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.