Games like Shallots

A myriad past, in that formless Long Ago, a cadre of death-worshipping elfs committed sins wondrous and terrible to master death. The eight most powerful of their ilk succeeded and so through means vampiric, alchemical or otherwise blasphemous descended below mortality to fester spider-like in the center of their web of ziggurats for all eternity. Left with an eternity to hone their hedonism, a gr…

Know, o wanderer, that between the myriads when the Starless Seas rose and drank the gleaming spires of Gods and the time of the rising of the Queen of Swords, that there was a realm more dreamlike than a dream, lay spread across the Spheres like blue mantles beneath the stars - topless towers of gold, hills and valleys alive with music, rivers and forests splashing and swaying without wind. A pri…

“Hail, Agkaman! Hail, the conquering hero! Hail, slayer of accursed serpents! A giant is he; panoply of burnished gold, so heavy that three men together would be buried by the immensity of its weight! A warrior is he; his sword so broad that held aloft it blots out both suns! Hail, the Agkaman, who scoured these lands of the hated snake-kin and took from them their glittering hoard, now the wealth…

Following the crypto collapse of EC 2397, bio-engineering giant Binary Helix was acquired by Dingilizwe Pharmaceuticals, which was in turn broken up, re-packaged and sold largely to ZLX Securities after a short but exceedingly violent corporate takeover that resulted in an extinction-level event on the planet Oxnard. In the passion and death of these industrial struggles, Binary Helix's flagship r…

Greater mullein (Verbascum thapsus) grows upon the slopes of mountains. Where lightning strikes the stalks catch flame. It is as if a great torchbearing host marches through the valleys. The kingdoms of yesteryere are carrion, picked apart by rapacious clans like the beaks of crows. Most lords can survey their entire domain by eye, on a clear day. Most of the smallfolk know naught to which lord t…

In The Bluelight is a frozen dungeon crawl adventure by Chris Bissette. You can check out the plain text version of the adventure for free here.Winner at the inaugural The Awards! ORDER THE PRINT VERSION HERE The days are fleeting out on the ice. The days are fleeting everywhere, now, but out on the barrens of Kergüs they are even further lessened. Time is thin here. It stretches, twists, freezes.…

“... South of where the river meets the sea, south past where the red clay oozes blood-like underfoot, to Gomazzi, the Yellow Flats; rich in soil, dry in summer, clear skies and thick tangles of cedar groves and endless fields of flax and crocus, either more precious than gold or jewels…” Saffron is #1 in a series of short hex- and dungeon-crawls for the PINKHACK system, but are easily adaptable t…

Zatar is #3 in a series of short hex- and dungeon-crawls for the PINKHACK system, but are easily adaptable to the OSR system of your choice. Each DOOMCRAWL is inspired by the iconic Special Herbs beat tracks by MF DOOM. What's in this edition? A short hexcrawl 1d6 Complications to Keep You Broke2d6 Rumors, Loot, Goods, Encounters, and Freelancers1d6 Jobs from four FactionsA hexmap by John Battle

NETTLE LEAVES is #8 in a series of short hex- and dungeon-crawls. Each DOOMCRAWL is inspired by the iconic Special Herbs beat tracks by MF DOOM. NETTLE LEAVES is a funnel dungeon for old-school fantasy RPGs. It is best suited for 10-20 players of 0-level, and assumes rules where the PCs gain levels for treasure. It was written mechanically and ideologically with Mausritter in mind, though is easil…

Thieves’ Cut #3 | For Shadowdark RPG and other OSR systems  Under brass stars and broken gears, something still dreams of life. Beneath a shattered observatory, ancient copper mechanisms grind in the dark. Clockwork monsters patrol rusted corridors. Somewhere in the depths, a sorcerous automaton known as The Architect tests its theory: that a soul can be trapped, studied, and stolen—if only give…