Puzzles are absolutely my groups favorite flavor of DnD. My idea for a similar adventure (I have yet to implement this) is to strip down a scenario from Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective and reskin the characters and background. It would take a bit of work, particularly implementing the...
This would be perfect. I'm still holding out for the dream WotC licensed app that does this with some customization features.
Flipping through adventures and monster manuals during play and or making countless photocopies is by far the biggest annoyance of DMing for me.
I'd just start the players on the road with the wagon Gundren paid them to take to phandelver. To make its a pure one shot, have one of the players be the nephew/niece of Gundren, who is being held captive by Klarg in his den.
I was the DM for 6 and it took us right at 4 hours from Gundren...
Wow this is awesome! I'm gonna tinker with the stats a bit and run this for my niece and nephews with their lvl 1 characters. I have been looking for a good one shot. Thank you for the upload!
I'll have to take a look at the random tables as well.
I started a campaign for my two experienced older brothers and their inexperienced children, and they had a blast with the random backgrounds, which initially I thought was a waste of time but it added so much to the role playing aspect.
Advantage/Disadvantage is universally liked.