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Journey to the Buried Vale

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With the snows of winter receding, the scouts of Citadel Hoarfrost have spotted an unexplored cave nearby in the Buried Vale. As their first assignment, a group of young dwarven adventurers has been selected to journey to the vale and delve the recent discovery. But is their assignment all that it seems, and what dangers await them in the Buried Vale?

Journey to the Buried Vale is a 2-hour Forgotten Realms™ adventure for a party of five 1st level dwarven adventurers set near the lands of Narfell in northeastern Faerûn. In addition to the 10-page adventure, the download also contains printable battle maps for each encounter and five pregenerated characters to expedite play.

This adventure is part of a loosely connected series that includes the titles below. You do not need to have played any of the other adventures to enjoy this one.

Journey to the Buried Vale
Journey to the Summer City
Journey on the Long Road
Journey to the High Country

If you like the art in this title, check out the rest of Matthew Richmond's work here.

As always, your feedback is welcome.

Also by Dave Zajac

Adventures

Journey to the Buried Vale: A 1st-Level Adventure Journey to the Summer City: A 2nd-Level Adventure Journey on the Long Road: A 2nd-Level Adventure The Hoarfrost Journeys: An Adventure Bundle
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Hand of the Wychlaran: A 3rd-level Adventure Hand of the Wychlaran: A 3rd-level Fantasy Grounds Adventure Journey to the High Country: A Hand of the Wychlaran Adventure Supplement The Hoarfrost Journeys: A Fantasy Grounds Adventure Bundle
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Maps

Cavern Map Pack: Digital maps for your adventures! City Map Pack: Digital maps for your adventures! Dungeon Map Pack: Digital maps for your adventures! Forest Map Pack: Digital maps for your adventures!
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Dave Z October 24, 2016 8:01 pm UTC
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Check out Murder in Velen, a new 10th-level DMs Guild adventure!

http://www.dmsguild.com/product/196220/Murder-in-Velen
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Dave Z September 29, 2016 11:46 pm UTC
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Play Journey to the Buried Vale in Fantasy Grounds with the Hoarfrost Journeys Fantasy Grounds Adventure Bundle!

http://www.dmsguild.com/product/194657/The-Hoarfrost-Journeys-A-Fantasy-Grounds-Adventure-Bundle
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Dave Z June 30, 2016 2:58 pm UTC
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Journey to the Buried Vale, Journey to the Summer City, and Journey on the Long Road are now available in one convenient adventure pack that includes high-resolution maps for online play. Check out the Hoarfrost Journeys bundle by following the link below!

http://www.dmsguild.com/product/186727/The-Hoarfrost-Journey-An-Adventure-Bundle
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Dave Z April 08, 2016 9:56 pm UTC
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A new adventure supplement, Journey to the High Country, is available now. Journey to the High Country is a supplement for the DMs Guild™ adventure, Hand of the Wychlaran. The supplement ties the adventure presented in Hand of the Wychlaran to the DMs Guild adventures, Journey to the Buried Vale, Journey to the Summer City, and Journey on the Long Road. Get it by following the link below!

http://www.dmsguild.com/product/180072/Journey-to-the-High-Country
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Matthew R April 08, 2016 1:25 am UTC
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Hi Dave, Thank you so much for the artwork credit, I really appreciate it. I have bought the 3 adventures to add to my library.

If you have any artwork requests please do not hesitate to let me know, I'm just sort of randomly putting them out there at the moment!
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Dave Z April 08, 2016 12:19 pm UTC
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Thanks, Matt! I picked up a few more of your products and left some reviews. Keep up the great work.

By the way, that barbarian looks fantastic!
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Dave Z April 07, 2016 7:11 pm UTC
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I've updated the download to include spell descriptions for all of the pregenerated spellcasters.
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Ken C March 12, 2016 1:12 am UTC
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I had Buried Vale before to, which I must say is quite good, which led me to get the rest. Just noticed that youve made Summer City free to download ... I'm going to contribute for it for the effort done. Looking forward to seeing the rest in the series (only 2 thumbs up as I only have 2 thumbs).
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Dave Z March 13, 2016 5:35 am UTC
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Thanks Ken! I'm glad you've enjoyed the adventures,
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Dave Z March 01, 2016 2:33 am UTC
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A new adventure, Journey on the Long Road, is available now! Get it by following the link below.

http://www.dmsguild.com/product/176139/Journey-on-the-Long-Road
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Dave Z February 10, 2016 11:32 pm UTC
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Journey to the Summer City, a follow up adventure to Journey to the Buried Vale, is now available for free! Get it by following the link below.

http://www.dmsguild.com/product/173584/Journey-to-the-Summer-City
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Dave Z February 08, 2016 4:49 pm UTC
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Per Lyrra's recommendation, I added a little diversity to the pregenerated characters. I also adjusted the necessary boxed text and cleaned up some other errors.
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Lyrra M February 08, 2016 9:49 pm UTC
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Wow! That is so awesome AND truly appreciated! Thank you for the awesome adventure and the update!!

I am definitely going to make a special place/location for this in my homebrewed, non-Forgotten Realms setting! :)
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Dave Z January 30, 2016 1:15 am UTC
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I just wanted to thank Josh G. for his review. Given that he isn't a fan of the adventure style, his words were doubly kind.

I have a backlog of adventures that I'd like to make available through the DMs Guild, and not all of them are the same style as Journey to the Buried Vale. But when I decided to contribute to the community, I grabbed the adventure that had the most polish and playtesting to start.

There are one or two more short convention-style adventures in the Dwarven Delves series I'd like to put up, and after that, perhaps something a little different.
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