Hi lemmings,

I’ve been asked to do DM a D&D introduction one-shot at work. I work in IT, and there are - as expected - a few nerds who are interested in dipping their toes in the warm TTRPG waters.

I’ve already run “The Wild Sheep Chase” (revised to be compatible with level 1 characters) in the past, to great success. But they want more!

Have you run short 2-3 hour one-shot adventures? Care to share them with me? I’m not against shopping around on the DM’s Guild either, but there’s ALOT. So I figured I could ask you guys to give me some pointers!

  • Druidgrove@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hey! I run a Dungeons & Dragons club after school at my job (High School Teacher) due to the nature of this club, I have a rotating cast of players and characters, so most of the things we do are one shots! Here are two that I love to run:

    1. The Family Axe - basic plot. Starts in a tavern, where the party overhears a group of dwarves discussing how their woodcutting business is going downhill. They’ve lost the family axe, and their brother is missing - apparently the woods themselves attacked their camp, and they haven’t been back. They ask the party to do two things - find the family axe, and bring back their brother if he is still alive. The camp is a few miles away, and is overgrown completely. When the party enters, they are attacked by animated trees and blights. They might find the brother (your choice, I always have them find him, and he says that he took the family axe into the woods to try to stop the woods from being crazy). He points them towards the deep woods, in which the party finds the family axe embedded into the trunk of a Gulthias tree. I always run this final combat with the tree, two swarms of ravens (the leaves of the trees) and a knight (who is animated by the power of the tree, and had been pinned to the trunk with his own sword). This quest is LOOSELY based on a Witcher III quest with some dwarves and a Leshen.

    2. Heist: The Appetite’s Hunger - I have a homebrew world in which I run various detective one-shots and criminal one-shots. This particular one starts in a bar called “The Geezer’s Bowels”. The job is to steal a gem known as “The Heart of the Iron Crucible”, which is one of a kind, and from the elemental plane of fire. The Gem is currently on loan to the Central City Museum of [whatever city you want]. There are multiple guards and security systems, so the patron gives the party some passes to case the museum during the day, and they come back at night to steal the gem.

    If you’d like maps or resources for either of these, let me know and I can post them!