The Coldstile Wake
Once a year the hill village of Coldstile mourns the drowning of a valley that nobody in it drowned in - two hundred people who have spent three hundred years being the only ones who were never under the water.
Get it on Etsy → Instant digital download · print at homeThis year the wake is for Old Toller, ninety-one, the oldest person in Lowmere, who left one instruction: the record press is to be unlocked at his wake by somebody who is not from Coldstile. In the frozen water meadow below the ridge, the hardest frost in forty years has cracked the ground open over stones that were cut and squared by somebody.
IF YOU HAVE RUN THE FIRST CART OR LANTERNS AT CANDLE FEN, YOUR TABLE HAS ALREADY MET THE MAN THIS WAKE IS FOR. Old Toller appears by name in both. You do not need either to run this - but if you own them, this is the first time the line spends its own history.
WHAT YOU GET - 41 pages, and 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
- 3 battle maps in three versions each: DM, player, and no grid. 70 px per 5-foot square
- 4 ready-to-play 4th-level characters
- Full stat blocks printed beside the scene that uses them
- 10 secrets, tables and handouts, and written help for when the party goes sideways
THE FILES - four PDFs: A4 and US Letter, each in colour and in a printer-friendly build. The printer-friendly version is the same book in pure white, nothing removed. Plus 9 map images.
Compatible with Fifth Edition. Instant digital download - nothing is posted.
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.
Ready to print tonight.
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