Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the near-weekly feature where we talk shop about mobile RPGs of all kinds. Sometimes that involves a deep dive on a particular game, sometimes it's a play-along we all join in on, and other times it's just general talk about a particular aspect of the genre. Of course, as is our custom in the RPG Reload, the last two articles of the year are dedicated to celebrating the holidays. This week is our third annual Christmas Special, while next week will feature our third annual Golden Pancho Mobile RPG Awards. If you have any comments or questions, be sure to leave your input below the article, stop by the Official RPG Reload Club thread in the forums, or tweet me at @RPGReload.

In the last couple of years, the RPG Reload Christmas Specials have been major projects. The first year, I covered three Christmas-appropriate RPGs, which was something like triple my usual workload. In the second year, I did an ill-advised rewrite of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and that ended up being about five times the usual effort. Originally, I had planned a similar stunt for this year, but things got unexpectedly busy. So instead, we're doing a different kind of Christmas Special this year. Less like the wild present-opening part and more like the quiet post-dinner reflection by the fireplace. Because yes, Christmas is about things like presents, Santa, candy canes, some cool bearded carpenter guy, family, good food, and either wishing...