Session 11: The City Knows Your Face
The road ends at Waterdeep’s gates—but the city remembers faces. Loss, bureaucracy, quiet magic, and a dagger drawn in the Yawning Portal mark the party’s uneasy arrival.
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The road north begins with grief, temptation, and a lightning-scarred birth that should have ended in death—but didn’t.
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Dragon Heist isn’t really a heist—until you make the city move. This DM-facing deep dive explores how I remixed Waterdeep: Dragon Heist into a living campaign shaped by player agency, episodic prep, and emotional investment.
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Why I chose Justin Alexander’s Alexandrian Remix for my Dragon Heist campaign, how it reshaped Waterdeep into a living city, and what it taught me about factions, player agency, and running a mixed-age table.
Session 9: From the Mist, Home Again
Smoke-choked hallways. A coffin carried through collapsing rooms. A gift from the shadows. A homecoming months too late. Session 9 closes our Death House arc and turns our steps toward Waterdeep.
Session 8: One Must Die!
Lorgoth falls, but Death House claims its first true victim. In this gripping recap, the party faces loss, grief, and the rising wrath of the house itself. The silence after the battle is only the beginning…
Session 7: He Is the Ancient
The chant finally reveals its true words: “He is the Ancient. He is the Land.” Following that revelation, the party uncovers rotting chambers, undead cultists, a ritual altar demanding a living sacrifice, and the thirteen niches of the cult’s sanctum. As the refuse mound begins to move, Lorgoth the Decayer awakens — and the session ends on a cliffhanger.
Durst Manor: Shadows & Sacrifice – Event Recap
Catch up on the first six chapters of Durst Manor: Shadows & Sacrifice—a haunted prelude of mist, locked doors, ghostly encounters, and rising dread before Session 7: He Is the Ancient.
Session 6: Into the Depths
The chanting grows louder. Shadows rise from the walls. And the house demands its sacrifice. Join us as the party fights through the penultimate horrors of Death House.
