First Quest – Beginner Fantasy One-Shot Kit

First Quest is a free, printable fantasy one-shot kit made for people trying tabletop role-playing for the first time.

I originally created it for my son and his friends. They wanted to try a D&D-style adventure, while I would be DMing for the first time too. So I wanted to keep the things that make tabletop RPGs fun & dice, character sheets, exploration, choices, combat, loot and ridiculous ideas, while making everything easier to understand and run.

The adventure is designed for a single session of a few hours.

Players can explore a tavern and city, investigate a royal library, travel through the forest, discover a ruined shrine and eventually reach the castle for the final confrontation.

Included

Characters

• Beginner-friendly Level 1 character sheets
• Two visual character sets
• Fighter, Rogue, Ranger, Cleric, Wizard, Bard and Barbarian
• Player quick guide

For the DM

• DM cheat sheet
• Enemy, boss and NPC cards
• Quest items and clues
• Printable encounter maps
• Shop, weapons, potions and odd items
• Quick preparation material for a first-time DM

Everything is designed for black-and-white A4 home printing.

You will need

A set of RPG dice, pencils, printed sheets and a few tokens, coins, LEGO pieces or miniatures to represent characters and enemies.

About this project

This is a small fan-made project created for fun and to help new players experience their first tabletop adventure.

The adventure takes inspiration from the kind of classic fantasy stories I grew up with, including the spirit of the 2000 Dungeons & Dragons movie, but was adapted into a short beginner one-shot for my own table.

The artwork in this project was created with AI image-generation tools and then selected, arranged and adapted for this free printable set.

Free to download.