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Abominable Transformation

Concept: “Magic. Monstrosity. Forced Change. Changed Character.” 
Content: An unclean scroll of transformation, and the expected results. 
Writing: Interconnected mechanics producing uniquely abominable lifecycle.
Art/design: A prominent abomination embodied amongst sharp-boxed text descriptions.
Usability: Abominably short. 

A Feast For A Sphinx

Concept: “In a frozen valley, a winged lion have set her lair in the ruins of the temple of the Golden One. While some may seek to plunder the forgotten temple, rumors says that the winged beast can grant wishes...” 
Content: A golden-voiced sphinx crawl. Emphasis on the crawl.
Writing: A pragmatic and factual account of creeping horror. Revealed progressively in reading and at play.
Art/design: Tri-fold design which in turns obscures then reveals animate horrors along with the text.
Usability: A natural progression and clear design enhance usability. 

All Things Fragrant and Foul

Concept: “Mork Borg can be overwhelmingly nasty. Why not balance that with some beauty? And also add even more misery. 
Content: New rules, eight classes, and an afterlife-spanning adventure. Also sports.
Writing: A meditation on duality. With a serious tone contained within all its dubious fragrance.
Art/design: A highly interactive and reversible design with upright and inverted text interleaved beautifully.
Usability: Designed for print. Flip the book. My condolences to page 5. 

A Teller of Bad Omens

Concept: “You have left your mind in the hands of those from whom one must keep away and now aspire to spread their dark word wherever you go.” 
Content: A dark messenger transformed by darker powers.
Writing: Shadowy origins, eldritch energy, and body horror.
Art/design: A virescent energy lends weight to this cloaked, corpse-painted scvm.
Usability: An effective layout that establishes boundaries and breaks them. 

Basilica of the False Prophet

Concept: “THEM. A lunatic, convinced he is the one true, basilisk. Skulking in an abandoned church on the far side of the western mountain range, he rants and plots against HE and SHE.”
Content: A desperate descent. An unexpected plunge. A shattered hope?
Writing: Miserable and descriptive encounters, backed by elegant mechanics, make a narrative descent into madness.
Art/design: A masterful balance of utility, consistency, and style. Haunting yet austere illustrations and maps fill but do not dominate the pamphlet.
Usability: Pairs well with Western Wall (also by Rugose Kohn). 

Bloodborg

Concept: “Inspired by the hit video game Bloodborne by FromSoftware... Blodborg is a mashup of the lore and combat systems of these two grimdark fantasy worlds.”
Content: Eight classes, thirty-one monstrosities, and twenty “trick” weapons adapted from Bloodborne.
Writing: Faithfully transplants its bloody pathogens into the Dying Lands.
Art/design: Dark brooding design elements complement weathered and warped illustrations. 
Usability: Bordered text can be difficult to read without increasing resolution. 

Böeser

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Concept: “Children keep disappearing in the forest. But no one dares to visit the abandoned ruin, which juts out of a clearing like a rotten tooth. Whoever crosses the threshold is confronted with a force that scares even the Inquisition. Everything is alive.”
Content: A basilisk-bonding, child-abducting, palace of a flesh crawl.
Writing: A full-bodied blend of humor and horror that spares no raw material.
Art/design: A well-built manor of an adventure design, with tormented sketches, and fleshy full-color illustrations.
Usability: Easily referenced adventure design. A follow-up to Den of Disarray. 

Bolo Santizeli’s Prosthetics

Concept: “A strange merchant has come to sell prosthetic arms for those who are short-handed.”
Content:
An inventory of replacement appendages with unique benefits and drawbacks
Writing:
Concise descriptions peppered with witty comments
Art/design:
Optimized for easy use without sacrificing character
Usability:
Don’t forget to add to the Misery count to the roll result

Chamber of Screams and More

Concept: “Five different 12" x 12" double-sided posters, each a different encounter idea/mini-adventure... Each is a stand-alone and, if I've done things right, will lead to a TPK or as close to one as possible.” 
Content: Five fatal mistakes for your next group of scvm.
Writing: Humorous and harrowing. With deadly accommodations for particularly resilient scvm. 
Art/design: Art-heavy poster layouts with detailed adventure text on the reverse side.
Usability: Clean and calculated for reading and reference. 

Creatures of the Dying World 3

Concept: “...in which he mines the alien world of insects to produce Lovecraftian Things that Should Not Be.” 
Content: 19 sanity-shaking creatures. d66 delusional prompts to manage the fallout.
Writing: A thorough mix of indescribable humor and horror. With a fantastical sanity system that won’t take your players out of the game. 
Art/design: Impressionistic and inked illustrations capture both the silly and the strange.
Usability: Text which balances between utility and style from passage to passage. 

Dead Limbs

Concept: “Are you in need of another arm, leg, ear, or other bodily protrusion? Fear not!” 
Content: Replacement limbs, and what to do with them. Maybe also what they do to you.
Writing: Framed as research notes, compiled and annotated by a paranoid scvm.
Art/design: Anatomy study chic.
Usability: Intact and not too crazed. 

Dungeoneer's Black Book

Concept: “Welcome to the Dungeoneer's Black Book, a collection of boggy holes and haunted cellars. No evening shall pass without the gruesome, ultimately inevitable death of a beloved character.”
Content: 16 dungeons in a disturbing array of contents and formats
Writing: A variety of adventures await you with their own unique styles. The only guarantee is misery.
Art/design: A engrossing (sometimes gross) exploration of dungeon layout and illustration.
Usability: With a variety of design formats, make sure to read your selected dungeon before the session.

Flesh Alchemist

Concept: “Optimizing the body has a completely different meaning for you. By creating life from the dead, you have angered the Reaper. Death is now looking for you.”
Content: An alchemist of flesh.
Writing: A medical treatise on both short- and long-term body modification.
Art/design: A towering mass of gore looms beside cleanly sutured columns of text.
Usability: Cleanly stitched text makes for easy reference. 

Flesh Bound

Concept: “Only one body may bear their shared flesh at any time, while the other lies a corpse, awaiting... Carry your corpse upon your back.” 
Content: A sublimating set of alchemical half-twins.
Writing: For that player who insists on playing two PCs to balance a small party.
Art/design: Ink splatter and a judicious print capture human sublimation in romanticized and painterly detail.
Usability: Available in PDF or JPG. 

Forty Fiends

Concept: “From the darkness, they emerged. Of the darkness, they are made.” 
Content: The aforementioned fiends and related diseases, parasites, and tables.
Writing: Themes of infection, subversion, and infestation tie this book of beasts.
Art/design: A mmutilated mashup of tortured illustrations in a stylized but effective layout.
Usability: Rules and description separated and identifiable for ease of reference. 
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