Bell Founding

Marrowdown casts one small bell a year, hangs it on a frame that already holds two hundred and eight others, and rings it once.

Nobody living can tell you what the day marks. Not one year has been missed.

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🔥 THIS MORNING THE MOULD CRACKS

Before the bronze has set.

The shed is burning. Five things in it are worth carrying out.

⏳ There are four of you, and about ten minutes before the metal sets — and whatever is not moved by then is where it stays.

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🛡️ THE SAFEST ONE TO START WITH

Anybody who goes down is dragged clear by the crowd. It is in the stat block.

The only real stakes are what gets saved in the next ten minutes, and what does not.

⭐ If somebody at your table has never played before, this is the one to hand them.

🎲 A 39-page one-shot adventure for D&D 5e — 2-3 hours, 4 players, level 1.

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📦 WHAT YOU GET — 38 pages, nothing left for you to invent

▪ 5 scenes, every one written out in full: read-aloud text, what happens if they fail, what to do if they skip it

▪ 2 battle maps in three versions each — DM, player, and a copy with no grid. 70 px per 5-foot square, so it drops straight into Roll20 or Foundry already aligned

▪ 4 ready-to-play 1st-level characters, finished — ability scores, armour class, hit points, attacks, spells and gear. Hand them out and roll

▪ Every character in it, player and NPC alike, has a drawn portrait

▪ A plain-English glossary of the basic rules words — DC, saving throws, advantage

▪ A section for your first time running a game

▪ A summary up front listing every scene with its page

▪ 11 secrets, tables and printable handouts

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🗓️ PART OF THE LOWMERE YEAR

Sixteen adventures in one valley, spring to winter, collected in one campaign book with a finale that is not sold on its own.

This adventure stands completely alone — it needs nothing from any other — but a table that plays four of them starts seeing the year take shape.

Ordway Peel is in this one, and in two more of them.

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✨ THIS IS FOR YOU IF

▪ Somebody at your table has never played D&D before

▪ You want a beginner dnd one shot where nobody can lose a character on night one

▪ You want a dnd one shot that fits in an evening and finishes

▪ You would rather run a rescue against a clock than a dungeon

▪ You run on Roll20 or Foundry and want maps that import at the right scale

▪ You want to hand out finished characters instead of spending session one building them

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📄 THE FILES

Four PDFs, plus the maps.

▪ A4 — 39 pages, colour and printer-friendly

▪ US Letter — 46 pages, colour and printer-friendly

▪ 6 map images

🗺️ The battle maps also print at table scale — two extra PDFs, A4 and US Letter, lay every map out at one inch per five-foot square across numbered sheets with a cut line. Print them at home, tape them together and put miniatures on them.

The printer-friendly build is the same book in pure white, nothing removed.

⬇️ Instant digital download. Nothing is posted to you.

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📜 THE SMALL PRINT

Compatible with Fifth Edition.

Made with AI assistance: the text and maps of this adventure were written and generated with AI, then edited, checked and laid out by hand.

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🕯️ ONE GOOD EVENING

Games for a table, and for a chair by the fire.