ADV 05
Adventures & One-Shots
The Honey Wake
A 5E (2024) folk horror one-shot for four or five level 2 characters: guests are welcomed to the too-perfect valley of Sweetcombe on the night its dead are sealed in golden wax and carried into the hill.
- Players and time
- 4-5 characters of level 2 (scaling for 3-5 characters and level 3); 3-4 hours; ages 14+; 2024 rules / SRD 5.2.1.
- Pages
- 26
- Format
- A4 and US Letter
- Language
- English, Italian (La Veglia del Miele)
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What's in the download
- Adventure overview, At a Glance, The Two Tracks (Honeyed + Suspicion), safety tools (pp. 3-4)
- Running the Wake one-page flowchart (p. 5)
- Valley of Sweetcombe map with 9 locations; The People of Sweetcombe with portraits (pp. 6-7)
- Part One: Noon in Sweetcombe (fair, welcome, sweet pressure d6, what the villagers say) (pp. 8-9)
- Part Two: The Long Afternoon (d8 rumors, six locations, afternoon events) (pp. 10-12)
- Part Three: The Honey Wake (feast, Covenant Stone, the Sweet Sleep) + Hive Gate battle map (pp. 13-15)
- Part Four: Into the Hill + Hive Heart battle map (pp. 16-19)
- Endings, rewards, The Warden's Staff, Mask of the First Warden (p. 20)
- Appendix: creatures; player handouts; the Clock & ribbons (pp. 21-25)
This page is safe to share with your players or guests: it does not reveal the culprit, the solution or any answer.
Inside pages
Lines from the book
The honey tastes of iron this year. The bees are restless.
Nobody in Sweetcombe has died young in three hundred years.
In the middle of the valley rises a smooth round hill with a round oak door in its side, like a closed eye.
