The Hundred-Year Cheese

For one hundred years the village of Marrowdown has aged a single wheel of cheese in a sealed cellar. Tonight it is finally cut.

The whole valley has come. The mayor has written a speech.

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😄 A COMIC ONE-SHOT FOR ONE EVENING

Nobody in this adventure is evil.

Something has been living down there a very long time, and it is not in a hurry.

🎲 A 47-page one-shot adventure for D&D 5e — 3-4 hours, 4 players, level 3.

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🎓 WRITTEN FOR A FIRST-TIME DM

Every check tells you what happens when they fail.

There are no blanks, no "decide what is here", no homework.

If you have never run a game in your life, you can run this one.

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📦 WHAT YOU GET — 46 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

▪ 4 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 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

▪ Full stat blocks printed beside the scene that uses them. Nothing to look up

▪ 11 secrets you can hand over wherever your players decide to dig

▪ 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

▪ Tables, handouts, and written help for when the party goes sideways

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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.

Mayor Bertrand Pell is in this one, and in two more of them.

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✨ THIS IS FOR YOU IF

▪ You want a funny dnd one shot where the disaster is the plot and nobody is a villain

▪ It is your first time behind the screen and you want every failed roll already answered

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

▪ Your table enjoys a village, a speech, and a hole in the ground more 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 — 47 pages, colour and printer-friendly

▪ US Letter — 52 pages, colour and printer-friendly

▪ 12 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.