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!
I ran a D&D adventure at work for two groups of our interns! They had to infiltrate a goblin den and eliminate them. The goblins had been raiding caravans along the road.
All I did was draw out a map of a cave in Roll20, filled it with some traps (like a tripwire boulder trap), added in some goblins and a goblin shaman, and created some 1st level characters for them to play. None of them had played D&D before, but we were about to play in under 3 hours.
The entrance was guarded by a goblin sleeping on the job. The first group gagged him and interrogated him. They got a lot of good info about what was going on in the cave - where everyone was, that they had a hobgoblin shaman with them, where the traps were, etc. The second group slit his throat and had a much harder time.