The Long Table — a 5e-compatible one-shot

A 40-page one-shot adventure for D&D 5e — 2-3 hours, 4 players, level 1. Everything is written out: the scenes, the maps, the stat blocks and four ready characters. A4 and US Letter, colour and printer-friendly.

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.

An eleven-year-old lifted the lid this morning. It is empty.

You have until the puddings to 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.

WHAT YOU GET - 39 pages, and 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
- 3 battle maps in three versions each: DM, player, and no grid. 70 px per 5-foot square
- 4 ready-to-play 1st-level characters. No session zero
- Full stat blocks printed beside the scene that uses them
- 11 secrets, tables and handouts, and written help for when the party does something you did not plan for

WRITTEN TO BE PLAYED WITH CHILDREN AT THE TABLE. Nobody is hurt in this adventure and nothing is worth money - the only fight is six geese, and the text says plainly what they do instead of hurting anybody.
THE FILES - four PDFs: A4 and US Letter, each in colour and in a printer-friendly build. The printer-friendly version is the same book in pure white, nothing removed. Plus 9 map images.

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.