Dead Man’s Hand: The Mountain Man

A Frontier Life Expansion of Solitude, Signs, and Quiet Belonging

The mountains shaped him.
The valley is trying to heal him.
Between the two lies a story only you can tell.

The Mountain Man brings a new, deeply atmospheric role to the Dead Man’s Hand: Frontier Life series — a quiet wanderer living between the high country and Early Lantoen, guided not by mysticism but by hard-earned instinct, silence, and the language of the land itself.

This is frontier storytelling at its softest, warmest, and most introspective.

What’s Inside

• A full narrative role for solo players looking for grounded emotional depth

• Daily survival and solitude routines built for immersive slice-of-life play

• The Backwoods Oracle system — an omen engine based entirely on natural signs

• A rich cast of valley personalities and the bonds you slowly form with them

• The Mountain Man’s story loop, a gentle six-part cycle for long-form play

• Quiet arcs of healing, belonging, protecting, and wandering

• Solo tables for signs, omens, complications, social weather, regrets, and endings

• A fully realized western world told at human scale

There are no gunfights here.
No outlaws to chase.
No badges.
No high drama.

Just a man, a valley, the mountains that made him, and the slow, tender work of finding a place to belong.

Whether he stays… or slips away before dawn…
that’s your story to write.

Are you ready to campaign in fantastical Exandria? And adventure with superheroes in alternate dimensions? Look no further! 
 
In Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins Beau and Caleb get a tip that an individual they are in search of is meeting at the Taste of Tal'Dorei in Bassuras. When they arrive, the pair are surprised to be treated to some dinner theater and decor themed around a legendary band of adventurers from the area. They get entranced by the story, even experiencing it themselves, only to be interrupted by some interesting new faces entering the restaurant...
 
And in “Black Hammer: To Tomorrow!” Colonel Weird takes a jaunt through the ages, passing old friends and foes along the way. From the very beginning when pulp heroes stalked the street, all the way through the Golden Age of heroes, the fall of Black Hammer, and the rise of a new set of heroes. A look at the past and potential future of Black Hammer!

A Festive Horror One-Shot for 2 to 6 Players + Keeper

Something is leaving severed heads wearing Santa hats all over Slope’s End.

The police think it’s a deranged killer.
Witnesses swear they saw a flying, snake-necked dinosaur.
And the mayor insists the case must be solved before his perfect Christmas tourist season is ruined.

Your team is the town’s last hope.

A Holiday Getaway You Won’t Survive… Unless You Can Stop the Monster

Slope’s End calls itself The Ultimate Christmas Getaway, a picture-perfect ski retreat famous for its holiday markets, festive lights and postcard charm.

But this year, the snow is red.

The heroes are hired to investigate the brutal murders threatening to shut down the town’s Christmas celebrations for good. What they uncover is far stranger (and more dangerous) than any serial killer:

A hydra, hatched from a mysterious parcel, raised in secret by a devoted and increasingly unstable farmer, now leaving offerings of heads around town, each adorned with a jaunty Santa hat in an attempt to attract a mate.

If the hydra succeeds, her clutch of eggs will be fertilised.

And Slope’s End won’t just lose its holiday spirit, it’ll be overrun.

A Gruesomely Fun, Festive Horror One-Shot

Have a Merry Decapitated Christmas! is a modern urban-fantasy horror adventure perfect for fans of Supernatural, Wednesday, Twin Peaks, Little Shop of Horrors and Gremlins.

Designed for Monster of the Week but easy to adapt to any modern TTRPG system, this one-shot provides GMs with everything they need to run a tight, creepy, blood-spattered adventure wrapped in sparkling tinsel.

This fully-loaded module includes:

What’s Inside

• In-depth GM story breakdown
  Everything you need to run the mystery, from initial hooks to the showdown in the abandoned funhouse.

• 20+ pages of game beats & encounter guidance
  Dialogue prompts, NPC motivations, scene goals and a clear mystery arc make running this adventure effortless.

• 7 Locations packed with clues

• 5 NPCs with depth, dialogue & secrets

• A terrifying new take on the Hydra including:

  • Complete stat block

  • Attacks, abilities & weaknesses

  • Behaviour patterns

  • Breeding instincts that drive the plot

• Map Handouts

• Optional campaign extension

Game Tropes

• New monster

• Flying creature

• Urban horror

• Abandoned theme park lair

• Modern fantasy mystery

• Holiday horror

• Monster of the Week one-shot

• Christmas

• Santa

Possible Triggers

• Decapitation

• Snake-like creatures

• Chemical burns

• Body horror

• Holiday themes mixed with gore

Why You’ll Love It

This module gives Keepers everything they need to deliver:

• A tightly paced holiday horror investigation

• Memorable NPCs with complex motivations

• A terrifying monster that grows more dangerous mid-combat

• A dramatic and deadly final confrontation

• A mystery full of red herrings, emotional tension and twisted Christmas cheer

Whether you’re looking for a festive one-shot for your game group or a seasonal convention game, this adventure is sure to deliver laughs, screams and unforgettable holiday chaos.

Cresting Hills Chronicles: Blood & Vintage

A Mystery of Wine, Secrets, and Betrayal

The Cresting Hills are famed for their rolling vineyards, storied estates, and vintages whispered about in noble circles. Prestige here is cultivated carefully—and guarded ruthlessly.

When investigator Thane Crosswind is invited to Thornwick Estate for what appears to be a quiet evening gathering, he knows better than to trust appearances. His instincts prove right. A legendary cask—the last surviving barrel of a historic vintage—has vanished, and its disappearance threatens to ignite old rivalries throughout the region. In the Cresting Hills, wine is more than a luxury; it is lineage, politics, and power.

Setting foot among nobles whose smiles hide sharper weapons than their dueling blades, Thane finds himself navigating whispered grudges, generational feuds, and secrets steeped deep as old roots in the soil. Every guest knows something they won’t say. Every family has something they must protect. And every trail through the vineyards twists toward a truth stained with jealousy, legacy, and quiet desperation.

Blood & Vintage blends refined intrigue with atmospheric suspense, opening the Cresting Hills Chronicles—a character-driven mystery series set within the world of Vaeloraranth.

Perfect for readers who enjoy:
✔ Courtly intrigue and subtle danger
✔ Vineyard noir
✔ Character-heavy mysteries
✔ Secrets aging just long enough to turn poisonous

In the Cresting Hills, even silence ferments.

The Leader’s Path: Cohorts, Followers & Influence in Legends of Thaloranth
Free rules expansion for Legends of Thaloranth

Not every hero walks into danger alone.

In a world as lethal as Thaloranth, the smartest characters don’t just sharpen their own steel—they gather people willing to stand beside them. The Leader’s Path shines a spotlight on the Leadership skill and shows you how to turn one fragile adventurer into the heart of a small expedition.

This short, system-focused supplement is perfect for both group play and solo campaigns, and makes it easy to bring cohorts, followers, retinues, and warbands into your Legends of Thaloranth stories.

What’s Inside

• Leadership Overview
  A clear breakdown of the Leadership skill, its Sub-Skills, and Specializations, all tied to the Social stat.

• Cohorts & Followers Explained
  How to gain a loyal cohort at 6 points in Leadership, how many followers you command (Leadership × 5), and what they actually do at the table.

• Difficulty Benchmarks
  Easy, Moderate, Challenging, and Difficult DC guidelines for:

  • Inspiring Allies

  • Commanding Followers

  • Strategic Decision-Making

• Quick Follower Generators
  Short d6 tables to instantly answer:

  • Why did this follower join you?

  • What are they actually good at?

  • What’s their flaw or fear?

  • What strengthens or weakens their loyalty?

• Expedition Mode
  Guidance for using followers to turn a small party into a full expedition—with torchbearers, porters, guards, and camp watchers—without drowning in bookkeeping.

• Legacy Rule: Cohorts as Successors
  An optional “Cohorts as Successors” rule: when a Leader falls, their cohort can step forward as the next player character, carrying their banner—and their story—into the next chapter.

• Adventure Seed: “The Broken March”
  A ready-to-use story hook where desperate farmhands from The Run beg you to lead them through Trogmar-haunted wheatfields. One may become your cohort—if they survive.

How to Use This PDF

• Drop it alongside your Legends of Thaloranth Player’s Guide as a quick reference.

• Use it in solo play to give your character a living support cast instead of faceless “hirelings.”

• Add it to your AP / Zones / Wealth / Domains freebies as part of a “Core Concepts of LoT” bundle.

• Hand it to new players who want to play commanders, nobles, captains, guild leaders, or charismatic troublemakers.

Unmask the Night. Strike from the Shadows. Face Evil Alone.

Loner: Pulp Heroes is a thrilling expansion for Loner: Pulp Adventures, plunging you into the shadow-drenched alleys and smoke-choked cities of the 1930s, where masked vigilantes and grim antiheroes fight for justice with ruthless resolve. Inspired by icons like The Shadow, The Spider, and The Avenger, this supplement transforms your solo experience into a relentless war against crime, corruption, and eldritch menace.

Inside you'll find:

• Hero Archetypes tailored to pulp vigilantes: The Cloaked Avenger, The Vengeful Sleuth, The Merciless Mentalist, and more.

• New Mechanics for secret identities, terror-based intimidation, and pulp-style justice.

• Expanded Oracles for grim investigations, double-crosses, moral dilemmas, and dramatic monologues.

• Gear and Gadgets ripped from the pulps: smoke bombs, trench knives, truth serums, and death-defying disguises.

• Enemy Factions like criminal masterminds, insane cults, rogue industrialists, and corrupt city officials.

• Dark City Toolkit to generate your own noirish metropolis, complete with radio towers, zeppelins, and backroom conspiracies.

You don't save the world. You haunt it.
You don't ask questions. You know the answers.
You're not a hero. You're justice with a gun.

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This work is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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For millenia, the Earth has carried a fiercely guarded secret: human beings are not the only intelligent species
roaming its surface. Moreover, not only is it not the only one, but it’s neither the first nor the brightest... because
that place belongs to cats! Forget everything you’ve learned in history books and think you know about cats, and
discover the greatest secret of all.
Cats ! The Conspurracy is a complete tabletop roleplaying game. You play « awakened » cats with great psychic
powers, whose ancestors created mankind ! And your mission is to protect « the Conspurracy », the veil cast over
human reality in order to make them think cats are only pets.
To play, you only need this book and a few sheets of paper, pencils and five ten‑sided dice.
This book contains :
• A short story introducing the setting of Cats! The Conspurracy.
• All the rules you need to play, including character creation with 16 breeds of cats, as well as humans and bastets
(the spirit of a cat trapped forever in a human body).
• A description of the various feline organizations, factions and lineages.
• 3 Councils (Paris, Plymouth and Los Angeles) who may employ the characters.
• An overview of the cat lifestyle and the history of cat civilization.
• A collection of antagonists and adversaries.
• Tips for playing as cats and have fun.
• 8 stand alone adventures.

A SCREEN TO COVER THE CONSPURRACY

• Perfect expansion to the Cats! The Conspurracy rulebook, the GM Screen contains all the tables needed by the GM during the game: Ability and skill-based resolutions, combat rules, weapons, injuries, difficulty levels, levels of success, talent lists and much more!
• This pack also includes a 32-page booklet containing Da Vinci Cat, an adventure in which the agents of the Paris Council head to Venice for a frantic race against the Rosicrucians! Will they be able to bring back the stolen Mona Lisa painting?

This deck contains 32 high-quality Favor Cards to be used with Cats! The Conspurracy the roleplaying game.

Each card represents a favor owed to a cat and describes an effect that can be used during game.

First collection of scenarios for the role-playing game Cats! The Conspurracy, Paws and Effect: the Tail continues will set your players' whiskers twitching. It’s up to them to step into the shoes of agents of the Paris Council to save the world!
Well, almost ... For now, it’s more about charming little corners of France… feline blunders are hiding everywhere!
This booklet contains four scenarios to sharpen your players' claws:
• LARPing Litterbugs propels them into a medieval live-action setting where they must destroy compromising evidence for the Conspurracy.
• The Forest of Spirits pits a group of young green guerrillas against a squad of riot police in a standoff over the defense of a forest. Our cats in all of this? Said forest is their territory!
• Zombies Apawcalypse transforms your cats into real movie stars! This is, once again, about eliminating dangerous images. Not an easy feat when the set is infested with zombies!
• The Boogeyman blends mystery and action in a tiny, remote village: a strange creature prowls the night, preying on the local farmers...
To play the adventures in this collection, you just need Cats! The Conspurracy rulebook, a few dice, a pencil and your imagination!

The best copper seller Space Cowboy's Arsenal is back for Starfinder 2nd Edition! All 13 weapons from the original supplement have been updated for 2e, along with 17 brand new weapons to kit out any space cowboy you can think of!

A certain type of adventurer resides in the vast frontiers of space - wayfarers and drifters, hunters whose next meal rides on their cunning, their aim, and the price on their bounty's head. They carve out their existence beyond the fringes of civilization; the easy life is as alien to them as another man's gun, and just as fickle. They prefer the unpredictable and uncharted, far from prying eyes and folks what ask too many questions. Never tied to one place, these vagabonds stay strange and savvy, doing what they can to keep alive. When the galaxy needs a job done, they call for the rough and tumble Space Cowboy.

This Book Contains:

- 30 brand new cowboy themed weapons, from the Plasma Revolver to the Road Doshko!

- Two new weapon traits. Coach weapons are particularly suited for vehicular combat, and ricochet weapons bounce between targets!

- Information about a frontier planet known for cattle drives and gun dueling known as New Rimica

Have you played your fair share of boring characters? Never fear! Awesome Ancestries are here to provide new, intriguing possibilities for your game.

In this installment, we look at 6 new character species for the Pathfinder 1E Roleplaying Game, inspired by long-lost ancestry concepts from the past.

These complex and unusual ancestries are sure to intrigue and delight your players, whether used as new PC options, or introduced as NPCs with unique flavor and abilities.

You'll find the following new species:

• Dwelghar -- brutal, larger cousins to dwarves who vie for survival in the wastelands (12 RP)
• Geminon -- unique humanoids whose souls and minds inhabit two bodies instead of one (17 RP)
• Harmonian -- native outsiders born from magic itself, who can combine magical resonances for unique effects (13 RP)
• Mongrelfolk -- humanoids of mixed ancestry who draw varied abilities from their heritage (12 RP)
• Shivaanti -- ancient and wise plant-folk who gain sustenance from sunshine (13 RP)
• Zwimbanni -- desert-dwelling humanoids who can swim through sand like it was water (12 RP)

Each new species comes with a full description, including alternative species traits, favored class bonuses, new feats, and more!

• This supplement is for the Pathfinder 1E Roleplaying Game.