Monday Mad Mage Maze Mayhem! Insane prices. Insane everything.
The gates have opened, and the entry level is up for grabs. Xanathar thinks it’s theirs. Go disagree, steal a prize, and make it back in one piece.
$9.00
/ Session
Details
Weekly / Monday - 10:00 PM UTC
Mar 9 / Session 7
Session Duration / 3–3.5 hours
5 / 6 Seats Filled
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Meet your party members
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About the adventure
The gates are waking up. Teleportation safeguards are down. And a bookie at the Yawning Portal has started a lottery to see who gets to go down next. Xanathar’s Guild has already moved in, and nothing says “welcome to the dungeon” like poking the beholder crime lord. Objective: verify the gates, steal a trophy, and make sure Xanathar doesn’t get comfortable. Drop in, smash Undermountain, grab loot, log out. This is Dungeon of the Mad Mage run like a raid: fast setups, hard objectives, clean exits, and consequences that stick. You’re chasing bounties and rumours while factions scheme and the dungeon quietly judges you. Who it’s for: players who like high-octane dungeon crawling, dark humour, and teamwork under fire. You’ll get a quick primer up front, then we kick down the doors. Bring your own torches, rope, and plausible deniability. You have the dungeon’s attention.
Game style
Dungeon Crawl
Roleplay Heavy
Tactical / Crunchy
West Marches
Meet the Game Master
4.9
(19)
4 years on StartPlaying
122 games hosted
Highly rated for: Voices, Storytelling, Creativity
Average response time: 1 hour
Response rate: 92%
About me
Watch the short video pitch for the TL;DR version of my origin story: https://youtu.be/htEhWDgKbsU I run character-driven D&D with strong story and real consequences. Your choices steer the game, the dice complicate it, and the best moments are the ones nobody planned. It gets tense when it needs to, and we’ll laugh when everything goes sideways. My love of this stuff goes back a long way. I grew up obsessed with mythology and fairy tales, and in the mid-80s I fell into D&D through Dragonlance and the old Gold Box computer games. While other kids were outside doing whatever normal kids do, I was busy arguing with myself about hit points and monster design. That same obsession eventually spilled into theatre and film. I directed Troll Bridge (a Pratchett-approved Discworld comedy that got a surprising amount of attention) and made Blood on the Game Dice, which is my love letter to tabletop play. These days I’m behind the screen, stitching together myth, motives, and dangerous possibilities, letting your characters decide which fire to walk into.
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Creating your character
You’ll be creating your character on D&D Beyond with the complete official 5e library, and available third-party content to build with. Homebrew isn’t on the table. Characters start at level 5 and use the point buy system with fixed hit points. For gear, take your normal starting equipment (you may sell anything back to the store you don't want), and then add 650 gp, plus one common and one uncommon magic item. You may buy additional equipment and magic items before game at 2014 prices. Please finish your sheet with details like height and weight; some traps pay attention to that. Completed characters need to be submitted one hours prior to game time so I can import them into Foundry. You’ll have access to the game 30 minutes before the session if you want to test dice rolls or poke at macros.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
💬 Discord: Install the app (not the browser version), make an account, and join the server link I send after you book. 💻 VTT: Foundry runs in your browser, you don’t need to buy anything. Use Edge for best performance (Chrome’s fine). Turn on hardware acceleration. 📜 D&D Beyond: Make your character there and send me the link before your first run - I'll need to import them into Foundry. It's free to sign up. 🎧 Audio gear: Headphones required. If we hear pets, fans, traffic, or typing, please enable push-to-talk. 🎬 Tech check: Join Discord 10 minutes early for a quick audio check and chatter. Then we kick the doors off their hinges. 🛰️ Connection: Stable internet. If your Wi-Fi is powered by sadness, plug in. Turn off your VPN and downloads.
What DM Dan Knight brings to the table
🐲 Master subscription on D&D Beyond for sharing the entire official 5e digital library ⚒️ Foundry VTT on Molten Hosting for accelerated network speeds 🎼 Syrinscape for licensed atmosphere and music 🗺️ Only the best third-party maps, tokens, and animation assets available 🎙️ Discord Nitro for exceptional speech clarity 🌈 A welcoming and inclusive game for everyone of all walks of life I run games from my studio with production-quality camera, lighting and audio. With a background in film, theatre, AV, and design, I bring a production mindset to the table. The space is built for your character to take centre stage with a focus on presentation, flow, and narrative punch - so every session plays like a live show built around your party’s story. Watch my video pitch here: https://youtu.be/htEhWDgKbsU
Homebrew rules
➤ Backgrounds are decoupled from ability score modifiers and origin feats, and you can select and adjust those appropriate to your character. You can leverage your backgrounds for skill check advantages in circumstances that would narratively favor your background. ➤ Drinking a potion as a full action provides maximum results on all rolls. Drinking as a bonus action rolls dice as normal. Administering a potion to another is a full action with dice rolls. ➤ Critical hits provide maximum damage, followed by an additional roll of all dice. ➤ No reactions when surprised. ➤ No flanking, but gain advantage on attacking targets out of their line of sight. Reactions can be spent to turn to face an attacker before the attack is resolved.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Headphones
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Safety
How DM Dan Knight creates a safe table
This is high-energy, heroic survival horror in Faerûn’s deadliest death trap: the content warnings below are a feature, not a bug. If the fiction gets too close to home, that’s completely valid. The table runs on an open-door policy: you can step away, call a break, or tap out at any time with zero judgement. Intimacy fades to black and stays offscreen. There’s no racism, sexism, homophobia, or transphobia at the table. Any bias toward fantasy peoples (orc hate, drow misandry, etc.) is roleplay only, and it earns in-world consequences. PvP only happens with explicit consent from everyone involved. Villains may threaten ugly things, but we don’t linger on it, we keep it offscreen, and player characters never perpetrate it. We always close with a quick debrief so nobody leaves carrying anything heavy. For everyone’s safety, sessions have their audio recorded.
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