The Drovers' Camp D&D 5e One-Shot Adventure (Level 4, 4 Players) (PDF)

Forty drovers, a hundred head of stock, and a ring of stones with a fire in it that has not been out in living memory. Nobody tends it especially. It simply does not go out.

On Tuesday it was cold. Not kicked apart, not rained on, not neglected - banked the night before by a man who has banked it for eleven years, and cold by morning with the wood still stacked in it.

Lift the stones and there is a shaft under them, and a draught coming up it that stopped three days ago.

THE CAMP HAS BEEN STANDING ON A CHIMNEY FOR TWO HUNDRED YEARS AND CALLING IT A HEARTH. Everything above ground in this adventure was true for two centuries and stops being true in the first ten minutes.

A REAL DELVE, ON A ROAD THAT MOSTLY STAYS ABOVE GROUND. If your table wants a dungeon rather than a conversation, this is the stop for it.

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
- 2 battle maps in three versions each - DM, player, and no grid, 70 px per 5-foot square, aligned for Roll20 and Foundry
- 4 ready-to-play 4th-level characters. No session zero
- 11 secrets, tables and printable handouts, plus written help for when players go sideways

PART OF THE SALT ROAD. Sixty miles, sixteen stops, each a day apart. Every one of them has noticed the same thing and not one of them has said so out loud. This adventure stands completely alone - it needs nothing from any other - but a table that plays four of them starts comparing notes without being prompted.
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.

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.