Cuccagna - Isle of Summer

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.

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.

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!

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.

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. 👍