Month: July 2026

The Widow’s challenge has begun. The legendary hand crossbow, Widow’s Kiss, is whispering in the dreams of the most dangerous archers, seeking a new wielder. This sentient weapon—crafted from phase spider chitin and woven shadow—seeks a fellow predator devoid of kindness to claim it through a series of lethal challenges of the Widow’s Game.

 

In this 124th installment of the Mike’s Free Encounter series, your party is drawn into the Widow’s challenge. Whether the PCs are potential champions or merely cross paths with a ruthless competitor, they must face crossbow master Kirak-Kik-Kik in a desert duel for survival.

 

Adventure Overview

  • Recommended Levels: 3–6.
  • Party Size: 3–6 Players.
  • Setting: The shifting sands of the desert.
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What’s Inside?

  • Lore: Detailed history of the Trials of the Singing String, a divine contest that birthed five sentient bows, including the bloodthirsty Widow’s Kiss and the math-obsessed Lexicon of Force.
  • The Widow’s Game: An ongoing game of murder involving the “Kiss”, an invisible cursed mark that allows the crossbow to track contestants and instigate matches between rivals.
  • New Desert Foes: Stat blocks for Desert-Kreen, including Kirak-Kik-Kik and his Large Desert Wasp mount.
  • Three Maps: High-quality maps featuring Desert Ruins, a Magical Oasis (containing a hidden gate to the Elemental Plane of Water), and Open Desert terrain.
  • Scholarly NPC: Wyleth the Librarian, a scholar and former contestant who can offer historical context or help remove the deadly mark. Everyone one loves scholars.

Will the party emerge triumphant or will their bolt pierced skulls bleach in the sun?

 

Videos for my D&D products are available on my Eternal Library: Random Universes YouTube channel.

Information about my other D&D products is available on my web site, drmcl.com and my Random Universes: Eternal Library substack: https://eternallibrary.substack.com/

AI Images: AI image generators were used to generate the images in the PDF.

AI Free Maps:  All maps were created without AI using Inkarnate (https://inkarnate.com/) or Campaign Cartographer 3+ (https://www.profantasy.com/products/campaign-cartographer-3)

AI Free Fantasy Ground Unity File: The FGU .mod file contains no AI generated content.

https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/578036/mike-s-free-encounter-widows-kiss-1-desert-kreen

 

Mundurin Ironshaper has a dream: to restore his family’s legacy by retrieving the machine needed to forge the legendary Dwarven Iron Donkeys—mechanical marvels infused with elemental fire spirits. But the means of their creation lies deep within the mountain fortress of Baraz-Khadur, a city lost to the ancient red dragon V’Shelexa the Maker of Ash.

 

In this 123rd installment of the Mike’s Free Encounter series, the party is hired to bring Mundurin into the heart of enemy territory and recover the core machine from a workshop hidden away for decades.

 

Encounter Overview

  • Recommended Levels: 3–6.
  • Party Size: 3–6 Players.
  • Location: The ruins of Baraz-Khadur, featuring a surface outpost and a subterranean workshop.
  • The Dwarven Iron Donkey: This masterpiece of magical engineering acts as a beast of burden, heals from fire damage, and can belch a 15-foot cone of flame at your enemies. Or friends. You do you.
  •  Maps: Detailed maps including the Outpost Surface, Outpost Interior, Gatehouse, Corridors, and the Secret Workshop.

Will the PCs reclaim the core, or will the party’s bone join those of the dwarves.

 

Videos for my D&D products are available on my Eternal Library: Random Universes YouTube channel.

Information about my other D&D products is available on my web site, drmcl.com and my Random Universes: Eternal Library substack: https://eternallibrary.substack.com/

AI Images: AI image generators were used to generate the images in the PDF.

AI Free Maps:  All maps were created without AI using Inkarnate (https://inkarnate.com/) or Campaign Cartographer 3+ (https://www.profantasy.com/products/campaign-cartographer-3)

AI Free Fantasy Ground Unity File: The FGU .mod file contains no AI generated content.

https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/577835/mike-s-free-encounter-123-iron-donkey

 

 

 

 

A drowned king in coral armor.Silence the Bell. Slay the King. Restore Fallen Thalasson.

 

The iron bell of the sunken temple of Psithyrostomaxenos tolls in the cold, dark sea. Its hypnotic echo draws the living, luring them to drown, die, and rise in eternal service to a corpse-king.

 

The Drowned King, Thalassandros, sits upon a coral-encrusted throne in the depths of the sunken island fortress of Nesokastro. There he awaits the fulfillment of a dark plan orchestrated by the fiend Psithyrostomaxenos, a devil who listens to the secrets whispered by dead mouths.

 

In this 11th installment of the Consortium series, a party of high-level heroes must descend into the crushing depths to silence the bell, navigate the treacherous Korallokoimeterion (coral graveyard), and kill the Drowned King.

 

Adventure Overview

  • Recommended Levels: 11–15
  • Party Size: 3–6 Players.
  • Setting: The submerged island of Nesokastro and the surrounding sea.
  • Standalone or Campaign Play: Designed as the climax of the Thalasson arc, but easily runnable as a standalone high-level aquatic dungeon crawl.

What’s Inside?

  • Epic Boss Encounters: Face the tragic Livyatan the Accursed, a legendary undead leviathan; the ambitious undead sahuagin priestess Hiereia Carcharia; and the silver-tongued devil Glossachrys, who uses weaponized philosophy and sophistry to tear minds apart.
  • Unique Allied NPCs: Team up with the ghosts of ancient philosophers and the deadly Malenti assassin Pseudálphos
  • Legendary Magic Items: Discover powerful items like the Alexiaspis, the Dagger of Sekolah, and the Trident of Thyrella.
  • Full-Color Maps: Detailed battle maps for the Sea Floor, the Temple of Psithyrostomaxenos, and the Central Palace of the Drowned King. Created in Inkarnate and Campaign Cartographer without AI.
  • Fantasy Ground Unity Mod File: Maps, NPCs, encounters, and items. No AI content.

Will your heroes silence the bell, or will they become the newest members of the Drowned King’s retinue?

 

Videos for my D&D products are available on my Eternal Library: Random Universes YouTube channel.

Information about my other D&D products is available on my web site, drmcl.com and my Random Universes: Eternal Library substack: https://eternallibrary.substack.com/

AI Images: AI image generators were used to generate the images in the PDF.

AI Free Maps:  All maps were created without AI using Inkarnate (https://inkarnate.com/) or Campaign Cartographer 3+ (https://www.profantasy.com/products/campaign-cartographer-3)

AI Free Fantasy Ground Unity File: The FGU .mod file contains no AI generated content.

https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/577564/C11-The-Drowned-King