Dungeons & Monkeys

Put on your Gauntlets of Ogre Power and get your Cloaks of Displacement out of the closet!

Our annual charity gaming/storytelling/theater event returns this fall – four times as big, all virtual, and featuring a roster of all-star Dungeon Master’s Guild creators and plenty of Halloween-themed adventures!

Play Dungeons & Dragons from October 22-25 with your favorite Red Monkey Theater Group and Cast Party performers. This year’s event will also include a a free workshop from Cast Party’s Matt Gordon to help you run awesome online D&D games on Roll20. New to D&D? Always wanted to play but never had the chance? Don’t worry, we’ll teach you!

You can join us for one session, or play all weekend.

A portion of the proceeds from this year’s Dungeons & Monkeys will benefit Red Monkey Theater Group, a non-profit professional theater company in residence at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, Bronx, New York.

ANNOUNCED SCHEDULE AND DUNGEON MASTERS

(Check back – we’re adding more stuff!)

Thursday, Oct 22 6pm EST
Lake of Secrets – FREE GAME
When the sovereign of a war-stricken kingdom goes missing, adventurers must brave the castle dungeons to find them. Death stalks the dungeon walls and dark deeds come to light as the characters uncover the story of a terrible sacrifice, culminating in a choice that will decide the fate of an entire realm. Lake of Secrets features a fresh narrative abounding with intrigue, traps, and puzzles. 
Number of Players: 1-6
Levels: 3-5
Length: 4 hours
Fee Per Player: FREE
Dungeon Master: Sebastian Yūe

Note: this game will use Discord and Roll20
THIS SESSION IS FULL!

Thursday, Oct 22 7pm EST
Where Heroes Lie
A foiled theft carried out by unusual suspects leads to a treasure hunt that delves into the history of heroes from the past. Clues lead the adventurers to a crypt filled with puzzles that guard a legendary treasure. Players should expect to put their own puzzle solving wits (with help from their characters’ skills) to the test.
Number of Players: 4-7
Levels: 3-10
Length: 3 hours
Fee Per Player: $20
Dungeon Master: Steve “Jaspor” Orr 

Friday, Oct 23 7pm EST
Lake of Secrets
When the sovereign of a war-stricken kingdom goes missing, adventurers must brave the castle dungeons to find them. Death stalks the dungeon walls and dark deeds come to light as the characters uncover the story of a terrible sacrifice, culminating in a choice that will decide the fate of an entire realm. Lake of Secrets features a fresh narrative abounding with intrigue, traps, and puzzles. 
Number of Players: 1-6
Levels: 3-5
Length: 4 hours
Fee Per Player: $20
Dungeon Master: Sebastian Yūe

Note: this game will use Discord and Roll20

Friday, Oct 23 7pm EST
A Fey’s Bargain
Summoned to an old benefactor’s home, the adventurers are beset by an unexpected visitor who has come for vengeance. Time runs short to save someone from an evil fey’s twisted bargain. The adventurers must delve into a haunted cavern and enter the lair of a powerful hag before time runs out. A great introduction to D&D for new players, but also a fun challenge for experienced gamers. 
Number of Players: 3-6
Level: 3
Length: 4 hours
Fee Per Player: $20
Dungeon Master: Joe Raso

Note: this game will use Roll20
THIS SESSION IS FULL!

Saturday, Oct 24 Noon EST
Hair of the Dog
The lady of House Zulpair has received a threat that a priceless artifact will be stolen from under her nose. The threat comes in the form of a letter signed by “Hair of the Dog,” a notable phantom thief who made their mark on the city of Waterdeep nearly 300 years ago. Lady Zulpair hires the party to keep her valuables safe without disrupting any activity in the manor— because Hair of the Dog has vowed to strike on the very same night as the lady’s birthday party!
Number of Players: 3-6
Level: 5
Length: 4 hours
Fee Per Player: $20
Dungeon Master: Leon Barillaro

Note: this game will be played on Roll20

Saturday, Oct 24 1pm EST
Murder on the Primewater Pleasure
You recently did Gellan Primewater, a local merchant from the Town of Saltmarsh, a great service by recovering property deeds worth a large sum of money, long thought to be lost. In return, Gellan is throwing you a party on his cruise ship, the Primewater Pleasure. …. Then, in the midst of festivities, a scream. One of the guests is found murdered, and the weekend cruise is plunged into chaos. You must all dive in and find the murderer before the ship gets back to shore – and the murderer escapes.
Number of Players: 4-6
Level: 4
Length: 6 hours
Fee Per Player: £20
Dungeon Master: Liam Murray

Note: this game will use Discord and Roll20

Saturday, Oct 24 2pm EST
A Night of Fright!
Uldryn Beauregard is dead—and he’s left one million gold to anyone who can survive the night in his haunted mansion! In a loving send-up of classic mystery cartoons, players in A Night of Fright will take the role of one of four meddling heroes—or their talking gnoll! Explore a haunted mansion full of traps, frights, spooks, scares, ghosts, ghasts, and ghouls to uncover old Uldryn’s secrets before it’s too late—for this is no run-of-the-mill real estate scam. There’s real danger in the mansion and Mystery LLC will need all the help they can get!
Number of Players: 4-5
Level: Special (adventure includes suspiciously familiar pre-generated characters)
Length: 4 hours
Fee Per Player: $20
Dungeon Master: Steve Pankotai
Note: This game will use Roll20
THIS SESSION IS FULL!

Saturday, October 24th 4:00pm EST

Ritual of Blood

The quiet farm village of Dellavenge has called out for help.  A wave of disappearances (they fear kidnappings) has hit this small community. You have been assigned to investigate, discover who/what is responsible and if possible, rescue the missing.  Are things as they seem?  Where are the missing?  What of the stories of a strange woman seen in the area? Could the Hobgoblin army be behind this?  Or is it something else entirely, something far more sinister…

Number of Players: 4

Level: 3

Length: 3hrs; any needed breaks can be accomodated

Fee Per Player: FREE

Dungeon Master: Kyle Thomas

Technical requirements: Roll20, Discord. D&D Beyond is helpful but not required.

THIS SESSION IS FULL!

Saturday, October 24 4pm EST
FREE Workshop: How to Use Roll20 to Make Your RPG Games Awesome
Looking to move from the physical table to the virtual one using Roll20? Matt will guide you through how to set up a tabletop campaign, and then, how to make it AWESOME with tips and tricks that you don’t learn every day. We will go through an overview of how to get around Roll20, what features are available in the application, and a Q&A at the end.
Length: 2 hours
FREE & open to the public
Dungeon Master: Matt Gordon
Click here to register

Saturday, Oct 24 7pm EST
Attack on Coppercoil
A plea for help arrives in the form of a note tied to the foot of an exhausted bat, leading to a desperate rescue mission inside Coppercoil, a secret forest gnome settlement hidden inside a gigantic tree stump and filled with adventure, surprises, danger, and mystery.
Number of Players: 3-7
Level: 1-4
Length: 4 hours
Fee Per Player: $20
Dungeon Master: Tal Aviezer
Note: This adventure will use Roll20, DNDBeyond, and Zoom
THIS SESSION IS FULL!

Sunday, Oct 25 10am EST
Pit of the Dust Goblins
Stealth and clever tactics will be needed to survive a trap-laden sunken keep in the middle of a blighted fairy circle.
Number of Players: 4-6
Level: 3-5
Length: 3 hours
Fee Per Player: $20
Dungeon Master: Matt Gordon

Note: this game will use Roll20
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MEET THE DUNGEONS & MONKEYS 2020 DUNGEON MASTERS

Tal Aviezer is the Artistic Director of Red Monkey Theater Group, resident theater company of NYC’s College of Mount Saint Vincent, for whom he writes and acts in a series of ongoing site-specific Sherlock Holmes plays performed at both Bartow-Pell Mansion-Museum in NYC and at Lyndhurst mansion in Tarrytown, NY. Tal has directed and produced numerous shows over the past 21 years, many of them works of Shakespeare. Recent favorite roles include Hamlet, Macbeth, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Trigorin in The Seagull, Gary Peter Lefkowitz in I Hate Hamlet, Cassius in Julius Caesar, and Mr. Croup in Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere.

Tal has worked as a voice actor and voice director for video games and for numerous local and national radio stations. Training: National Theater Institute, Royal Shakespeare Company. An experienced DM, Tal considers D&D to be a powerful interactive storytelling tool and an engine of creativity, empathy, friendship, and fun. His style includes an equal emphasis on role-playing, exploration and discovery, and combat. His original best-selling D&D adventures are available at DMsGuild.com – including Attack on Coppercoil, which he’ll be running at Dungeons & Monkeys this year.

Leon Barillaro is a game designer and writer living in Jersey City. They currently work for Future Proof as a game designer for their transmedia experience online and in immersive theatrical events. Leon has writing and editing credits on several products on the Dungeon Masters Guild, including best-selling titles Uncaged Anthology and The Book of House. They also run D&D campaigns professionally for private and corporate groups. You can find them on twitter @barilleon. Check out their work here. Leon will be running their original adventure, Hair of the Dog, so if you play at their table, you’re in for a real treat!

Matt Gordon has been involved with role-playing since he was six years old. Whether it be acting or Dungeon Mastering for friends, family, and others, Matt enjoys involving himself as an active participant in a good story. Working with Red Monkey Theater Group has granted him ample opportunities to do just that, being in six productions in the last seven years, and helping to bring Dungeons & Monkeys, RMTG’s annual D&D charity event, to life for the last three. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mbg98 and learn more at mattbgordon.com. Matt is currently DMing Dungeon of the Mad Mage as the primary Dungeon Master of the Twitch streaming channel Slices & Dices, broadcasting every Friday on twitch.tv/slicesndices.

Liam Murray is an Irish student and a relatively new best-selling writer on Dungeon Master’s Guild, with over 5 years of DM experience. His favourite official adventure is Curse of Strahd. His first adventure, Murder on the Primewater Pleasure, was published only a few months ago and became a best-selling product overnight! Thanks to the wonderful encouragement from the community, he has decided to further explore this writing career. You can check out his work here. You can follow him on twitter or on reddit here. He will be running his original adventure, so if you play at his table you’d best put on your sleuth hat! He looks forward to gaming with you!

Steve “Jaspor” Orr is a homebrewer, retired punk rock guitarist, and software developer. He has been playing and DMing Dungeons & Dragons games for many years, and has been publishing on the Dungeon Masters Guild since February 2019. You can find his full catalog of D&D related products on the DMs Guild right here. 

Joe Raso is a dad, a husband, a mediocre goalie for a rec hockey team, and a long-suffering DM who’s had the pleasure of gaming with the same group since his university days. Since 2018, Joe has been writing, editing, and producing third-party D&D content on the DMs Guild. A few of the best-selling productions he’s contributed to include: The Great Dale Campaign Guide, Artifacts of the Guild, Villains & Lairs, Wisdom and Warning: The Demon Wastes, and Mistkickers: Ravenloft Sidekicks. As of January 2020, Joe is the acting editor for The Khyber Khronicle, an Eberron magazine published on the DMs Guild. You can follow him on twitter @_joe_raso or on his blog theschemingdm.wordpress.com.

Steve Pankotai is a bestselling writer on the Dungeon Masters Guild. Best known for his adventures, he has recently expanded the Player Primer series to help introduce players to the Dungeons & Dragons world. He also contributed to the new Supers & Sorcery 5e setting on DriveThruRPG! In his downtime, he reads DC comics and watches children’s cartoons. Check out his work here.

Kyle Thomas is a long time DM, new dad, and proud participant in every Dungeons and Monkeys event so far. His love of improv got him back into the game in 2013, but his love of the game has built a family of role players that have inspired him to create his own world.  This year a few players will get to enter that world.

Sebastian Yūe is a Toronto-based author, editor, model, and voice actor. Lake of Secrets is their first published TTRPG adventure. Sebastian is also a developer for Islands & Aswangs, a 5e sourcebook based on Filipino folklore. In their spare time, Sebastian enjoys reading, fencing, theatre-going, and traveling. Find Sebastian on Twitter @sebastianyue and check out their other work on their website.