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!
The adventures themselves combine combat encounters, puzzles 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.
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.
With that in mind, we will be launching our Kickstarter landing page in November to coincide with our attendance at Dragonmeet in London on Saturday 30th November 2024.
Dragonmeet is an amazing opportunity for an independent publisher to connect with like-minded people and gives us a chance to showcase our work in more detail! We will also have Dragonmeet exclusive items for sale to help continue to fund the project.
Following Dragonmeet, we will begin sending out weekly updates and design diaries as we build up to the launch of the Kickstarter early 2025. If you would like to sign up for these updates, please enter your email below to subscribe to the future newsletter. We will only use your email for updates and marketing related to One Room One Shots. A welcome email will be sent when you sign up so please check your junk folder if it doesn't come through!
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