ADV 02
Adventures & One-Shots
The Hollow King
A 5E-compatible Halloween folk-horror one-shot for 4-5 level-3 characters: on Lantern Night three children vanish from the harvest fair and the giant scarecrow on Crow Hill turns its head.
- Players and time
- 4-5 characters of level 3 (scaling for weaker parties and level 4-6); one session of 3-4 hours; pillars Social 35% / Exploration 35% / Combat 30%
- Pages
- 24
- Format
- US Letter + A4
- Language
- English, Italian (Il Re di Paglia)
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What's in the download
- 4 parts: Lantern Night (fair), Whispers in Hollowmere (open investigation), The Corn Remembers (haunted maze), Under the Willow (race against midnight)
- Fair mini-games with DCs and rewards (Bobbing for Luck, Pie Contest, Lantern Carving, Madame Zelda's Tent)
- d8 tavern rumor table
- Timeline of Lantern Night + Midnight Clock handout
- Village of Hollowmere map with 8 locations; 2 battle maps
- 6 NPC portraits
- Original creatures: The Hollow King (CR 4), Harvest Scarecrow (CR 1), Lantern Wisp (CR 1/2)
- Three endings; rewards incl. Tobias Crane's ring
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Inside pages
Lines from the book
Anyone who burns the Hollow King will have a bad harvest for seven years.
Reward: a pumpkin pie every Sunday for a year. Ask at Oakhollow's Bakery.
Every year on Lantern Night, the people of Hollowmere carve pumpkin lanterns to guide the dead home and away.
