Ian Long
A Dead God’s Stronghold
Concept: “Have some scvm you can’t seem to part with? Looking for a way to end your game before it ends the world?”
Content: 6 thematic hazards and stats for some pretty brutal basilisks
Writing: Clear descriptions with a healthy dose of humor
Art/design: Fits a fair amount of content efficiently onto one page alongside some nice graphic elaborations of the base image
Usability: Can be used as an overlay for another dungeon to add extra character and lethality
Content: 6 thematic hazards and stats for some pretty brutal basilisks
Writing: Clear descriptions with a healthy dose of humor
Art/design: Fits a fair amount of content efficiently onto one page alongside some nice graphic elaborations of the base image
Usability: Can be used as an overlay for another dungeon to add extra character and lethality
A Question of Honor
Concept: “Get down in the muck, honorably. Roll in the slime, valiantly. Collect foreskins, to preserve your good name.”
Content: An optional rule that punishes you for being too dis/honorable and affects encounters and initiative
Writing: Clear description of the mechanics with plenty of humor worked in (particularly the color text and the offenses and tasks tables)
Art/design: Works primarily in yellow, pink, white, and black with some red for particular emphasis; some interesting layout and clever typographical effects
Usability: Some visual friction due to point size and shifts in typefaces, but the issue’s balanced by its brevity
Content: An optional rule that punishes you for being too dis/honorable and affects encounters and initiative
Writing: Clear description of the mechanics with plenty of humor worked in (particularly the color text and the offenses and tasks tables)
Art/design: Works primarily in yellow, pink, white, and black with some red for particular emphasis; some interesting layout and clever typographical effects
Usability: Some visual friction due to point size and shifts in typefaces, but the issue’s balanced by its brevity
Anti-Paladin Filthy Slime Jam!
25 contributors
Ian Long
Kim Holm
Ceph
Tragos Games
Luis Bishop Lopez
Cthonic Cartography
Jegs
Ben Gyurik
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
Cannibal Cook
Concept: “Some people are dying. Other people are hungry. You just might have found a way to solve both their problems.”
Content: A character class whose name says it all
Writing: Showcases the comedic side of eating people
Art/design: Clever layout and typographic design with perfect public domain art
Usability: Stylized but pretty straightforward
Dead Dimensional Diver
Concept: “Remnant of a dead dimension. Long ago collapsed in on itself.”
Content: A darkness-dwelling revenant from beyond the known universe
Writing: Short, punchy flavor text with concise special features
Art/Design: Grungy typography and illustration mesh well and fit the relatively reserved but well-balanced layout
Usability: Store in a dark environment away from fire
Content: A darkness-dwelling revenant from beyond the known universe
Writing: Short, punchy flavor text with concise special features
Art/Design: Grungy typography and illustration mesh well and fit the relatively reserved but well-balanced layout
Usability: Store in a dark environment away from fire
FÖLK-LORE: Fiends, Freaks, & Foes
41 contributors
Ian Long
Jegs
RaptorShadow / BirdSilhouette Games
Ryan Sigler
Walton Wood
Bracken MacLeod
Rugose Kohn
KRD Designs
mghoneybee
Johan Nohr
Damien Villa
hamildong
mcglintlock
Misha Panarin
Christopher Annandale
Brian Binh
Andrew Cutler
MarksQuests
Nina Morgan Olsson
Arnaud F. Lambert
Harkenstone
B Halliday
Greyson Yandt
Irish_Mercury
Mattias Thatch
Theodore L. Rivera
Ra Press
iriffuk
Rinaldo Agostini
Leonardo Andrade
Vikugna Vikugna
Ghee Dodlinger
samaritan_burden
Olivier Delattre
Dan Taylor
Paskål Jansson
Overlord Publishing
Jim Gies
1d10+5
WuDeRPG
I. McClung
Concept: “What happens when the lore of our world collides with the Dying World of MÖRK BORG?”
Content: The first volume of collected FÖLK-LORE Jam entries
Writing: Varies by author, see individual entries under the FÖLK-LORE Jam tag
Art/design: Varies by entry; single-page entries are well balanced in spreads
Usability: Varies by entry, but it’s all Mörk Borg—how tough could it be?
Content: The first volume of collected FÖLK-LORE Jam entries
Writing: Varies by author, see individual entries under the FÖLK-LORE Jam tag
Art/design: Varies by entry; single-page entries are well balanced in spreads
Usability: Varies by entry, but it’s all Mörk Borg—how tough could it be?
Making Friends and Eating People
Concept: “Eat your friends. They’d do the same for you.”
Content: Optional rules for upcycling dead characters and benefits for doing so
Writing: Darkly humorous and appropriately off-kilter
Art/design: If Hell has insane asylums and their cafeterias have menus, they probably look like this
Usability: The mechanics are nestled in with the flavor text, but if you know what you’re looking for, you’re good to go
Monolith 1: Harvest
8 contributors
Concept: “A quarterly publication that focuses its cyclopean gaze on a single system with every issue”
Content: “A journey through dilapidated townsteads, rejuvenated fields and terrifying dungeons, with all the horrors you meet along the way”
Writing: The pedagogy of planting and population planning, and a forgotten temple to begotten basilisks, all aggressively annotated.
Art/design: Darkly grotesque cultists, disturbed floral prints, cultured public domain illustrations, and colorful marginalia highlight the body text.
Usability: Organized, aside from a few intentionally frustrating almanac charts. But I’m sure you can manage those with a little old-fashioned spit and polish.
Content: “A journey through dilapidated townsteads, rejuvenated fields and terrifying dungeons, with all the horrors you meet along the way”
Writing: The pedagogy of planting and population planning, and a forgotten temple to begotten basilisks, all aggressively annotated.
Art/design: Darkly grotesque cultists, disturbed floral prints, cultured public domain illustrations, and colorful marginalia highlight the body text.
Usability: Organized, aside from a few intentionally frustrating almanac charts. But I’m sure you can manage those with a little old-fashioned spit and polish.
QVKE BORG VTT Tokens
9 contributors
“VTT Tokens for use with Qvke Borg: Foul Adventures in a Doomed Dimension”
The Dyer Lich
Concept: “One hand frozen to the rock face, the other raised in defiance of her own death, Moll Dyer was blessed by Nechrubel with the undying spark of anti-life.”
Content: A persecuted witch bent on vengeance
Writing: Includes a prose-poetic description in addition to stats for lich and her rock
Art/design: Layout creates a strong visual flow, and the colors reinforce the integral sensatiosn of heat and cold
Usability: Not only very useable but also very compelling
Content: A persecuted witch bent on vengeance
Writing: Includes a prose-poetic description in addition to stats for lich and her rock
Art/design: Layout creates a strong visual flow, and the colors reinforce the integral sensatiosn of heat and cold
Usability: Not only very useable but also very compelling
Time for Tea
Concept: “This teapot will drive your scvm crazy, but the rewards are potentially limitless…at least for the survivors.”
Content: A surreal string of events revolving around a teapot and some invisible visitors
Writing: Clearly traces the album’s thread through descriptions and unified, interlinking rules and mechanics
Art/design: The text’s hues and temperature contrast well against the ground, and its layout amongst the images creates shapes reminiscent of pouring tea or rising steam
Usability: “Do not include this teapot in your game unless your scvm are ready for: inter-party conflict, spilled blood, hypnotism, memory loss, and light cannibalism.”
Content: A surreal string of events revolving around a teapot and some invisible visitors
Writing: Clearly traces the album’s thread through descriptions and unified, interlinking rules and mechanics
Art/design: The text’s hues and temperature contrast well against the ground, and its layout amongst the images creates shapes reminiscent of pouring tea or rising steam
Usability: “Do not include this teapot in your game unless your scvm are ready for: inter-party conflict, spilled blood, hypnotism, memory loss, and light cannibalism.”
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