That feel when a friend or two a while ago stated an interest in a Darkest Dungeon scenario in DnD and you go out and find some homebrew someone did of the monsters and just have it percolating in the back of your head until you can't take it anymore.

It's all going to be the fault of one friend. They know who they are.

(This also lets me get the need to run a horror game out of my system. Ever since my CoC game fell through I've been at loose ends on that front.)

Should I live tweet the procees of putting it together? I might need to live tweet it just to pretend that I'm having a conversation about it.

First, props and awe to @dm_tuz for putting togther the Darkest Dungeon Monster Manuel that I'm going to throw at my players. Check that stuff out, give a follow. There's a lot and it's all great.

Next, start over arcing. Over arching? Whatever.

Which means, for me at least, locations. Where will the characters be, both in battle and at rest.

At rest has them in the safe area of the Hamlet that, according to the game, is a little huddle of terrified people in a decaying settlement on the Estate's grounds.

Fun fact: a hamlet can be a size of a town, village/parish, or a subdivision of a larger settlement.

In this case it's technically a part of the Estate, and so it needs to be on the smaller side. (The fact that the Estate is fucked helps)

The DMG for 5e doesn't give you anything smaller than "up to 1000" and that's for village. A quick query and there's a Forgotten Realms wiki-

-that gives me a better number than that.

Hamlet - 81-400.

I can work with that.

In the in-game, unnamed hamlet lies various buldings. The ones I'm going to use are the Abby, Tavern, Blacksmith, Nomad Wagon, Stage Coach, Guild, Survalist, and Graveyard.

Side note, thank you Red Hook Games @DarkestDungeon for calling it the Nomad Wagon.

Also going to feature some of the districts that got added in The Crimson Court DLC. Those might already be standing and just in the same state as the rest of the Hamlet, the players might need to get them built up with some of the currency they pick up. Or another way.

And throw in a General Store, just for shits, giggles, and shopping trips.

With that, we have the bare bones of a hamlet. Thank you, thank you, here until the pandemic's over. Hold your applause however, we're just getting started.

'cuz next up is where the players will venture forth after gathering the party.

THE ESTATE!

Where the action takes place because the Ancestor (your ancestor?) was a wangrod and messed with shit he shouldn't have!

Now full of necromancers, undead, and Things That Should Not Be.

Consisting of a handful of locations that unlock as the weeks pass, I'll be using the Old Road (or a tiny part of it), Ruins, Farmstead, Weald, Courtyard, Cove, and The Darkest Dungeon itself.

And now we've caught up to the work I've already done, so it's free-styling it from now on, and a lot more time between tweets.

The framework and foundation laid, let's start with the detailing.

Back to the still unnamed hamlet, let's just go in the order that I listed stuff. Putting the Abby up first.

Which I have been misspelling this entire time. It should be ABBEY, as in a type of monastery, not ABBY as in Abigail.

Spelling is not a strong suit. Despite the fact that I do so much writing. Math is though, go figure.

My opinions on organize religion are many and complex but since this is a game and fantasy, I can have it be more what I WANT it to be as opposed to what it IS.

I will not be talking more on the subject. I refuse. I don't need that rage aneurysm.

An abbey is a monastrey used by members blahblahblah. As it's religious, it needs to have the people within follow something. A personal favorite is Wee Jas.

Back in days of yore, when Dragon Magazine was still around and pumping out a periodical a month, I got my hands on Issue 350. December 2006 for the curious. (Yes, this issue is old enough to be in middle school.)

A main article was Core Beliefs: Wee Jas

Now, this thread isn't about that, though it could easily turn into that because man. It made me LOVE her. The reason I bring it up is because of her domains.

Magic. Law.

And Death.