TBCC 2026: Saturday One-Shots!

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Saturday at TBCC is loaded with thirteen one-shot adventures! Play a city-crushing kaiju, explore a jungle pyramid, survive Wonderland, cause problems as a goblin, race through a sabotaged magical train, investigate Fogbound Lake, battle your way out of Hell, and much more. Choose the game you'd like to play and select the number of tickets you need to reserve your seats!

Here's what we're offering Saturday!

Big Mischief in Little Thimblewick

9:30 AM to 12:30 PM

DM: Rick
System: D&D 5E 2024
Level: 5
Player Experience: Beginners Welcome
Tone: Action-Packed, Lighthearted, Heroic, Fantasy
Content Warnings: Fantasy Violence, Kidnapping
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Players Should Bring: Not specified

Game Description:
Trapped among pint-sized villains and gigantic dangers, the heroes must rescue a stolen love and save a tiny kingdom before darkness falls... forever.

Additional Information:
LGBTQIA+ friendly.

The Devil's Tide

10:00 AM to 1:00 PM

DM: Peter
System: D&D 5E 2014
Level: 5
Player Experience: Some Experience Helpful
Tone: Action-Packed, Comedic, Swashbuckling Adventure, Pirate Fantasy, Cinematic Finale
Content Warnings: Fantasy Violence, Realistic Violence, Graphic Violence, Undead, Demons / Devils, Execution, War
Pregenerated Characters: Yes, but players may bring their own characters
Players Should Bring: Dice and pencil

Game Description:
The island city of Nueva Havanna stands upon the warm shores of Isla Verdad, the largest and wealthiest port in the Azure Sea. Built atop gleaming white limestone cliffs overlooking a brilliant turquoise harbor, its colorful districts are alive with merchants, sailors, artificers, and adventurers from every corner of the known world.

Nueva Havanna serves as the home port of the Royal Azure Fleet, a vast armada charged with protecting the kingdom's trade routes and escorting immense treasure convoys laden with gold, rare spices, enchanted relics, and magical resources from across the empire.

Where wealth gathers, however, so too do those who would claim it. Privateers, foreign merchants, smugglers, bounty hunters, spies, and notorious pirate crews all descend upon Nueva Havanna seeking opportunity. Though the governor and Royal Azure Fleet maintain strict order within the city's walls, an uneasy understanding has endured for generations: so long as no blood is spilled in the streets and no ship threatens the Fleet itself, business continues.

It is often said that every coin earned upon the Azure Sea eventually passes through Nueva Havanna.

Until today.

Additional Information:
The important thing is to enjoy the story and have fun!

Kaiju Unleashed: Battle for San Franyko

10:00 AM to 1:00 PM

DM: Jacob
System: Savage Worlds
Level: Novice
Player Experience: Beginners Welcome
Tone: Action-Packed, Lighthearted, Comedic, Sci-Fi
Content Warnings: Character Death
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Players Should Bring: Nothing

Game Description:
When humanity's weapons failed, Earth didn't call for heroes. It woke up giant monsters.

Step into the boots and claws of colossal Titan-class kaiju in this high-octane Savage Worlds adventure. The world is on the brink of total annihilation, caught between invading alien abominations, ancient rival Titans, and terrified human militaries slinging nukes.

Will you destroy the world to save it or protect the tiny creatures scuttling beneath your heels?

The God Beneath

11:00 AM to 2:00 PM

DM: Juan
System: D&D 5E
Level: 10
Players: 4 to 6
Player Experience: Some Experience Recommended
Tone: Dark, Horror, Survival, Suspenseful, High Stakes, Emotional
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Runtime: 3 Hours

Game Description:
The jungle stopped making noise three days ago. Then the bodies started returning.

No birds. No insects. No wind. Something inside the ancient pyramid has learned how to steal more than lives. It takes memories. It takes names. Sometimes it gives them back wrong. Thirty-two hunters entered the ruins. One crawled out alive. He carved a warning into his own arm because he could no longer remember how to speak it: DON'T LET IT KNOW YOUR NAME.

Your expedition has one night to reach the summit and restore a failing seal. Before play begins, every character receives a private secret. Some could save the group. Some could destroy it. Some will make you question why another hero came at all. No character is predetermined to betray the party. What you do with the truth is yours.

The physical temple becomes a survival-horror pressure cooker. Corruption strips away identity. Characters recover pieces of themselves by trusting one another, exactly when the adventure gives them reasons not to. Face lethal fights, bargains spoken in the voices of people you miss, and decisions where the safest choice may also be the cruelest.

Character death is possible. Betrayal is possible. Neither is required. This adventure is best for players who enjoy horror, secrets, moral tension, and character-driven choices under pressure.

We're All Mad Here

12:00 PM to 3:00 PM

DM: Shane
System: Cypher System
Level: 3
Player Experience: Beginners Welcome
Tone: Action-Packed, Lighthearted, Heroic, Whimsical, Fantasy
Content Warnings: Fantasy Violence, Death, Character Death, Claustrophobia
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Players Should Bring: Dice and pencil

Game Description:
Wonderland is breaking. Can your party save it? Can they even find it... or will they go mad in the process?

We Be Goblins!

1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

DM: Sarah
System: D&D 5E 2024
Level: 1
Player Experience: Some Experience Helpful
Tone: Lighthearted, Comedic, Chaotic, Fantasy
Content Warnings: Fantasy Violence, Animal Harm, Fire, Cannibalism
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Players Should Bring: Dice

Game Description:
The players are small, green, pyromaniacal murder hobos on a quest for fireworks. They'll get to eat slugs, ride a pig, and go after a cannibal witch. If you've ever wanted to play a chaotic little goblin, here's your chance.

Additional Information:
The final boss is a cannibal witch, hence the content warning, but cannibalism is not a major plot point.

The Tournament of Nauts

1:30 PM to 4:30 PM

DM: Bruce
System: D&D 5E 2024
Level: Tier 2, Levels 5 to 10. Pregenerated characters are Level 6.
Player Experience: Beginners Welcome
Tone: Action-Packed, Epic, Fantasy
Content Warnings: Fantasy Violence, Animal Harm, Monsters / Creature Horror
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Players Should Bring: Dice

Game Description:
You and your comrades have been diligently adventuring for several years now! You all receive a letter inviting you to join a prestigious adventurers' guild and group. When you arrive, you discover that all is not what it seems. Will the party be able to escape, or are you now trapped in a blood vow?

A Wizard's Guide to Tax Evasion

1:30 PM to 4:30 PM

DM: Sarah
System: D&D 5E 2014
Level: Not Provided
Player Experience: Beginners Welcome
Tone: Lighthearted, Comedic, Suspenseful, Whimsical, Chaotic, Fantasy
Content Warnings: Body Horror, Jump Scares, Monsters / Creature Horror, Insects, Fire, Other
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Players Should Bring: Dice

Game Description:
The kingdom has sent several tax collectors to the home of the great wizard Archibald Quill. None have returned. The party has been recruited to return to the kingdom with either Quill or his owed taxes and fines. Expect absurd traps, strange puzzles, magical creatures, and the opportunity to make an administrative problem significantly worse.

Additional Information:
This is a campy wizard tower adventure.

Organizer Note:
The character level was not provided, and "Other" was selected as a content warning without an explanation.

The Lost Children of Hamlin

2:30 PM to 5:30 PM

DM: Stephen
System: Cypher System
Level: Beginner
Player Experience: Beginners Welcome
Tone: Action-Packed, Dark, Horror, Western, Historical, Spooky
Content Warnings: Fantasy Violence, Body Horror, Psychological Horror, Death, Child Endangerment, Animal Harm, Monsters / Creature Horror, Occult Themes, Possession, Mind Control, Alcohol Use
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Players Should Bring: Nothing

Game Description:
Welcome, Family, to Old Gods of Appalachia. It is 1897 Kentucky, and you and your kin, if y'all have them, are journeying south along a wagon trail when some trees block the way. Luckily, you saw a small logging town by the name of Hamlin a little way back where you can hole up while the way gets cleared.

At first glance, Hamlin is simply weary. The buildings sag. The people speak in whispers. But beneath the rot and silence, something coils. The menfolk vanished, lured away by promises of work on a railroad line that never wrote back. And now, the children are disappearing.

Is this just the slow decay of a town outliving its use... or is something older, hungrier, choking the life from it?

Pull your coat tight. The woods are watching. And something is stirring in the soil.

Additional Information:
The setting is based on the Old Gods of Appalachia podcast.

The Emberlight Express

3:30 PM to 6:30 PM

DM: Nadia
System: D&D 5E 2024
Level: 8
Player Experience: Experienced Players
Tone: Action-Packed, Heroic, Suspenseful, High Stakes, Fantasy
Content Warnings: Fantasy Violence, Death, Character Death, Monsters / Creature Horror, Blood, Kidnapping, Fire
Pregenerated Characters: Yes, but players may bring their own characters
Players Should Bring: Nothing specified

Game Description:
All aboard! Next stop... adventure!

The party embarks on the incredible Emberlight Express, a train fueled by ingenuity and fiery magic. Jealous villains looking to ruin the Emberlight's reputation have sabotaged the route, sending it speeding toward disaster!

Can the characters reach the front of the train in time, or is this ride their last?

Things Go To Hell

4:30 PM to 7:30 PM

DM: Max
System: D&D 5E 2014
Level: 7
Player Experience: Beginners Welcome
Tone: Lighthearted, Fantasy
Content Warnings: Fantasy Violence, Undead, Monsters / Creature Horror, Demons / Devils
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Players Should Bring: Dice and pencil

Game Description:
When the wizard Yrdris made a deal with a devil to take possession of an infernal tower spun from shadow in exchange for his eternal soul, he expected to find a way around the contract before his demise. He was wrong.

Upon his death, the tower was whisked away to Hell along with everything inside. Unfortunately, several beings still within were considered the wizard's property and therefore now belong to Hell. If they can find the wizard's soul somewhere within the tower, however, they may be able to return home.

Things Go To Hell is a short adventure where the characters take on the roles of forgotten "property" belonging to a deceased wizard, all caught up in the red tape of an infernal contract.

The Mystery of Fogbound Lake

5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

DM: Benjamin
System: D&D 5E 2014
Level: 6
Player Experience: Beginners Welcome
Tone: Action-Packed, Lighthearted, Comedic, Heroic, Mystery, Epic, Whimsical, Chaotic
Content Warnings: Fantasy Violence, Monsters / Creature Horror
Pregenerated Characters: Yes, but players may bring their own characters
Players Should Bring: Nothing

Game Description:
You are part of a guild setting out on a journey to a magical place called Fogbound Lake. Rumors say the lake is always covered in fog for unknown reasons. There is another, more interesting rumor: a magical item called a Timegear rests here, keeping the planet from falling into a paralyzed state.

The guild has no bad intentions. They want to see it with their own eyes and ensure its safety. Whether you have other intentions or not, seeing the Timegear is very enticing.

Additional Information:
This one-shot is based on Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky but has been changed to fit the D&D setting. Do not expect a one-to-one recreation.

Scry, Scry, My Little Eye: Grimtooth's Variant

5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

DM: Matt
System: D&D 5E 2014
Level: 5
Player Experience: Some Experience Helpful
Tone: Fantasy
Content Warnings: Fantasy Violence, Gore, Monsters / Creature Horror, Spiders, Snakes, Insects
Pregenerated Characters: Yes
Players Should Bring: Dice

Game Description:
Scry, Scry, My Little Eye is a one-shot adventure featuring battle maps and cards from Free RPG Day 2025 and using a set of Dungeon Designer Cards as an adventure generator.

Grimtooth, hearing of the success of Sazovar's hero-tested dungeon, offers the characters a job: test the new and improved dungeon traps he has designed and built. All they have to do is survive and locate ten runes hidden throughout the dungeon. If they succeed, they'll be rewarded 2,000 gp for their efforts.

Grimtooth will monitor their progress and, in return, promises no fatalities, even if it appears that the entire party has been killed.