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One good evening.
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Read-aloud text, battle maps at 70 px per five-foot square, ready-to-play characters, and what happens when the party fails.

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Six Seconds

An evening in Lowmere. Two hours, four players, 1st level.

Every sack of grain in the valley goes through one wheel, and six nights ago that wheel stopped turning for six seconds. Nobody heard it but the miller, and he has not slept since.

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Nine Miles

An evening on the Salt Road. Two hours, four players, 1st level.

A caravan is stopped nine miles short of the auction with a cracked axle, and the weighing closes at first light. The salt can wait. The tally-stick cannot.

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The two settings are places, not evenings: the people, the year, the map, and twelve things going wrong that nobody has written up. The two adventures are complete evenings — read-aloud text, a battle map, four ready-made characters, and what happens when the party fails. The three card samples are printed straight out of the full decks, same layout, same backs — they are short, not cut down. Nothing here is a demo of something else.

What one evening contains

Read it once. Run it tonight.

Every adventure is built the same way, so the second one is easier than the first.

The evening at a glance page
The evening at a glanceTwo pages you can read in the twenty minutes before the players arrive: how it opens, the order of things, the three things they will remember.
A page of read-aloud text
Read-aloud textBoxed, in the order you will need it. You read, they listen, the evening starts.
A battle map page
Battle mapsSeventy pixels per five-foot square, for the screen and for the printer, with and without the grid.
Ready-to-play characters
Ready charactersFour of them, made for this evening, with a reason to be there written on the sheet.
What happens when the party fails
When the party failsEvery check says what happens on a miss. The clock keeps moving either way, and the evening still ends.

Everything on the table

90 things to print

Adventures

Adventures

30 evenings

One evening each. Read-aloud text, battle maps, ready characters, and what happens when the party fails.

One-Shot Adventures 18

Four players, levels 1 to 5. Read it once and run it.

Lanterns at Candle Fen Lanterns at Candle Fen 🕯️ They read the dead out of the register until dawn. This year the reading stops. Longnight Longnight 🌒 They are not hunting anyone. They are cold. And that is the only fire in Lowmere. The Border Cairns The Border Cairns 🪨 It has been fed for four weeks by people being kind. The Coldstile Wake The Coldstile Wake 🪦 He left one instruction: the record press is to be unlocked at his wake, by somebody who is not from Coldstile. The Drovers' Camp The Drovers' Camp 🔥 The camp has been standing on a chimney for two hundred years and calling it a hearth. The Ferry The Ferry ⛵ What he is hiding is not a crime. That is what makes it hard. The Hundred-Year Cheese The Hundred-Year Cheese 🧀 Four hundred people are standing on the mound above the cellar. The floor of it has just given way. The Last Bridge The Last Bridge 🌉 It has taken a cart, three oxen and a man. What it leaves behind is dry. The Quarantine House The Quarantine House 🌒 It gets dark at six. It comes at eight. Nine rooms, four of you, and two hours of daylight. The Reed Roads The Reed Roads 🌑 The one adventure in this line where nothing can be reasoned with. The Salt Auction The Salt Auction 🔔 Then the bell goes twice. Every person in this town knows what that means, because it has never happened before. The Salt Chapel The Salt Chapel 🧂 There is no water in this chapel. And three wet patches on a floor that has been dry for eight hundred years. The Saltless Regatta The Saltless Regatta ⚖️ The whole town is on the water for four hours. It is the only day of the year the customs house stands empty. The Stranding Day The Stranding Day ⛵ Most tables get one of them out. And know it while they are running. The Warehouse Row The Warehouse Row 📋 The noticeboard says the scales are wrong. Eight hundred people have read that and stopped worrying. The Waterline The Waterline 🕳️ There is a line on the old stone, nine feet up. Every house any of them has ever lived in stands below it. The Wayside Grave The Wayside Grave ⚰️ The hardest part is not what is under the ground. It is who has to be told. The Weir Count The Weir Count 🚪 Both fights can be avoided. The door cannot.

For Two Players 5

Written for a pair rather than a party, and they say so on their own covers.

The First Blossom The First Blossom 🌸 What you say when you give it is the only thing anyone remembers about the year. The High Cut The High Cut 🏔️ The thing you are carrying argues with you the whole way. The Second Thaw The Second Thaw 🕯️ Six in the morning, a cold kitchen, and the sound of water moving under the ice outside. The Sister Lamps The Sister Lamps 🔦 Not one fight in it. Two towers, ninety-five feet apart, and two people who have not spoken in ten years. The Smokehouses The Smokehouses 🕯️ Three hours up the hill, or one knock on that door. The text takes neither side.

For New DMs 7

One clock, stated out loud in the first minute, and every check tells you what happens when it fails.

Bell Founding Bell Founding 🔔 Nobody at this table can die. That is written into the stat block, not promised in the blurb. The First Cart The First Cart 🔥 Coldstile always lights a fire on the ridge to say the road is clear. This year there is no fire. The Fording The Fording 🌊 You cannot save all five. That is the adventure. The Horse Fair The Horse Fair ⚖️ They put the stick in your hand and wait for a ruling. You arrived this morning. That is the only qualification. The Long Table The Long Table 🍲 An eleven-year-old lifted the lid this morning. It is empty. You have until the puddings. The Ninth Bell The Ninth Bell 🔔 The whole town bets on the day it rings. The landlord keeps the book, and he has never once won it. The Tollhouse The Tollhouse 🗝️ The barrel by the gate started to smell wrong this month. You need one handful, and you have one night.
Character Sheets

Character Sheets

35 sheets

The class is already printed on the sheet, with an engraved illustration drawn for it. Fillable and printable, A4 and US Letter.

One per class · 5e 12

Twelve classes, twelve sheets. Yours is one of them.

Barbarian Barbarian 🪓 A character sheet built for the Barbarian — not a generic one with a name written on it. Bard Bard 🎻 A character sheet built for the Bard — not a generic one with a name written on it. Cleric Cleric ⚜️ A character sheet built for the Cleric — not a generic one with a name written on it. Druid Druid 🌿 A character sheet built for the Druid — not a generic one with a name written on it. Fighter Fighter ⚔️ A character sheet built for the Fighter — not a generic one with a name written on it. Monk Monk 🪷 A character sheet built for the Monk — not a generic one with a name written on it. Paladin Paladin 🛡️ A character sheet built for the Paladin — not a generic one with a name written on it. Ranger Ranger 🏹 A character sheet built for the Ranger — not a generic one with a name written on it. Rogue Rogue 🗝️ A character sheet built for the Rogue — not a generic one with a name written on it. Sorcerer Sorcerer 🔥 A character sheet built for the Sorcerer — not a generic one with a name written on it. Warlock Warlock 🕯️ A character sheet built for the Warlock — not a generic one with a name written on it. Wizard Wizard 🔮 A character sheet built for the Wizard — not a generic one with a name written on it.

One per class · 2024 rules 12

Species instead of Ancestry, a Weapon Mastery column, and a full page on all eight masteries.

Barbarian Barbarian 🪓 A character sheet built for the Barbarian under the 2024 rules — not a generic one with a name written on it. Bard Bard 🎻 A character sheet built for the Bard under the 2024 rules — not a generic one with a name written on it. Cleric Cleric ⚜️ A character sheet built for the Cleric under the 2024 rules — not a generic one with a name written on it. Druid Druid 🌿 A character sheet built for the Druid under the 2024 rules — not a generic one with a name written on it. Fighter Fighter ⚔️ A character sheet built for the Fighter under the 2024 rules — not a generic one with a name written on it. Monk Monk 🪷 A character sheet built for the Monk under the 2024 rules — not a generic one with a name written on it. Paladin Paladin 🛡️ A character sheet built for the Paladin under the 2024 rules — not a generic one with a name written on it. Ranger Ranger 🏹 A character sheet built for the Ranger under the 2024 rules — not a generic one with a name written on it. Rogue Rogue 🗝️ A character sheet built for the Rogue under the 2024 rules — not a generic one with a name written on it. Sorcerer Sorcerer 🔥 A character sheet built for the Sorcerer under the 2024 rules — not a generic one with a name written on it. Warlock Warlock 🕯️ A character sheet built for the Warlock under the 2024 rules — not a generic one with a name written on it. Wizard Wizard 🔮 A character sheet built for the Wizard under the 2024 rules — not a generic one with a name written on it.

Themed 6

The same clean layout, dressed for the table you actually play at.

DnD Character Sheet 5e Arcane DnD Character Sheet 5e Arcane 🔮 The Arcane sheet — the same clean layout, dressed for the table you actually play at. DnD Character Sheet 5e Dark Academia DnD Character Sheet 5e Dark Academia 📚 The Dark Academia sheet — the same clean layout, dressed for the table you actually play at. DnD Character Sheet 5e Ember DnD Character Sheet 5e Ember 🔥 The Ember sheet — the same clean layout, dressed for the table you actually play at. DnD Character Sheet 5e Frostbound DnD Character Sheet 5e Frostbound ❄️ The Frostbound sheet — the same clean layout, dressed for the table you actually play at. DnD Character Sheet 5e Gothic DnD Character Sheet 5e Gothic 🦇 The Gothic sheet — the same clean layout, dressed for the table you actually play at. DnD Character Sheet 5e Verdant DnD Character Sheet 5e Verdant 🌿 The Verdant sheet — the same clean layout, dressed for the table you actually play at.

The plain one, and all of them 3

One sheet that fits any class — or every sheet in the shop, in one download.

DnD Character Sheet Bundle 5e DnD Character Sheet Bundle 5e 🎲 A new player never knows which number goes in which box. On these sheets, both boxes are labelled. DnD Character Sheet Bundle 2024 DnD Character Sheet Bundle 2024 🗡️ Your table moved to the 2024 rules. Your character sheet did not. These twelve did. DnD Character Sheet 5e DnD Character Sheet 5e 🎲 Four people are waiting while somebody looks up what restrained means. It is printed on the back of this sheet.

Sheet, cards and journal together 2

The class sheets, the spell decks and the journal in one download, instead of three.

Sheet, Cards and Journal Kit — 2024 Sheet, Cards and Journal Kit — 2024 ⚔️ It is your first 2024 session and somebody asks what Vex does. It is printed on page five of your own sheet. Sheet, Cards and Journal Kit — 5e Sheet, Cards and Journal Kit — 5e 📖 The sheet, the cards and the journal were drawn by the same hand. On the table they look like one thing, because they are.
Card Decks

Card Decks

5 decks

Poker size, with illustrated engraved backs, so the deck stops looking like a printout.

Spells, monsters and magic items 3

Both the 2014 and the 2024 editions, in the same download.

DnD Magic Item Cards 5e DnD Magic Item Cards 5e 💎 The party opens the chest. You deal out a card, instead of reading a paragraph aloud while five people wait. DnD Monster Cards 5e DnD Monster Cards 5e 🐉 The fight starts. You deal out the cards, instead of holding a book open with one hand. DnD Spell Cards 5e DnD Spell Cards 5e 🔮 Three players are reading the same spell over one shoulder. Hand each of them their own deck instead.

Every deck together 2

Three decks for less than two of them cost alone.

DnD 5e Card Bundle — 2014 rules DnD 5e Card Bundle — 2014 rules 🎴 The rulebooks on your shelf are the 2014 ones. These are the cards that match them. DnD 5e Card Bundle — 2024 rules DnD 5e Card Bundle — 2024 rules 🎴 Somebody casts a spell you have never had to adjudicate before. The card is already in your hand.
Campaign Books

Campaign Books

2 books

Sixteen adventures bound together, plus a finale that is sold nowhere else.

Campaign Books 2

Sixteen adventures bound together, plus a finale that is sold nowhere else.

The Lowmere Year The Lowmere Year 🔔 A bell is cast in spring. By winter the valley finds out what the year was actually about. The Salt Road The Salt Road 🧂 Sixteen stops on one road have all noticed the same thing. Not one of them has mentioned it to the next.
At the Table

At the Table

18 things

Not adventures — the things you print once and reach for every session.

Tables you roll on 8

For when the party goes somewhere you had not written down: what wanders in, what they overhear, and who is standing there wanting something.

DnD 5e Encounter Tables — Complete Bundle DnD 5e Encounter Tables — Complete Bundle 🗺️ The ground your party just walked onto is already in here. The index tells you which of the five books, and the page. DnD 5e Encounter Tables — City DnD 5e Encounter Tables — City 🏘️ A twentieth-level party does not have a random encounter in a common room. These tables know that. DnD 5e Encounter Tables — Far Edges DnD 5e Encounter Tables — Far Edges 🌊 Fifteen places at the far end of the map, and a good way past it. DnD 5e Encounter Tables — Hard Country DnD 5e Encounter Tables — Hard Country 🏔️ Fifteen kinds of country that does not want you there. DnD 5e Encounter Tables — Travel DnD 5e Encounter Tables — Travel 🛣️ A road is full of people. A lake is not. So not one of these twenty-eight lines is shared between them. DnD Random Encounter Tables 5e DnD Random Encounter Tables 5e 🎲 Most encounter tables are written by feel. That is why one roll kills a 3rd-level party and the next one bores a 15th. DnD NPC Generator 5e DnD NPC Generator 5e 🎭 The party talks to somebody you had not planned for. You roll once, and the person already wants something. DnD Plot Hooks and Rumor Tables 5e DnD Plot Hooks and Rumor Tables 5e 📣 Somebody in the room says a thing. You know what happens next, because it was written down before the session started.

Screens, trackers and cards 3

The numbers you look up mid-session, and the sheets and cards that keep the turn order and the spell slots straight.

DnD Initiative Tracker and DM Binder 5e DnD Initiative Tracker and DM Binder 5e 🗂️ Half an hour before the players arrive, there is one page you fill in. Everything else in here is for what happens after that. DnD Spell Slot Tracker and Combat Cards 5e DnD Spell Slot Tracker and Combat Cards 5e 🧽 A pencil line on your character sheet, rubbed out eleven times. These wipe clean instead. DnD Dungeon Master Screen 5e DnD Dungeon Master Screen 5e 🛡️ Five printable panels of the rules you actually stop the game to look up.

Battle maps 1

Drawn for scenes somebody actually wrote, each one in a DM copy, a player copy and a Roll20-ready grid.

DnD Maps 5e DnD Maps 5e 🗺️ Nothing here is called map01. Every one of these 84 maps was drawn for a scene somebody actually wrote.

Journals, and playing on your own 6

Pages to write in after the session — or instead of one, alone at the table with a single d6.

A Year at… — All Four Books A Year at… — All Four Books 🕯️ Four quiet years, and one die. An inn on a road, a library in a small town, a ferry on a wide river and a salt cart on a long road — and in each of them somebody is about to turn up with something they want. DnD Journal 5e DnD Journal 5e 📓 Your character sheet remembers the numbers. This one remembers the night everything went wrong. A Year at the Ferry A Year at the Ferry 🕯️ The lantern is lit on the post and the rope is wet with mist. Somebody is coming down to the slip, and you will not know who until you roll. A Year at the Lending Library A Year at the Lending Library 🕯️ The lamp is lit and the ledger is open. Somebody is stamping the snow off their boots at the door, and you will not know who until you roll. A Year at the Wayside A Year at the Wayside 🕯️ Somebody is coming up the road. You will not know who until you roll. A Year on the Salt Road A Year on the Salt Road 🕯️ The lantern is swinging on the side of the cart and the horse knows the way. Somebody is waiting at a gate up ahead, and you will not know who until you roll.

Paperback · Amazon only

6 of them are real books

The same valley and the same road, bound and printed instead of downloaded. These are physical paperbacks and they are sold only on Amazon — everything else on this page is a file you print at home.

In print 6

8.5 × 11 inches, matte covers, colour battle maps inside the four adventure volumes.

The Lowmere Year: Winter to Summer The Lowmere Year: Winter to Summer A valley that keeps its own calendar. Eight nights of it are yours. The Lowmere Year: Summer to Midwinter The Lowmere Year: Summer to Midwinter The year turns. The valley does not get any easier. The Salt Road: The Western Stops The Salt Road: The Western Stops Sixty miles of working road. The western eight stops are yours. The Salt Road: The Eastern Stops The Salt Road: The Eastern Stops The year of ruined salt ends at the works. Eight stops to get there. Random Encounter Tables: The Complete Collection Random Encounter Tables: The Complete Collection 73 kinds of ground. 5,620 encounters. Not one of them guessed. Monster, Spell and Magic Item Cards: The Complete Set Monster, Spell and Magic Item Cards: The Complete Set The whole stat block on one panel. 878 of them, in one alphabet.

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★★★★★ 5 reviews, 5 out of 5

More encounter tables you want for your sessions. I can make elaborate encounters in practically no time at all. Quick and simple, I'd recommend for new and old DMs (as well as those short on free time).

These random encounter tables take alot of extra work (and time) out of making encounters. As someone who would spend so much time making elaborate encounters only to have the party throw a monkey wrench (or just wipe out the entire thing) and make it so I wasted time, this tables help on the spur of the moment. Highly recommend for new or experienced DMs.

Expands the potential places for encounters with the previously released tables.

An excellent addition to the previous release.

The randomness that can be generated from these random encounters makes each encounter feel unique to the moment in the session.

One good evening. Then another.

Your table is ready.

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