Everyone loves a party, and there’s always one going on somewhere. Across worlds, communities find reasons to gather —to remember, rejoice, honor, mourn, or just to have fun. These fests often seize the entire world at once, drawing crowds from orbit to outback, sometimes creating headaches for star crews simply trying to refuel or depart quietly. For the harried Referee, creating unique celebrations for dozens of different worlds can be a problem. But Quick Celebrations is here to help. Using 2D6 and the included tables, the Referee can create in minutes a festival’s theme, tone, frequency, duration, typical celebrants, included rituals and events, and even the start time. A living, breathing, cargo hold of fun the PCs will remember long after they’ve left the world.

And Refs of other genres or even other RPG systems need not miss out on the merriment —  although created for Cepheus Engine and the Original Science Fiction Roleplaying Game, the information is generic enough that adapting the results only takes a few extra minutes.

Quick Celebrations. Let’s all celebrate and have a good time…

Legends of Thaloranth: Domains of Valor

Build More Than Characters. Build a Legacy.

Adventurers don’t stay wanderers forever.

Domains of Valor introduces a powerful new layer of play for Legends of Thaloranth, transforming parties from roaming problem-solvers into stakeholders in the world itself. Inns, workshops, farms, theaters, libraries, caravans, ships, and elite holdings become more than scenery — they become player-owned domains that generate income, shape stories, and anchor campaigns in lasting consequence.

This book is about ownership, influence, and permanence.

Rather than abstract wealth or temporary rewards, Domains of Valor gives players tangible investments that grow over time. Domains generate Wealth Points, unlock upgrades, attract allies and rivals, and create natural story hooks that evolve alongside your campaign. A workshop becomes known for its craftsmanship. An inn becomes an information hub. A theater becomes a political powder keg. A trade ship turns every journey into a calculated risk.

Domains are never passive assets. They demand decisions, cooperation, and responsibility — and they reward parties who think beyond the next adventure.

Inside this book, you’ll find:

• A complete domain system using Wealth Points, income, upgrades, and shared ownership

• Rules for pooling resources, ensuring domains are collaborative achievements, not solo exploits

• A wide range of domain types, from rural holdings to elite institutions and transportation networks

• Upgrade paths that reflect growth, reputation, and specialization

• Patronage and faction integration, tying domains to orders, nobles, guilds, and power structures

• Threats, complications, and opportunities that turn ownership into ongoing narrative fuel

• Game Master guidance for weaving domains seamlessly into any campaign style

Domains of Valor is not about bookkeeping for its own sake. It’s about giving weight to success, grounding characters in the world, and letting the campaign grow outward from the places the players choose to claim.

When adventurers stop asking “What’s the next quest?”
and start asking “What have we built?”
that’s when legends are forged.

This book is ideal for:

• Campaigns that value long-term consequences

• Groups who enjoy collaboration and shared goals

• GMs who want organic story engines instead of scripted hooks

• Players ready to move beyond loot and into legacy

Legends of Thaloranth: Domains of Valor turns locations into investments, investments into influence, and influence into stories that last.

The Anvil Choir is an Expert Trial for Ash & Oath, written for Tempered characters of Level 5 and above.

Beneath the cathedral-city of Homengrad, a Choir has sung without pause for a thousand years. Its hymns bind faith, memory, and Spark into unbroken harmony — but the song is failing. The stone hums with fatigue, devotion fractures into echoes, and even silence begins to remember.

This Trial concludes the Keeper’s Anvil cycle, challenging the Tempered to decide what faith is worth preserving when belief itself has become a machine. Through resonance, memory, and moral weight, the party must choose whether the world should continue singing — or finally be allowed to rest.

Inside this adventure you will find:
• A full Expert-tier Trial designed for Level 5+ play
• Advanced Resonance mechanics tracking harmony and dissonance
• Cross-Trial continuity shaped by earlier Ash & Oath adventures
• New creatures and divine echoes bound to sound and memory
• A climactic confrontation with the Choir Prime
• Multiple endings that redefine faith, silence, and legacy
• Separate Keeper and Player maps

The Mercy Machine is a Trial Adventure for Ash & Oath, written for Tempered characters of Levels 3–4.

In the industrial city of Lazgaron, mercy has been mechanized. Spark-fed factories promise peace, efficiency, and the end of suffering — but only by stripping emotion, choice, and dissent from the people they serve.

This Trial sends the Tempered into the heart of an iron cathedral where compassion and control are treated as interchangeable variables. Every Spark spent, every life aided or ignored, and every system repaired or overridden is recorded in the Keeper’s Ledger, shaping the fate of the city itself.

Inside this adventure you will find:
• A complete six-room Trial set in an industrial Spark forge-city
• Strong integration with the Keeper’s Ledger, Favor, and Forsaken systems
• Moral choices that directly alter encounters and the final confrontation
• New foes, including inquisitors, automatons, and the Voice of the Mercy Machine
• Extensive Keeper guidance for tracking consequence and ethical drift
• Separate Keeper and Player maps

The Mercy Machine is Module 1C in the Keeper’s Anvil Collection and can be run as a standalone Trial or as part of an ongoing Ash & Oath campaign.

The Faith That Burns is a one-shot Trial Adventure for Ash & Oath, written for Tempered characters of Levels 1–2.

In the village of Beggars, faith has become a weapon. Inquisitors rule by flame and scripture, miracles are punished as heresy, and a once-sacred Durakken teaching forge now bleeds corrupted Spark beneath the chapel.

This Trial confronts players with fanaticism, restraint, and the cost of belief. The Tempered must decide whether to temper the flame, claim its power, or burn it out entirely — knowing that each choice reshapes the world that remembers them.

Inside this adventure you will find:
• A complete one-shot Trial suitable for 4–6 players
• A branching Durakken ruin designed around moral choice and restraint
• Multiple resolutions that permanently affect Beggars and La’Tovnia
• New creatures, including corrupted Durakken constructs and inquisitors
• Keeper guidance for tone, Favor/Forsaken drift, and Spark consequences
• Separate Keeper and Player maps

The Faith That Burns is part of the Keeper’s Trials, Volume I, and is fully compatible with Ash & Oath v1.4.

The Toymaker’s Wake is a holiday-themed Shadowdark one-shot for levels 1–3.

Philo Hill crafted toys with patience, care, and love. His rival, Teagan Doyle, did not. Now Philo’s shop stands locked and dark, its shelves crowded with animated dolls, toy soldiers enforcing order, and misfit creations watching from the shadows. Letters from children lie unanswered and gifts remain unrepaired and undelivered.

The Toymaker’s Wake includes:

• A multi-level toyshop dungeon with GM & player maps
• New animated toy monsters and misfit allies
• A morally charged finale with multiple endings
• Scaling guidance for levels 4–6
• A kid-friendly mode that preserves tension without death

Dark and unsettling, The Toymaker’s Wake questions what happens when care is replaced by control, and dares to ask: “Can all things broken can be mended?” 

Crafted for Shadowdark, easily dropped into any OSR or classic-style fantasy game.

The Chattering Mines is a Trial Adventure for Ash & Oath, designed for Tempered characters of Levels 2–3.

Beneath the southern hills of Croix lies a sealed silver mine where sound carries memory and echoes do not fade. When miners vanish and the lift begins to move on its own, the Adventurers’ Guild calls upon the Tempered to descend and confront what the earth refuses to forget.

This Trial is built as a living narrative environment of six chambers, testing endurance, restraint, and remembrance rather than simple combat. The mine reacts to noise, silence, mercy, and greed, shaping its dangers in response to player behavior.

Inside this adventure you will find:
• A complete six-room dungeon with strong narrative identity
• Keeper-facing guidance for tone, pacing, and moral consequence
• Dynamic echo-based hazards and environmental reactions
• A climactic encounter that tests memory, identity, and mercy
• Separate Keeper and Player maps

This bundle contains the complete core library for Ash & Oath, an original dark fantasy tabletop roleplaying system built on consequence, endurance, and the Living Forge.

Included in this bundle:
• The Temperer’s Tome – Player’s Handbook
• The Keeper’s Forge – Game Master’s Guide
• The Forge’s Menagerie, Vol. I: Stone & Soil – Core Monster Guide

Together, these volumes provide everything needed to play and run Ash & Oath: character creation, core mechanics, world guidance, creatures, encounters, and the moral weight that defines the world of Athenial.

This bundle is intended for players and Keepers who want the full Ash & Oath experience in one complete collection.

	The Forge’s Menagerie, Vol. I: Stone & Soil (Ash & Oath RPG) Regular price: 0 Bundle price: 0 Format: PDF	Inside this volume you will find biome-driven creature design, encounter tables, and narrative guidance that treats monsters as moral instruments rather than disposable threats. Each creature is bound to the Living Forge — testing restraint, faith, corruption, and survival through play. This book is written for Keepers running Ash & Oath and is designed to integrate directly with The Temperer’s Tome and The Keeper’s Forge....
	The Keeper’s Forge – Game Master’s Guide (Ash & Oath RPG) Regular price: 0 Bundle price: 0 Format: PDF	The Keeper’s Forge is the Game Master’s Guide for Ash & Oath, an original dark fantasy tabletop roleplaying system set in the world of Athenial, where faith, consequence, economy, and endurance shape every story. This volume equips the Keeper with the tools needed to run Ash & Oath at the table: divine economy, guild systems, relics, faction politics, downtime, trade, corruption, and narrative consequence. The Keeper’s Forge focuses on how the world responds—how faith becomes administration, how miracles create debt, how guilds replace gods, and how every choice leaves a mark in the ledger of Athenial....
	The Temperer’s Tome – Player’s Handbook (Ash & Oath RPG) Regular price: 0 Bundle price: 0 Format: PDF	The Temperer’s Tome is the Player’s Handbook for Ash & Oath, an original dark fantasy tabletop roleplaying system built on endurance, consequence, oaths, and mythic survival. What This Book Is This book contains everything players need to create characters, understand the world of Athenial, and engage with the core mechanics of Ash & Oath. Inside You’ll Find Complete character creation rules Lineages, paths, and player-facing mechanics Core systems for survival, combat, tempering, and advancement The world, tone, and philosophy that define Ash & Oath Rules designed for meaningful choice and lasting consequence What You Need to Play A Game Master using The Keeper’s Forge is recommended for full play, but The Temperer’s Tome is the primary entry point for pla...

Inside this volume you will find biome-driven creature design, encounter tables, and narrative guidance that treats monsters as moral instruments rather than disposable threats. Each creature is bound to the Living Forge — testing restraint, faith, corruption, and survival through play.

This book is written for Keepers running Ash & Oath and is designed to integrate directly with The Temperer’s Tome and The Keeper’s Forge.