The Night Market of Lost Things

A complete D&D 5e date night for exactly two players, and nobody has to run it. The book does the Dungeon Master's job: it reads out the scenes, runs the monsters, keeps the secrets, and answers the questions it did not see coming. You two just play.

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🌙 THE EVENING

You play two strangers who have each lost something this year and cannot quite say what. You meet at the gate of a market that only opens for two, and you have until the fifth bell to find what you lost, and to pay for it.

6 scenes, about 2-3 hours: a gate kept by a heron, a stall of letters nobody sent, a chase across the rooftops after a gang of candle-flame pickpockets, a fortune teller who only tells lies, and a hare in a waistcoat who keeps every lost thing in the world on his shelves. One fight. Most of the evening is the two of you, talking.

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🔑 HOW IT WORKS WITH NO DM

▪ Sealed pages: each of you has a page you fold before you start and only open in scene 5. It tells you what your character lost. Your partner never reads it.

▪ Moments: the market's only money. You earn them by asking each other the questions printed at the end of every scene, one honest answer at a time, and you spend them at the stalls and on the last price.

▪ Bells: failing a check never stops the story. It rings a bell, and the market closes at the fifth.

▪ Monster turn tables: on a monster's turn, the player it is not attacking rolls a d6 on its table. Nobody has to decide what the monster does.

▪ Ask the Market: a d6 table for any question the book did not see coming.

Nobody dies on market night. That is a rule, printed in the book.

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📦 WHAT YOU GET

▪ The adventure: 22 pages, in A4 and in US Letter, each in colour and in an ink-saver build

▪ 2 ready characters at level 2, every number worked out: Ash Morrow (Cleric) and Rowan Vell (Rogue). Or bring your own

▪ 2 painted battle maps, in the book and as full-size images with and without the grid

▪ 12 questions to ask each other, from light to brave

▪ 2 sealed pages, cut-out Moment coins and a Bell track

▪ A one-page reference card with the whole game on it

▪ 2 original monsters with full stat blocks and turn tables

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📖 A FEW LINES FROM INSIDE

""We open for two," it says. "Never for one.""

"Nothing there costs money. Everything costs a moment."

""Madame Ferro," she says. "I have never told the truth in my life, and I am not going to start with you. Sit down. Hands on the table.""

"To the household. The red chair is mine. The window is mine. The fish on Fridays is mine. You may stay."

""You took your time," he says. "Everybody does. Have a look. I expect you know what you are looking for by now.""

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💛 THIS IS FOR YOU IF

▪ You want a night in for two, and most D&D adventures assume four players and a DM

▪ One of you has never played, and you want something gentle to start with

▪ You like talking more than fighting, but want a little of both

▪ You want the story to keep a secret from both of you

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🎒 WHAT YOU NEED

▪ The PDF, printed or on a screen (the sealed pages work best on paper)

▪ A d20 and a d6, two pencils, and two to three hours

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📄 THE FILES

Two zip files, one for each paper size, so you only download the one you print on. Each has the colour and the ink-saver PDF, and the battle maps as images.

⬇️ Instant digital download. Nothing is posted to you.

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📜 THE SMALL PRINT

Compatible with Fifth Edition. The characters, monsters, text and art are original to One Good Evening.

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