Experience Hilarious Total Party Kills in Beadle & Grimm’s Everybody Dies, Vol. 1

Beadle & Grimm’s have brought their first full-length book to D&D Beyond: Faster, Purple Worm! Everybody Dies, Volume 1. Inside you’ll find a wide-ranging collection of adventures designed to take your players on a magical, exciting journey through the world of Dungeons & Dragons … and then kill them.

Over the course of these 15 deadly adventures, your players may steal from a Waterdeep crime lord, attend a lavish costume party, perform an audacious heist, or investigate a haunted cemetery. Each time their efforts will end in certain death, but the songs and stories of their ill-fated bravery will last forever.

Intrigued?

Read on to see how Everybody Dies can change up your game night!

• Discover the Joys of Certain Death
• Explore Classic Locations, Face Legendary Foes
• So You’re Saying There’s a Chance?

What’s Inside Everybody Dies, Vol. 1

This adventure book features a unique collection of one-shots. Each story pits a heroic band of level 1 characters against an epic monster from D&D lore, challenging these doomed souls to find small victories against a comically overpowered foe. It includes

• 15 adventures for intrepid level 1 characters on unpredictable journeys to face an epic D&D monster—and meet their heroic demise.
• Iconic locations to die in again and again: travel to Barovia to face down Strahd, or delve into the underground lair of the crime lord Xanathar.
• 11 quickplay maps help to prep your session in seconds using the Maps VTT.
• 25 dangerous monsters (9 all-new monsters plus 16 variants) to terrify your players.
• 17 new magic items to reward boldness and death-defying strategies.
• 8 immersive handouts to send your party on their character's last adventure.

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Discover the Joys of Certain Death

Lauren Addy

Everybody Dies, Volume 1 contains 15 stand-alone adventures based on the D&D Adventures TV show, Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill! and use the latest Dungeons & Dragons rules. All are designed for 4-6 level 1 characters, all can be played in a single session, and all of them are utterly lethal.

These short, simple adventures are perfect for a change of pace from your usual campaign, a time where your entire gaming group isn’t available, or a short session on a work night. Because these quests are not survivable, you don’t have to worry about planning or scheduling future sessions, and the prep time for DMs and players alike is very minimal.

What is a “Faster, Purple Worm” Adventure?

Aside from the Total Party Kill at the end, it’s not that different from any other level 1 adventure, really. It might be a bit lighter in tone than your normal game. At the end, your characters will be mourned and celebrated. But it still contains everything you love most about gathering to play Dungeons & Dragons.

These adventures definitely have more built-in opportunities for improvisation and randomness than a typical experience. The “Keeping it Spontaneous” sidebars throughout the book provide DMs with an optional tool to encourage players to add their own imagination to the story. They might be asked to spontaneously tell the tale of how they were recruited into the Zhentarim, or even perform an unscripted, rousing fight song about toads. Use these prompts as little or as much as you like to keep your players active and engaged in every little moment.

Explore Classic Locations, Face Legendary Foes

Moonlight Maps

Everybody Dies was created by longtime D&D devotees and is meant as a love letter to the game. Running a series of short adventures provides you with the rare opportunity to experience a variety of the most famous settings, and feared monsters, invented by the Dungeons & Dragons team over the years.

Oh, The Places You’ll Go

Visit the extraplanar city of Sigil, board a Spelljammer ship, or take a pleasure cruise high above the world of Eberron. You can even stop for a quick glass of wine in Count Strahd’s castle! Everybody Dies is a whirlwind tour of places you love, and a quick and easy way to try out a world you’ve always been curious about.

We’ve also provided you with lots of flexibility. The introduction to each adventure offers ideas for adapting it to a variety of D&D settings, and most can be placed almost anywhere. Refashion them to fit any world you choose, including those of your own creation.

Epic Battles Await

But who will be lurking in these fantastical locations, you ask? Even long-time players and DMs rarely get the opportunity to act out a battle against the truly legendary monsters of D&D lore—how many of us ever reach a high enough level to face off with Demogorgon? That’s not an issue in an Everybody Dies adventure. Pit your level 1 party up against the best of the best, from Strahd von Zarovich to the Lord of Blades. Get crushed by a Storm Giant one night, then experience Xanathar Disintegration Ray the next!

So You’re Saying There’s a Chance?

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We understand that a Total Party Kill may not be for every DM or group of players. For those who prefer a challenging but survivable session, each story concludes with a suggestion for adjusting the lethality down to standard levels, allowing you to use it as part of a more traditional D&D campaign.

We provide one such idea for each adventure, but feel free to come up with your own adjustments that best fit you and your players.

Experience a TPK Today!

As Beadle & Grimm’s co-founder Matthew Lillard often says, “The best way to spend a life is around a table with friends,” and Everybody Dies, Vol. 1 will give you 15 hilarious reasons to gather your gaming group around the table—virtually or in-person—to laugh, improvise, and battle your way through a memorable and totally unique evening of D&D.

Together, you may just find the meaning of a (short) life well-lived.