D&D 5E Bleak Expectations: A Dickensian Adventure for 12th Level Characters

When Toby Hardwallah hires the guards to protect his caravan it sounds like a straightforward job, but strange events and unsettling apparitions make it clear that more sinister forces are at work. A traitorous legacy of revenge is unraveled to unveil a curse that stretches back generations. A Dickensian adventure for 12th level characters only in EN5ider Magazine!

EN5ider Goes Monthly Soon!​

This year EN5ider celebrates a decade of publishing some of 5E’s most creative and engaging articles. We've published over 600 issues! We are proud to have reached this milestone and thankful for everyone who’s contributed to that, whether they be patrons, designers, or artists. This moment is more than an opportunity to recognize a worthwhile accomplishment however—it is also an opportunity to change and evolve.

With that in mind we are excited to announce that starting in April 2025 that EN5ider is changing into a full magazine format! Every month we’re releasing a single issue that combines all of the posts and articles into one. Get the first entry into this new age of EN5ider with EN5ider Magazine #1: Folk Heroes in April!

Articles will go out as normal through February and March, with the new format coming in April. The latest article, released today, is an adventure for 12th-level adventurers called Bleak Expectations! Grab it right now (along with the entire back catalogue of 600 articles!) by subscribing to EN5ider today!

 

[comrade raoul]

Drood! I mean, good. And dread. Dread and good.

 

[jayoungr]

How is the monthly version going to work? Will the articles still be available individually, or will it be one big PDF per month?

 

[Morrus]

How is the monthly version going to work? Will the articles still be available individually, or will it be one big PDF per month?

One monthly magazine, just like Gate Pass Gazette.

 

[jayoungr]

One monthly magazine, just like Gate Pass Gazette.

What's Gate Pass Gazette?

 

[IntolerableKid]

Don't you think you should change the name? Ripping off Mark Evans' existing Bleak Expectations series of Dickens parodies and his novel's name is a bit much.

Bleak Expectations - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Don't you think you should change the name? Ripping off Mark Evans' existing Bleak Expectations series of Dickens parodies and his novel's name is a bit much.

I'm not sure merging the names of Bleak House and Great Expectations is a unique idea. I would be surprised if there weren't more instances of this name out there for that reason.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I'm not sure merging the names of Bleak House and Great Expectations is a unique idea. I would be surprised if there weren't more instances of this name out there for that reason.

I was thinking I had heard it before, but I couldn't place it.

 

[Bucaramanga]

Wait wait wait. Am I reading the premise right? 12th-level PCs, you know, the ones that can survive a dragon's breath to the face, bring people back from the dead, and vaporize entire armies, working as caravan guards for some random schmuck?

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

I'm not sure merging the names of Bleak House and Great Expectations is a unique idea. I would be surprised if there weren't more instances of this name out there for that reason.

Yeah, but jumping onto something that's already been jumped on... not your best foot forward. Regardless, the post you're responding to is a bit over the top.