A gentle rain began to fall that early morning, just as the sun began to peak over the horizon. The fire no longer raged, having become nothing but smoke and solemn embers on what remained of the mansion, unable to consume anything else in it's flames.
It wouldn't be much longer until the small town's full force of police and emergency services arrived- after all, they received more than one call that night.
But all they would find is one man.
One lone survivor, bloodied and burnt, sitting at the foundation of what used to be his home.
They'd question about what happened, what took place, how'd he get hurt, but would get no answer. He simply looked lost, like his mind was elsewhere.
And it was hard to tell if what stained his cheeks was the rain or tears.
Soon he would be taken from that place, whisked away in an ambulance, away from where it all began.
Before being loaded in, he looked to a starless sky, and he smiled.
Here’s piece I did last fall for my Delta Green game based on an Old Call of Cthuhlu adventure (Beyond the Mountains of Madness). The piece itself is based on the old Astonishing stories covers, and a specific moment in session 12 of two of our PCs (Butch, left & my boy Edward, right) almost getting got by some heat seeking slime. Thankfully all of 5 of us in that tunnel system survived.
Assuming all goes to plan, the queue should post this the day we finish the game. As of typing, out of the original cast of 5 player characters, we’re leaving Antarctica with one dead by his own hand (Butch), one fully gone on the sanity side of things, and the rest of us almost at each other’s throats over Butch’s death. It’s been fun, even if we’ve made less than ideal choices (such as letting the Germans go over chasing them down to try and keep the secrets of the City from reaching the outside world.)
The Kickstarter for Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is Live!!
Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is our team’s debut TTRPG, over three years in the making! The campaign will run from April 10th to May 10th!
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How far would you go to learn the truth?
Play amateur detectives caught up in things they barely understand, and explore how the lives of your characters unravel as they push themselves to dig deeper into the unknown!
Tense investigations!
Delve into an investigation-focused mystery and horror system that lets players take initiative and use their characters’ unique strengths to find clues and deduce conclusions themselves. A few bad rolls won’t get the party hopelessly stuck, but at the same time Eureka respects their intellect and lets them take charge of solving the mystery!
Character-driven gameplay!
Stats and abilities are based on who your character is as a person. Freeform character creation allows you to build a totally unique little guy, and have a totally unique gameplay experience with him! This is supported by the backbone of the Composure mechanic. Stress, fear, fatigue, and hunger will wear your investigators down as they trudge deeper into the unknown. Food, sleep, and connections with their fellow investigators are the only way to keep them going!
Secrets inside and out!
Any investigator could be a monster, helping their friends while trying not to reveal their true natures. The party will learn to trust and rely on each other, or explode into a tangled net of drama!
Intense, tactical combat!
Hits are devastating, and misses are unpredictable–firing a gun will always change the situation somehow, for better or for worse!
Now in Technicolor!
Evocative artwork from talented femme-fatales @chaospyromancy and @qsycomplainsalot and the mysterious @theblackwarden paint a gorgeously-realized portrait of a world with shadows lurking in every corner.
Elegantly designed and thoroughly playtested, Eureka represents the culmination of three years of near-daily work from our team, as well as a lot of our own money. We are almost at the end, we just need some financial support to put the finishing touches on it and make the final push to get it ready for official release!
With every stretch goal we meet, the game gets better and better. Tons of beautiful new artwork, new options for gameplay, and even two entirely new playable Monsters could be added to the book, so visit the Kickstarter and secure your copy today!
If you want to try before you buy, you can download a free demo of the prerelease version from our website or our itch.io page!
If you’re interested in a more updated and improved version of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy than the free demo you got from our website, subscribe to our Patreon where we frequently roll our new updates for the prerelease version!
You can also support us on Ko-fi, or by checking out our merchandise!
Join our TTRPG Book Club At the time of writng this, Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is the current game being played in the book club, and anyone who wants to participate in discussion, but can’t afford to make a contribution, will be given the most updated prerelease version for free! Plus it’s just a great place to discuss and play new TTRPGs you might not be able to otherwise!
We hope to see you there, and that you will help our dreams come true and launch our careers as indie TTRPG developers with a bang by getting us to our base goal and blowing those stretch goals out of the water, and fight back against WotC's monopoly on the entire hobby. Wish us luck.
“No,” I say. “I won’t do that.”
Simon shrinks from me. His hands fall to his lap. He looks anguished.
I loop his tail around my hand again and hold him everywhere tight. “No,”
I repeat. “I can touch you less gently, but I won’t love you less kindly.” (chapter 32)
Father Cole O’Donnelly, priest from Boston and now agent of Templar Order (kind of?).
We’re playing Masks of Nyarlathotep and Cole learned Bless spell from the pope, killed one of Nyarlathotep’s masks and survived weird trials of the templar order.
My friends are making a ttrpg where you can play as monster mystery investigators. Needless to say I've been having a blast designing monster girls! This cute little murder blanket here is the Thing From Beyond, an alien shafeshifter with very particular dietary restrictions. (It's people!!) It's just one of the several playable monsters that Eureka has to offer. The TFB is quite special as it's a Eureka exclusive creation and based heavily off of great movie monsters like The Thing, The Blob, and many more!
Officially announcing my new project, Cult of Creation, an Undertale Multiverse and Cult of the Lamb crossover AU. Starting with Ink’s ref! I’m very excited to be working on this project so I hope y’all like it!!!
do u guys remember that ep of the clone wars when padme goes to remove her crown piece and the hair within it is actually a wig? Yeah, so here are the sillies in the aftermath of this drawing :)