The Second Thaw — a 5e-compatible duet adventure

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

Two weeks after the first cart gets through, Lowmere has a day with no festival in it. The work starts again, the valley goes back to being ordinary, and everything that was lent out in November 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.

FOR EXACTLY TWO PEOPLE. One runs it, one plays - or two play with a light hand on the rules. No party to assemble, no five diaries to line up, no session zero.

WHAT YOU GET - 39 pages, and nothing left for you to invent
- 5 scenes written out in full, balanced for two rather than four
- 3 maps in three versions each: DM, player, and no grid. 70 px per 5-foot square
- Ready-to-play 3rd-level characters, printed and done
- 2 full stat blocks, printed beside the scene that uses them
- 10 secrets, tables and handouts, and written help for when it goes somewhere you did not expect

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.
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.

An anniversary or Valentine’s gift that takes one evening.

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.