The Gallows Hour: A Weekend Edition

One case. One night. Eight o'clock.

An innocent man is condemned, and the city will not listen. Guide your investigators through the fogbound streets of Gravesend-on-Tyne, following clues, confronting lies, and fighting to uncover the truth before the morning execution.

Six linked locations, distinctive investigator abilities, and a visible deadline make this a focused adventure of deduction, daring, and difficult choices.

Plan one evening or a weekend gathering for this focused one-session adventure. The Game Master Book includes a six-hour running order and guidance for a condensed four-hour route.

• One evening: an estimated 4–6 hours.

• Comfortable pace: follow the six-hour running order.

• Shorter gathering: use the four-hour condensed route.

These are planning estimates. Your group's choices, pace, and time spent investigating affect the actual length.

• 20-page Game Master Book PDF: the city and case, six linked locations, clues, encounters, running order, scaling guidance, custom stat blocks, and three possible endings.

• 3-page Players' Guide and 16-page Character Pack PDFs: four fifth-level investigator builds — detective/rogue, doctor/fighter, thief/monk, and chemist/wizard — with selectable names, distinctive abilities, personal ties, private pages, and companion guidance.

• 8-page Game Master Maps PDF: a city overview, six gridded encounter maps, and a record sheet.

• 7-page Players' Maps PDF with public versions of the maps.

• 10-page Handouts PDF, two separate cover PDFs, and nine original PNG illustrations.

• Optional original Word versions of the three main books, kept in a separate folder.

• A start-here guide to the download's contents.

For 2–4 players and one Game Master, using the supplied fifth-level investigators. Designed for Fifth Edition play. Your table's Fifth Edition core books, dice, and pencils are required; a printer is useful for the supplied maps and handouts.

The adventure includes scaling for two to four players and companion guidance for smaller groups. It is an adventure supplement, not a standalone rules system or an automated virtual-tabletop module.

One ZIP download, approximately 40 MB, after successful payment. Wix provides the download on the thank-you page and in your confirmation email.

Download and extract the ZIP on a computer, then begin with START_HERE.txt. The three main books, maps, handouts, and covers are supplied as PDFs; nine illustrations are PNGs. Optional original DOCX versions of the three main books are included in a separate folder. Use a current PDF reader to read or print; a Word-compatible app is needed only if you choose the editable DOCX files.

This is a digital product with no physical shipment.