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D'ugax

Concept: "In the city of North Gate, the Church of Abundance, worshipers of the goddess Zovra, hires the party to retrieve a stolen holy relic – the jawbone of their saint. 

Meanwhile, a strange symbol is seen around town – a  skull, with a moth in its mouth, and a single eye on its forehead." 
Content: An investigation into the cults of plenty, and their demons.
Writing: Scripted structure establishes witness and suspect statements. Contingent events sketch a timeline of events.
Art/design: Consistent and sturdy single-column layout, thematic cover art, with art of major locations and NPCs.
Usability: Flow of events requires pre-reading. Table of contents and strong section headings for ease of reference. 

FantasticJean's Misery's Keep

Concept: “an independent production by Jean Verne… hastening the final Misery” 
Content: A miserable keep-crawl, redecorated, again.
Writing: A dastardly villain, a towering castle, treasure to steal, and dolls… 
Art/design: A magazine print production, depicting the keep through a surrealist collection of public domain imagery.
Usability: Functional, accessible, and visually rich. 

FrogmentSoul’s Misery’s Keep

Concept: “an independent production by Samuel Ortega… hastening the final Misery”
Content: A miserable keep-crawl, redecorated, again.
Writing: A dastardly villain, a towering castle, treasure to steal, and dolls…
Art/design: A clean coal gray, with dramatic yellow spot illustrations, and room descriptions framed cleanly around the castle map.
Usability: A separate unlabeled minimap is provided for player reference. 

Kracken 777’s Misery’s Keep

Concept: “an independent production by Winston Smith… hastening the final Misery” 
Content: A miserable keep-crawl, redecorated, again.
Writing: A dastardly villain, a towering castle, treasure to steal, and dolls… 
Art/design: A tasteful teal and violet cover, hand-drawn illustrations, and modified public domain imagery engage a classic mini-map sidebar design.
Usability: Functional, accessible, with a recognizable top-down castle map. 

Micheál Reidy’s Misery’s Keep

Concept: “an independent production by Micheál Reidy… hastening the final Misery”
Content: A miserable keep-crawl, redecorated, again.
Writing: A dastardly villain, a towering castle, treasure to steal, and dolls…
Art/design: Shades of black, red, and gray. Restrained text elements. Humorous emphasis on licensing text.
Usability: There’s a doll spotting mini-game.

Misery’s Hole

Concept: “an independent production by Philipp Teich… hastening the final Misery” 
Content: A miserable keep hole-crawl, redecorated, again.
Writing: A dastardly villain, a towering castle hole, treasure to steal, and dolls… (the original text has been slightly altered to accommodate the “reframing”)
Art/design: A pdf format that’s surprisingly deep, with rich off-whites that lend weight to the tons of stone looming overhead.
Usability: Well-placed, and clearly highlighted room text aids reference.  

Nacnudllah’s Misery’s Keep

Concept: “an independent production by Duncan Hall… hastening the final Misery” 
Content: A miserable keep-crawl, redecorated, again.
Writing: A dastardly villain, a towering castle, treasure to steal, and dolls… 
Art/design: Subtle and considered tri-fold that makes excellent use of angle, tone, and profile. Includes a critical visual reinterpretation of “undead doll”.
Usability: Stylized, decorated, legible, and printable.

Rugose Kohn’s Misery’s Keep

Concept: “an independent production by Rugose Kohn… hastening the final Misery” 
Content: A miserable keep-crawl, redecorated, again.
Writing: A dastardly villain, a towering castle, treasure to steal, and dolls… 
Art/design: A efficient, organized, and evocative little book, with well-placed illustrations to inspire theatre of the mind gameplay.
Usability: Kohn made me do crafts. It requires scissors, and glue if you’re into that sort of thing. 

Snow on Snow

Concept: “Out in the frozen wastes of Kergüs is the graven image of a dead god… You need to appease the irate Blood-Countess Anthelia of Alliánce. This may be your chance.”
Content: A blasphemously festive hexcrawl. With occult items, frozen foes, and plenty buried beneath the snow.
Writing: An eloquent introduction this sorry excuse of a province. An unsurprising amount of snow (and death) related mechanics.
Art/design: A flavorful variety of illustrations and layouts. All admirably executed.
Usability: Stylish yet easy to read, with strong visual elements aiding in reference.

The Smouldering Bull

Concept: “3d10 cvltists from the unknown continent carry their terrifying Blazing God aloft.”
Content:
A Misery-reversing (temporarily) idol from a foreign land
Writing:
Includes stats for cultists as well as mechanics for the bull itself
Art/design:
Layout creates a frenetic, dynamic sensation without sacrificing usability
Usability:
A convenient stopgap or a slipper slope for PCs seeking to stave off the apocalypse 

The Unholy Idol of Chort

Concept: “Read His name right and He will offer you a great deal.”
Content:
4 tables for rolling names/ingredients and determining demands, rewards, and consequences
Writing:
Concise and straightforward in instructions and roll results
Art/design:
Focused mostly on usability over aesthetics, but not without visual embelishments
Usability:
The idol’s name determines all other aspects of the interaction; don’t forget to write it down or save the dice 

UnitSix's Misery's Keep

Concept: “an independent production by UnitSix… hastening the final Misery” 
Content: A miserable keep-crawl, redecorated.
Writing: A dastardly villain, a towering castle treasure to steal, and dolls… (the original text has been slightly altered to accommodate the “reframing”)
Art/design: Crisp and spacious layout contrasts with rich inky illustrations, lovingly splattered.
Usability: Easy to reference try-fold layout with strong visual hierarchy. 

Warped Grotto’s Misery’s Keep

Concept: “an independent production by Joonas R… hastening the final Misery” 
Content: A miserable keep-crawl, redecorated, again.
Writing: A dastardly villain, a towering castle, treasure to steal, and dolls… 
Art/design: A lightly distressed tri-fold pamphlet design with a clever pastel palette with vibrating blue highlights to draw the eye.
Usability: Available in printer friendly, or lively pastel. 

Wuz’s Misery’s Keep

Concept: “an independent production by Conlin Durbin… hastening the final Misery” 
Content: A miserable keep-crawl, redecorated, again.
Writing: A dastardly villain, a towering castle, treasure to steal, and dolls… 
Art/design: A sprawling waltz of a design. Typographic tricks, tasteful spot illustrations, and splashes of color are provided space to flourish in half-unlife.
Usability: A fluid presentation of Misery, in a keep. 

Yuigaron’s Misery’s Keep

Concept: “an independent production by Matthew John… hastening the final Misery”
Content: A miserable keep-crawl, redecorated, again.
Writing: A dastardly villain, a towering castle, treasure to steal, and dolls…
Art/design: Balanced yellow and black, room descriptions framed in the shadow of the keep, a little inverted text, some grit.
Usability: Stylish, condensed, and functional.
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