The Two Nights of Tithewick
Two nights. Three acts each. Seven encounters, four ways out. Read it once and you can run it.
A Two-Night Folk Horror for 5th Edition
Everyone in Tithewick already knows your name.
Ten finished books. Two nights of play at level 5. Read it at your table in English, Italian or German.
Instant download. Print it at home or drop it straight into your virtual tabletop.
October is short
October is short
You have decided to run something for Halloween. You have not decided what, and October is short.
You spend more time building one night than playing it.
You do not need more time. You need the village already standing.
What you get
Ten books. Three languages.
Every book is finished. Here is what each one does at your table.
EnglishItalianoDeutschSame books in all three. 1,000+ pages in all. PDF for the books, PNG for the maps, yours the moment you pay.
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The Book of Tithewick
The valley, the debt, and the rules of the parish. What the village believes, and why.
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The Harvest of Tithewick
Twenty creatures with full stat blocks. CR one quarter up to CR 10. Six families, one account.
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The People of Tithewick
Fifteen villagers. What each wants. What each knows. How each moves your Recognition.
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The Rules of Tithewick
The Recognition track, nought to six. One roll at the end. Nothing else to learn.
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What They Will Ask
Every question a table asks. The words to say out loud, and the truth underneath.
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The Six Who Came
Six characters at level 5, ready to play. Each one holds a tally card with their own name on it.
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The Handouts of Tithewick
Eight papers to print and hand over. They work in plain black and white.
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The Ground of Tithewick
Sixteen places, each on a full page plate. Twenty three plates in all.
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The Goods of Tithewick
Sixteen weapons, ten pieces of armour, twenty four items. Farm tools, mostly. That is the point.
339 pages in English. 358 in Italian. 366 in German. Nothing is a sample.
- 339 pages in English. 358 in Italian. 366 in German
- 20+ creatures with full stat blocks, up to CR 10
- 17+ battlemaps at 4K, grid size in every filename
- 2 nights of play, three to four hours each
What you actually get
A village that does the work for you
A village, not a corridor
Fifteen villagers, each with a look, a voice, one thing they want and one thing they know. Every one of them is courteous. Every one of them is counting.
A rule that carries the horror for you
Recognition runs from 0 to 6 and rises whenever the village takes note of you. A name given. A meal accepted. A thank you answered. You do not have to sell it at the table.
A world that holds together
Eight documents of canon. Twenty reality checks. The reeve, the chandler and the book always agree.
One hand, one series
Every plate is cut in the same style, on the same paper, lit by the same candle. Open the folder and it reads as one book, not as a pile of downloads.
The rule the book is built on
The only way to solve it is to become the target.
Nothing in Tithewick helps a stranger. The village only helps people it knows. So every answer you are given moves you one notch closer to being one of its own.
- 0 Unknown They are courteous and useless. Nothing out there wears your face yet.
- 1 Named Directions, gossip, the official version. Something came up carrying you, and it is in the village.
- 3 Counted They lend you what they need themselves. They greet you in streets you have never walked.
- 5 Reckoned The village acts against its own interest for you. It hides you. It lies to the reeve. Your double answers to your name, and they believe it.
- 6 Entered Everything. The village is yours. At the next bell the account is settled.
How you spend it, and how you climb back down
It is currency, not a clock
From Named upward a player can spend Recognition. Describe a villager who owes you nothing but is fond of you, say what they do, and they do it. A door opens. A cart is lent. A pursuer is sent the wrong way down the lych path. It costs one point, once per character per session, and never at six. Good tables ride the edge of five and spend at the right moment.
The way down has a floor
You can cut a notch: give up, in fiction and in front of someone, one of the things the village knows you by. Your name. Your face. A memory, and with it a skill you no longer remember having. Something you love, handed to a Guest. Each cut is worth one point and none of them come back. At the third cut there is not enough of you left for anyone to recognise, and that includes your own party in the morning.
The DM calls every rise out loud, never in secret. The table watches the count go up and knows exactly whose fault it is.
Look inside
It is laid out like a book, because it is one
One ink and a half on laid paper. A plate on every creature. A card that counts in notches, not numbers. Printed at home, it still looks like this.
What to look at while you read
On the table
- The page Two columns. A read-aloud box of sixty words or fewer. The plate sits beside the text it belongs to. Page numbers are notches.
- The Tally Card One per player. Six boxes to mark, three to cut, and on the back the line that tells them what the third cut costs.
- The plates Every creature, villager, weapon and item has one. The same hand. The same candle.
Turn the pages
Twenty two real pages. Tap any one to read it at full size.
The bestiary
Twenty things the account can make
Each one answers a question about the debt. Not one of them is a monster borrowed from another book.
Full stat blocks for all twenty, from CR one quarter up to CR 10. Tap any plate to see it whole.
The battlemaps
Seventeen maps, drawn from above
Print them, or drop them into your virtual tabletop. Every filename carries its own grid size.
4K files. Plain filenames, because some importers break on anything else. Tap a map to see it whole.
The characters
Six people, ready to play
Hand them out and start. Each one holds a tally card with their own name written on it.
Level 5. Between them a sword, a prayer, a book, a bow, a lockpick and a fiddle. None of it is the tool.
All of it, in one download
Ten books. Twenty creatures. Seventeen maps.
Six people are ready to play. The village is already standing. You only have to pick a night.
Get The Hollow Harvest
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How it reaches you
Three steps, and none of them wait on us
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Print it or load it
Plates at 300 dpi for print, maps at 4K for the table or the virtual tabletop. No app, no subscription.
Ten books, one price
Take the whole village with you
The Hollow Harvest
A Two-Night Folk Horror for 5th Edition
Ten books. The same ten in English, Italiano and Deutsch. Open any one of them.
What arrives
- 10 books 339 pages in English, laid out and finished
- 20+ creatures full stat blocks, from CR 1/4 to CR 10
- 17+ battlemaps 4K, with the grid size in every filename
- 6 characters level 5, ready to play, one tally card each
- 8 handouts print them and hand them over
- 3 languages English, Italiano, Deutsch
106+ plates at 300 dpi. Every update free, for as long as the book exists.
$39$59
Launch price until Saturday 31 October. Then $59.
- In your inbox the moment you pay.
- PDF for the books. PNG for the maps and the plates.
- A file that will not open is replaced or refunded.
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Buy it once and keep the files. Run it this October, and every October after. Digital files cannot be returned once they are downloaded, so a broken or missing file is always replaced or refunded.
Before you buy
Questions a table always asks
Short answers, in the order a table asks them. Open the one you need.
What do I actually get?
Ten books as PDFs, 339 pages in English. Seventeen battlemaps at 4K. More than a hundred plates, at print size and at screen size. It is one download, and it arrives by email the moment you pay.
Are the stat blocks complete?
Yes. Twenty creatures with armour class, hit points, speed, saves and actions, from CR one quarter up to CR 10. You do not need another book open to run a fight.
Can I use the maps in Roll20 or Foundry?
Yes. Every map is a 4K PNG, drawn from above, with the grid size written into the filename, for example (40x30). You import it and set the grid once, to the number in the name. Filenames are plain ASCII, because some importers break on anything else.
Do I have to print it?
No. Read it on a screen if you like. If you do print, the plates are 300 dpi at 2480 pixels on the long side, the pages are laid out for A4 and stay safe on US Letter, and the handouts work in plain black and white.
What if something goes wrong with my order?
Write to us. Digital files cannot be sent back once they are downloaded, and we will not pretend otherwise, but if a file is missing, broken, or will not open, we will replace it or refund you.
Is it any use after the thirty first of October?
Yes. Nothing inside it mentions Halloween. It is a two night village horror at level 5, and it runs just as well in March. October is only the best night to book.
Will it fit the campaign I am already running?
Yes. Tithewick is a village in a drained fen valley and nothing in it is pinned to a world map or a calendar. No year is ever named and every date is relative. Put it a day's ride off whatever road your party is on.
Do I need experience with horror to run this?
No. The pressure sits on the character sheet rather than on your performance. Recognition rises on its own as the village takes note of your players, so you are reading a number out loud, not acting a mood.
How long is it, and how many players?
Two sessions of three to four hours, for four to six characters at level 5.
Try it yourself
This is the card your players hold
Press anything a guest would do. Every one of them gets written down. Six marks and the parish knows your name. So does what walks the fields at night.
Try it: press one and watch the card
The Hollow Harvest
The Tally Card
Recognition how well the village knows you
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- 5
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Unknown 0
Notches cut what you gave up to be forgotten
Name
Face
Memory
Press one, and watch the card
Nobody here knows you yet. Ask a villager for help and you get a polite shrug: every check against them is at disadvantage.
Out in the fields, nothing wears your face yet.
One rise per scene in play, said out loud by the DM. Here each entry works once. Cutting takes a mark off the tally, and it costs you the name, then the face, then the memory. Three cuts and you are Hollow.
The third bell
Two entries, one name
The book found your name twice. Once as you. Once as the Guest who took it. It does not attack, and there is no saving throw: it reads, and it settles the account. You both roll. Each of you adds the villagers who would say that name for you.
You
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The Guest
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Sixteen places
One road in, one road out
Walk round. It is not far round. Some places open onto a battlemap of their own. Every one holds a piece of the story.
Every place here opens its own battlemap
Open the village: twelve places, tap one
Sixteen places fill the book. Twelve are marked here. The other four, the Chandlery, the Drowned Row, the Reeve's House and the Guest House, wait inside.
The book
See your name in the barn book
The parish writes down everyone who passes through. It is not a threat and it is not a spell. It is bookkeeping, and it has never once been wrong.
Nothing is sent anywhere. The page is drawn here, on your own screen.
Not tonight, then
Take the first scene with you
The Toll Stone: the opening twenty minutes of The Hollow Harvest. Five pages with the read-aloud, the rule that makes it work, and the battlemap it happens on. Yours for an email, and yours to keep.
The thirty first of October is a Saturday this year.
Your table is free, and the village is already standing. Two sessions, four to six players, level 5. What they do with it is theirs to spend.
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