Terror at Sleetwood Village | A Horror, Murder Mystery One-Shot!
You're sent to solve the kidnappings that have been happening the same night and time every week in the village, before there no one is left to save.
$10.00
/ Session
Details
Once / Tuesday - 8:00 PM UTC
Jan 27
Session Duration / 3–4 hours
3 / 5 Seats Filled
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Meet your party members
3/5
About the adventure
This one-shot is a murder-mystery style horror adventure, made to test intermediate and above players problem solving and investigation skills, as well as combat prowess if necessary. You and your party members arrive at an isolated snowy village far north of the nearest settlement, told of a great reward to anyone who can root out the person, or thing, that has led to the disappearance of all but one of the villages infants. Some suspect demons, others fear a curse has been put down on them by some higher power, and many lock their doors and turn on their neighbors out of fear. Will you save the final child and the rest of the village? Or will Sleetwood become a frozen husk, with only the corpses to occupy its homes.
Game style
Roleplay Heavy
Puzzle / Mystery Focused
Meet the Game Master
4.9
(7)
Less than a year on StartPlaying
Highly rated for: Knows the Rules, Teacher, Inclusive
Average response time: 2 hours
Response rate: 100%
About me
Hi im Will. Mailman by day, gamemaster and map-maker at every other moment possible! I love to enable players to build relationships between themselves, their characters, and the world, as well as craft dynamic combat encounters. Lets have some fun yall!
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Creating your character
Characters will be made rules as written according to the 2024 DnD PHB (if not from the 2024 books, don't use it), starting at level 3. All backgrounds, classes and subclasses are allowed and will have standard equipment + 1 common rarity magic item. Use point buy or standard array for abillity scores. Full backstories will not necessary due to the nature of this being a one-shot, but have some idea of your character's general background and what they do when they aren't adventuring Characters can be made either on DnD Beyond and the link shared to me or simply send me a PDF version.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Please have a character ready for game night per the outline listed in the character creation section. I use discord for voice communication and a server will be made for the session. For our VTT I use Owlbear Rodeo. It is free and browser based, requiring only an email address to make an account.
What William brings to the table
Fillable versions of both character sheets as well as the lines and veils document will be provided. I create almost all the maps to be used in my adventures using Dragon Map Maker. I attempt to make combat encounters more interactive through the map design, so feel free to pick up any objects you see and throw em at a goblin! Ambient music will be done through the Discord group listening features as well as screen sharing if the situation calls for it. I sometimes will do a voice for more extreme characters ( I.E. a demon or lich would sound very different than a humanoid) but otherwise I tend to stick closely to my regular voice. I try to stick to rules as written or already discussed homebrew rules for most situations, but am willing to grant rule of cool if I feel it would enhance everyone's fun.
Homebrew rules
You roll your damage dice and attack roll dice at the same time, just for time saving purposes, and potion take a bonus action to heal.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How William creates a safe table
The lines and veils document will be sent out for everyone to complete (note: if one of the topics in the content warnings section is a hard line for you then it may be safer to not participate in this one shot). We will take a halftime break during the session to recoup and collect our thoughts and players are allowed to step out at anytime if they need a bit away from the game. X, N, & O cards will be simply messaged in the chat publicly to let everyone know how to proceed.
Content warnings
Safety tools used