Crawl Space: Campaign Codex + GM Kit (Compliance & Catacombs, Book 1)

A government dungeon inspector arrives to condemn a deadly dungeon. The dungeon is secretly a sanctuary, and the order to demolish it was signed before she ever walked in. Now the only document that can save it is one the laughed-at class is the only one allowed to file.

The Premise

The kingdom runs on dungeons, and a Bureau of Dungeon Regulation decides which ones live and which get demolished. Dungeon 7-Greywater is a Level Five “kill-dungeon” that secretly does not want to kill anyone: its Boss has spent decades engineering his own traps to fail safely, hiding a colony of “disposable” monsters and an unlicensed soup kitchen. When a deadpan safety inspector is sent to file the closure that ends it, she discovers the order was pre-dated, the land is already sold, and she was picked because she files clean. The campaign is the race to expose the fraud and file the one document that stops the wrecking crew, before the demolition clock runs out.

It is a workplace comedy with a warm heart: institutional, procedural humor, found-family stakes, and the deeply satisfying payoff of the build everyone wrote off turning out to be the most important one in the room.

What You Get

This is a complete, ready-to-run campaign kit for any fantasy tabletop system:

• The full Campaign Codex: the world, the conflict, a five-arc story spine, the full cast with GM-facing playbooks, seven mapped locations, and a complete “Running the Campaign” toolkit (rumor table, encounter seeds, pacing notes, off-script responses, pronunciation guide, and more).
• Printable player handouts and one-page NPC reference sheets.
• A 5-session GM Session Planner (print-ready).
• A 2-page Campaign Tracker for factions, the demolition clock, hinge decisions, and loose ends.

Why It Runs Well at the Table

• A five-arc structure with a midpoint reveal that reframes everything, a genuine low point, and a climax won by choice, not by a dice-off.
• Four marked hinge decisions that fork the campaign, each written so the world responds to whichever path your players pick.
• Three true endings, including the costly one.
• A cast with built-in comic engines and “if mishandled” notes, so every NPC plays itself.
• A visible ticking clock your players can feel, not just one the GM knows about.

System-Agnostic

No stat blocks, no rules, no math. Run it in whatever fantasy system you already own. The LitRPG game-layer is presented as flavor with optional, ruleset-neutral GM hooks, so it drops cleanly into any table.

What’s Inside

• Campaign Codex (PDF, print-ready 8.5 x 11)
• GM Session Planner, 5-session pack (DOCX)
• GM Campaign Tracker, 2-page (DOCX)

Who This Is For

Game Masters who want a complete, character-driven campaign they can run with almost no prep, who like comedy with real stakes, and who enjoy a story about the overlooked winning with the exact thing everyone dismissed. Compliance & Catacombs, Book One: a self-contained campaign that also opens a series.

License

For personal use at your table. Run it, print it, adapt it for your own games. Please do not resell or redistribute the files themselves. Non-exclusive: available to every GM who wants it.

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