Concept: “When the dark rider calls, you have two choices: flee, or join the flight of the damned.”
Content: A deck-based randomized adventure; a creative concept and well executed
Writing: Clean, atmospheric writing with sharp imagery
Art/design: Excellent illustrations and layouts
Usability: Well-organized main sheet, and encounter stats on each card, and available in multiple formats to suit printing preferences

Concept: “Eskalating Eskatons ties the players’ spending of Omens to the Calendar of Nechrubel with a nifty rule and tracker.”
Content: The number of omens spent gradually reduces the size of the die rolled on the Calendar
Writing: Not wordy. Doesn’t need to be.
Art/design: Provides visual cues for use in the full-graphic version and verbal instructions in the printer friendly version
Usability: GM will need to keep careful count of omens used, but it’s obviously not a major chore

Concept: “You fucking died. How you still walk the earth defies all things holy and unholy.”
Content: An undead, face-shifting character class with an appropriate emphasis on bodily abilities
Writing: Primarily focused on class mechanics with macabre flavor throughout
Art/design: Layout places emphasis on the illustration; text is spatially delineated for easy navigation
Usability: Majority of the text is in small point and may be challenging to read in print

Concept: “Bizarre-looking miniature human figures (homunculi) created from non-human biological matter”
Content: Rules for creating and running familiars plus tables for names, communication, personality, specialties, food, death, name, and rarities
Writing: Straightforward with some particularly humorous entries
Art/design: Designed for easy usability and includes some illustrations as examples or inspiration
Usability: Potentially useful and entertaining

Concept: “Your insane sister apparently sent the children Flails this Christmas. Flails!”
Content: A sandboxy, randomized crawl through streets beset by flail-wielding tykes. (Yes, it is as dark and hilarious as it sounds.)
Writing: Multiple tables for different types of encounters, suggested destinations, and a grim finale
Art/design: Primarily textual, but well-organized to do its work effectively
Usability: Facilitates linear flow through the document

Concept: “The Holy Sect of the Flayed Visage sends its acolytes out into the doomed world to hear the confessions of the damned and collect their flayed faces.”
Content: Mechanically simple with colorful lore
Writing: A study in the motifs of flaying faces and confessing sins
Art/design: Crazed scvm with a morning star and a face shield—what more could you want?
Usability: Simple in itself; a potential kernel for GMs to build out from

Concept: “‘Flesh Golem? This is a pile of dead animal parts.’”
Content: A monster cobbled together from … other monsters
Writing: Standard stat block peppered with “inspirational” quotes (from a mad scientist)
Art/design: A bit crowded but conveys the narrative well
Usability: Color punctuates the stat block for easier navigation

Concept: “With the mortal coil severed like an umbilical cord, you are now an abomination.”
Content: Three tables to generate background, 4 dark gifts, and a fun vampiric feature
Writing: Establishes the class’s damned/unholy/undead nature
Art/design: Effective typographic design and an interesting, expressive illustration
Usability: More tables = more rolls = more fun