Beadle & Grimm’s brings total party killing hijinks to D&D Beyond in Faster, Purple Worm! Everybody Dies: Vol 1.
You might know Beadle & Grimm’s from their work as purveyors of deluxe tabletop campaign experiences. We’ve talked before about their work on big boxes like the Curse of Strahd or Wild Beyond the Witchlight – and it’s possible that you’ve seen Matthew Lillard (co-founder of B&G and Scooby Doo eldritch being) and his streaming show Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill!, which brought about the newest offering on D&D Beyond, a collection of short, one-shot adventures featuring level 1 heroes meeting an ignominious end.
Faster, Purple Worm! Everybody Dies – Now On D&D Beyond
That’s right. The whole premise of the adventure anthology is that you take a party of level 1 heroes and thrust them right into the heart of some of the deadliest foes of D&D with the expectation that the whole party ends up dead by the end of it. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to survive.
Because it’s about the impossible odds – after all, how do you think a party of 4-6 first level characters would fare against a nemesis like Xanathar? Or mages that can cast Disintegration when you have just a handful of hit points.
This whole anthology is just about the deadliest “grand tour of the realms” you’ll find. And I love it. More people need to have their characters die and celebrate it. You want to find the moments where your character gets reduced to ashes and then someone sweeps them up in an attempt to make it all better eventually… but then they get petrified. That’s what Purple Worm is all about.
“Show your players how hilarious death can be in this book of 15 entirely fatal Dungeons & Dragons adventures. Each one-shot pits heroic level 1 characters against an epic monster from D&D lore, challenging these doomed souls to find small victories against a collection of comically overpowered foes.”
It’s a great way to convey the deadliness of certain foes without risking everyone’s precious little special guy (or blorbo, if you will) that they’ve sunk time and parasocial attachment into. Beause, yeah, Strahd von Zarovich will wipe the floor with a low-level adventurer. Demogorgon will kill you without even thinking about it.
But this anthology is all about living in the hilariously tragic moments of failure. When you know you’re going to die, the adventure becomes all about seeing what little wins you can find on the way. It’s fun, it’s funny, and it ends in a total party kill, the way only D&D can.
Check out Faster, Purple Worm! Everybody Dies on D&D Beyond!
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