Amberley Cross: The Town That Isn't There

Welcome to Amberley Cross

It's the prettiest village you've seen in years: honey-colored stone cottages, thatched roofs, a covered bridge over a slow brown river, and a market square where everyone knows your name by lunchtime.

This is the kind of small town where you could find yourself lured in for decades... except with over 80 villagers... why is it so quiet?

What it is

Amberley Cross: The Town That Isn't There is a horror adventure compatible with Daggerheart, built for about 4 players at Tier 2. It's designed to play in two sessions and covers three days of in-game time.

The first day is a genuinely good day in a lovely village. The players start to care about the people in it. By the third night, they'll need to decide what they're willing to lose to get out.

There's no single right answer. Your players can uncover the truth, fight a powerful enemy, try to save those who are trapped in the village, or end up living there for good.

What's inside

• A complete two-session adventure, organized as a three-day timeline with a location guide, so it's easy to run at the table
• A village of 18 locations and more than 20 named villagers, each with secrets that connect to the mystery
• Several endings, driven by what the players choose and who they trust
• Handouts, including letters, a missing-person poster, and a church burial record
• Maps of the village and mystery locations
• Daggerheart adversaries and environments built for the adventure
• A table of strange moments to keep the village unsettling between the big scenes

Rewards

• Villager ($10): the PDF adventure, with maps and handouts
• Innkeeper ($15): everything above, plus VTT-ready map files for your virtual tabletop
• The Taken ($30): everything above, plus you name one of the villagers who went missing on the road. Your name for them goes in the book.

Stretch goals

• [At $100 raised] Dream Cards: a printable deck of about 20 cards for the moments when the village gets into your players' heads. They're dreams of a childhood that never happened, words that come out of a player's mouth that aren't theirs, and the new life waiting for anyone who stays too long. Ready-to-print PDF sheets plus individual image files for virtual tabletops.
• [At $300 raised] 5e version: a full conversion of the adventure for 5th Edition, provided to all backers in addition to the Daggerheart version.

Who we are

Owlette Publications is a small team of friends who make tabletop games. You might know us from Rats! and The Archdruid's Field Guide. We've delivered every project we've funded!

Every word and every picture in this book is made by people. No generative AI, in the text or the art.

Content warnings

Amberley Cross is a horror adventure written for mature players. It includes the death of children, violence against a child, kidnapping, loss of identity and memory, mind control, body horror, spiders, and grief. One optional adventure hook references suicide and can be skipped entirely.

Compatibility

This product includes materials from the Daggerheart System Reference Document 2.0, © Critical Role, LLC. under the terms of the Darrington Press Community Gaming (DPCGL) License. More information can be found at https://www.daggerheart.com. There are no previous modifications by others.

Darrington Press™ and the Darrington Press authorized work logo are trademarks of Critical Role, LLC and used with permission.

Fulfillment via DriveThruRPG

Fulfillment for this project will be via digital delivery. We partner with DriveThruRPG for all fulfillment, and emails with redemption instructions will be sent out when the project is completed.