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Cheers Austin! Appreciate the kind words.  May your dungeons stay looped.

Taylor

Thanks for engaging with the adventure! I appreciate the insight.

 It's true no explicit hooks direct players to the Kugo basement.  It's just as likely that PCs decide to try to run for it, try to fortify the village, or try to escort villagers out of the area. No advice in the module exists for any of those scenarios, which perhaps lead to this module missing the top 8 in the jam.

I also considered their revenge being more targeted! I was originally inspired by "The Fog" where misty ghosts come back to punish the leaders of a town.  My tastes veer towards over-the-top, so I opted to push it a bit farther.  Restraint might have made for a more interesting story, in this case.

Most of the kugo's are LV7, so a level 1-3 party would need to play smart and retreat to rest, and a level 4-6 party could take the dungeon in one run.

thanks for the kind words, matt :) 

Simple and streamlined! Very easy to apply at the table. Love it.

Thanks for the kind words. No matter the outcome, I feel like this contest is a really cool showcase of the community's creativity!

I absolutely agree with this premise! Love the tables to help the GM generate ideas for monster omens. Great work. :)

Beautiful, densly packed dungeon full of evocative encounters. The zombie triceratops with a magic axe? Rolling rock trap that acts like a huge stencil? I really don't have enough good things to say about this adventure. Bravo!

Love the efficient use of space to create the pointcrawl!

Very practical layout! Love the uses of hexes. :)

Love the vertical map, very cool!! Does the teleportation runes in area 5 lead 'off-map'? 

Very dune. I dig it :)

so cool!

thanks! i'm pleased with how this one turned out. beware the wretched puppets 💀