Expedition Log · Soho, London
Savage Dungeon Champions
Field notes from the tabletop wilds — dungeon crawls, campaign diaries and RPG gear tested by lamplight in our Berwick Street war-room.
Call the lodge: +44 20 7636 9574
Our Trail
From basement one-shots to a proper lodge
What began as a single dog-eared campaign notebook is now a working journal read by dungeon masters across the UK.
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2016
The First Torch
Four friends, one homebrew megadungeon, and a promise to write down every death. The notebook filled in three months.
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2019
Going Public
The blog launched with weekly session reports and honest gear reviews — no sponsors, no fluff, just what survived the table.
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2022
The Soho War-Room
We took a lamplit room above Berwick Street, filled it with battlemaps, and started running live playtests for readers.
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2025
40,000 Adventurers
The newsletter now reaches tens of thousands of GMs who plan Friday nights around our dungeon breakdowns.
What We Publish
Columns worth pulling up a chair for
Session Reports
Weekly play-by-play write-ups from our live table — the clutch rolls, the TPKs, and the rulings that made them work.
Dice & Gear Reviews
Hands-on tests of dice sets, GM screens and minis — balance-checked, drop-tested and rated on our five-torch scale.
Homebrew Vault
Free downloadable subclasses, monsters and one-page dungeons, each stress-tested at the Soho table before it goes live.
GM Toolkits
Prep guides that turn a blank evening into a running dungeon — encounter tables, pacing tricks and improv NPC banks.
Reader Campaigns
We feature standout tables sent in by readers, complete with maps, character sheets and the story behind the scars.
Live Playtests
Free monthly playtest nights above Berwick Street — book a seat, try unreleased homebrew, and shape the next post.
Campaign Archive
Dungeons we lived to write about
From the Table
What the party says
"The Hollow Crown write-up saved my own campaign — I lifted the drowned-keep map and my players still talk about it."
"Their five-torch dice reviews are the only ones I trust. Bought the set they rated highest and it's perfectly balanced."
"I went to a Berwick Street playtest on a whim and ended up featured on the blog a month later. Brilliant crowd."
"The GM toolkits turned my sloppy prep into tight three-hour sessions. Encounter tables alone are worth the newsletter."
The Dungeon Dispatch
One email every Thursday: the week's session report, a fresh homebrew download and first dibs on playtest seats. Free, no spam.
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Reach the Lodge
Send a raven
Pitch a reader campaign, ask about a playtest seat, or send gear for review. We read every message from the Soho war-room.
- [email protected]
- Phone
- +44 20 7636 9574
- The War-Room
- 58 Berwick Street, Soho, London W1F 8SY
- Table Hours
- Tue–Sat, 4pm–11pm · Playtest nights first Friday monthly