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Meet Lord Neverember!

  Congratulations, Heroes! The Party has risen to the attention of Lord Protector Dagult Neverember, Lord Protector of Neverwinter. Lord Neverember is very popular with the common folk of Neverwinter, because he has prioritized security and trade during his time as “Lord Protector”. He has cleared the High Road to the south of the notorious Blackdagger bandits, and instituted several reforms within the city. The newly-safe roads have made it easier for the “City of Skilled Hands” to sell their goods more safely and cheaply from Luskan in the north to Triboar in the east, and has made it cheaper for the common folk to buy imported products from those places as well. But the High Road still isn’t completely safe. Traders are still averse to traveling all the way to and from Waterdeep, because the Mere of Dead Men is too dangerous to stop in at night. Everyone knows that if you stop at night in the Mere to rest, you risk losing members of your caravan to undead creatures, will-o-wis...

Welcome, Game Masters!

 Welcome to Beyond The Essentials: A Flexible Gamemaster's Guide to Expanding and adjusting the Leilon Trilogy!  I'm your humble host, Franchester the Wise. I ran this adventure for a party of PC's from November of 2021 through November of 2022. Every table is different, every game is different and every GM is different, but I found I had to do a lot of work to adjust this adventure, to smooth out difficulties, and bring it into a form that made sense for me. The way this adventure is published is a little awkward, with it being released over time, in 3 different installments with different titles, but following the same characters through the same storyline. Lots of later adventures refer back to previous adventures, involving the same locations, organizations, NPC's, villains, and items, across three books with three separate Tables of Contents and Introductory chapters for each one. Here, I will try to bring together the entire adventure under one roof, along with ch...