Tomorrow, Codex Qliphothica: Demons of the Other Side launches its crowdfunding campaign for Old-School Essentials.
Codex Qliphothica is my new book on demonology and planar horror for Old-School Essentials. In it, you'll encounter the Qliphoth, beings that are almost like demons, almost like undead, and almost like other-planar horrors, but none of these. They are the garbage of creation. The empty husks that were left behind after the first divine powers attempted to discard their imperfections and transcend beyond them.
Those imperfections never died.
They gathered beneath creation, becoming hunger, rage, greed, despair, hubris, and ruin, devoid of a divine soul to restrain them. They became the Qliphoth.
Codex Qliphothica deals with Sitra Achra, the Other Side, a nightmare realm made up of oceans of ash, dead forests, shattered moons, broken heavens, and impossible realities. Not Hell, not Abyss, and certainly not a plane of punishment or temptation. It is where creation abandoned what it no longer needed or wanted.
But the discarded things have come back looking for an entrance.
Codex Qliphothica is created for Old-School Essentials, but even if your system of choice isn't, it could still make for some dark, unsettling fun at the table. Codex Qliphothica includes new Qliphothic horrors, corrupt creatures, cults of the Hollow Shell, planar hazards, spells, artifacts, and even forbidden classes: Occult Scholar, Demonologist, and Exorcist.
This book is about the monsters that dwell on the far side of ordered reality. About the horrors the gods themselves cannot control. About the scar beneath creation.
My aim with Codex Qliphothica is to provide Game Masters with something that is ready to use at the table immediately. Something that offers not only lore and background but also monsters eager to bite adventurers, planes they dare enter and wish they hadn't, weird occult rituals, cults, encounters, hazards, and consequences.
The Qliphoth are very rare. They should feel few and far between. Whenever one shows its face, the world itself should feel different. The light seems off. Sounds disappear into nothingness. Sanctified spaces should quake with holy displeasure. Nightmares should infect waking thoughts. These aren't just monsters. These are the signs that an Other Side creature has found its way to our realm.
The pre-launch page is online. The entire OSE Demon Month crowdfunding campaign begins tomorrow.
https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/1e652f79-0c20-487c-a524-d5566025fbb3/landing
If this sounds like a gamebook you'd like at your own table, then please share the link, help me reach even more people interested in Old-School Horror, and follow the project.
The Other Side awaits tomorrow.
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