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About

One Room One Shots is a collection of short adventures themed around a single room or structure and is fully compatible with 5th edition. There are no complex castles or labyrinthine dungeons to get lost in, just a single location that means the adventure can be played in one session with little to no preparation required - perfect for when you want to give friends a taster of the game, or for when your group keep meaning to play and finally find an elusive evening off together, but no-one has had time to plan more!

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The adventures themselves combine combat encounterspuzzles and role-playing that all fit within the theme of the room. Each adventure contains unique lore that can be adapted to fit into any campaign you are currently running or be expanded to create a short campaign based around the one shot.  

How you utilise the adventures in the book is really up to you and - as game masters ourselves - we have aimed to make them as adaptable as possible. 

Features

The focus of the book is to provide a quick and easy way to start playing, providing the DM with everything they will need for an incredible session. Each adventure is designed with specific player character levels in mind, but also includes advice on how to adapt this as needed.

The book will contain eight complete adventures that all include the following:

Full introduction setup providing background information for the adventure, story hooks and relevant lore the GM needs to know before running the adventure.
Step-by-step breakdown of the adventure, detailing every point of interest, puzzle and encounter with clear read-aloud text and supporting illustrations. 
Unique creature stat blocks for every creature and character encountered in the adventure. 
Maps of each room available to be printed or used in VTTs, as well as alternative maps when the room undergoes drastic changes! 
Expanding the adventure section for each adventure, providing details on changing the difficulty, how to include it within a pre-existing campaign or running a mini-campaign based on the adventure with bonus encounters, additional creatures and wondrous items.

Each individual adventure sits at around 30 pages, bringing our total projected page count for the book to 300+ pages! This will be a substantial tome of content! 

We have not used AI in any of the writing or illustration of the book.

 

All the words you will read in the book have been scribbled in notebooks, typed up and then re-typed through coffee infused writing sessions. In illustrating the book, we have reached out to a variety of talented artists whose work we loved and wanted to partner with. Our aim was always to have the best artwork for the specific adventure which means we get to work with many artists and support them in the work they do bringing the creatures, objects and environments to life with such passion and detail. 

The Flayed Performer opening spread by Timur Gabdrakhmanov

We understand this is a very hot topic at the moment affecting a lot of people’s lives and we wanted to be clear and transparent in our stance so that you know what it is you are getting when supporting this campaign!

For One Room One Shots, the plan was always to fund as much as we could ourselves before turning to crowdfunding to finish and release the book with the hopes that this could lead to future opportunities to keep working and releasing similar projects.

 

Our first step on this journey was to attend Dragonmeet in London last November 2024. Dragonmeet was an amazing opportunity for us as an independent publisher to connect with like-minded people and showcase our work for the very first time! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

This was the first time we have ever attended a convention as a trader, so it was equal parts thrilling and terrifying. We had an incredible experience meeting so many people and cannot express our gratitude enough to all of those who came by our stand. We wanted to start this grand adventure to publishing with meeting people in person rather than a torrent of adverts online.

 

Now that this first step is over, our next step is to continue to build interest and a community for One Room One Shots as we work towards our goal of going to Kickstarter next year. Over the next few months we will send out newsletters detailing those plans, insights into our work in creating this book, spotlights on the artists we have worked with, free digital play tests and more! We will also be making a start on building up more of a social media presence. It helps us massively knowing people are interested in the project by signing up to our newsletter below, as well as following us and sharing our posts on various social media accounts! 

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For a project to be successful on any crowdfunding platform, it needs to be seen, so we have setup a GoFundMe to help raise marketing budget now that we have some incredible illustrations for the first three adventures in the book. We have reached out to marketing companies & project managers to seek advice on a realistic cost which this Go Fund Me reflects. 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/one-room-one-shots

 

If you are feeling generous then please check it out as everything helps and we appreciate the support!

Projects

No Short Rests! is a core team of three who hope to use One Room One Shots as the catalyst to form our own independent publishing group.

Contact

One Room One Shots and the No Short Rests! logo are registered trademarks. ©2024. All rights reserved

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