Who's ready for Gauntlet Runner!!! (Preference will be given to Kickstarter Backers)
The Labyrinth Lord intends to expand the Gauntlet Sprawl.
Adjacent to Bazagon City lies an enormous ancient maze known as the Forsaken Corridors—a place long abandoned to whatever creatures now lurk within.
The Lord has plans for it.
Before the Corridors can be rebuilt into a new competition course for the Great Games, someone has to go inside, explore the tunnels…and kill everything that objects.
That would be you.
🔥 THIS IS A PLAYTEST
We’ll be testing material from Esper the Bard’s *Gauntlet Runner* in a deliberately combat-heavy dungeon gauntlet.
Your character will be tested at increasingly ridiculous levels of power:
LEVEL 3 ➜ LEVEL 8 ➜ LEVEL 13 ➜ LEVEL 18
Each level is its own compact module with escalating encounters.
There is one Sanctuary per module, allowing a single Short Rest.
Otherwise?
No resting. Keep moving.
And yes—the adventure specifically warns that some encounters are deadly dangerous.
Death isn't the end, however. If your character dies, they return for the next module. If everybody dies, we can either retry the module or move forward.
This is a playtest. We are here to see what breaks.
You will be given a Forsaken Corridors Player Packet.
Standard Array or Point Buy — no rolled stats.
Take average HP after 1st level.
You must use one of the playtest subclasses/Monstrous Contenders.
No multiclassing.
Equipment and magic-item allowances increase with each module.
Magic items must come from the playtest packet.
Drinking or administering a potion takes an Action.
⚔️ Lots of combat
🧪 Brand-new experimental character abilities
💀 Real possibility of character death
📈 Rapid escalation from heroic to absurdly powerful
🧠 Tactical resource management with extremely limited resting
📝 Feedback afterward—finding something horribly broken counts as success
Winning the Gauntlet would be nice.
James from KC
