The Devil's Screw (Penny Blood Adventures) Hardcover – December 26, 2025

They built it to hold Hell still.Driven through the world like a colossal iron nail, the Devil’s Screw is an inverted tower of brass, chains, and infernal law—its purpose singular and terrible: to pin a hell-rift shut and keep damnation contained. For generations, it has worked.Now it is failing.As pressure mounts and alarms scream, the last safeguard between the mortal world and the Nine Hells begins to crack. Devils gather. Contracts tighten. Every delay makes the inevitable more certain. Someone must descend into the tower’s depths—not for glory, not for gold, but to keep Hell from breathing free.The Devil’s Screw is a high-tension Dungeons & Dragons 5e adventure for characters of levels 3–6, built as an infernal heist under a relentless ticking clock. Players navigate collapsing machinery, hostile environments, and ruthless devils while racing to stabilize critical subsystems before the final seal gives way.Inside you’ll find:A pressure-driven adventure structure using progress clocks to keep every roll meaningfulThree major subsystems—Boilers, Wards, and Capstan—that can be tackled in any orderOptional Nine Seals side incursions offering power at terrible costDevilish negotiations, brutal combat, and hard choices with lasting consequencesMultiple endings shaped by player decisions, success, and failureThis is not a dungeon crawl.It is an operation.The machine is alive.And Hell is watching.Descend. Stabilize the Screw.Or let Hell rise. Read more