OSE Demon Month: Codex Qliphothica and More!

 Old-School Essentials Demon month begins now! I am participating in Gavin Norman's Demon Month for Old-School Essentials. He is releasing his long-awaited Demon book for OSE (I have seen it, and it is great). And he is being joined by several other creators, including yours truly, to do a massive launch of our own demon titles all for OSE.

Codex Qliphothica

I didn't talk about this one as much as I wanted, but I am very pleased with it so far. I want a new category of demons. Something that put the horror back into them, other than "oh look, another Type III." Sure I DO have that here, and I also talk about how the Occult Scholars who think like this are often the first ones to get eaten.

Codex Qliphothica Cover Art by Dean Spenser

The Qliphoth are old. Older than the worlds mortals inhabit. Older than demons. Older even than the gods. Their taint has so far been contained. But they have been noticed, and they have seen us.

Probably because of all these new demon books out!

Interior art by Earl Geier

You can pledge for this book, PDF or Print, here:

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/the-other-side/codex-qliphothica-demons-of-the-other-side-for-ose

The text is written. The art has been purchased. Editing is happening now, and the layout. I am targeting 80-pages, but it will likely run over. I won't change the pricing, though, if it does.

There will be the Qliphoth demons, their home plane of Sitra Achra, known as the Other Side, corrupted monsters, occult magic, and new classes, The Occult Scholar, The Exorcist, and the Demonologist. 

BUT I am not alone!

OSE Demon Month has more than just my evil little beasties. There are more demonic pleasures for you to have just for the mere price of your soul...or a few bucks, whatever fits on your Visa card.

You can see all the projects here: https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/ose-month/projects

• Old-School Essentials Demonic Grimoire
• HELLCRAWL
• The Ooze, Adventure Module Zinepack
• Emporium of the Damned
• Skullboy's Illustrated Guide to Demons
• The Black Spire Pact
• Mildew and Silver - An Adventure for Old-School Essentials
• The Tiger Princess of Treacherous Tripura
• A Ritual Most Foul & A Delving Most Dark: 2 Adventure Paths
• Bekir's Battlers - Hell Unleashed! Wooden Minis for OSE
• Out of the Iron Labyrinth
• Abattoir Hymnal
• Dinner with The Damned
• The Master Of Puppets, an OSE Forest Adventure
• Dimension Delver's Guide to Demons & Devils
• Codex Qliphothica: Demons of the Other Side for OSE

Certainly there is something here for every table!

Codex Qliphothica Launches Tomorrow

 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.

Mail Call Tuesday: Tales of the Valiant Player's Guide 2

 Tales of the Valiant Player's Guide 2 was delivered to my door this week! 

I backed this on Kickstarter a while back and I am happy to see it. 

The box was packed with the Player's Guide 2 and three character journals.

Of course, what I am most excited about is their new witch class.

It looks like it is a lot of fun and I can't wait to create a new character for it.

I think I do want a brand new character. One I can try in this, Pathfinder 2.1, and for the hell of it, something for my current AD&D game. It could be a lot of fun. 

Just need a concept that would fit all three games!

This witch has three subclasses, which are roughly equivalent to my ideas of traditions. The Crimson Cord, the Night Song, and the Twilight Soul. Pathfinder is more Patron-focused.  Somewhere is a witch I can slot into all three.

Old-School Essentials DEMON Month May!

 Gavin Norman of Necrotic Gnome and Old-School Essentials is releasing his long-awaited Demonic Grimoire for Old-School Essentials. And he is not alone.

https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/909d4351-ca9d-4206-834b-24d2b64a1249/landing?ref=home-page

From the promotional page:

What is the Demonic Grimoire?

A hotly anticipated major rules supplement for Old-School Essentials, expanding the game with demons, cults, and dark magic. Contained within this 176-page tome:

• 8 demon lords, detailed with their cults, minions, spells, and hellish domains.
• 60 new monsters, from lowly tormented souls to mighty lords of hell.
• 4 new classes: chaos knight, cultist, demon hunter, tiefling.
• 70+ new magic items of fiendish power.
• Demonology: magic circles, summoning, demonic pacts, familiars.
• Referee advice for building demonic campaigns.
• 120+ black & white illustrations, including a fully illustrated bestiary. Art by Lucas Korte, Kennon James, Tony Hough, Matt Stikker, and other leading old-school artists.
• Pristine control-panel layout to maximise ease of reference and minimise page flipping.

I mean that is cool enough right?

Well, like the man on the TV says, "but wait, there is more!"

Gavin is being joined by six more (at present) projects to expand on his demons book.

• Old-School Essentials Demonic Grimoire
• HELLCRAWL
• No Devil's Land
• Dinner with The Damned
• Emporium of the Damned
• The Black Spire Pact
• Codex Qliphothica: Demons of the Other Side for OSE

Sign up for them all!

If you like that last one, then I have some good news for you. That is my own contribution to OSE Demons Month.

The Codex Qliphothica will cover an entire new race of demons for OSE, the Qliphoth.

What Are the Qliphoth?

The Qliphoth are not merely demons; they are the discarded refuse of the first gods. When the Luminous Ones sought to transcend their flaws and ascend to perfection, they shed their wrath, envy, lust, and despair like snakes sloughing off dead skin. These husks did not dissolve into nothingness. They congealed in the dark cracks beneath creation, howling with the memory of rejection, and slowly grew into self-willed horrors. Where demons embody chaos and appetite, the Qliphoth are anti-creation, seeking to unmake what is whole, defile what is pure, and drag all things back to the Other Side from which they emerged.

The Qliphoth are encountered rarely, for they dwell far below even the demon lords' dominions, in a bleak plane called The Other Side. A nightmare realm of dead forests, cracked moons, and oceans of ash. When they do appear, reality itself seems to warp: sound dulls, color drains, and dreams turn to fevered visions.

My plan (and I am on track for this) is to have everything done to be delivered soon after the crowdfunding ends. Both the PDFs and physical print copies will be handled by DriveThruRPG. 

Cover subject to change, but I rather like this one. And Dean Spencer is really fantastic.

Most of the writing is done, and I am paying for the art upfront. I even have my writing play list ready!

See you on the Other Side!

Kickstart Your Weekend: Tales Valiant and Chilling

 Had to switch my Friday posts here, was going to do this one next week and have a Fantasy Friday for today, but fell down a rabbit hole and ended buying three more games to talk about. That's fine I have Kickstarters today that seem to be speaking to me directly.

Up first, Tales of the Valiant.

Player's Guide 2: New Power for 5E and TOV Players

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deepmagic/players-guide-2-new-power-for-5e-and-tov-players?ref=theotherside

Tales of the Valiant is Kobold Press' 5e-compatible RPG sans the OGL. I don't play a lot of 5e these days, but I do keep my eye out. And this one grabbed me. I already detailed Tales of the Valiant in previous Fantasy Fridays.

You can easily see why if you download their preview. 

Yup. That's right, a 5e-compatible Witch class. Now I have played a lot of 5e witches thanks to DMsGuild and other sites. Some are great, some less so. But this one looks like a lot of fun, really. Honestly, I don't really care what else the book has, that is enough for me. There are three new classes here and sub-classes for all the base classes. That's 16 classes total for ToV. There is a witch and a warlock. 

Vanguards are featured in the preview and remind me of Pathfinder 2's champions or even the Cavalier of old. Yes, I already have a character in mind to make for this. In fact, he is perfect since it was Kobold Press' Shadow Fey book that made me want to make the character in the first place. With this book I could actually do Scáthaithe, Larina, and their daughter Taryn all in the same system for a change. In my Fantasy Friday coverage of ToV I mentioned that there were no good options to do Larina with. That changes with this.

The Kickstarter is funded, so they don't need my help at all. But there are a lot of good add-ons and stretch goals. I think I am going to get the fancy-looking limited edition cover. I am a slut of a book with a ribbon.

Sadly, it won't be out till January of 2026. 

I have the Tales of the Valiant books in PDF. I'll need to get those in hardcovers, too, now. 

I already featured this one, but I want to do it again. 

Frightshow Classics LIVES!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/frightshowclassics/frightshow-classics-lives?ref=theotherside

This Kickstarter will feature a lot of art from the late Jim Holloway. They have been working with Jim's family to get this art out there in remembrance of him and the game he did so many illustrations for, 1st Edition Chill.

This round also features an adventure adapting the famous gothic story "Carmilla" for use with this system.

What system is that? Good of you to ask! The adventures are overtly for Chill first Edition. The Pacesetter version. BUT these adventures can be played on their own with no extra rule book since everything you need is included in the adventure itself. You can even move them over to your system of choice.

I wrote a couple for this line, The Golem and The Nightmare.

I even provided a video tribute featuring my favorite Jim Holloway art. 

The Return of Frightshow Classics!

 It's not a Kickstart Your Weekend, but honestly, I couldn't wait for this one. My friend, Yeti Spaghetti, has a new Kickstarter to support the next batch of Frightshow Classics adventures.  Since I wrote a couple of these in the past I guess that makes me one of the friends of "Yeti Spaghetti and Friends!"

Frightshow Classics LIVES!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/frightshowclassics/frightshow-classics-lives?ref=theotherside

This Kickstarter will feature a lot of art from the late Jim Holloway. They have been working with Jim's family to get this art out there in remembrance of him and the game he did so many illustrations for, 1st Edition Chill.

This round also features an adventure adapting the famous gothic story "Carmilla" for use with this system.

What system is that? Good of you to ask! The adventures are overtly for Chill first Edition. The Pacesetter version. BUT these adventures can be played on their own with no extra rule book since everything you need is included in the adventure itself. You can even move them over to your system of choice.

I wrote a couple for this line, The Golem and The Nightmare.

I even provided a video tribute featuring my favorite Jim Holloway art. 

So check it out.

Maybe I should extend my "Year of Fantasy RPG" to include some "Urban Fantasy!"

Kickstart Your Weekend: Old-School Gaming!

 Yeah, I said I wasn't going to do many more of these, but here we are. Though this week has some real treats and none of them really need my help.

Wandering Blades

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tonyatplusoneexp/wandering-blades?ref=theotherside

Daniel Kwan , of the Asians Represent! podcast and many RPG books, is doing something I have been wanting him to do for a while now: make a Wuxia action RPG. This one also combines that with Japanese Animation action, so yeah, I am looking forward to it. 

Just three weeks left on this one and I am looking forward to seeing it hit more stretch goals.

The Necromancer's Game: A Complete Boxed Set

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/necromancergames/the-necromancers-game?ref=theotherside

I certainly don't *need* this game, but I rather like the looks of it. I am sure it will be fun.

Heroes of Might and Magic TTRPG

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lmpublishing/heroes-of-might-and-magic-ttrpg?ref=theotherside

From Mōdiphiüs and based on Heroes of Might and Magic video games. This one should also be fun. And they have a native Witch class, so you know that has my attention!

OSRIC 3

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/mythmere-games/osric-3?ref=theotherside

Ah. The big one. This game caused quite a stir on the old Open Gaming Foundation lists back in the day. It would go on to be one of the biggest names in the OSR scene.

All three aim to give you a similar experience. All three are currently killing it in their respective crowdfunding campaigns. 

I am sure there is something here for you all. 

Mail Call: Nightshift Board Game

 A while back, there were three games called Night Shift. There was ours, NIGHT SHIFT Veterans of the Supernatural Wars. Another RPG, which became Nightbound when they discovered our trademarked name. And another, a board game about exotic dancers.  I already had Nightbound, and last week Nightshift came in the mail.

The box and contents are great. High-quality material with a really sturdy game board. Rules are fun and easy to learn. Exotic Cancer also lets you have the rules for free.  There is even a "How to Play" video.

The game pieces are your characters in the game. Each has their own personality, advantages, and goals.  You can meet them all here: Ruby, Topaz, Emerald, Sapphire, and Amethyst.

The minis are a bit taller than your average D&D mini. Reminds me of that couch meme. Just don't spill my coffee, ladies.

I can't help but think this would be a perfect representation of my own Mayfair's Gentlemen's Club from our NIGHT SHIFT.

It would work more or less exactly the same way. Only my version the dancers are all demons, vampires, and fae creatures. Amethyst is certainly a vampire. Topaz is fae. Sapphire is some sort of daimon or spirit of gnosis. Emerald is a demon. And Ruby? Ruby is human. The fact she can hold her own may make her the most mysterious of all!

But the game is great and the creator, Exotic Cancer, knows her stuff. This is another example of Kickstarter working out fantastically. 

Yes. There will be a Plays Well With Others post for all the Night Shifts! Maybe I can grab Exotic Cancer's Tarot set for it. 

You can find this game and the designer here:

• Night Shift Game
• Exotic Cancer site
• Instagram
• Patreon
• Twitter/X

Kickstart Your Weekend: More Witches! More Adventures!

 These people want to keep making a liar out of me.

Both of these have already funded and blown past their funding goals. 

Sickest Witch RPG - Core Rulebook

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/justinsirois/sickest-witch-core-rulebook-rpg?ref=theotherside

Ok this one looks like a lot of fun really. Love the concept, love the art. I am going to have to grab this one.

Sword of the Wyrm’s Bane & Vigilante Subway + 32 FREE PDFS

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marktaormino/sword-of-the-wyrms-bane-and-vigilante-subway-32-free-pdfs?ref=theotherside

Mad genius Mark Taormino is back with more Maximum Mayhem! This one looks like fun and it comes with 32 free PDFs. That's a crazy deal.

Yeah...take my money.

Kickstart Your Weekend: Sexy Pirates and Custom Dice

 Yeah. Ok. I know last week I said I wasn't going to do these anymore. BUT both of these Kickstarters are prime examples of why I think Kickstarter is a good thing.

Let's get into them.

In Booty n' Lust

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/djinnintheshade/in-booty-n-lust?ref=theotherside

Djinn has long been a good friend and I love her art. Her newest art book features her central original witch character Solaine and her band of mischievous and amorous pirates. 

I featured her last book here and it was a huge success. 

This is the reason why Kickstarter works. It given smaller publishers and creatives the means to make their visions a reality. 

She is also doing a "crossover" with the comic Dawn of Time #1 - NSFW, Time Travel Adventure Series. So that is worth checking out as well.

Hero Forge: Custom Dice

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/heroforge/custom-dice?ref=theotherside

HeroForge owes its very existence to Kickstarter. Once the idea of DIY custom minis that can be 3D printed was a dream. Then they added color. Well, while this is not the next step in their evolution, it is certainly a big, bold step.

Custom dice to match your minis.

It is a wonderful idea and adds even more value to an already valuable service.

--

There. Djinn and HeroForge made a liar out of me, but both are for great products. 

Mail Call: Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme

 I almost forgot I had backed this! But this came in the mail yesterday.

I got the Public School Edition because, as always, I am a sucker for a book with a ribbon bookmark.

It came with a lot of stuff.

A lovely bunch of coconuts. But we already had our own!

There is so much here. I have no idea if I'll play this or not, but it is a very silly game.

I know my oldest is going to love it.

The Refrigerator for DC Heroes

The DC Heroes Role-Playing Game 40th Anniversary Kickstarter is still going strong, and new stretch goals are added all the time. I am quite excited for this one to be honest.

While I have a lot of heroes I would love to add, more than a few villains also need my attention. And given how this particular villain got his real-world start, it seems fitting to stat him up now.

Dr. Andreas Gelé, The Refrigerator

You can read the history of this misanthrope here, but he began as a nod to the "Women in Refrigerators" trope as detailed by Gail Simone. 

History of The Refrigerator

Dr. Andreas Gelé was born to wealth and privilege but never to love.  His father was a was a rich industrialist who made his money on the work of others and his mother was a noted and beautiful stage actress.  From his father he gained his intellect and from his mother he learned lessons in cruelty.

As his mother aged she became more and more cruel.  In his mind's eye, he still saw her as beautiful. This was reinforced by all the pictures of her on the wall of their estates, where she was young, beautiful, and happy. Frozen in time.  Gelé began working on a process to keep the beautiful women young forever.  He was drawn to beautiful women, and his prestige later as a doctor and his wealth made that easy.  But he never could talk to or relate to them, having grown up socially stunted.  So Gelé embarked on a plan so he could have his desires met.

His first experiments in cryonics were failures. Animals would not return to life after being frozen, and even when he perfected the process, they still had tissue damage, finally, through a combination of fluids and gases at supercooled temperatures.  He tested it first on his hated father. He died soon after he was free of the ice, but Gelé expected that since the old man's heart was now weak. He froze his mother next. He was overjoyed that the ice preserved her remaining beauty.

All his research, though, has depleted his fortunes, so he robs banks to fund more research and to keep more of his "beauties" on ice. He still has trouble talking to and relating to women, but he finds it much more manageable after he has frozen them. 

Creepy little bastard, huh.

The Refrigerator

Dexterity: 2		Strength:	2	Body: 3
Intelligence: 6		Will: 4		Mind: 5
Influence: 2		Aura: 3		Spirit: 4

Initiative: 10
Hero Points: 100

Current Body: 3
Current Mind: 5
Current Spirit: 4

Alter Ego: Dr. Andreas Gelé
Occupation: Former Medical Faculty
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Group Affiliations: None
Base of Operations: Gotham City
Motivation: Twisted Obsession
Wealth: 6
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 125 lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair: White

Skills
Gadgetry 6
Medicine 5
Weapon (Freeze Ray) 5

Powers
Freeze Ray (Gadget)
- Ice Control 6
- Ice Production 6
Thermal Goggles (Gadget)
- Thermal Vision 6

Advantages
Connoisseur [5], Gadget Freeze Ray, Rich Family [15], Scholar: Cryonics [10], Medicine [10]

Drawbacks
Guilt [25], Irrational Attraction [25], Mistrust (women) [50]

Equipment
Freeze Ray

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I am sure my numbers are off here. But it is a start.

Since I am expecting something of a DC Heroes renaissance, here are a couple of sites I really enjoy. 

The Mayfair Games DC Heroes RPG online Character Database

Hundreds of characters for the MEGS DC Heroes game. Heavy on the DC characters, but a few others.

Writeups.org

Lots of characters for both DC Heroes (MEGS) and DC Adventures (M&M 3).

Larina Nichols, Agent of A.R.T.E.M.I.S. for DC Heroes (Kickstart Your Weekend)

 A special Kickstart Your Weekend this week. Last week, I mentioned a new DC Heroes Kickstarter on the way. Well, it launched on Monday, and it has already blown through all its stretch goals, and now they are making new ones. 

So, this Kickstarter doesn't really need my help. 

But anyone who spends any time here at all knows about my deep love for all things DC Comics. So they might not need my help, but I am giving it anyway!  And what better way to do it than to dust off some characters! Well. Not so much dust off, as in recreate. I will get my old V&V character up soon, but I have been thinking a lot about my occult investigative agency A.R.T.E.M.I.S. and how it might exist in other game settings. So you know what I am going to do here. 

For this one, I pulled out my Batman Role-Playing Game, which is DC Heroes 1.5 or something like that. I have (or had, I think I loaned it out) the 1st Ed boxed set, and I was trying to decide if I want the 1st or 2nd ed boxed set from the Kickstarter. I think I am going with 2nd Ed.  I had 3rd Ed for a while, but I know I sold that at my local game auction.

So who is this Larina? 

The game is dated from 1989, back when Bat-Mania was at its height. So I am making this a 19-year old Larina (1989). The obvious comparisons are her Chill stats (still need to post them) and my recent R.I.P. Horror Role-playing project. This Larina is a little different from her R.I.P. counterpart though they are about the same age (19 vs 22). Is that a Crisis On Infinite Earths potential adventure I hear? 

For DC Heroes, new heroes always start out with 450 APs. I bump it up to 500 because I like a little more power. This is magic rich world, so my magic characters need a boost.

Larina Nix AKA Nix the Witch

Dexterity:	2	Strength:	1	Body:	2
Intelligence:	6	Will:	5	Mind:	4
Influence:	3	Aura:	5	Spirit:	7

Initiative: 11
Hero Points: 50

Current Body: 2
Current Mind: 4
Current Spirit: 7

Alter Ego: Larina Nichols
Occupation: Student/Research Librarian, Gotham University
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Stephani Nichols (Mother), Lars Nichols (Father)
Group Affiliations: A.R.T.E.M.I.S.
Base of Operations: Gotham City
Motivation: Responsibility of Power
Wealth: 5
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 124 lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Red

Skills
Artist (Music) 2 [13]
Charisma 2 [32]
Medicine 2 [17]
Occultist 9 [101]

Powers
Flight (Broom) 5 [25]
Force Shield [10]
Magic Blast [20]

Advantages
Area Knowledge (Gotham) [20], Attractive [15]. Connection (Occult Underworld) [10], Gadget/Artifact (Broom) [25], Luck [15], Scholar [10]

Drawbacks
Arch Enemy (Mordru) [15], Secret Identity [10]

Equipment
Broom (Body 1, Fly 5 [10]) [25] (can fly at about 50 mph)

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Ok, so who is this?

This Larina is still young. Honestly, this version would work better as a Teen Titan, which would work well with the 1st Edition boxed set.

I might adjust her wealth down to 4. I also need to remember how to give her some more languages. I also decided against the edgy notion of having her parents dead. Been there, done that, no need to go back. 

I put her in Gotham as a nod to my copy of the Batman RPG and my undying love for the Caped Crusader. In D&D, her alignment is Lawful Neutral, so she would be an agent of Law here. Not civil law, but Universal and Magic Law. This would make her the natural target of the likes of Mordru. Also, Mordru scared the shit out of me when I got one of my first DC comics. I must have been 5 or 6. So yeah, he is a great Arch Enemy for my witch here. While his modern look is likely the better one, I tend to go with his classic crazy-looking wizard look from his first appearance. Plus, I am rereading all of Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion books, so the battle of Law vs Chaos is very much on my mind right now.

I want to get my V&V version of Johan ported over, and I have a few others in mind. I am thinking of something like Justice League Dark but with my band of characters here. I guess that means I will need versions of Dracula and the Refrigerator, too.  I'd love to find a copy of "Blood of Heroes" from Pulsar Games. It was the same system with more magic. If I do, then I need to update her stats. Maybe Larina as a 30-year-old, really powerful witch. 

She has an alter ego, but I have never had a great "Superhero" name for her. Later, she is known as "Witch Queen," but at this point, she is still figuring things out.

I am backing the Kickstarter. Great to see a "new" DC game out there. 

Kickstart Your Weekend: 5e Witch Content

 I mentioned before that one of the reasons I have not done a 5e Witch class myself is that I have wanted to have some joy in discovery of something new for D&D. If I make a 5e witch, then I am always comparing it to the new stuff to mine. 

So today there are two witch-related 5e Kickstarters I want to share. They are in their last days of funding, so get on these while you can.

Witchfyre: A Dark Fantasy RPG for 5E+ & Pathfinder

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/witchfyre/witchfyre-a-dark-fantasy-rpg?ref=theotherside

This looks like a lot of fun and has a great Folk Horror vibe. It is for 5e and Pathfinder, so that is really great.  And it comes with minis and a tarot set, so I am very intrigued. While the deluxe cover looks nice, I think I prefer the standard cover.

Any looks great, to bad I will have to wait a year to get it.

The Mystery of Witchhaven: A 5e Solo Adventure

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obviousmimic/the-mystery-of-witchhaven-a-5e-solo-adventure?ref=theotherside

I admit a little trepidation to this one. First, I am generally not a fan of Solo adventures. Nothing against them, I just prefer to play with a group. Secondly I have my own "Witch Haven" but the name is so common I should not be surprised when a variation of it gets used.

But this does look fun and I'd be remiss if I didn't check it out.

ETA: Another one!

Wicked Echoes - Whispers of the Samodiva: A 5E Supplement

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wicked-echoes/wicked-echoes-whispers-of-the-samodiva?ref=theotherside

Folk Horror is pretty hot right now. And this one looks great.  This is more horror than Witch focused, but that is fine by me!

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Both look great and hopefully ship quickly.