Quest for the Vorpal Sword

A 5th level adventure for D&D

Set out into the Chasm of Grifted Shadows to search for the shards of Melaryx, Nail of the Forge Ghoul! Delve into caves, ghoul outposts, and fleshy war machines for the fragments of an awesome vorpal sword. Try to escape before time runs out and the chasm is sucked into the Shadow Realm!

What is This?

Quest for the Vorpal Sword is a point-crawl adventure designed for 5th level D&D 5e characters. It has been written so that you can play the entire adventure within a 4 hour timeframe.

You can use either the 2014 or 2024 rules to run this adventure. All monsters can be found by their bolded names within the 5.1 SRD or 5.2 SRD.

Printing Advice

You can print the tri-fold pamphlet using US Letter paper and a working printer. For settings, make sure the scale is "Default" and double-sided printing is enabled with "Flip on the Short Edge" selected.

Attribution

The adventure is copyright © Riley Clark 2026. 100% human made :)

Map by Riley Clark.

Artwork by Chaoclypse and Richard "Orc" Phillip.

Google-docs tri-fold template by Hugh Lashbrooke. Modified for US Letter by Riley Clark.

This work includes material taken from the System Reference Document 5.1 (“SRD 5.1”) by Wizards of the Coast LLC and available at https://dnd.wizards.com/resources/systems-reference-document. The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

This work includes material from the System Reference Document 5.2 (“SRD 5.2”) by Wizards of the Coast LLC, available at https://www.dndbeyond.com/srd. The SRD 5.2 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.