Concept: “These creatures take up residence in wells throughout the dying land.”
Content: Includes stats, random well generator, real-world lore, and tactics for fighting one
Writing: Delivers the necessary information but stays scant to spotlight the art
Art/design: Features plenty of visceral, gritty depictions
Usability: Content is spread cross several pages but well organized for easy use

Concept: “The sea boils. The sky is black. The End is here. 

And now, so are you. 

Welcome to the Cataclysm Coast. We hope you enjoy your stay.” 
Content: The Cataclym Coast... IS burning as three unwashed naval factions gnaw and raid through their last moments.
Writing: A misery-soaked narrative setting guide, providing locations, motivations, and horrors to unleash before the end.
Art/design: High contrast false color maps and neon-toned public domain imagery dominate this single-column layout.
Usability: Color-coded map icons and section headings denote three rival factions. Also available as plaintext.

Concept: “The ritual called forth a violent, monstrous hunter... The monster stalks the caverns, leaving only to drag more victims below the water, to sate its ravenous appetite for drowned flesh.”
Content: A lakeside village creature feature.
Writing: History and plot that easily be engaged or bypassed based on player interests and needs.
Art/design: Cover illustration and dungeon map lend imagination to a clean plain text document format.
Usability: Easy to search or reference pdf text. 

Concept: “They are numerous, they are hungry, and they want to take back their rightful kingdom.”
Content: A marine monster that’s also lethal on dry land
Writing: Straightforward stat block and a description that leaves room for GM interpretation
Art/design: Efficient text layout and some colorful, psychedelic art that works well with the text
Usability: Includes a French-language version

Concept: “No longer is the sea just an impassive viewer of the Dying World's slow demise; it is coming up to hasten the end.” 
Content: A flood of aquatic content.
Writing: A collection of flotsam and jetsam. Sometimes humorous, often abysmal. 
Art/design: A minimalist layout with woodblock prints alongside modern renditions of fish-folk.
Usability: Fluid but with the occasional bit of detritus. Available in storm-tossed gray or eye-numbing yellow.  

Concept: “Here is my track for this day #MÖRKTOBER 's prompt : Eldritch! Heavily inspired by Lovecraft works and mood and by all the possibly weird mermaid waiting for us in the Endless Sea.” 
Content: The bubbling, building siren songs of the endless sea.
Writing: A simple title. It is fitting.
Art/design: Crystalline brushstrokes form the album cover. A drifting sonic descent into the depths meets a soft mournful chorus until water finally fills your lungs.
Usability: Music to drown to. 

Concept: “Hexed bounty hunters slowly turning amphibious”
Content: A trio of semi-aquatic abominations
Writing: Provides background, stats, and some particularly punishing special abilities
Art/design: Prominently features freaky, visceral portraits of each character
Usability: Implied to be pretty tasty

Concept: “Constructed from the skeletal corpse of the Manta Ray Lich, this mighty axe gives its wielder the powers of the endless ocean.”
Content: An axe borne from the endless sea.
Writing: Powerful and dripping with flavor and abysmal drawbacks.
Art/design: A vibrant, energetic visual design with a mildly distressed but aesthetic layout.
Usability: Simple, legible, intuitive. 

Concept: “A collection of 17 spells to unleash in MÖRK BORG!”
Content: 8 unclean and sacred scrolls apiece, plus the more elaborate Cascading Rebirth
Writing: Concise spell descriptions and creature stat blocks
Art/design: Slick, monochrome Mörk Borginess
Usability: Readable and straightforward

Concept: “As stated in the title”
Content: “As stated in the title”
Writing: A medical treatise, ecology, and setting guide in one long, wriggly, event-driven package. The eel's name is Inmedius Rex.
Art/design: Memorable use of eel anatomy, and organic placement of spot illustrations.
Usability: The monster and NPC stat blocks were fully digested, make your own. 

Concept: “Nordic folk tales have told stories of Vannvetter for as long as we can remember. This publication details three.”
Content: A trio of aquatic antagonists
Writing: Provides background lore and hooks for the PCs
Art/design: Straightforward, easily navigable layouts arranged around evocative illustrations
Usability: Simple on the GM side; creatures pose various threats and consequences for PCs

Concept: “What started as a glorified shitpost was elevated by (Deathshead13’s) art, which inspired me to put a lot more time and effort into this than originally planned.” 
Content: A cross-system fish market full of meaty murderers.
Writing: Versatile descriptive text transfers fish from one ecosystem to another
Art/design: Character portraits detailed and characterful enough to smell.
Usability: Crossover content for Cy_Borg and Lichoma 

Concept: “Based on Flogging Molly’s Within A Mile of Home album”
Content: A sailor class, nautical weapons, tattoos, shipbuilding and sailing rules, and a hexcrawl (hexsail?)
Writing: Clear, concise, and descriptive with some dramatic, creepy, and somber imagery
Art/design: Primarily typographical for easy reference with some flavorful illustrations
Usability: Way easier than actually sailing; adventure includes PC- and GM-facing maps as well as links to content incorporated from external sources

This entry was sponsored by Bijan F. Zavareei as part of the Ex Libris RPG crowdfunding campaign.
“An incredibly entertaining hexcrawl that provides easy to use and engaging rules for nautical adventures. Absolutely fantastic content made with lots of love and care.”