The Village of Hommlet

Setting: Greyhawk / Hommlet Unlock: 3 standard campaign clears Difficulty: 1.0× Part 1 of 5 — The Greyhawk Arc

Hommlet is a village east of Verbobonc that has known peace for a generation. The Temple of Elemental Evil was broken decades ago. The armies of Good scattered the cult. The high priest was slain. The village recovered.

It has not fully recovered.

Strangers pass through too often. The old moathouse east of town has lights in its windows again. Something that should be finished is not finished. The party arrives in Hommlet looking for work and finds something considerably more serious.

Unlock Requirement

Complete 3 standard Gauntlet campaigns with !campaign before attempting Hommlet. This is the entry point to the Greyhawk Arc — the five campaigns that follow unlock sequentially from here.

Stages

Five stages stand between the party and the bottom of the dungeon. The campaign begins in the village and descends.

The campaign follows the standard named campaign structure — rest shrines between stages, Brother Yvannis appearing at stage 3, and a party vote at the end to determine the outcome.

The Boss

The architect of the cult's presence in Hommlet waits at stage 5. He is young, unnervingly so, and the certainty he carries does not look like certainty — it looks like something else entirely.

Endings

After the boss is defeated, surviving participants vote on how the campaign ends. There are four possible outcomes. Each carries a persistent consequence that follows players into future campaigns.

Stage Milestone Titles

Reaching each stage earns a permanent title regardless of the final outcome.

Clear Title

All survivors of a full clear earn a unique title for having descended into the dungeon beneath the old moathouse and come back out.

Artifact

A unique artifact drops to a random survivor on full clear. It is the kind of object that powerful people would prefer not to exist.

Continuing the Arc

Completing The Village of Hommlet unlocks The Temple of Elemental Evil — the second campaign in the Greyhawk Arc. Use !campaign temple-of-elemental-evil to begin.

TIP

ℹ️ The Greyhawk Arc is a five-campaign sequence. Each campaign is harder than the last. Consequences from Hommlet carry forward. The thread you pull here does not end here.