Krampus 5E One Shot, The Krampus Run, Christmas Horror Adventure for Levels 3–5 with VTT Battle Maps, Printable Winter RPG

December the fifth, Krampus Night. For three nights something has been taking the people of Schattwinkel from locked rooms, leaving soot on the wall above each empty bed, written in a child’s hand. Tonight, during the Krampus Run, a thirteenth runner moves among the carved masks. It has real hooves, iron bells, and it is watching the runners’ captain.

The Krampus Run is a printable Christmas horror one-shot for fifth edition (2024 rules) written for four characters of level 4, with scaling for 3–6 characters and levels 3–5. An Alpine village under a glacier, an investigation against the clock from dusk to midnight, and a twist that changes everything: the Krampus is not hunting children. It is answering a letter. An eleven-year-old girl wrote it, and the last name on her list is her father’s, and he is coming home tonight. Scary, never gory.

WHAT'S INCLUDED
• A 31-page adventure book (30 pages in A4): background, 3 hooks, one-page flowchart, 4 illustrated parts with read-aloud text, 4 endings and 3 follow-up hooks
• The Night Sheet: a dusk-to-midnight Clock, the Letter tracker and 6 birch tally cards for your players
• Illustrated village map with 9 keyed locations, a page of 6 villager portraits and 24 original illustrations
• An investigation across 8 village locations, where every clue points to the same handwriting
• 2 battle maps with keyed areas, plus VTT files: gridded and gridless, 32 × 24 squares at 150 px and 70 px, and a clean player version of the village map
• 5 stat blocks (3 original creatures including the Krampus, and 2 from the SRD 5.2.1), 2 original magic items, 5 player handouts, scaling notes and a safety tools box
• English AND Italian editions (the Italian written natively), US Letter and A4, plus ink-saving versions

Plays in one session of 3 to 4 hours, ages 14+, and no child is ever harmed. Three ways to end the night: answer the letter, challenge the Krampus to the Old Run down the mountain, or fight it on the ice. Perfect for December game nights, a holiday break in a long campaign, fans of Alpine folk horror and Game Masters who want a Christmas one-shot ready to run.

INSTANT DOWNLOAD
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LICENSE & COMPATIBILITY
Compatible with fifth edition (2024 rules).
This work includes material from the System Reference Document 5.2.1 (“SRD 5.2.1”) by Wizards of the Coast LLC, available at https://www.dndbeyond.com/srd. The SRD 5.2.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.
The Italian edition uses the Italian SRD 5.2.1, under the same license.
Made with the help of AI tools (illustrations and drafting), then designed, edited and checked by The Organized Forge.
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