Like every great adventure, B5: Horror on the Hill starts with an old man, a boat, and the specter of crippling financial ruin. In part one, Russell and Jeramy set sail from the oddly named and poorly developed Fort Guido for a wilderness jaunt featuring killer bees, flesh eating birds, and some suspiciously generous old ladies. Along the way they try to figure out whether the hill is actually a hill at all and marvel at the possible birth of the goodberry. All the while, more and more evidence piles up that the real issue with the hill isn’t the horrors on top of it… but whatever is making all that heat and steam bubble up from below.

With the rift in the rear view, Russell and Jeramy trade their explorers’ hats for gladiator helmets in the final part of G2: The Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl. Grugnur’s hall might look like a page right out of Architectural Digest with its cold color theming and meticulously styled trophy rooms, but behind the design panache lies a frozen murder factory unlike anything the vaunted G series has offered before. The guys tangle with a seemingly never-ending supply of giants (and boulders) enroute to face the lord and lady of the house who are locked, loaded, and ready to defend their secrets… or escape via emergency fast food playground slide, whatever works.

The frozen fun continues in part 2 as Russell and Jeramy dive deeper into the titular Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl and they aren’t the only ones! A bevy of ogres and giants chill out while hoping to hang with the Jarl provide a rainbow coalition of bad guys as the boys push ever closer to the icy lair of the Jarl himself. But it turns out humanoids are the least of their worries, as death comes in many forms: heat hungry mold, icy puddings, an overgrown death centipede, and what very well may be the very first official dragon sighting in Dungeons & Dragons. That’s assuming the party sees the dragons before they’re lunch.