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Best one-shots or one-shot bundles?

Hi all, I'm in the market for some adventures/one-shots to spice up my homebrew campaign. Have you guys tried any of the one-shots or one-shot bundles on the marketplace? What did you think of them? Which would you say are the best? Thanks!
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keithcurtis
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Tales from the Yawing Portal and Ghosts of Saltmarsh have lots of short adventures in them. Individually they are very cheap. Not exactly One-Shots, but very short adventures. It might help though, to say what system you are running, incase you are not talking about 5e D&D.
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Having acquired (too) many adventures and oneshots, it highly depends on the style of content you like which one are most applicable to you. Assuming you are looking for 5e content and do not mind 3rd party content: Kobold Press has excellent one-shot bundles - and they deliver bang for the buck - i acquired everything Kobold Press and have no regrets. Dragonshorn Studios is a small shop that bundles up their adventures - though normally they take more than an evening to finish. Same goes for Elven Tower  Adventures, though their style is somewhat more bright and happy. There are many more, so the advise is to basically shop single one-shots from different creators until you find a creator you really like and then buy the bundles (which will be discounted with items bought earlier).
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@ keithcurtis  I am running 5e, yup! I'll definitely give the Yawning Portal and Saltmarsh a look, I have heard good things about the yawning portal in the past. @ Martijn S.  someone else recommended Kobold Press stuff to me the other day as well, I'll give their stuff a peek! Thanks for the suggestions!
From Wizards of the Coast there are a number of adventure compilations available: Tales from the Yawning Portal (TftYP) Ghosts of Saltmarsh (GoS) Candlekeep Mysteries (CM) Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel (JTtRC) Keys from the Golden Vault (KftGV) I've run portions of TftYP, CM, and KftGV. The last three are large compilations of short adventures.  Many can be run in one-shots.  The first two are a smaller number of longer adventures. TftYP are old-school dungeon crawls updated for 5th Edition.  They are definitely not one-shots. My CM campaign is about 10 adventures in and it's been really fun for me and my players.  The quality is a little up and down, with some of the adventures requiring some re-writing.  But with such a wide range of types of adventures, I would guess that you're very likely to find a few that will work for you and your players. I've only run the first adventure from KftGV, but it was the best one-shot I've ever run.  This compilation is all about "heists" in different settings.  I think they are going to work well in a limited-time format.  My plan is to have the 4-hour session limit work as a limiting factor for the players.  In addition to any in-game restrictions for them to finish the heist, they also have to finish the session within 4 hours or they fail.  It'll be very different from other D&D adventures I've run, but like I said, the first session was really popular.