The Drovers' Camp

Forty drovers, a hundred head of stock, and a ring of stones with a fire in it that has not been out in living memory.

Nobody tends it especially. It simply does not go out.

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❄️ ON TUESDAY IT WAS COLD

Not kicked apart. Not rained on. Not neglected.

Banked the night before by a woman who has banked it for eleven years — and cold by morning, with the wood still stacked in it.

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🕳️ LIFT THE STONES

There is a shaft under them.

And a draught coming up it that stopped three days ago.

⚖️ Everything above ground in this adventure was true for two centuries, and stops being true in the first ten minutes.

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🗡️ A REAL DELVE, ON A ROAD THAT MOSTLY STAYS ABOVE GROUND

If your table wants a dungeon rather than a conversation, this is the stop for it.

🎲 A 44-page one-shot adventure for D&D 5e — 3-4 hours, 4 players, level 4.

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📦 WHAT YOU GET — 43 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 no grid. 70 px per 5-foot square, aligned for Roll20 and Foundry

▪ 4 ready-to-play 4th-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 and how hard each fight is

▪ 11 secrets, tables and printable handouts

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🧂 PART OF THE SALT ROAD

Sixty miles, sixteen stops, each a day apart. Every one of them has noticed the same thing and not one of them has said so out loud.

This adventure stands completely alone — it needs nothing from any other — but a table that plays four of them starts comparing notes without being prompted.

Cotter Bray is in this one, and in six more of them.

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✨ THIS IS FOR YOU IF

▪ Your table wants an actual dungeon, not another conversation

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

▪ You like a mystery that turns into a delve halfway through

▪ You are new to running games and want the read-aloud text already written

▪ 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 — 44 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.