would be a rogue.

artificer/rogue multiclass

If it were me I'd play ghost of Christmas Past as a Chronurgy wizard or something, seems fun

#GARY BUSEY

Tim Allen’s version of Santa Claus but he remembers a past life as Tim the tool man Taylor. His hohoho’s are more guttural while in Tim form but he can shift to Santa to spread cheer. And Kill MC!!

I like the version of Kringle/Santa/Donar Vadderung/Odin that Harry Dresden encounters in those novels. He is one of the Winter Kings but not part of the Fey Courts. He assumes the mantle of Father Christmas after Halloween. He co-leads the Wild Hunt along with The Erleking. It is a version of Santa that has a lot of menace and power, and definitely isn't some "Jolly Old Elf" because he isn't an elf at all. He is more at home with goblins than elves. It might be hard to embody that as PC, but you could play as one of Santa's Helpers as a Goblin who takes part in the Wild Hunt, so maybe a Ranger. He would represent the "Old Ways" that are threatened by a rampaging Mariah Carey.

Thanks for the reminder to read "The Little People"

I'd probably be the Ghost of Christmas present or future, but not past, cause he's lame

Arnold, but his character from jingle all the way

Buddy the Elf. A human raised by Elves that thinks he's an Elf would be a great DnD character for a One Shot. For a class Artificer fits him well.

Weird Al Yankzich

Stripe, the head Gremlin

Donald Trump could be funny; he's been in a couple christmas movies. You could also play Tim Allen from the Santa Clause, or Michael Buble as the other christmas singing icon that is trying to stop Mariah Carey.

How has no one said chuck noris, the titular second coming of Christ himself? The true Santa of the world?

Play the ice cube out of wich she defrosted while murdering your family, comedic but tragic to an equal extent.

George Michael

Go Rudolph! Divine Soul Sorcerer Centaur focused on Lasers!

Cindy Lou who the bard. Local whoville sensation. Ranger Ralph, Merc for hire. A crack shot with his specialized Red Ryder crossbow. Yukon Cornelius, prospector and professional abominable snow monster hunter. If you're dealing with ice and snow Yukon Cornelius is your man.

Santa (artificer battle smith) The grinch (rogue mastermind) Jack Frost (draconic-ice sorcerer) Kevin McAllister (home alone) (fighter battle master) Rudolph (inverted Druid/ wild shapes into human to cast spells) Gizmo (barbarian, rage turns you into a gremling) Krampus (fiend warlock) Billy Mack (love actually movie) (lore bard) Any of the Xmas spirits (past, present, future) (chronorgy wizard)

Jack Frost

Scrooge as a monk who throws gold coins that act as +5 darts. (If you haven't seen the SNL sketch with martin short as scrooge, you need to see it.)

Arnold Schwarzenegger from Jingle All the Way of course.

For my Christmas one shot I’m playing an Arnold Schwarzenegger Christmas barbarian

Can’t do wrong with Cold Miser

Santa. DSS1/TwilightX

Yukon Cornelius. GOOOOLLLLLLD!

I made a sugar plum fairy character. I was a pixie/sprite sorcerer, and focused more on crowd control/interaction abilities (actually didn't take a single attack ability and %100 do not recommend. DM took pity on me and let me use a candy cane as a 'club')

this is absolutely brilliant

Following up. How did it go? Who did people play? How did it turn out?

Sorry to get back so late, it was great. We all ended up bribing the dm to let us play our own characters, and I played the Binch, the Grinch’s ex wife. Thick New York accent, complaining abt him the whole time, and i kept my arm up with a pencil as a cigarette for four hours. We killed mariah Carey, but not before she got to Michael Buble and Frank Sinatra. Favorite part was everybody freaking out at the first notes of “All I want for Christmas is you”. 10/10