Holiday Game Ideas?

You might recall that I ran a Christmas-themed wargame (here and here) for my family and friends last year, where each player controlled a team:

Everyone seems to love that 88mm

King Moonracer taking on the StuG!

For this year's Christmas celebration, based on what I have learned/confirmed about this group, I plan to do something more RPG-like as they really enjoy:

• playing a single character
• having a suitable figure for that character to move around the table
• working as a team
• having activities that aren't just combat (although some of them, like my son, prefer that)
• exploiting their character's special abilities

Rule-systems? I'm thinking Dungeons & Dragons B/X because I know it cold - players playing traditional classes. That said, I'm off having the players play animals from the woods around Santa's workshop coming to the rescue instead and reskinning the B/X classes. 

Alternately, an RPG-lite skirmish wargame where each player controls 1 figure. 

The only caveat for any of this - I will have about 8 players to wrangle.

I'm contemplating creating an adventure using the 5-Room Dungeon as my guide. The rooms here mean encounters, by the way, not necessarily literal rooms. There has to be a lot going on with that many players and five rooms probably won't provide enough alternate pathways to an end point.

Taking a look at some of the available modules on DriveThru and Dungeon Masters Guild, I see a lot of them focus on rescuing Santa and/or fighting Krampus. Excellent, as I really didn't get to use my painted up LOD Santa last year (the sleigh spent the entire game on the board, but Santa wasn't found until the end) and I wouldn't mind building my own Krampus model.

Here's what I'm thinking of encounters (some stolen from the aforementioned modules):

• Snowmen - Probably encountered along the way, as an ice breaker (pun intended!) for getting everyone used to their characters.
• Toy Solders (Paint up some clothespin toy soldiers with puffball bearskins, that kind of thing) acting as guards to the location.
• Nutcracker Automaton - might be good in a puzzle encounter but I don't know what the puzzle would be
• Giant Ice Spider (an excuse to buy the Schleich ice spider)
• Yeti/Bumble/etc.
• Krampus, Jack Frost, Ice Wizard(Ice King from Adventure Time?), or  other Big Bad (possibly some Fat Cat Capitalist / Scrooge / Sam Walton, the latter stolen from a game I once saw on a blog years ago)

Notice that pretty much all of these are combat encounters. I could use some help coming up with holiday themed non-combat encounters!

If you have any ideas, please feel free to suggest them! Last year it was suggested that I incorporate some kind of snowball throwing outside of the tabletop, which I did, and it was a huge hit!