Running a not-so-Zagat-rated deli, dropping into a Chinese restaurant for Christmas Eve dinner and acting out a bat mitzvah that involves a vampire for contemporary board game fans, those can be all in an evening’s play.
The 5 Towns Jewish Times
December 9, 2020
Hanukkah Goblins is based on Eric Kimmel’s classic children’s book Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins. (Art/Kali Hayes, KH Illustration)
(J., The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) Here’s something to do during the long nights of Hanukkah under lockdown become a goblin with a jelly doughnut launcher.
That’s one option if you play Hanukkah Goblins, a tabletop role-playing game by the indie game designer Max Fefer that makes its debut on Thursday, the holiday’s first night. Some of the proceeds will go to charity.
Fefer said the game, created during the pandemic, is all about finding a way to let your imagination run free while using the framework of the holiday to welcome everyone, Jewish or not, to celebrate the Festival of Lights.