Published on October 19, 2026
Written by Bardic Quest
Project Lamordia is out on D&D Beyond, and it’s the biggest swing Wizards has taken with 5.5 so far: a sci-fi horror adventure set inside a haunted corporate campus, with three linked one-shots, four new backgrounds, new monsters and the return of the Survivor rules from Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft. We go through what’s in it, whether the reworked Reborn is more than a reskin, and why Survivors might be the best way to get a friend who “doesn’t do fantasy” to the table this Halloween.
Then it’s the Kuo-toa, the last species from Unearthed Arcana’s Underdark Options II. They get a swim speed, the Slippery trait and a familiar that doubles as their own personal god, but no darkvision. We rate it for narrative, fun, power and DM friendliness, and pitch the fishy subspecies we’d like to see.
With Wayne Ingram, Annina Kaski and Callum Robertson.
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0:00 Intro
0:53 Project Lamordia: price and what’s inside
6:07 Severance meets Resident Evil: the setting and art
8:27 The Reborn: new flavour, same mechanics
15:28 New backgrounds and D&D beyond fantasy
25:24 Survivors: low-prep horror and great onboarding
35:29 A gateway for people who don’t like fantasy
41:46 Kuo-toa: Underdark Options II’s fish folk
49:05 Swim speed, Slippery and a pocket god
1:01:20 Rating the Kuo-toa
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