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A pocket-sized hexcrawl adventure for tabletop adventure games. It details a small region with a hex map, an encounter table, a town, about 5 and a half little dungeons, and more. 20 pages. Softcover. Roughly A6-sized booklet.
Dogtooth Valley is among the finest works of literature produced yet in human civilization. It eclipses the paltry contrivances of imbeciles like Chaucer, Shakespeare, Proust, and Joyce. It is a life affirming work that encourages, nay forces, you to aim higher and achieve more for yourself and your fellow man. It is what all art aspires to be, but none have accomplished until now. -Joe Desimone
Kozmik Objects & Entities is now available for purchase!
Get a physical copy (with pdf versions included) from Spear Witch or Exalted Funeral. Or just buy the pdf version at itch.
In a tavern near the docks of a small coastal town, a drunk fisherman claims he found the burial place of a religious leader of the long lost Swine Empire. “No doubt it’s full of treasure,” he promises. He scratches a map on the table. “It’s right there, and I haven’t told anyone, except for some Rats who bought me drinks earlier today.”
Explore an ancient tomb! Find treasure! Meet rat pirates! Don't get eaten by crocodiles! Or maybe do!
Tomb of the Swine Prophet is a small dungeon for analog adventure games like Unconquered, Cairn, The Vanilla Game, Bastards, Tunnel Goons, and many more.
It can be dropped into most fantasy adventure campaigns and completed in a single gaming session. It is an eleven room dungeon. Five rooms are described, and there is a d20 Random encounter table to describe the other rooms, so the adventure may be different every time it is played. A d12 treasure table and old school creature stats are included.
It can be printed on a single sheet of paper, front and back.
These hex tiles are meant for use with Hex Kit. They are transparent png image files.
There are over 100 tiles. All black and white except some hex outlines in a few colors.
Purchase includes a license for commercial use.
Also check out my other tile packs
Here are some maps made with this pack:
Color and editing added in photoshop
Color and editing added in photoshop
Color and editing added in photoshop
A bare-bones postcard-sized dungeon for old school analog adventure games. The dungeon has 4 factions, goblins, bandits, spiders, and undead. Includes a map, a few monster stats, and random tables for wandering monsters, dungeon dressing, and treasure.
I illustrated this adventure by Gavin Norman for the Old School Essentials game line. Get it here.
I made a stone age business card sized hack of Yochai Gal’s great game Cairn
I’ve recently done some illustrations for an upcoming Old School Essentials adventure:
As well as continued to work on my overdue kickstarter book. I’m trying to get it done as soon as possible but the pandemic through the work schedule for it off and I still have not had a stable work schedule for it. But it’s coming a long and I think it will be a great little zine!
I have written some more small adventures that have been released on patreon. They’ll get a proper public release after I finish Kozmik Objects and Entities.
Radikal Quest is a one page RPG that I doodled up very quickly and put very little thought into.
black n white version
There is a scifi hack of it by @RealParadoxius
And some alternate classed have been created on Twitter.
I collected a bunch of doodles together into a new tile set for Hex Kit. It has 114 tiles. A few people requested flat top hex tiles so hopefully this will be useful to some folks.
This map has been edited further in photoshop
The Doomlands are a cursed and brutal waste on the face of the broken earth. Littered with ancient relics of the Golden Past, it does attract desperate treasure hunters. A few caravans pass through the Doomlands but they are rare and expensive to travel with. To find the treasure of the Doomlands you must go where caravans do not. But beware, many would-be dunelanders have been swallowed up by sands, or more likely, the worms.
Explore the Doomlands, where water is wealth, where robots and snake people scavenge for remnants of the past, where the void bleeds into reality.
This is a two page micro setting inspired by Caves of Qud and Dune. It's system neutral but I think it would pair well with Troika's Acid Death Fantasy.
Of course it could be used with rules light games like Tunnel Goons or Prole!
Get this and more for as little as $2 a month at Patreon.com/HPS
Here’s a free one page dungeon. Happy Halloween, ya filthy animals.
This is a hexcrawl about trick or treating in a small town in South Louisiana. It is still "in beta" because it will eventually receive an update after some editing and play testing. But it's probably very close to its final form.
There are 16 keyed hexes on the map and a couple random encounter tables. In St. Ambrose you can encounter zombies, monsters, doom metal bands, a cult, zydeco ghosts, and a dentist.
This adventure is meant to be used with the PROLE analog adventure game from Highland Paranormal Society but feel free to adapt it to the game of your choice.
Prole has been slightly expanded, updated and edited!
There is now a 10 page booklet format, professionally edited by Jared Sinclair and with more doodles added by me!
Get it at https://natetreme.itch.io/prole
PROLE is a simple analog adventure game that uses coin flipping as its resolution mechanic.
There is a one page expanded version that explains the rules a little more but most folks familiar with tabletop role playing games can probably play with just the card below.
The expanded version comes with a one page adventure at Itch.io. It’s also available on my patreon.
PROLE was recently featured on the great Keep Off The Borderlands podcast!
Tunnels Goons won the Silver Ennie for Best Free Game/Product. Thank you everyone who voted and nominated. Thank you even more to everyone who has played or hacked Tunnel Goons!
The HPS Cartography Kit is a collection of hexagon tiles for use with Hex Kit or maybe even other cartography software!
It includes over 400 tiles! Many drawn specifically for this tile set and many taken from previous Highland Paranormal Society maps!
Not only can you use these tiles to make maps for your home tabletop RPG sessions, you can make maps for your own RPG products!
I made a monster generator and asked folks on twitter to write a description for the creature name they got. I compiled the first 100 into a zine! Get it here and if you write up your own Geondic creature, post it in the comments on itch. Maybe we’ll make a vol. 2 one day!
An Abominable Fancy
The ChaosGrenade
The Many Headed Troll
Herror Grafico
Jellysaw Games
jeepeeonline
Cave Girl Games
Wizard Thief Fighter
Coins And Scrolls
Goblin Punch
The Dungeon Dozen
DIY And Dragons
Necrotic Gnome
Ten Foot Pole
Lost Pages
Melsonian Arts Council
Hydra Cooperative
False Machine
Hill Canton
Zedeck Siew
Bastionland
Monster Manual Sewn From Pants
Monsters And Manuals
Jeff’s Gameblog
Exalted Funeral
