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Anti-Paladin Filthy Slime Jam!
25 contributors
Kim Holm
Ceph
Tragos Games
Luis Bishop Lopez
Cthonic Cartography
Jegs
Ben Gyurik
Ian Long
Will Tejeda
Kevin B.
Martin Bonnevier Kronlid
RaptorShadow / BirdSilhouette Games
Ryan Sigler
PerplexingRuins
Alex K. Barton
Walton Wood
Bracken MacLeod
Roland Boshnack
Michael Mars
Jean Verne
Max Moon
Rugose Kohn
Eduardo Carabaño
Michał Gotkowski
Strega Wolf van den Berg
“For God sent not his followers into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might have its ass kicked.”
All proceeds donated to Doctors Without Borders
All proceeds donated to Doctors Without Borders
Böwhoss’ handbook: notes on internal ignition
Concept: “In this volume you will find the most noteworthy, dangerous and strange encounters of my recent voyages.”
Content: A variety of NPCs, monsters, and other hazards as well as a new scroll, a malevolent mushroom, an optional Misery-related madness, a relatively benign tavern, and a much less benign inn
Writing: The first-person POV and travelogue style have a folksy and often irreverent tone
Art/design: Typefaces, engravings, and paintings reinforce the concept while other graphic elements lend some insidious and esoteric atmosphere
Usability: Includes player-facing handouts that include lore but no mechanics or GM-specific information
Content: A variety of NPCs, monsters, and other hazards as well as a new scroll, a malevolent mushroom, an optional Misery-related madness, a relatively benign tavern, and a much less benign inn
Writing: The first-person POV and travelogue style have a folksy and often irreverent tone
Art/design: Typefaces, engravings, and paintings reinforce the concept while other graphic elements lend some insidious and esoteric atmosphere
Usability: Includes player-facing handouts that include lore but no mechanics or GM-specific information
Box of Shadows
Concept: “The dry cracked earth of the city now spews a scentless dark black fog. … Rumors of this substance taking form and hunting down those that travel without a lamp or torch have become ever more prevalent.”
Content: A sprawling sandbox-style adventure set amidst a sinister miasma emerging in Grift
Writing: Incorporates copious descriptions, in-game documents, and random tables to add flavor to play; also includes numerous monsters, NPCs, and items
Art/design: Incorporates original and found art into exuberant designs and diverse layouts
Usability: Includes copious reference sheets, handouts, and topic-specific indices for GMs and players to use during play; GM-eyes-only material is segregated to facilitate more exciting solo play
Content: A sprawling sandbox-style adventure set amidst a sinister miasma emerging in Grift
Writing: Incorporates copious descriptions, in-game documents, and random tables to add flavor to play; also includes numerous monsters, NPCs, and items
Art/design: Incorporates original and found art into exuberant designs and diverse layouts
Usability: Includes copious reference sheets, handouts, and topic-specific indices for GMs and players to use during play; GM-eyes-only material is segregated to facilitate more exciting solo play
Chaotic Scrolls
“D10 new scrolls for Mörk Borg”
Checkerbeak
Concept: “Freak out your friends' mage characters with this spell stealing outcast!”
Content: A checked & beaked follower, ready to turn scrolls against their owners.
Writing: Clear when necessary. Cryptic when desired.
Art/design: Bold layout and palette give Checkerbeak’s rendition room to breathe.
Usability: Checkerbeak directs the eye to the critical text, which is overall legible and concise.
Content: A checked & beaked follower, ready to turn scrolls against their owners.
Writing: Clear when necessary. Cryptic when desired.
Art/design: Bold layout and palette give Checkerbeak’s rendition room to breathe.
Usability: Checkerbeak directs the eye to the critical text, which is overall legible and concise.
Damned in Darkness
“A chaotic dungeon dash through gore fueled horror”
Death's Head at a Feast
Concept: “A new group of antagonists and a new ability for Mörk Borg player characters”
Content: Includes a filthiness score mechanic, new sacred and unclean scrolls, and mechanics for rerolling failed tests (and additional effects for outcomes)
Writing: Primarily devoted to mechanics but includes some introductory descriptive text
Art/design: Text-heavy but stylized with blackletter (sometimes yellowletter) and some illustrations for macabre flavor
Usability: Requires tracking an additional filthiness quantity, but the mechanics are simple
Content: Includes a filthiness score mechanic, new sacred and unclean scrolls, and mechanics for rerolling failed tests (and additional effects for outcomes)
Writing: Primarily devoted to mechanics but includes some introductory descriptive text
Art/design: Text-heavy but stylized with blackletter (sometimes yellowletter) and some illustrations for macabre flavor
Usability: Requires tracking an additional filthiness quantity, but the mechanics are simple
Death Witch
Concept: “The unclean blessing of Nechrubel is on you. WORK IT!”
Content: An archetypal witch class with 10 new unclean and sacred Powers
Writing: Clearly written and easy to understand
Art/design: Easy-to-use layout and a lovely Klimt sketch; nicely emulates the feel of an old, well-used spellbook
Usability: Modifies the penalties for failed Powers for a different but still challenging spellcasting experience; particularly fun use of d6s and modifiers in Draw Down the Doom, which is specific to this class
Content: An archetypal witch class with 10 new unclean and sacred Powers
Writing: Clearly written and easy to understand
Art/design: Easy-to-use layout and a lovely Klimt sketch; nicely emulates the feel of an old, well-used spellbook
Usability: Modifies the penalties for failed Powers for a different but still challenging spellcasting experience; particularly fun use of d6s and modifiers in Draw Down the Doom, which is specific to this class
Erroneous Revelations
Concept: “He experimented a lot with divination, mainly trying to make it easier, often at the cost of accuracy.”
Content: A scroll to bring about an unlikely future.
Writing: Hilariously un-prophetic.
Art/design: Serious layout belies decidedly humorous contents.
Usability: Specificity adds to the hilarity.
Content: A scroll to bring about an unlikely future.
Writing: Hilariously un-prophetic.
Art/design: Serious layout belies decidedly humorous contents.
Usability: Specificity adds to the hilarity.
False Dusk
Concept: “The pig must be alive while the spell is cast. The pig explodes after the spell is cast.”
Content: A scroll that summons darkness and feral pigs
Writing: Mostly descriptive with a few mechanical components
Art/design: Typography and layout differentiate sequential elements; also includes a piggy
Usability: Intuitive, with some potentially entertaining applications
Content: A scroll that summons darkness and feral pigs
Writing: Mostly descriptive with a few mechanical components
Art/design: Typography and layout differentiate sequential elements; also includes a piggy
Usability: Intuitive, with some potentially entertaining applications
FÖLK-LORE: Environs & Ephemera
25 contributors
Tragos Games
Ben Gyurik
Michael Mars
Rugose Kohn
Sean Hudspeth
Kevin Sheehan
grave snail games
Saluman
Johndroid
Rodrigo Herrera
Anders Björkelid
Matthew Sanderson
Dan Ricketson
Paul S. Miller
Dave Pauls
Ar-Em Bañas
Sam/HauntingOfTheWicked
gaffy
Scott Danielson
qilyn
1d10+5
Ahimsa Kerp
Michael Tahmasian
Jakub Skurzyński
Gabriel Matteson
“Everything from new classes to strange new locales”
Forbidden Tomes and d666 Incantations
Concept: “Eldritch books that contain 3 or more Spells [and] have a distinct style that evocates the Cosmic Horror genre”
Content: 216 Powers and tables for generating 432 tome names
Writing: Tome and spell names vary between creatively descriptive to more Mörk Borg-style esoteric; spell text efficiently describes the effects; overall, very Cthulhu Mythos inspired
Art/design: Spell names and descriptions are presented in blocks alongside thematic images and grounds
Usability: Easy to navigate and use, and a solid source for a lot of spells in one place
Content: 216 Powers and tables for generating 432 tome names
Writing: Tome and spell names vary between creatively descriptive to more Mörk Borg-style esoteric; spell text efficiently describes the effects; overall, very Cthulhu Mythos inspired
Art/design: Spell names and descriptions are presented in blocks alongside thematic images and grounds
Usability: Easy to navigate and use, and a solid source for a lot of spells in one place
Glimpses of a Dying World
Concept: “Savage creatures lurk in the depths of forgotten crypts, incomprehensible relics lie waiting in the shadows of crumbling tombs, mystics argue incessantly trying to find a escape to the impending doom, and the powerful occupy themselves with vengeance.”
Content: A sprawling offering of all things Mörk Borg
Writing: Captures the tone and atmosphere of the Dying World through the descriptive text as well as the character of the mechanics
Art/design: Adapts the aesthetics and tactics of the core book with extensive use of modified public domain art
Usability: There’s something here for everyone
Grave Matters
Concept: “New uses for dry corpses”
Content: Undeath-themed classes, gear/weapons/scrolls, optional rules, monsters/NPCs, encounters, and an adventure site
Writing: Loads of creative concepts presented through expressive, inspiring, and witty prose
Art/design: Modified public domain images and original art support the theme along with layouts, typography, and colors that make this undeniably Borgy
Usability: References amongst entries create a sense of cohesion and interconnection; an excellent resource for a game or arc themed around skeletons, zombies, and corpses
Hallowed Scrolls
“Sing praise to Verhu. … Roll d8 on the table.”
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