The Hollow Crown
A grim, fully-illustrated campaign for levels 1–10. Claim a cursed throne, outwit a court of liars, and decide what a kingdom is worth.
Why GMs love it
248 pages, zero prep nights
Read-aloud boxes, scaling tables, and a session-by-session pacing guide.
24 battle maps included
Gridded, gridless, and day/night variants — drag straight into your VTT.
40+ NPCs with secrets
Every courtier has a motive, a lie, and a stat block ready to roll.
Hyperlinked & bookmarked
Tap any monster, item, or location to jump there — built for screens.
About this adventure
The old king is dead, and the crown he wore was never meant for mortal heads. In The Hollow Crown, your party arrives in Greyhollow on the eve of a succession that half the realm would kill to control — and the other half would kill to prevent.
What begins as a simple escort job unravels into a web of court intrigue, buried history, and a curse that feeds on ambition. Players investigate, negotiate, and fight their way through a kingdom where every ally has a price and every throne has a cost.
What's inside
- A complete 8–12 session campaign for levels 1–10, with guidance for running it as a sandbox or a linear arc.
- Five fully-mapped locations, from the rot-veined Undercourt to the storm-wracked lighthouse of Saint Velm.
- A reputation system that tracks how four noble houses respond to the party's choices.
- Printable handouts, letters, and a foldable map of Greyhollow.
- A bestiary of 22 new creatures, including the Hollow Crown itself.
System & compatibility
Written for the 5th edition of the world's most popular roleplaying game. Includes conversion notes for system-neutral play, and ships with VTT-ready map files and a module export for Foundry VTT.
This is a community creator title published independently on StoryForge. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any game publisher.
Details
- System
- D&D 5e
- Page count
- 248
- Level range
- 1–10
- Formats
- PDF, Softcover, Hardcover
- File size
- 86 MB
- Includes
- 24 VTT maps, 40+ NPCs
- Released
- March 2026
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Ashfall Press
- License
- Personal use, DRM-free
Ratings & reviews
The prep work is genuinely done for you
I dropped this into a Thursday game with two hours' notice and it carried me for six sessions. The reputation system had my players arguing in character for an hour. Worth triple the price.
The hardcover is gorgeous
Foil stamping, ribbon marker, lay-flat binding. It looks like something off a shop shelf, not a print-on-demand. Got the PDF instantly and the book shipped in four days.
Maps alone are worth the bundle
The 24 battle maps come pre-lit with night variants. I run Foundry and the module import just worked. Knocked one star only because I wanted even more of the city.