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Zine Month week two. The zines are still going strong, with a few projects already wrapped up and even more taking their place. My own Zine Month submission, MÖRK KÖPHETS: A Dead Mall Dungeon Crawl, is halfway through its campaign and just reached its funding goal! If you’ve still got some pocket money left and want to support a few zines, check out some of the projects below.
Wondering what Zine Month is all about? Check out my article explaining it:
If you spend any amount of time on crowdfunding* websites such as Kickstarter, Backerkit, or Crowdfundr this month, you are going to be seeing a lot of new tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) projects from people you’ve never heard of before (including me!).
Type: Adventure | Genre: Gothic Horror | System: The Between
Hyde Park is a greenspace of leisure for the burgeoning middle and upper classes of London alike, but beneath its rolling lawns and carefully tended horse paths lie phenomena beyond human comprehension. An individual flung far from home takes up with the mysterious Hargrave House. Hags stalk the sewers, unseen forces steal voices from the agitated masses, and floating lights abduct hapless citizens from surrounding streets. And behind it all a shadowy entity lurks, spreading foulness from his fetid palace deep beneath the Thames…
The Hauntings of Hyde Park is a supplement for The Between by Jason Cordova. The Between is a gothic-horror investigation game set in Victorian London (everyone's favorite London), in which you play investigators hunting down eldritch monsters and unraveling haunting mysteries. Hauntings expands the game with new character options, enemies, events, and mysteries surrounding the eponymous Hyde Park, known for its open lawns and soap-box preachers (both religious and secular).
Having not played The Between myself, I think that there are a lot of good ideas in this adventure that could be applicable to any gothic horror setting, including a vengeful river god, a supernatural silence that consumes Speaker’s Corner, and a herd of mysterious deer.
Your ancestors were colossal dragons with mountains of gold and earth-shaking magic. You are their proud descendants, building a hoard of your own full of magical power. It’s not easy, since you’re under two feet long.
Precious Things is a pocket-sized zine with an adorable premise: you are a tiny dragon looking to create a tiny hoard for yourself. Using the simple rules, you create a dragon, pick an object to hoard, and generate an obstacle keeping you from that object. From there you go on an adventure to add that object to your tiny hoard in an adventure that should take no more than an hour and a half.
The zine is already available for purchase, but is raising money to fund a print run of sticker sheets based on the game’s adorable little dragons (illustrated by Emily Entner).
HIC: Tapestry - Toilet Roll Paper Game - is a low-prep, storytelling and drawing TRPG for 1-4 players. It is inspired by the art and history of the Bayeux Tapestry which depicts the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and the Norman conquest of England.
Some games eschew the classic dice and paper in favor of more creative gameplay tools. Hic: Tapestry, may just be the first ever drawing/storytelling game that uses a roll of toilet paper as its main tool. Using a deck of cards and a list of prompts, players are tasked with illustrating the story of an important moment in history, real or imagined. Some prompts will instruct you to damage or rewrite parts of the “tapestry” creating a complex story about history and how it is recorded.
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Zine Month Continues…
More recommendations next week! In the meantime, if you want a second opinion, you can check out other Zine Month recommendations below:
