It turns out the "little" dungeon I made for this oneshot Gauntlet is actually gigantic/super dense. I designed it to be dense to help keep the pace and encounters interesting but figured we'd have it done and dusted in less than 3 sessions (4-6 hour). We have done 5 so far with at least 1 more left
Feeling confident about my Shadowdark Homebrew Gauntlet. I had a whole list of stuff I wanted to try but realized that the "kitchen sink" approach was not going to work so I dramatically cut down the systems and decided to change my main issues with Gauntlets and go from there.