Frosted Glare — Adventure Module | Digital PDF

The Galecrest Inn looms above you, a gothic masterpiece with frost-covered stones gleaming in the waning light. The last remaining staff member, a trembling man named Jory Elmsworth, meets you at the door. His eyes are hollow. He leaves at first light. You are staying.

The Frosted Glare is a 30-page D&D 5e gothic horror adventure set deep in the Tempest Peaks of Eldervast — a slow-burn haunted inn scenario in which a snowstorm seals the party inside a crumbling mountain lodge teeming with restless dead, malevolent spirits, and a century of dark history embedded in its walls. Guests check in. Not all of them check out.

Inspired by the atmospheric dread of Stephen King's The Shining.

Adventure Overview

Act 1 — Arrival at Galecrest Inn: The party arrives at a legendary mountain retreat now fallen from its former glory. They meet Jory Elmsworth — the last caretaker, visibly unwell, visibly glad to leave — who provides cryptic warnings before departing in the last safe window before the blizzard closes in. The players settle into their unsettling quarters as the storm locks every exit and the inn begins to breathe.

Act 2 — Exploring the Inn: What surfaces during the second day cannot be explained away. Portraits in the Gallery of Faces shift when the firelight catches them. Ballroom music plays in an empty Gilded Room. A chair indents without a body. The party pieces together the history of Anson Marrow — the inn's final manager — and the dozen guests who vanished with him without a trace on a winter's night a century ago.

Act 3 — The Reckoning: The truth behind Galecrest Inn converges at the hedge maze outside, where a stone altar holds a dark pulsing shard and Anson Marrow makes his final intentions clear. The party must survive the inn's full supernatural arsenal — ghosts, banshees, madness, the maze itself — to put the Galecrest to rest permanently.

What's Inside

• Complete multi-floor Galecrest Inn — Grand Hall, Gallery of Faces, Gilded Ballroom, rooftop observatory, and six themed guest rooms — each keyed with read-aloud text and haunt triggers
• Three custom monsters with full stat blocks: Winifred the Ghostly Maid (Banshee), Torrence the Ghostly Bartender, and Anson Marrow — the central villain with Frostbound Command and Malevolent Aura
• Hedge maze encounter table (d8) with ghostly apparitions, frost wisps, and the altar encounter at its center
• Building tension random encounter table (d6) for Acts 2–3 including the mimic chair, phantom music, and frost-covered keys
• Short-term and long-term madness tables customized to the inn's specific horrors
• Four unique magic items: Marrow's Quill, Cloak of the Gale, Whispering Key, and a fourth attunement item
• Comprehensive history of the Galecrest Inn as a DM reference for lore delivery
• Full maps: first floor, second floor, rooftop observatory, and hedge maze

Product Details

• Format: Digital PDF — 30 pages
• System: D&D 5e compatible
• Setting: Tempest Peaks, Eldervast, World of Gaiathrae
• Tone: Gothic horror, psychological dread, haunted location
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