The Second Thaw

A Dungeons & Dragons night in for two.

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💛 FOR EXACTLY TWO PEOPLE

One runs it, one plays — or two play it together with a light hand on the rules.

No party to assemble. No five diaries to line up. No session zero.

An anniversary or Valentine's gift that takes one evening, and is over by bedtime.

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🌱 THE DAY WITH NO FESTIVAL IN IT

Two weeks after the first cart gets through, the work starts again and the valley goes back to being ordinary.

Everything that was lent out in the winter goes home — tools, stock, a plough, a pair of hands. Carried on foot, settled on trust, with nothing written down anywhere.

You have a day, a road, and something of somebody else's to return.

🎲 A 40-page duet adventure for D&D 5e — 2-3 hours, 2 players, level 3.

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⚖️ COMBAT-LIGHT, AND THE ENDING IS A CHOICE

There is a fight if you want one.

The question at the end has no correct answer — and it is asked of the two of you, not of a party.

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📦 WHAT YOU GET — 39 pages, nothing left for you to invent

▪ 5 scenes written out in full, balanced for two rather than four: read-aloud text, what happens if they fail, what to do if they skip it

▪ 3 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 3rd-level characters, finished — ability scores, armour class, hit points, attacks, spells and gear. Pick one each and start

▪ Every character in it, player and NPC alike, has a drawn portrait

▪ 2 full stat blocks, printed beside the scene that uses them

▪ 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

▪ 10 secrets, tables and handouts, and written help for when it goes somewhere you did not expect

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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.

Wren Sedge is in this one, and in three more of them.

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✨ THIS IS FOR YOU IF

▪ There are two of you and you have stopped waiting for a group of five

▪ You want a two player dnd adventure written for two, not a party module with the numbers halved

▪ You want a quiet evening in that finishes, not a campaign that needs a calendar

▪ 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 are looking for a gift for somebody who plays, and you intend to play it with them

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📄 THE FILES

Four PDFs, plus the maps.

▪ A4 — 40 pages, colour and printer-friendly

▪ US Letter — 46 pages, colour and printer-friendly

▪ 9 map images

🗺️ The 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.