Let's Play Hell's Rebels

This is a series of posts wherein I do a solo playthrough of Hell’s Rebels, using DFRPG as the rule system with stuff mixed in from vanilla GURPS where appropriate. This page is being written in 2026, but the actual project has been going on since 2023.

Some of the posts related to this project are already published as of this writing, and the page will be updated with the rest as they become available. There’s plenty of material in the queue, as I’ve been playing since I first announced I’d do it.

Posts About The Project Itself

• Let’s Play Hell’s Rebels! : Where I announce the project and explain the reasoning behind it.

• LPHR: Devils and Other Fiends: Where I decide what I will do about devil stats for the game.

• LPHR: Adjusting Setting Assumptions: Where I talk about the overal setting adjustments I’m going to make to fit this campaign to Dungeon Fantasy, and link to several other rules posts which you can also find in the next session.

• Player Character Origins: A list of possible player character origins for the game. It’s somewhat depeer than the cursory treatment given to it in the Hell’s Rebels Player’s Guide, and inspired by the excellent character themes in the Neverwinter Campaign Setting.

• Origin Corrections: In which I fix one of the origins to better mesh with the adventure background. This fix was already applied to the post in the previous link, so this one is only here for historical interest.

• A Decision: Explains why I’ve never posted any PCs or play scenes here even though I had been doing them in the background, and why I decided to start.

Supplementary Rules Material

These are posts that might not have been tagged as part of the project to start with, but were motivated by stuff I wanted to add to the game. Listed in chronological order.

• Underwater Dungeon Fantasy: Adventure 02 and 03 feature significant underwater bits.

• Wealth in D&D and Dungeon Fantasy: In which I figure out a nice and easy conversion rate between Pathfinder 1e/D&D 3.5 coinage and Dungeon Fantasy money.

• Underwater Dungeon Fantasy 2: Items and Artifacts: Contains items useful for underwater adventuring.

• Denizens of the Sea: Contains some aquatic species that can be used in the game. Not explicitly connected to the game, as the setting information is generic, but one of the PCs is an Atlantean.

Player Characters

Our heroes! I like making parties of five ever since I started GMing D&D 4th Edition.

The character sheets here depict how the characters are at the start of the campaign. I might add updated versions as the opportunity presents itself.

• Arcturus Pankrator: The Knight of the Deep.

• Jade Irinka: The Sixth Raven.

• Jania Moonshadow: The Phantom Thief.

• Rosalia Savory: The Mysterious Satirist.

• Urist Stortebeker: The Last Archivist.

Monsters and NPCs

These get their own page: The Hell’s Rebels Bestiary!

Actual Play

This is where our actual play reports go. They’re usually split up by Mythic scenes.

Adventure 01

• Scene 01: The Aria Park Protest.