Brewkessel #2

Once upon a time, there was a wonderful school of spellcraft and sorcery called Brewkessel. 62 years ago it vanished in a flash of red lightning, taking with it some of the best and brightest names in magic. All that was left behind was a deep, smoking hole.

Was it the result of a spell gone wrong? Had the gods finally rained down judgement on their vile witchcraft? No one could say for sure. In fear of repeating Brewkessel’s unknown mistake, one by one the other schools locked their doors.

Brewkessel reappeared 7 months ago.

What is Brewkessel?

Brewkessel is a megadungeon designed for Old-School Essentials and other classic TTRPG systems. It’s being released as a series of zines, with each issue detailing a section of the dungeon based around one of eight schools of magic. Brewkessel is modular, so you can run it as a complete whole, by mixing-and-matching your favorite issues, or with each issue as its own standalone dungeon location.

Inside Issue #2

BK#2: Evocation is devoted to the school’s upper floors, towers, and rooftops, amounting to nearly 50 keyed rooms.

Players will be able to:

• Contain an unleashed fire elemental
• Become tainted by wild magic
• Undergo the Phoenessent Challenge to gain the Blessing of Pheonix’s Rebirth
• Find clues related to Brewkessel’s disappearance in the Recurration Department
• Cause a schism in a Yuggite Cult
• Thwart a scheme to destabilize the very warp and weft of magic itself
• Repair a windmill

It also contains the following resources for referees:

• Rival adventuring parties
• A plethora of strange potions, presented with tasting notes.
• Instructions for adapting BK#2 into a standalone dungeon crawl.
• Rules for wild magic spells and wild surges
• How to assign your characters to one of Brewkessel's four houses: Kelpulous, Phoenessent, Prescipiece, or Riddleward.

**Issue #1 Rated THE BEST at Tenfootpole.org**

"Interactivity is great, with curses, boons, banes, potential allies and neutral parties scattered everywhere. Just about every room has some kind of thing going on, which, while not exactly true, even the “empty” rooms feel like you’re someplace worth looking in to.

This is a very worthwhile addition to a game. It’s the best Hogwarts I’ve seen. It captures the spirit of Hogwarts, and warped nature turning it in to an adventuring locale … without it being too cutesy or bizarre for the sake of bizarre. It’s a fine line to walk and the designer does a good job. I hope to see more entries."

 -Bryce Lynch

Get Issue #1 here: kettlesberg.itch.io/brewkessel-1.

Note: Requires Old-School Essentials.