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 TAG: FREE QUICKSTART
Posted: Tue, 05 May 15:45:12 CDT
Publisher: Eduardo Camps
TAG
Universal RPG System
Free Quickstart — v2.1
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO START PLAYING IN 30 MINUTES

TAG is a tag-based universal RPG system. Instead of tracking endless skill lists and modifiers, everything that matters about your character, the scene, or the situation is represented as a tag — a word or short phrase that tells a story and gives you dice to roll.

Your character might have tags like Expert Swordsman, Chronic Overthinker, Dad's Old Revolver, or Owes Money to the Mafia. Each one describes who you are and translates directly into the mechanics. No need to look up rules — if a tag makes sense for what you're doing, you roll it.

What's Inside
CORE MECHANICS
  • The Basic Roll in 6 simple steps
  • Difficulty & Results (Trivial to Impossible)
  • Opposed Actions with Margin of Victory
  • Special Tricks: Burning Tags, Teamwork, Escalation
CHARACTER CREATION
  • Power Level 0 — Regular Folks
  • 11 Personal Tags: d10, d8, d6, d4
  • Negative Tags & TAG Points
  • The Negative Tag Exchange for extra power
The Five Flavors of Tags
Personal
Core identity. Always there.
Temporary
Come and go. Wounded. Inspired.
Scene
Environment. Anyone can use them.
Relationship
Connections. Factions. People.
Equipment
Gear with story weight.
Tag Dice — Roll What Matters
Die Level What It Means Bonus
d4 Novice Beginner or basic gear +0
d6 Competent Decent skill or gear +1
d8 Expert Genuinely good; people seek you out +2
d10 Master Regional reputation; military-grade +3
d12 Legendary People tell stories about you +4
CINEMATIC COMBAT
  • Initiative by tag rolls
  • Melee vs. Ranged vs. Active Defence
  • Armor reduces attacker's result
  • Damage by margin: d4 to d10 conditions
  • Scene tags shape the battlefield
CONDITIONS & NOT DYING
  • No abstract HP — tags become conditions
  • Physical, Mental, Social damage
  • Defeat Threshold (Power 0 = 20 pts)
  • Recovery by rest and first aid
3 Ready-to-Play Heroes
DETECTIVE SARAH CHEN
Observant Investigator
d10 Reads People
d8 Police Training, Firearms
d6 City Knowledge, Police Contacts, Reliable Partner, Underworld Informant
d4 Service Pistol, Determination, By-the-Book, Divorced
JAK REEVES
Reformed Thief
d10 Urban Stealth
d8 Agile as a Cat, Lockpicking
d6 Underworld Contacts, Disguise, Streetwise, Knife Fighting
d4 Thieves' Tools, Night Vision, Knows Every Escape Route, Arrogant
DR. ELIAS THORNE
Obsessive Archaeologist
d10 Ancient Languages
d8 Occult Knowledge, Academic Reputation
d6 Field Medicine, Pistol Shooting, University Resources, Trusted by the Dean
d4 Notebook of Translations, Bullwhip, Always Prepared, Haunted by a Past Expedition
One-Page Cheat Sheet Included

Everything condensed: the basic roll, bonus table, difficulty chart, damage by margin, condition recovery, and negative tag penalties. Print it, hand it to your players, and you're ready to run.

Why You'll Love TAG
  • No skill bloat. Every mechanic is a tag. If it makes sense, you roll it.
  • Story-first design. Your character sheet is a narrative document, not a spreadsheet.
  • Scalable complexity. Add scene tags, teamwork, and escalation for depth; ignore them for speed.
  • Negative tags are fuel. Flaws generate TAG Points that power heroic moments.
  • Universal. Works for any genre: noir, fantasy, sci-fi, horror, cyberpunk.
  • 30 minutes to play. This Quickstart gives you rules, characters, and a cheat sheet. Grab dice and go.

Free. Complete. Ready to run.

Download the TAG Quickstart now and start telling stories in half an hour.

Created by Eduardo Camps Moll • 20 pages • For any genre, any setting, any table.

TAG: FREE QUICKSTARTPrice: $0.00
 The Beast of Ningh
Posted: Tue, 05 May 15:19:59 CDT
Publisher: Seven Devils Press

The Beast of Ningh is an introductory adventure for the new indie RPG Dick Wizards by Wolf Manzella.  

After a rushed 8 week training course, you and your companions are thrust into the centore of a diabolical plot to reawaken The Beast of Ningh!  Violent insanity and strange cemetery grave cave-ins are on the rise in Providence.  How does it all fit together?  And what does Tornasuk University have to do with it?  Will you foil the plot and bring the culprits to justice?  Or will you lose your mind as you uncover ancient secrets not meant to be known?

The Beast of NinghPrice: $4.00
 ZERO PREP:THE OBSIDIAN ATHENAEUM
Posted: Tue, 05 May 15:12:29 CDT
Publisher: Eduardo Camps
THE OBSIDIAN ATHENAEUM
Where the Dead Teach the Living
20-Page Zero Prep Module • Academy / Intrigue / Dark Fantasy

Three thousand years ago, a being walked the world that the elves called the One Who Measured the Sky. When it fell, its body did not rot—it petrified into obsidian, its bones fossilized into stone harder than granite. Its skull alone was the size of a cathedral. Its ribcage formed a natural vault a hundred paces across.

Scholars discovered that the bones remembered. Not the titan's mind, which was gone, but the structure of its existence, the imprint of its magic, the echo of its gestures. The first mage who channeled this power vaporized her laboratory. The second created a light that has burned for four hundred years. The third founded a school.

Welcome to the Obsidian Athenaeum—an academy of magic built inside a dead god's skeleton, where students learn spells not from books but from bone-memory, where the walls whisper, the library eats recollections, and the heart below beats once per century on a schedule that is suddenly, catastrophically, wrong.

What You Get
THE SETTING
  • The Fallen Titan & its memory-bone
  • The academy's skeletal architecture
  • The Luminous Grief & student selection
  • GM advice for channeling magic
FIVE LAYERS OF PROBLEMS
  • The Hollow Cohort — students distributed through the walls
  • The Mnemonivore — a library that feeds on memory
  • The Sixth Lumen — forbidden school from the titan's killer
  • The Dreaming Archivist — a student merged with the bone
  • The Second Heart — it is not a heart. It is a seed.
THREE ESCALATING CRISES

1. The Mnemonivore Feeds. The Grand Library begins consuming memories from anyone who passes beneath the skull. Students forget faces. Professors forget spells. The Archdean forgets why he founded the academy—though he remembers how to run it.

2. The Titan Stirs. A student wakes merged with the titan's consciousness. The bones shift. Bridges snap. The lower levels unseal themselves. The heart beats properly for the first time in three millennia.

3. The Confluence. All five problems intersect. The Hollow Cohort becomes a nervous system. The Mnemonivore feeds on it. The sixth school's contamination acts as an immune system. And the titan makes its first conscious decision in three thousand years: it will finish germinating. The party must choose—become part of it, or get out before it finishes growing.

KEY PERSONNEL
  • Orros Caelum — Archdean, sleepless, regrets everything
  • Thessaly Vorn — uploaded consciousness, still trying to preserve
  • Ostian Drell — cheerful historian who forgot his wife's name
  • Ysolde Quarr — alchemist with three scalpels and no patience
  • Velira Cask — distributed through the walls, has not forgiven
  • Torven Yrris — dual-enrolled, hosting something he did not invite
  • Perrin Joss — first-year who hears the whispers
  • Merrin Cael — dreaming the titan's perspective for six months
10 ADVENTURE HOOKS
  • Visiting Scholars, Rescue Mission
  • Artifact Hunters, Exorcists
  • Transfer Students, Consultant Mages
  • Refugees, Rival Institution
  • Dream-Walkers, The Gardener's Agents

Each hook offers different resources, stakes, and perspective on the unfolding catastrophe.

PROCEDURAL TABLES
  • D10 Daily Events — resonance lectures, bone-quakes, whisper surges, refectory incidents
  • D12 Bone-Mutations — side effects of memory-bone exposure: phantom limbs, temporal echoes, appetite shifts, resonance marks
System & Format
SYSTEM-AGNOSTIC
For any fantasy RPG
ZERO PREP
20 pages, ready to run
ADAPTIVE DIFFICULTY
Scales to your party
Why You'll Love This
  • Investigation rewards options. Ignorance rewards catastrophe. Every layer presents clues and a truth that recontextualizes everything above it.
  • Magic as translation, not generation. Spells come through the caster, not from them—creating moments of unexpected power and creeping horror.
  • A living dungeon that is literally alive. The academy shifts, dreams, and grows. The environment is both antagonist and ally.
  • No simple villains. The Archdean bound students into walls out of compassion. The library feeds because it was given no other function. The titan is not evil—it is becoming.
  • 10 distinct entry points let you drop any party into this setting with motives, resources, and emotional stakes already built in.

The Athenaeum is not a school built in a ruin.

It is a nervous system constructed by organisms too small to understand what they were building.

And the titan is nearly ready to wake up.

20 pages. Printable. For any fantasy system. Grab it, read it tonight, run it tomorrow.

ZERO PREP:THE OBSIDIAN ATHENAEUMPrice: $3.00
 W Fraser Sandercombe Presents: Fleeing the Dragon Lair
Posted: Tue, 05 May 15:06:49 CDT
Publisher: Misfit Studios

W Fraser Sandercombe Presents: Fleeing the Dragon Lair

This stock art image by W Fraser Sandercombe depicts a warrior Fleeing the Dragon Lair behind him as the dragon within rises up to defend its treasure horde from the intruder.

This black and white purchase includes one JPG and a TIFF version, both at 300 dpi. Dimensions are 4.5 x 6 inches.

All art files are bundled in a ZIP file.

The Works of W Fraser Sandercombe

W Fraser Sandercombe is a Canadian author, painter, and musician. He prefers to illustrate his own books, sticking to hand inking and oil painting. His ability to shape vivid imagery from negative space makes his art stand out from the crowd.

W Fraser Sandercombe Stock Art License Summary

All stock art is licensed for use in professional publications. W Fraser Sandercombe retains ownership of the work, meaning you cannot resell the art in your own art packs or the like, and may be required to post an artist credit. There are limits regarding how this art may be edited for use.

You must include the artist's copyright statement in all publications using the art under certain terms and conditions. You obtain a license to use the art, but do not own any rights to it beyond that.

W Fraser Sandercombe Presents: Fleeing the Dragon LairPrice: $10.00
 Contract Scenario – Burrow Beneath the Farmstead
Posted: Tue, 05 May 15:00:19 CDT
Publisher: Dungeon Mister

A compact two‑page adventure paired with a full 24×32 battle map of a creekside farmstead undermined by an ankheg burrow.
Designed for 4–6 characters of 2nd level.

Burrow Beneath the Farmstead – Contract Scenario

This Contract Scenario is presented as an official mission issued by the Company, designed for quick deployment into any ongoing campaign.

A small frontier farmstead has been shaken by violent tremors, scorched earth, and livestock dragged away in the night. Beneath the fields lies a winding ankheg burrow system—unstable tunnels, acidic pockets, and feeding chambers carved directly under the family’s land. The creature hunts using spray‑and‑run tactics, emerging from the soil to strike before burrowing again to reposition.

This compact, two‑page Contract Scenario provides a focused, table‑ready mission supported by a full battle map of the farmstead and its subterranean burrow. Designed for quick prep and flexible use, it fits easily into ongoing campaigns or can stand alone as a short, self‑contained excursion for low‑level parties. All creature stat blocks referenced in this brief appear in the Monster Manual.

Included Maps

Burrow Beneath the Farmstead — 24×32

Print Version (300 dpi)
• Full‑resolution JPG
• Gridded and gridless

VTT Version (72 dpi)
• Optimized for Roll20, Foundry, and other platforms
• Gridless
• Color‑accurate and lighting‑balanced for digital play

All maps are exported with your standard professional workflow: consistent pixel density for print and digital use.

What You Get

• Two‑page adventure PDF
• Full battle map (24×32)
• Print‑ready 300 dpi versions
• VTT‑ready 72 dpi versions
• Gridded and gridless files
• Organized folder structure for easy use

Suitable for any fantasy setting.

Contract Scenario – Burrow Beneath the FarmsteadPrice: $2.99
 Temples I: Snake Temple I - Stock Art
Posted: Tue, 05 May 14:55:36 CDT
Publisher: Mavfire Games

Stock Art by Illustrator Del Teigeler

Enhance your tabletop gaming experience with high-quality, professional stock artwork.

Whether you are designing a sleek OSR zine or a massive campaign setting, these Stock Art pieces provide the high-quality visual detail your readers crave. This Bundle focuses on Fantasy Temples meticulously crafted to fit seamlessly into any fantasy layout.

What’s Inside:

This pack contains One unique piece of stock art, including:

  • Snake Cult I: "Itsssss...Ssssso....sssstriking!"

Technical Specs:

  • Format: High-resolution TIFF and transparent PNG
  • Size: 300 DPI (Print Ready).
  • Dimensions: Approximately [e.g., 2000 x 2000] pixels per image.
  • Style: Hand-drawn ink style in the OSR or Shadowdark vein.

License Terms

By purchasing this stock art pack, you (the Licensee) are granted a non-exclusive, royalty-free license for use in commercial and personal projects.

  • Permitted Uses: You may use these images in an unlimited number of commercial publications (print, PDF, or web). You may crop, rotate, resize, or convert to grayscale to fit your layout.
  • Credit Requirement: No royalty is required, but you must credit the artist as: "Some artwork © Del Teigeler used with permission." The trademark “DEL” does not necessarily have to accompany the artwork.
  • Restrictions: You may not resell these images as standalone stock art or include them in other stock art collections.

Why Choose Illustrator Del Teigeler and Mavfire Games Stock Art?

I have worked in the tabletop industry for over 10 years and understand the unique needs of publishers and gamers. I am an active TTRPG creator who understands that publishers need Print-optimized art. Every piece in this pack is designed to look as good on a physical page as it does on a virtual tabletop.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/6551/Mavfire%2BGames

Temples I: Snake Temple I - Stock ArtPrice: $4.00
 Settlements: Three Towers I - Stock Art
Posted: Tue, 05 May 14:52:21 CDT
Publisher: Mavfire Games

Stock Art by Illustrator Del Teigeler

Enhance your tabletop gaming experience with high-quality, professional stock artwork.

Whether you are designing a sleek OSR zine or a massive campaign setting, these Stock Art pieces provide the high-quality visual detail your readers crave. This Bundle focuses on Fantasy Settlements meticulously crafted to fit seamlessly into any fantasy layout.

What’s Inside:

This pack contains Two unique piece of stock art, including:

  • Three Towers I: Tranquility on the rocks! 

Technical Specs:

  • Format: High-resolution TIFF and transparent PNG
  • Size: 300 DPI (Print Ready).
  • Dimensions: Approximately [e.g., 2000 x 2000] pixels per image.
  • Style: Hand-drawn ink style in the OSR or Shadowdark vein.

License Terms

By purchasing this stock art pack, you (the Licensee) are granted a non-exclusive, royalty-free license for use in commercial and personal projects.

  • Permitted Uses: You may use these images in an unlimited number of commercial publications (print, PDF, or web). You may crop, rotate, resize, or convert to grayscale to fit your layout.
  • Credit Requirement: No royalty is required, but you must credit the artist as: "Some artwork © Del Teigeler used with permission." The trademark “DEL” does not necessarily have to accompany the artwork.
  • Restrictions: You may not resell these images as standalone stock art or include them in other stock art collections.

Why Choose Illustrator Del Teigeler and Mavfire Games Stock Art?

I have worked in the tabletop industry for over 10 years and understand the unique needs of publishers and gamers. I am an active TTRPG creator who understands that publishers need Print-optimized art. Every piece in this pack is designed to look as good on a physical page as it does on a virtual tabletop.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/6551/Mavfire%2BGames

Settlements: Three Towers I - Stock ArtPrice: $4.00
 Settlements: Stone Tower I - Stock Art
Posted: Tue, 05 May 14:50:16 CDT
Publisher: Mavfire Games

Stock Art by Illustrator Del Teigeler

Enhance your tabletop gaming experience with high-quality, professional stock artwork.

Whether you are designing a sleek OSR zine or a massive campaign setting, these Stock Art pieces provide the high-quality visual detail your readers crave. This Bundle focuses on Fantasy Settlements meticulously crafted to fit seamlessly into any fantasy layout.

What’s Inside:

This pack contains Two unique piece of stock art, including:

  • Stone Tower I: "Man the Loopholes, the enemy approaches!"

Technical Specs:

  • Format: High-resolution TIFF and transparent PNG
  • Size: 300 DPI (Print Ready).
  • Dimensions: Approximately [e.g., 2000 x 2000] pixels per image.
  • Style: Hand-drawn ink style in the OSR or Shadowdark vein.

License Terms

By purchasing this stock art pack, you (the Licensee) are granted a non-exclusive, royalty-free license for use in commercial and personal projects.

  • Permitted Uses: You may use these images in an unlimited number of commercial publications (print, PDF, or web). You may crop, rotate, resize, or convert to grayscale to fit your layout.
  • Credit Requirement: No royalty is required, but you must credit the artist as: "Some artwork © Del Teigeler used with permission." The trademark “DEL” does not necessarily have to accompany the artwork.
  • Restrictions: You may not resell these images as standalone stock art or include them in other stock art collections.

Why Choose Illustrator Del Teigeler and Mavfire Games Stock Art?

I have worked in the tabletop industry for over 10 years and understand the unique needs of publishers and gamers. I am an active TTRPG creator who understands that publishers need Print-optimized art. Every piece in this pack is designed to look as good on a physical page as it does on a virtual tabletop.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/6551/Mavfire%2BGames

Settlements: Stone Tower I - Stock ArtPrice: $4.00
 A Familiar Tower
Posted: Tue, 05 May 14:34:12 CDT
Publisher: directsun

Escape room adventure for Old-School Essentials in the style of the puzzle box dungeons of The Legend of Zelda series.

It's more than rooms filled with puzzles, the dungeon is the puzzle. Each space teaches players about the unique mechanics of the dungeon or re-contextualizes previous information in new ways. A Familiar Tower delivers challenges that feel natural to its world—mechanics that click into place the moment you discover how they work.

When the wizard's away, the cat will play...

A Familiar Tower is a 40-page staple-bound booklet, half-letter size (5.5" x 8.5"), with minimal colors. Inside you'll find about 13 areas and enough content for 3 to 5 hours of play. Perfect for a one-shot, convention game, or to drop into an existing campaign world.

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Comes with handouts and VTT maps and instructions to... Build your own tower!


Includes optional build assets for top of the table shenanigans.

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Looking for more puzzle dungeons?


Check out The Seers Sanctum

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A Familiar TowerPrice: $10.00
 A Cold Brew - Foundry VTT Module
Posted: Tue, 05 May 14:29:46 CDT
Publisher: Paizo

A Cold Brew

This is a Foundry VTT Module for our FREE adventure A Cold Brew, you can find it here! You need a Foundry VTT license to use this product.

Wrap up warm because your players will have to scale mountains and trudge through knee-high snow (or waist-high if you're a halfling) in this adventure for players of any level, from 1 to 16!

This adventure breaks encounters down by Creature Level and allows you to easily swap enemies if an adventure isn't going your way. Whether it's a bit too easy or way too hard, you can swap enemies out at the drop of a snowflake and keep your game running smoothly.

A Cold Brew has three big encounters, with several enemies to choose from, allowing you to tailer each encounter to your liking, using Pathfinder's encounter building mechanics. You can run this adventure an endless* amount of times and never have the same encounters. There are also some sweet, sweet, loot ideas for you to reward your players with in there too.

*Not actually endless, our math is just really bad. It's a lot.

Files Provided:

  • Maps are provided in Gridded and Gridless formats for your convenience.
  • Handouts are provided in cursive and non-cursive formats for those who struggle with cursive text.
  • A black and white printable PDF is provided with images removed.

Creature Level encounters included in this adventure:

  • 1-16

Also available on DMsGuild for Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition!

To install this module:

Extract the zip file and place the folder inside your FoundryVTT > Data > modules folder. You can access this folder by right clicking the Foundry VTT icon on your task bar!

Make sure that the folder that contains the "assets" and "packs" folders is the folder you place in the data folder, otherwise it wont work. Usually, when you extract a zip file, it places the folder you need in a parent folder with the zip file's name - this is the folder you need to place into the data folder.

If you have any feedback or issues feel free to email us at: DMs [@] HighlanderLabs.com

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A Cold Brew - Foundry VTT ModulePrice: $9.99
 Vincent Delafontaine Presents: Cerberus Stands Guard
Posted: Tue, 05 May 14:23:50 CDT
Publisher: Misfit Studios

Vincent Delafontaine Presents: Cerberus Stands Guard

Vincent Delafontaine Stock Art LogoThis stock art piece by Vincent Delafontaine presents a mortal petitioner daring the underworld where Cerberus Stands Guard as the souls of the deceased and damned fly about.

This image is presented at 17 x 11 inches in size. It is ideally sized for a wrapping cover

This color purchase includes one JPG and one TIFF version, each at 300 dpi.

All art files are bundled in a ZIP file.

Who is Vincent Delafontaine?

Vincent Delafontaine is a freelance illustrator based in France, specializing in fantasy and science fiction. He primarily creates illustrations for role-playing games and board games.

Vincent Delafontaine Stock Art License Summary

All stock art is licensed for use in professional publications. Vincent Delafontaine retains ownership of the work, meaning you cannot resell the art in your own art packs or the like, and may be required to post an artist credit. There are limits regarding how this art may be edited for use.

You must include the artist's copyright statement in all publications using the art under certain terms and conditions. You obtain a license to use the art, but do not own any rights to it beyond that.

Vincent Delafontaine Presents: Cerberus Stands GuardPrice: $50.00
 BARDIC ROYALTY AND ARCANE PERFORMANCE AGREEMENT
Posted: Tue, 05 May 13:46:54 CDT
Publisher: The Department of Magical Affairs

Bring some realism and frustration to your table with this bardic royalties contract. Watch as your players squirm and physically groan as you pull up 7 pages of bureaucractic legalese gobbledy-gook!

Even better, this contract is specifically set up to give them the least amount of compensation possible. Perfect for players you just cannot stand as a DM!

BARDIC ROYALTY AND ARCANE PERFORMANCE AGREEMENTPrice: $4.99