I was part of the team that made this, so there may be some bias. But this is a 270+ page miracle of a project. And it's free! The number of interesting, exciting, strange and truly inspired ideas in it is staggering. The biggest surprise to me - however - is how everybody came together to create a coherent world in Beyond Bightwater. This was a volunteer effort with no initial plans beyond "let's make some hexes!" Everyone could have created disconnected, random hexes with no overarching structure, then called it a day. Instead, many included references to other hexes, or altered their own ideas to incorporate the developments in nearby areas. Others created the backstory, unifying the various settlements and giving the world a shared history from which we could all draw. Others made sure we ticked several logistical boxes (general descriptions, wandering monsters and other useful general charts, citation consideration, etc.) so that we could make the product available and usable.

The end result, in my opinion, is something that rivals any similar adventure on the market, and again for no cost at all. Yes, there will be encounters not explicitly connected to other elements of the world. But if you use this to run a game, you'll have a rich, fully-realized world from which to draw inspiration, and many directions (literal and figurative) for your players to explore.

I'm proud to have been a part of this, and to any who download and use it, I sincerely hope you enjoy it!

I've used this about as much as anything I've purchased on DM's Guild. Sometimes it's ver batim; other times it's as creative inspiration. But these types of encounters make for such excellent scenes when you find the right one for a particular PC.

Didn't actually run as-is, but pulled in a bunch of elements into a couple sessions at sea that my party had in a homebrew adventure. To that end, this adventure (or rather, elements of it) fit the bill nicely, and helped me through some writer's block on various elements and encounters. In particular, the rules surrounding a ship-to-ship battle with a lot of enemies were very clear and helped me wrap my head around that type of encounter. Thank you and well done! I technically can't vouch for the entirety of the adventure, but would recommend it nonetheless.

Delightful addition to a Waterdhavian game, this has given me a lot of brainstorming material for side quests and intrigue, while also giving me physical "newspapers" to give to my players who are living and adventuring in the city. This absolutely isn't NEEDED in your game, but as a quick, lovely way to add some flavor, I've found few to be its equal.

The boards and hooks are all quite well done. But what separates this product for me is that you get blank boards/notes upon which you can add you own. This gives the product life well beyond the Waterdeep/Skullport area it was created for. My own variations on these notice boards will undoubtedly appear in years' worth of campaigns as a result. Cheers!