The Long Table

Once a year Lowmere puts one table down the valley road — a mile of it — and four hundred people bring a dish and sit wherever they land.

It ends the way it has ended for sixty-one years: the Alderton crock is carried to the head of the table and opened in front of everybody.

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⏳ THE JOB

Get a full crock onto that trestle, and the empty one out of sight.

Without four hundred people noticing.

And without the woman who has made it for sixty-one years finding out that anybody knows.

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😊 A KIND EVENING

Nobody in this one is a villain, and the worst thing that can happen is that somebody is embarrassed in front of their neighbours.

That is enough. It is a whole adventure.

🎲 A 41-page one-shot adventure for D&D 5e — 2-3 hours, 4 players, level 1.

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📦 WHAT YOU GET — 40 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.

Til Alderton is in this one, and in two more of them.

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✨ THIS IS FOR YOU IF

▪ You are running dnd for kids or for a family table and want stakes that are not violence

▪ You want a comedy evening that is actually funny rather than just silly

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

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

▪ 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 — 41 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.