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DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor out now!

After an awfully long time fidgeting with the layout and presentation of this thing, we’re finally releasing DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor! This follow-up to DD-01 can easily be run as a standalone house of horrors-style 5th edition adventure as it contains all the lore you need. But there are a few connections to DD-01 that can really expand on that adventure’s storyline, or inspire even bigger adventures elsewhere!

Easy Reference Layout

What we’re hoping you find really useful is the layout: it uses a landscape format for presentation on your computer screen, or if you print it out, this format allows quick and easy reference of maps and room descriptions all in a simple, minimal spread. You can even just put up the current level on your DM screen since none of them are more than 3 or 4 pages.

Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor adventure layout

Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor adventure layout

Monster & Treasure Cards

The appendices include ALL the monster and magic item stat blocks, and they are formatted for ease of use as well! The monster stat blocks are either in 2 column spreads or entire pages, so you can cut up the spreads and arrange the monsters by encounter or use these as initiative cards/tents, or whatever.

Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor monster appendix

Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor monster appendix

Magic items are similarly laid out so that they don’t break over columns whenever possible, allowing you to chop them up and use them as reference cards or player handouts without any fuss.

Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor magic item "cards"

Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor magic item “cards”

SRD Reference Links & VTT Support

Plus, there’s an appendix of handy lists to help make prep way easier. And on top of that, we’ve linked all the monsters, traps, and magic items throughout the text of the adventure. So, if you hate our layout tricks, just pull up the stats (from 5eSRD.com) on your own and format them however you like, even if that means just having a billion tabs open in your browser of choice. For VTT folks, this is a great way to get what you need to import into your VTT of choice. Oh, and all the maps are included in a separate appendix, for easy printing or porting into your VTT of choice.

Enjoy the adventure!


If you like DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor, check out the start of this storyline in DD-01 The Darkness Beneath Dalentown. You can also pick up the setting — including not one but three settlements full of plot hooks, NPCs, new monsters, and more — in Adventures in Dalentown. Both can be found at DTRPG and itch.io; links are in our shop!

Lost Mine of Phandelver and Dragon of Icespire Peak in Greyhawk

Since chances are high that I’ll be running a combined Lost Mine of Phandelver and Dragon of Icespire Peak campaign set in Greyhawk in the not-too-distant future, I figured I’d share some of my work. Which, of course, is built on the shoulders of giants. A Fifth of Greyhawk posted about this very same thing back in 2018, so I’ve borrowed from that, created player and DM hex maps, and made a few tweaks. Check it out below.

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Adventures in Dalentown for 5th Edition is now revised and expanded

Opportunity. Intrigue. Welcome to Dalentown…revised and expanded!

We’ve just updated the DriveThruRPG and itch.io files for Adventures in Dalentown for 5th Edition (pick it up in the shop if you don’t already have it). The additions to this release include improved layout and bookmarking, but it’s not just a facelift: we’ve added dozens of new adventure seeds, encounter tables, and a lot more setting information that you can use as-is or make your own.

What’s Inside?

Here are some of the improvements:

  • About a dozen new monster and NPC stat blocks.
  • An NPC Index organizing the named characters by location or alternatively by name.
  • New NPC movers-and-shakers that open tons of adventures in politics, or in the literal underworld beneath Dalentown.
  • New encounter tables that take into account different adventuring tiers: tailor this campaign setting to any level!
  • Dozens of new and expanded adventure seeds, including pre-made encounter groups.

We didn’t forget about players! In addition to the 5 new Backgrounds and 3 new Factions that were available from the beginning in this book, we’ve added a series of tables for generating or inspiring character backstory tied to the setting. Who is your character, and who do they know? What big problem has motivated them to go adventuring, or has plagued them since they’ve become an adventurer? Find out using the all new backstory generator!

Get the Updates

If you already picked up Adventures in Dalentown for 5th Edition previously, the updates are free. Just check your DriveThruRPG or itch.io Library and download the new files (conveniently named with “v2” in there so you know what’s what!). If you haven’t checked out this setting, now’s the time! It’s got the perfect homebase for your adventuring campaign, filled with intrigue and opportunity (Dalentown), tales of pastoral fantasy (Rock Down), or arcane mysteries and infernal machinations (The Wizard’s Enclave)! Get it in our shop.

Out Now and Coming Soon

Don’t forget you can expand your campaign with the FREE Tales from Dalentown: Trueland Gazetteer for 5th Edition. It’s a short supplement with a neat campaign setting skeleton you can mold however you want. We even released several versions of the map alongside the Worldographer files in this post, so you can truly modify it to your heart’s content!

Players and GMs should look out for our next release, Folk of Dalentown Volume 1, featuring three new playable ancestries (“races”), each with specialized feats, NPC and monster stat blocks, and a fully developed settlement in the Western Frontier hex map!

Welcome to Dalentown!


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Tales from Dalentown: Trueland Gazetteer Western Frontier Hex Maps

Want some different versions of the Western Frontier map from Tales from Dalentown: Trueland Gazetteer for 5th Edition? Here ya go!

These maps are great for building your own hexcrawl campaign. We’ve got labeled and unlabeled versions, and we’ve also provided the raw Worldographer (AKA ‘Hexographer II’) file for you to manipulate to your heart’s content. You can pick up Worldographer here from Inkwell Ideas.

Get all these maps and the Worldographer file from this Google Drive folder. Check out the maps below:

Labeled map:

The Western Frontier hex map

The Western Frontier hex map

Labeled map with light grid:

The Western Frontier hex map (light grid)

The Western Frontier hex map (light grid)

Unlabeled map with light grid:

The Western Frontier unlabeled hex map with grid

The Western Frontier unlabeled hex map with grid

Pick up Tales from Dalentown: Trueland Gazetteer for 5th Edition free or PWYW at DriveThruRPG or itch.io today!


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The Tales from Dalentown Series Launches with a Free Gazetteer

Today we launched a spin-off of our popular Dalentown series, expanding the world and adding new opportunities for adventure. Say hello to Tales from Dalentown! This series boasts new adventures, adventure sites, and lots of material to help a GM get up and running quickly. In fact, it’s geared towards populating a hexcrawl-style campaign. So first thing’s first: the inaugural release is a hex map and gazetteer, and it’s FREE!

What Do You Get?

Tales from Dalentown: Trueland Gazetteer for 5th Edition is packed with content even at a “mere” 9 pages. You’ll get:

  • The Western Frontier map, built in Worldographer (by Inkwell Ideas). It uses 6-mile hexes, perfect for dropping into any campaign setting.
  • A brief overview of the three settlements from Adventures in Dalentown. Check em’ out if you haven’t already!
  • A two-page campaign setting history. Read this simple but effective backstory, and use it or ignore it. It’s perfect if you want to drop it in other worlds, or if you hate reading 150-page encyclopedias in order to run a campaign setting “right.”
  • An unlabeled map of Dalentown by Elven Tower Cartography.
  • Standard and 6×9 layout versions for optimization on multiple devices.

What the Future Holds

We’ve jammed it full of additional world context for the Dalentown setting. Plus, every location gets info on possible encounters, adventure scenarios, and even player options. Best of all, discover hints about some of our new and upcoming releases, like Folk of Dalentown Volume 1, featuring new playable ancestries complete with Feats, NPC stats, and fully detailed versions of the settlements mentioned in the gazetteer!

The continuation of the Tales from Dalentown series includes a compilation of one-shots. Check back soon!

Get It for Free Now!

Pick up Tales from Dalentown: Trueland Gazetteer for 5th Edition at itch.io or DriveThruRPG for FREE today.

(Oh, and it’s worth saying that this gazetteer will be incorporated into our revision of Adventures in Dalentown for 5th Edition, which should be dropping really soon!)


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