Five One-Shots for Two

Five complete adventures, levels 1 to 3, 203 pages in all. Not four-player adventures with a note about scaling: the encounters, the pacing and the ready characters are written for a pair. One runs it and one plays, or two play together with a light hand on the rules. Each one is a full evening, 2 to 3 hours.

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🔥 THE SMOKEHOUSES · level 1 · 39 pages

A hearth that has not been allowed to go fully cold since before anybody alive was born. Tonight it went out. The nearest fire that counts is two miles up the hill. The other family's hearth is forty feet away, behind a door that has never once been opened. Three hours up the hill, or one knock on that door.

🌸 THE FIRST BLOSSOM · level 2 · 46 pages

Once a year Nettlecombe stops feuding for a day. Nine hundred apple trees come into flower at once, and two families spend the whole day being elaborately polite. An hour before dusk, the wind stops.

🏔️ THE HIGH CUT · level 2 · 38 pages

One way through the range for forty miles, cut by hand long ago, two travellers wide. Two days ago the old lower section came down on the man who keeps the pass. His hip is broken, and the thing you are carrying argues with you the whole way.

🌱 THE SECOND THAW · level 3 · 40 pages

The day with no festival in it. Everything lent out over the winter goes home, carried on foot, settled on trust, with nothing written down. You have a day, a road, and something of somebody else's to return.

🔦 THE SISTER LAMPS · level 3 · 40 pages

Two towers above the salt pans, lit in the same minute every dusk for ninety-one years. Three nights ago the western lamp stayed dark. Its keeper says nothing is wrong with her lamp, and she is telling the exact truth. Not one fight in it.

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📦 WHAT YOU GET

▪ 5 complete adventures: 39, 46, 38, 40, 40 pages in A4, also in US Letter

▪ Each in colour and in a printer-friendly build: 20 PDFs

▪ 12 battle maps, printed at the back of each adventure

▪ 20 ready-to-play characters, 4 per adventure. They are optional: any character your players bring will do

▪ 15 printable handouts, roll tables, and secrets and clues at three different costs

▪ 18 map images for 3 of the five (The Smokehouses, The High Cut, The Sister Lamps): DM, player and no-grid versions, ready for Roll20 or Foundry

▪ Written help for when the evening goes sideways, and a section for your first time running a game

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💛 THIS IS FOR YOU IF

▪ You play D&D as a couple, or with one friend, and most adventures assume four

▪ You want a night in for two, with no party to assemble and no session zero

▪ You want five evenings ready, with the read-aloud text and the hard parts already written

▪ You are running your first game and want something small enough to finish

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📄 THE FILES

Five downloads: one zip for each adventure, the same zip that comes with each single listing (both paper sizes, colour and printer-friendly).

Not in the bundle: the single adventures also come with table-scale battle map PDFs, painting packs to show your players, and, for The First Blossom and The Second Thaw, the map images. They do not fit into a bundle, so they are only with the singles.

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. Each adventure stands alone and needs nothing from any other.

Made with AI assistance: the text, maps and paintings of these adventures 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.