The Tallow Saint's Light

A one-page dungeon for 3–5 characters, levels 1–3. Eight rooms up a wreckers’ tower, 30–60 minutes, system-neutral — the dungeon climbs, and every number is load-bearing.

THE ADVENTURE

Last night’s wreck is still coming apart on the Teeth, and the tower above it is warm, swept, and lit. Inside, one family firm runs the politest protection racket on the coast: a light that charges true prices, glass masks that bend distance, and a book that turns your name into standing. They never kill. Dead men bring cutters; robbed men bring lawyers — the firm prefers lawyers.

Down in the great lens, the Light has quoted honest tariffs for 73,000 nights — fed, and paid, and never advised — and in two centuries no keeper has ever asked for the TRUE setting. Somebody is about to. Every number on the page reconciles: 4 measures a night, 6 in fog, a wreck renders about 200, the Teeth take nine ships a year. Use them at the table; the arithmetic is the adventure.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• 8 keyed rooms climbing one stair: headland gate, tallow vault, share board, wreckers’ watch, mask bench, keeper’s parlor, sea gallery, lamp room
• The tariff engine — burn rates, wreck yields, the coast’s nine-ships-a-year bill, all reconciling; checked twice
• Three ledgers as currencies: measures (fuel is money), eighths (shares are law), names (the book is standing)
• d10 tower noises + d6 "if you cross the firm" tables; three hooks
• The twist: the only honest party in the building is the fire — and for nineteen years it has been impersonating the harbor that named it
• System-neutral stat hints · read-aloud intro ≤80 words · print-ready one-page layout
• Every room has a live interaction and a price in the Light’s own currency; a print-ready map block. Pairs with 012 (Solo Oracle) to run it alone tonight.

WHO IT'S FOR

Coastal and nautical campaigns; heist tables with a bookkeeping streak; GMs who want an antagonist the party can join, rob, or reform; players who check the math (it checks out).