undead
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.
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.
Crypt of the Antropophage
Concept: “Deep beneath the catacombs of Graven-Tosk, behind a blood-stained door, a madman works alone…”
Content: “a blood-soaked dungeon of death and depravity”
Writing: Gory, gonzo, goofy, and peculiarly congruent. With a timer that’s sure to rupture a blood vessel or two.
Art/design: Bloody crimson spot illustrations garnish a spread of vibrant red and white text.
Usability: Blood tokens and the map are recommended but not required.
Content: “a blood-soaked dungeon of death and depravity”
Writing: Gory, gonzo, goofy, and peculiarly congruent. With a timer that’s sure to rupture a blood vessel or two.
Art/design: Bloody crimson spot illustrations garnish a spread of vibrant red and white text.
Usability: Blood tokens and the map are recommended but not required.
Cultist Zombies
“Lore for the zombies, 7 new monsters fully illustrated, a table of random mutation for the zombies (or your players if they pray to the right entity), a dungeon! full of deadly traps scary monsters and super freaks”
Cuore di Cane/Dog's days are over
Concept: “‘Old tales are told about the Sepulchre beyond the marshes. It's said to be haunted by the spirits of the dead,’ she murmurs... ‘Many set out to plunder the dead, and none ever return.’”
Content: A heart-crushing, marsh-trudging, corpse-raising sepulcher crawl.
Writing: A sense of sanctity embodies its dungeon descriptions, contrasting the poverty and desperation of the Galgenbeck alley rumors which frame the adventure.
Art/design: Desiccated gray-scale memento mori highlight a structured top-down map and tidy two-column layout.
Usability: Illustrated and plain maps are available separately. Adventure is presented in both English and Italian.
Content: A heart-crushing, marsh-trudging, corpse-raising sepulcher crawl.
Writing: A sense of sanctity embodies its dungeon descriptions, contrasting the poverty and desperation of the Galgenbeck alley rumors which frame the adventure.
Art/design: Desiccated gray-scale memento mori highlight a structured top-down map and tidy two-column layout.
Usability: Illustrated and plain maps are available separately. Adventure is presented in both English and Italian.
D12 Skeletal Encounters
Concept: “The omnipresent skeleton is one of those foes that GMs can always toss at the adventurers when stuck for an idea.”
Content: "stats for two new undead monsters as well as customization tools and a small table of encounters.”
Writing: Exemplary skeleton mechanics, and a detailed variety of ways to get boned.
Art/design: Full-color undead illustrations in a crisp black and yellow folder layout.
Usability: A skeletal framework that’s easy to read and reference
Content: "stats for two new undead monsters as well as customization tools and a small table of encounters.”
Writing: Exemplary skeleton mechanics, and a detailed variety of ways to get boned.
Art/design: Full-color undead illustrations in a crisp black and yellow folder layout.
Usability: A skeletal framework that’s easy to read and reference
Dark and Accurséd
Concept: “‘I adjure you, by the ancient serpent, judge of the living and the dead, by our Master, by the Master of the whole universe, by HE who has the power to consign us all to hell...’”
Content: An exorcist, and thirteen reasons to abandon that profession.
Writing: Macabre descriptions matched only by menacing mechanics.
Art/design: Plain text ‘til the bitter end.
Usability: Dense but navigable plaintext.
Content: An exorcist, and thirteen reasons to abandon that profession.
Writing: Macabre descriptions matched only by menacing mechanics.
Art/design: Plain text ‘til the bitter end.
Usability: Dense but navigable plaintext.
Dark Fortean Times: A Snarl of Corpses
Concept: “A Snarl of Corpses Dams the River is a deadly terrain trap that forces players to push their luck and make hard decisions under pressure.”
Content: An alchemical accident, a corpse dam, an impending flood, and the rise of the corpse king.
Writing: A simple core concept with delightfully foul framing to make for a truly unique disaster.
Art/design: A floodwater of corpse illustration. Purposeful typographic choices distinguish descriptive versus mechanical text.
Usability: A fair balance between dynamic design elements and accessibility.
Content: An alchemical accident, a corpse dam, an impending flood, and the rise of the corpse king.
Writing: A simple core concept with delightfully foul framing to make for a truly unique disaster.
Art/design: A floodwater of corpse illustration. Purposeful typographic choices distinguish descriptive versus mechanical text.
Usability: A fair balance between dynamic design elements and accessibility.
Davig Pumpkins
Concept: “His name is Davig Pumpkins, and he's going to scare the hell out of you.”
Content: One scary dude, and his backup dancers.
Writing: Are we supposed to know who this is?
Art/design: Why did you go all in on Davig Pumpkins?
Usability: Any questions?
Content: One scary dude, and his backup dancers.
Writing: Are we supposed to know who this is?
Art/design: Why did you go all in on Davig Pumpkins?
Usability: Any questions?
Dead Festival 3
Concept: “A hallowed night has come”
Content: “A Forbidden Psalm and Last War Annual mini-expansion for the spookiest of months”
Writing: Understated official briefings on four harrowing subterranean misadventures and a desperate last stand against the dark.
Art/design: Found documents and strangely doctored battlefield illustrations and photographs.
Usability: Requires Forbidden Psalm core rules or The Last War variant.
Content: “A Forbidden Psalm and Last War Annual mini-expansion for the spookiest of months”
Writing: Understated official briefings on four harrowing subterranean misadventures and a desperate last stand against the dark.
Art/design: Found documents and strangely doctored battlefield illustrations and photographs.
Usability: Requires Forbidden Psalm core rules or The Last War variant.
Degenerate's Crypt
Concept: “At the end of the dark corridor something is groaning in pain, four metallic voices wailing in unison. Not a tomb but a prison, as too often is in these wretched times.”
Content: A degenerate crypt of eternal torment.
Writing: A dungeon as sharp and fluid as liquid metal.
Art/design: Map illustration in styles ranging from the pragmatic to the purely aesthetic. No nonsense dungeon description that’s both aesthetic and legible.
Usability: Consistent and navigable visual hierarchy for easy reference.
Content: A degenerate crypt of eternal torment.
Writing: A dungeon as sharp and fluid as liquid metal.
Art/design: Map illustration in styles ranging from the pragmatic to the purely aesthetic. No nonsense dungeon description that’s both aesthetic and legible.
Usability: Consistent and navigable visual hierarchy for easy reference.
Demon Dog
Concept: “Sure, you had to make a PACT with a DEVIL, (or at least one of them..) But it’s worth it for revenge!”
Content: Dog creation, rules, monsters/NPCs, tables, and sheets for a medieval splatterpunk setting.
Writing: A mouthy, coarse, and irreverent style. A drunken mix of gutter and grave.
Art/design: A violently sharp visual style that separates many illustrative and textual elements.
Usability: Designed to pick up and play. Starting straight into character creation and working toward the setting.
Content: Dog creation, rules, monsters/NPCs, tables, and sheets for a medieval splatterpunk setting.
Writing: A mouthy, coarse, and irreverent style. A drunken mix of gutter and grave.
Art/design: A violently sharp visual style that separates many illustrative and textual elements.
Usability: Designed to pick up and play. Starting straight into character creation and working toward the setting.
Dire Mutterings
9 contributors
Concept: “Spat out from the mouths of fools or collated from the cackling of the insane, this tome contains a myriad of lies, untruths and sheer fantasies for Mork Borg”
Content: A compilation of classes, encounters, items, rules, and an adventure.
Writing: Accumulated rumblings generally framed as folk wisdom, legends, and superstitions.
Art/design: Vigorously variegated illustrations distress slabs of structured text
Usability: A table of contents complements visually distinct entries assist navigation.
Content: A compilation of classes, encounters, items, rules, and an adventure.
Writing: Accumulated rumblings generally framed as folk wisdom, legends, and superstitions.
Art/design: Vigorously variegated illustrations distress slabs of structured text
Usability: A table of contents complements visually distinct entries assist navigation.
Displaced Monarch
Concept: “As the sea took your kingdom, it devoured the world’s memory of the place… You’ll join that corpse soon enough. But not today.”
Content: A kingly emissary of the hungry depths.
Writing: Tragic and tantalizing. Mortality and mystery, conveyed in equal measure.
Art/design: A menacing echo of a monarch vibrates from the spread, as white text emerges from the depths.
Usability: You won’t drown in it, yet.
Content: A kingly emissary of the hungry depths.
Writing: Tragic and tantalizing. Mortality and mystery, conveyed in equal measure.
Art/design: A menacing echo of a monarch vibrates from the spread, as white text emerges from the depths.
Usability: You won’t drown in it, yet.
Dracula Church
Concept: “There stands a time-lost tomb of tyrants languishing in a long-forgotten locale. Many things might draw you here, but only cunning, luck and skill will see you escape.”
Content: A blood-fueled techno-dracula cathedral crawl.
Writing: A heavily mechanized blood bath of downed draculas and archaic alliterations.
Art/design: Intentional blend of fantasy and sci-fi elements produce a unique visual style.
Usability: Fits wherever a cathedral airship could land.
Content: A blood-fueled techno-dracula cathedral crawl.
Writing: A heavily mechanized blood bath of downed draculas and archaic alliterations.
Art/design: Intentional blend of fantasy and sci-fi elements produce a unique visual style.
Usability: Fits wherever a cathedral airship could land.
Draugen, the Drowned
Concept: “The drowned shamble aimlessly along shorelines seeking to steal the life-breath they so desperately desire.”
Content: An undead denizen for coastal settings
Writing: Sets the tone and scene for encounters
Art/design: Relatively subtle and unintrusive
Usability: Well-demarcated sections and stats for easy reference
Content: An undead denizen for coastal settings
Writing: Sets the tone and scene for encounters
Art/design: Relatively subtle and unintrusive
Usability: Well-demarcated sections and stats for easy reference
Dread Nights
6 contributors
Concept: “Honest work for those with a death wish, a lack of fear, or just desperate enough to do anything.”
Content: A standalone gaslamp era gothic horror expansion for Forbidden Psalm, including 15 creatures of the night, infections, and a gothic horror themed campaign of grisly nocturnal scenarios.
Writing: Familiar horror tales stalk just beyond the illumination provided by clear mechanics and crisp scenarios.
Art/design: An elegantly restrained palette of red, black, and white. Shadowed by macabre illustrations in a variety of styles.
Usability: Clear index, reliable sections, quick reference, roster sheets, and consistent formatting make it a utilitarian wargaming rulebook.
Content: A standalone gaslamp era gothic horror expansion for Forbidden Psalm, including 15 creatures of the night, infections, and a gothic horror themed campaign of grisly nocturnal scenarios.
Writing: Familiar horror tales stalk just beyond the illumination provided by clear mechanics and crisp scenarios.
Art/design: An elegantly restrained palette of red, black, and white. Shadowed by macabre illustrations in a variety of styles.
Usability: Clear index, reliable sections, quick reference, roster sheets, and consistent formatting make it a utilitarian wargaming rulebook.
Drowned Kobieta
Concept: “Sharp claws cuth through flesh and drag you down to the bottomless pit.”
Content: A drowning-based monster derived from Slavic myth
Writing: Provides some inspiration for hooks and haunts
Art/design: Reinforces the theme with heavy chiaroscuro and cool spot colors
Usability: Initiative is influenced by PC class; otherwise, straightforward
Content: A drowning-based monster derived from Slavic myth
Writing: Provides some inspiration for hooks and haunts
Art/design: Reinforces the theme with heavy chiaroscuro and cool spot colors
Usability: Initiative is influenced by PC class; otherwise, straightforward
Druidic Forest Stalker
Concept: “Have you ever wanted a familiar that could eat your soul?”
Content: Soul-sucking forest ranger with an unfaithful friend.
Writing: A disturbing assortment of companions with a generous helping of soul-snacking.
Art/design: A masked, horned, and cloaked figure dispassionately observes a shadowed glade of text and skulls.
Usability: Kill things, steal souls, get good.
Content: Soul-sucking forest ranger with an unfaithful friend.
Writing: A disturbing assortment of companions with a generous helping of soul-snacking.
Art/design: A masked, horned, and cloaked figure dispassionately observes a shadowed glade of text and skulls.
Usability: Kill things, steal souls, get good.
Duncan Hall’s Mörktober 2023 – 31 Tables & Trivilities
Concept: Duncan Hall’s Little Mörktober Calendar of Horrors.
Content: “31 random generators, monsters, items, and so forth made throughout the month of October 2023.”
Writing: A tortuous elaboration from its initial prompts, full of wit and wretchedness.
Art/design: Sketches, photo bashes, full-color illustrations, and doodles in a filthy day calendar format.
Usability: Most fun when printed on a sticky note calendar.
Content: “31 random generators, monsters, items, and so forth made throughout the month of October 2023.”
Writing: A tortuous elaboration from its initial prompts, full of wit and wretchedness.
Art/design: Sketches, photo bashes, full-color illustrations, and doodles in a filthy day calendar format.
Usability: Most fun when printed on a sticky note calendar.
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.
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.
Elk Deathyard
Concept: “Among the dead and those that refuse to stay still, even the accursed fear the true silence.
When you can’t hear anything but your breathing, you might be
close to the-”
Content: A Tveland Cabin Crawl.
Writing: Supernatural horror. Full of foreboding. With shocks and twists as well as horror tropes.
Art/design: Design elements emphasize a descent into darkness.
Usability: Mini-map, representative spot illustrations, and clean layout aid in table reference.
close to the-”
Content: A Tveland Cabin Crawl.
Writing: Supernatural horror. Full of foreboding. With shocks and twists as well as horror tropes.
Art/design: Design elements emphasize a descent into darkness.
Usability: Mini-map, representative spot illustrations, and clean layout aid in table reference.
ELLI: Bloodsucking Abomination
Concept: “Add some unexpected HACK-toon to your game! Come get some!”
Content: “A precious little scamp HUNGRY to meet you.”
Writing: Active, light, and just a little clingy.
Art/design: Bloody adorable illustration with a steady flow in the hierarchy and design.
Usability: Engaging, concise, and fluid reading.
Content: “A precious little scamp HUNGRY to meet you.”
Writing: Active, light, and just a little clingy.
Art/design: Bloody adorable illustration with a steady flow in the hierarchy and design.
Usability: Engaging, concise, and fluid reading.
Eskire, Crimson Mask, Winter Husk, & Swampkin
Concept: “Scribbles to die by”
Content: A four-part creature feature.
Writing: Combat mechanics help define narrative function.
Art/design: Jagged lines carve out miserable creatures.
Usability: Stylized yet legible.
Content: A four-part creature feature.
Writing: Combat mechanics help define narrative function.
Art/design: Jagged lines carve out miserable creatures.
Usability: Stylized yet legible.
Exiled Sanguinary
Concept: “You once held court in the gutters, sewers and tombs where fawning courtiers paid you tribute in blood and death and fear … Then you blew it.”
Content: An ostracized member of the undead aristocracy
Writing: Clear, descriptive, and comes with a free punchline in every paragraph
Art/design: Typographical choices facilitate navigation; features a compelling illustration
Usability: A fun blend of darkness and humor from the other side of the grave
Content: An ostracized member of the undead aristocracy
Writing: Clear, descriptive, and comes with a free punchline in every paragraph
Art/design: Typographical choices facilitate navigation; features a compelling illustration
Usability: A fun blend of darkness and humor from the other side of the grave
Faceless Ghoul
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
Fangüin
Concept: “The Fangüin move in unison, their collective presence evoking a sense of foreboding.”
Content: Perfectly normal, collectively intelligent, color-draining aquatic birds.
Writing: A horrifying ecological survey of a mysterious Kergian fauna
Art/Design: A horde of Fangüin observe blood stains, anatomical drawings, and a dramatic title.
Usability: Be prepared to chop off your limbs.
Content: Perfectly normal, collectively intelligent, color-draining aquatic birds.
Writing: A horrifying ecological survey of a mysterious Kergian fauna
Art/Design: A horde of Fangüin observe blood stains, anatomical drawings, and a dramatic title.
Usability: Be prepared to chop off your limbs.
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.
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.
Fathomless Despair
Concept: “Death is the least of your concerns if you are foolish enough to visit this horrible and dark place. The air and soil are filled with the stench of undeath as a lingering evil makes its presence known to all who explore this desolate land.”
Content: A pocket map of the Valley of Unfortunate Undead. Complete with its creatures, and contents.
Writing: A historical account of the valley’s many ruins and follies, and a brief taxonomy of the undead they left behind. Intended to inspire not direct.
Art/design: Efficient grouping, color coding, and placement accommodate each aesthetic flourish.
Usability: Can be folded to fit in your pocket. Designed to minimize flipping. Pre-record the creature stats to truly optimize your experience.
Content: A pocket map of the Valley of Unfortunate Undead. Complete with its creatures, and contents.
Writing: A historical account of the valley’s many ruins and follies, and a brief taxonomy of the undead they left behind. Intended to inspire not direct.
Art/design: Efficient grouping, color coding, and placement accommodate each aesthetic flourish.
Usability: Can be folded to fit in your pocket. Designed to minimize flipping. Pre-record the creature stats to truly optimize your experience.
Fiendish food & hunger-related madness
Concept: “‘A food and cooking related supplement ideal for the alimentation of the wretched... Recommanded by 9 out of 10 dead prophets”
Content: Misery and eateries. Roadside meals for scvm, The Meat Cult, cooking on the trail, heartburn (and worse), mushrooms, supplements, a menu, and a fucking demon.
Writing: Highly stylized, specific, darkly funny. Designed to generate those memorably Miserable moments scvm know and love, and to let players embrace their awful characters.
Art/design: Crammed with all the provisions they could muster. A smorgasbord of fonts, illustrations, and layout structures.
Usability: Stylized, yes. Legible, mostly. Organized... better than it first appears.
Content: Misery and eateries. Roadside meals for scvm, The Meat Cult, cooking on the trail, heartburn (and worse), mushrooms, supplements, a menu, and a fucking demon.
Writing: Highly stylized, specific, darkly funny. Designed to generate those memorably Miserable moments scvm know and love, and to let players embrace their awful characters.
Art/design: Crammed with all the provisions they could muster. A smorgasbord of fonts, illustrations, and layout structures.
Usability: Stylized, yes. Legible, mostly. Organized... better than it first appears.
Flail to the Face Episode 2 Companion - Guldöd
Concept: “In honor of our second episode of Flail to the Face”
Content: “we give you a follower by the name of Guldöd.”
Writing: Solid gold writing, for a solid gold skeleton. Particularly fond of the values of this one.
Art/design: I’m less puzzled about the gold at this point. It has eyes, they’re staring at me.
Usability: How does it work? “Who cares?! He’s worth a ton!!”
Content: “we give you a follower by the name of Guldöd.”
Writing: Solid gold writing, for a solid gold skeleton. Particularly fond of the values of this one.
Art/design: I’m less puzzled about the gold at this point. It has eyes, they’re staring at me.
Usability: How does it work? “Who cares?! He’s worth a ton!!”
Flail to the Face Episode 5 Companion
Concept: “In honor of our fifth episode of Flail to the Face, we give you the "battery" that our GM ran us through as a travel montage of sorts. Enjoy!”
Content: A walk through the Valley of the Unfortunate Undead
Writing: Desolate tables capture the valley’s supernaturally oppressive melancholy. With GM annotations full of helpful advice.
Art/design: Barren amber valleys desiccate under clouded golden skies.
Usability: References, “Eat, Prey, Kill”, “D66 Flails”, and “Candelabra of Blood”.
Content: A walk through the Valley of the Unfortunate Undead
Writing: Desolate tables capture the valley’s supernaturally oppressive melancholy. With GM annotations full of helpful advice.
Art/design: Barren amber valleys desiccate under clouded golden skies.
Usability: References, “Eat, Prey, Kill”, “D66 Flails”, and “Candelabra of Blood”.
Flail to the Face Episode 6 Companion
Concept: “In honor of our sixth episode of Flail to the Face, we give you the Bone Specter, a class for when you want to be both a skeleton and a ghost.”
Content: WTF is going on here? Sounds like a complex backstory...
Writing: Definitely not skeletal, but certainly transparent enough.
Art/design: “Sometimes you just have to take things at face value and move on.”
Usability: For when your undead character... un-dies. Again?
Content: WTF is going on here? Sounds like a complex backstory...
Writing: Definitely not skeletal, but certainly transparent enough.
Art/design: “Sometimes you just have to take things at face value and move on.”
Usability: For when your undead character... un-dies. Again?
Flail to the Face Episode 7 Companion
6 contributors
Concept: “In honor of our seventh episode of Flail to the Face, we give you d20 Random Things Behind Closed Doors”
Content: D20 reasons to just close the door and pretend it never happened.
Writing: Absurd scenarios delivered with believably serious specificity.
Art/design: Text that frames some serious mahogany, with stained glass that lets in no light.
Usability: As a reward for the over-enthusiastic door checker.
Content: D20 reasons to just close the door and pretend it never happened.
Writing: Absurd scenarios delivered with believably serious specificity.
Art/design: Text that frames some serious mahogany, with stained glass that lets in no light.
Usability: As a reward for the over-enthusiastic door checker.
Flail to the Face Episode 8 Companion
Concept: “In honor of our eight episode of Flail to the Face, we give Förnuft, a skull that talks to you, and only you. Probably. Enjoy!”
Content: Is it gear, is it a Follower, is it helpful? Is it even a skull? What is this game.
Writing: A moody little table for a skull which may or may not be talking to you.
Art/design: Contains a skull (obviously). Also alternating yellow and red text. Black background.
Usability: You’ll probably regret talking to yourself.
Content: Is it gear, is it a Follower, is it helpful? Is it even a skull? What is this game.
Writing: A moody little table for a skull which may or may not be talking to you.
Art/design: Contains a skull (obviously). Also alternating yellow and red text. Black background.
Usability: You’ll probably regret talking to yourself.
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.
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.
FLESHEN CHRYPT
Concept: “To delay the inevitable Miseries, you must survive the dangers of FLESHEN CHRYPT!”
Content: A flesh fueled tome crawl.
Writing: An instructive, condensed slurry of fleshy flavor.
Art/design: At once mildly grotesque, and comically irreverent.
Usability: Uncrowded design and visual cues make for a highly functional 1-page dungeon.
Content: A flesh fueled tome crawl.
Writing: An instructive, condensed slurry of fleshy flavor.
Art/design: At once mildly grotesque, and comically irreverent.
Usability: Uncrowded design and visual cues make for a highly functional 1-page dungeon.
Forbidden Psalm: Dead Church
Concept:
“Seeking refuge, you head into the town of Deadchurch. Finding it
devoid of life, you make your way through its empty,
leaf-littered streets.
“Seeking refuge, you head into the town of Deadchurch. Finding it
devoid of life, you make your way through its empty,
leaf-littered streets.
But then you hear them: the moans of the dead.”
Content: A Forbidden Psalm survival horror zombie crawl.
Writing: Unexpectedly lively and interactive mechanics reflect the unlife of Dead Church.
Art/design: Downright disturbing drawings disgrace decorated descriptive text.
Usability: Spacious layouts with clear fonts for ease of reference.
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.
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.
Frankenstein The Artpunk Prometheus
Concept: “It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.”
Content: Stats and character classes for Frankenstein and the Monster; also includes handy tables for random body parts and their sources
Writing: Concise explications of mechanics with some quotations from the novel for flavor
Art/design: B&W layouts visually preserve the source material’s brooding, gothic tone in the eponymous artpunk style
Usability: Use of elaborate typefaces like blackletter and script in small point slows reading
Content: Stats and character classes for Frankenstein and the Monster; also includes handy tables for random body parts and their sources
Writing: Concise explications of mechanics with some quotations from the novel for flavor
Art/design: B&W layouts visually preserve the source material’s brooding, gothic tone in the eponymous artpunk style
Usability: Use of elaborate typefaces like blackletter and script in small point slows reading
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.
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.
From Bloody Angels Fell Venemous Truths
Concept:
“The graves are disturbed
The weeping won’t stop
Delve deep
Delve true
Die”
Content: An angel weeping, zombie bleeding tomb crawl.
Writing: Compact mechanics with descriptive fragments to embellish at the table.
Art/design: Simple polished black and yellow dungeon. Text boxes separate locations, encounters, and creatures.
Usability: Easy to reference. Pre-reading enhances understanding.
“The graves are disturbed
The weeping won’t stop
Delve deep
Delve true
Die”
Content: An angel weeping, zombie bleeding tomb crawl.
Writing: Compact mechanics with descriptive fragments to embellish at the table.
Art/design: Simple polished black and yellow dungeon. Text boxes separate locations, encounters, and creatures.
Usability: Easy to reference. Pre-reading enhances understanding.
Frostbite
Concept: “Anthelia’s patience is growing thin…”
Content: A frigid cavern-crawl in search of color, with treasure the world is not prepared for.
Writing: A case of courtly intrigue, frigid madness, and death in service of Anthelia’s greed.
Art/design: Darkly desaturated imagery, a familiar split column dungeon layout, a with top down minimap and sidebars.
Usability: Organized as a series of encounters in a mini-campaign.
Content: A frigid cavern-crawl in search of color, with treasure the world is not prepared for.
Writing: A case of courtly intrigue, frigid madness, and death in service of Anthelia’s greed.
Art/design: Darkly desaturated imagery, a familiar split column dungeon layout, a with top down minimap and sidebars.
Usability: Organized as a series of encounters in a mini-campaign.
Frostweans
Concept: “The blued, frost bitten corpses appear when the winter winds howl and the snow falls heavily … seeking their revenge.”
Content: An undead scourge that gains power by wreaking vengeance
Writing: Provides 4 stat blocks alongside plenty of background for inspiration
Art/design: Text heavy, but colors aid quick navigation
Usability: Gives GMs carte blanche to make it even meaner and nastier
Content: An undead scourge that gains power by wreaking vengeance
Writing: Provides 4 stat blocks alongside plenty of background for inspiration
Art/design: Text heavy, but colors aid quick navigation
Usability: Gives GMs carte blanche to make it even meaner and nastier
Frusna Norr
Concept: “By greed, courage, or stupidity, you find yourself mounting the Frozen Steppe; should you survive, its contents are yours. Beware, though, for it is said the King still holds Frostkeep, and he dislikes unannounced guests.”
Content: A frigid castle crawl.
Writing: A series of tangible room descriptions and intangible encounters detail the sombre history of this frigid place..
Art/design: A lightly textured black and white layout with dynamic typographic elements and sharp spot illustrations.
Usability: Also available in an untextured print-friendly version.
Content: A frigid castle crawl.
Writing: A series of tangible room descriptions and intangible encounters detail the sombre history of this frigid place..
Art/design: A lightly textured black and white layout with dynamic typographic elements and sharp spot illustrations.
Usability: Also available in an untextured print-friendly version.
Galgenbeck Bestiary
Concept: “Galgenbeck… crooked thieves, cruel knights, obsessed zealots, broken souls.
And then there are the monsters.”
Content: At least nine (but potentially fourteen) monsters.
Writing: Strangely folkloric, highly specific, and vicious absurdism in its ecology.
Art/design: A mixed media collection dominated by sharp high-contrast marker, each creature layout accommodating its illustration.
Usability: Short, legible, and humorously horrific. Deluxe edition contains all 14 monsters.
Content: At least nine (but potentially fourteen) monsters.
Writing: Strangely folkloric, highly specific, and vicious absurdism in its ecology.
Art/design: A mixed media collection dominated by sharp high-contrast marker, each creature layout accommodating its illustration.
Usability: Short, legible, and humorously horrific. Deluxe edition contains all 14 monsters.
Gashadokuro, the Starving Skeleton
Concept: “A fifteen-soldier-tall indestructible spirit, the gashadokuro should provide decent challenge for scvm that have survived a bit too long.”
Content: An enraged murder machine that uses a Morale pool for attacks and damage
Writing: Clear explanations of special abilities
Art/design: Simply but skillfully adapts layout to the source image
Usability: A bit more complex than most monsters, but in a fun and tactical way
Content: An enraged murder machine that uses a Morale pool for attacks and damage
Writing: Clear explanations of special abilities
Art/design: Simply but skillfully adapts layout to the source image
Usability: A bit more complex than most monsters, but in a fun and tactical way
Ghost of a Ghost
Concept: “If a ghost is the left over soul and mind stripped of its flesh, then what is a ghost of a ghost?”
Content: Ghosts²
Writing: A metaphysical question, a horrifying conclusion.
Art/design: A de-saturated, isolated, background focused on a stalking pile of ectoplasm.
Usability: Easy and clean layout.
Art/design: A de-saturated, isolated, background focused on a stalking pile of ectoplasm.
Usability: Easy and clean layout.
Glorious Undeath
Concept: “You are cursed, til death and beyond.”
Content: Checkpoint mechanics, the Dying Land’s way.
Writing: A morbid flourish to structured rules text.
Art/design: Coarsely accented spot illustrations frame a title over crisp white text boxes.
Usability: Available in printer-friendly and yellow.
Content: Checkpoint mechanics, the Dying Land’s way.
Writing: A morbid flourish to structured rules text.
Art/design: Coarsely accented spot illustrations frame a title over crisp white text boxes.
Usability: Available in printer-friendly and yellow.
Gnoll STL
Concept: "No matter how much the world twists and warps, no matter the distance, no matter the structures of man, it will always know where you are. Always."
Content: A ceaseless agent of revenge in the dying world, rebirthed–in plastic.
Writing: Impressive and flexible stat profile make for a recurring early game villain.
Art/design: Faithful reinterpretation of Mörk Borg’s cover skeleton with an added dimension.
Usability: Pre-supported STL files. “Thick” STL design available for tabletop scale figures.
Content: A ceaseless agent of revenge in the dying world, rebirthed–in plastic.
Writing: Impressive and flexible stat profile make for a recurring early game villain.
Art/design: Faithful reinterpretation of Mörk Borg’s cover skeleton with an added dimension.
Usability: Pre-supported STL files. “Thick” STL design available for tabletop scale figures.
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
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