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  1. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    Lair of the Vampire Lord (opens the original)

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    Once again, I’m posting the notes to the dungeons and adventures I run. The below was conducted this last weekend for the club guys. The paladin and cleric have been hunting for this vampire for some time after ruining her operation at the capital and forcing her to flee to a far off city.Much of their downtime was spent tracking her down and fending off her assassins. Ultimately, the dungeon evolved as time passed and it became more and more intertwined with their decisions. The original versio

  2. Issue · Aug 20, 2026

    The Goblin Tunnels (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Neutral tone

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    I ran this adventure at a local game store for the club last weekend. We had our normal members and a couple of guests join in for this. They just smashed everything they could see, but it still a great time and they left the place a smoking crater. This goblin stronghold was located on the paladin player’s property, but he is indisposed with bigger adventures than goblin troubles so he hired some lower level adventurers to handle it, which is the premise surrounding this scenario for us. It cou

  3. Issue · Aug 3, 2026

    Thieves Guild Jobs (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone

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  4. Issue · Jul 25, 2026

    The Monster Menagerie (opens the original)

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    The Wizard Morcant built this menagerie deep in the black forests of the Deepwood. He was fascinated by monsters that plagued the people of the kingdom and maintained it separately from his tower. Morcant is listed among the Golden Dead for failing to contact the Institute for a decade and it has since been a hundred years more.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f6zs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media

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