Lanterns at Candle Fen Ghost Story Adventure – DnD 5e One Shot (PDF)

One night a year the whole valley walks up to Candle Fen, lights every niche on the hillside, and reads the dead out of the register - all nine generations of them, in order, until dawn. Nobody has ever got to the end early.

This year the reading stops. There is a gap in the register of eleven months, and somebody has cut it out.

A MYSTERY, NOT A DUNGEON. The thing waiting at the end can be ended by reading a name aloud - if the party has worked out whose name it is.

WHAT YOU GET - 40 pages, and nothing left for you to invent
- 5 scenes written out in full, with three routes to every conclusion at three different costs - so the mystery cannot stall on one failed roll
- 2 battle maps in three versions each: DM, player, and no grid. 70 px per 5-foot square
- 4 ready-to-play 3rd-level characters
- Full stat blocks printed beside the scene that uses them
- Secrets, tables and handouts, and written help for when the party goes sideways
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 6 map images.

Compatible with Fifth Edition. Instant digital download - nothing is posted.

GETTING YOUR FILES - two things worth knowing
The download does not work well from the Etsy phone app. Use a computer, or a phone browser rather than the app.
If you check out as a guest, the link in your email is the only copy you get - save the files before you close it.

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.