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A Privatized Little Hell

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Hell used to run on fear. Now it runs on quarterly projections.

When Greed seized the Burning Throne, the first thing to go was overhead. Guards? Redundant. Torture specialists? Consolidated. The Styx? Outsourced. What remains is a skeleton crew of overworked fiends, a crumbling infrastructure of eternal punishment, and one very exploitable gap in security.

Your players are the strike team. The mission: extract a damned soul who knows too much. The catch: even a budget Hell is still Hell. Expect devils who've traded pitchforks for pivot tables, infernal middle management clinging to what little power remains, and hazards that would make OSHA weep.

A Privatized Little Hell is the adventure for tables that have outgrown dungeons and want something with teeth—and a severance package.

A high-level dark comedy adventure for 5e that will make your current capitalist hellscape seem less bad.

God’s been robbed. We’re breaking the thief out of Hell to find out where he stashed the goods.

Are you in?

Normally Hell would never relinquish a soul, but after a tumultuous infernal fiscal crisis/civil cold war, Pride’s out, and Greed is in. Guards have been downsized, security assets have been sold, and the Forces of Good have hatched a plot. Yet even in destitution, Hell is still dangerous. There are only a few heroes strong enough to attempt such a mission: your players!

A Privatized Little Hell is a 5e-compatible Black Comedy Dungeon Crawl for roughly four characters of sixteenth level. This is a high-level hellscape that’ll keep your players chuckling, gasping, and fighting to escape. Warning: this adventure will kick your ass and charge you for the pleasure!

Includes
A Rare Find - The Definitive high-level indie adventure for 5e.
Tortured Artistry - 104 lush pages of rich, raucous writing and art.
Encounter design that respects your players' power - No trash mobs. No filler. Every fight is a set piece worthy of 16th-level legends.
NPCs you'll actually remember - Devils with performance reviews, damned middle managers, and one very stressed archfiend trying to make Q4 numbers.
Loot worth dying for (again) - Magic items that feel like rewards, not spreadsheet entries .
The Depth Crawl System - Procedural hell generation for when your party inevitably goes off-book into the abyss.

Written By
Austin Holm
Published By
Indie Dev.
Publication Year
2026
Handouts?
No
Battle Mats?
No
Includes Characters?
No
Level
Levels 16–18
Soloable?
No
Found In
Part Of
Boss Monsters and Villains
Common Monsters
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