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{{Greyhawk Holiday|fgcolor=#fff|
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name=Needfest|
image=[[Image:Needfest01.jpg]]|
caption=Needfest, as depicted in ''[[The Adventure Begins]]'' (1998). Art by David Roach.|
frequency=Annual|
date=Needfest 1-7|
type=Varies|
observed=[[Flanaess]]-wide|
significance=First week of the new [[Greyhawk calendar|year]]|
}}
The festival week of '''Needfest''' marks the beginning of a new [[Greyhawk Calendar|year]]. In the [[Domain of Greyhawk]], this is a period to celebrate life during the most frigid and miserable of seasons, a time of merrymaking and overindulgence. Among those who can afford such luxuries, yellow candles, evergreen branches, and magical lights are used as decorations.

Specific holidays observed during Needfest include [[Midwinter Night]] (Needfest 4) and the [[Feast of Fools]] (Freeday, Needfest 7). [[Olidammara]]'s [[Feast of the Doubling Dare]] also takes place during Needfest.

In [[Hardby]], the Gynarch appears on Needfest 7 to walk about town, talking with the townsfolk and granting petitions. Unlike the leaders of [[Greyhawk City]] during of the Feast of Fools, she does not tolerate being mocked.

In [[Narwell]], Needfest is celebrated without pomp or glamor, and food is not shared. On Freeday of that week, ''Frostbite Run'' is a local event involving contestants dressed only in boots and loincloths running around the city walls - the winner gets a small kettle of gold coins.

==Bibliography==
*[[Andy Miller|Miller, Andy]]. "Campaign Holidays." ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]] Annual'' #4. Renton, WA: TSR, 1999 (pp. 18-19).

*[[Moore, Roger E]]. ''[[Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins]]''. Renton, WA: TSR, 1998. 


[[Category:Greyhawk holidays]]