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Nightwick Abbey

Nightwick Abbey

Old-School Essentials, Dungeons & Dragons B/X | Campaign

About the adventure

DO YOU WANT TO DIE IN A HOLE? For nearly two centuries, the ruins of Nightwick Abbey have cast their terrible shadow upon unhallowed ground. Built by demoniac knights and their satanic allies, now it is home to the shades of the dead and the living memories of the psychic shock of its destruction. Peasants refuse to work under the shadow of the place, leaving it to become overgrown with strange and unearthly vines. At night eerie lights issue forth from its foul depths. When the moon is full and bright, witches, devil-men, and shapeless things can be seen heading there for their terrible sabbaths. Some mad few have tried to wrest gold and glory from the crypts which lie beneath, but few of them have returned. Are you brave enough to seek your fortune in... NIGHTWICK ABBEY!

5.0

(5)

LGBTQ+
Women/Femme Identifying
Game Designer

3 years on StartPlaying

146 games hosted

Highly rated for: World Builder, Inclusive, Visual Aid

Game Master Reviews (5)

Proficiencies

Players say this GM is great at:

World Builder

Inclusive

Visual Aid

Michael avatar

Michael

Played 97 sessions

Miranda sets a terrific atmosphere in her games. Her homebrew setting is richly detailed and thematically evocative. If you're interested in old-school dungeon crawling that rewards player creativity with room for role-playing, either as an expert or a beginner, her games are a top-tier example.

Mike Jones avatar

Mike Jones

Played 5 sessions

Evan has built a detailed and fantastic world that I can't wait to explore again! His experience as a game master is obvious in his ability to smoothly and quickly facilitate player driven action.

Jack avatar

Jack

Played 7 sessions

Great GM! Very knowledgeable, solid, immersive world. Very cool Foundry setup, makes jumping in a breeze! My first time with Old School Essentials and it was great!

WD avatar

WD

Having a great time in Miranda’s Nightwick Abbey campaign! She is an experienced DM running a well-developed homebrew old-school D&D megadungeon that certainly has me sweating every time I drop my magic-user into its depths. If you are not familiar with old-school D&D, but enjoy Darkest Dungeon or other “Metroidvania” games like Dead Cells or Blasphemous, then Miranda’s Nightwick Abbey will make you feel at home. Each delve is a fun risk vs. reward style of play that careens between humor and hubris as the party is tempted by just one more door in an abbey corrupt by the ego of good intentions. And if character death makes you pause, don’t worry it won’t keep you out of the game. Miranda’s custom background and equipment tables make for fast generation with a little bit of spice for your frogling, changeling, or other classic old-school D&D class. And there are plenty of hirelings to push in front before the rusty iron nails of the undead get that close. Great environment for new players and a challenging one for “veterans” alike! Good job on all fronts Miranda.

GMJ avatar

GMJ

Played 11 sessions

It was my first time playing Old School Essentials, and Evan made it simple to learn the system. Once we were into the game itself, he made the locations come alive with maps, descriptions, and answers about the space we were exploring (the construction material and shape of a door, for instance). He made it easy to treat the location as real, which consequently made the unnatural stuff seem all-the-more disturbing. Anyone curious to try an OSR dungeon-delve is in good hands with this GM! Update: I've now played 3 sessions with Evan in this campaign. Every week, we delve deeper and deeper into Nightwick Abbey, uncovering more things as we go, balancing risk with reward. And with one of the other players keeping a running tally and map of what we've found and who has died, it has a feeling of realness unlike any other campaign that I've played. 👍

Additional details

How to prepare

You will need a mic and a discord account. We may need to meet up on discord before hand and make sure you can log into the foundry server I use through the forge vtt, but I thusfar have not had an issue with that.

What I provide

I have a Foundry VTT license and pay a monthly subscription to the Forge vtt to host the game. I will be using Dungeondraft maps I created as well as custom tokens, overland maps, and other assets to make the experience as aesthetically pleasing as possible.

Gameplay details

This game focuses around Nightwick Abbey, a megadungeon which lies in the legend-haunted Dark Country. Typical sessions will involve player characters going on excursions into the unhallowed halls of that haunted place, or venturing into the wilderness to achieve some aim which arose from dungeon-delving. Some planning may be necessary for repeat players to avoid becoming lost in the shifting corridors. I handle this with the procedures in Old School Essentials books, and players looking for an old school dungeon crawl with strong thematic elements will be greatly pleased. I draw inspiration from horror films such as "Evil Dead," The Blind Dead series, "The Lair of the White Worm," and "The Church." This means the dungeon contains disturbing imagery which, in movie terms, would warrant an R rating. The worst of these, I hope, is relegated to implications about the dungeon’s past rather than things that directly appear "on screen." In addition, I draw from the history of medieval Europe. The two together combine into a grim-dark setting replete with gothic and Satanic imagery - at least among the bad guys. This is not to say my game is without levity, but it is usually of the sardonic kind.

Content warnings

• Alcoholism

• Alcohol Use

• Animal abuse

• Animal Death

• Blood

• Body Horror

• Character Death

• Child Abuse

• Child Death

• Domestic Abuse

• Drowning

• Drugs (addiction, use, withdrawal)

• Fire

• Guns

• Hostages

• Illness

• Insects

• Kidnapping

• Language/Cursing

• Medical Issues

• Memory Erasing

• Mind alteration

• Murder

• Pandemic

• Pet Death

• Real World Religion

• Slavery

• Snakes

• Spiders

• Violence

Safety tools used

Aftercare

Breaks

Debriefing

How will character creation work

Characters are simple enough to be created during the session and will use the standard OSE rules plus modifications I have made based on the setting. I will also provide pre-made characters for people who want to get right into the action or who find making a character daunting.

Players can expect

Combat / Tactics

Medium

Roleplay

Medium

Puzzles

Medium

Experience level

Open to all

Platforms used

Discord

Foundry VTT

FULL
$7.00

/ Session

Each player will be charged when a session starts.

Details

Weekly / Friday - 12:30 AM UTC

Apr 11 / Session 115

2.5-4 Hour duration

10 / 10 Seats filled

Schedule

Fri, Apr 11 | 12:30 AM - Session 115

Requirements

Experience required: Open to all

Age: 18+