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The Bardess’ Library is an anthology of material from Margherita “Bardess” Tramontano’s blog Bardess’ Pathfinder Place and her Patreon page. Every month, you will find new selected, revised, and fleshed out stuff for Pathfinder 1E but not only! Join Margherita's Bardess' Pathfinder Place Patreon to get brand-new Pathfinder Roleplaying Game rules and more coming to you three times per week plus other amazing benefits or just pick up this monthly magazine to get 36 pages of rules, creatures, treasures, magic, and more to Make Your Game Legendary!

The Vile Eyes orcs are the foulest of the foulest. Degenerate, depraved worshippers of an ancient demon, they are hated and reviled by even their own brethren. Now that their foul, hidden lair has been found, who is brave enough to put an end to the tribe’s threat once and for all?

Against the Vile Eyes is a short dungeon adventure designed for four to five 5th-level characters. Nominally set in the Duchy of Ashlar to the south of the town of Dunstone, the adventure can be placed in any hilly, wooded area beset by savage orcs.

Using this Adventure

Against the Vile Eyes is nominally set in the hills to the south of Dunstone—the so-called Town on the Borderlands—which stands in the northwestern corner of the Duchy of Ashlar. However, with a small amount of work, the adventure can be set in virtually any hill range, wooded hills, or a mountain range's foothills. Likewise, Dunstone can be substituted for almost any town or city.

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COMPLETE CRISIS ENGINE

A System-Neutral Engine for Meaningful, Escalating ConflictCOMPLETE CRISIS ENGINE

Stop improvising isolated problems. Start running crises that reshape the world.

Complete Crisis Engine is a modular, system-neutral framework for designing, escalating, and resolving high-stakes crises in any roleplaying game. This is not a random event table. It is a structural tool for building pressure, forcing decisions, and ensuring consequences matter.

Every crisis becomes dynamic.
Every decision carries cost.
Every resolution changes the setting.

Built Around Stakes, Pressure, and Consequence

At its core, the Engine breaks crisis design into interconnected components:

• Primary Stake – What can be lost: lives, legitimacy, infrastructure, territory, reputation, critical resourcesCOMPLETE CRISIS ENGINE

• Who Is Responsible (or Blamed) – The actor, scapegoat, institution, or hidden force driving the narrativeCOMPLETE CRISIS ENGINE

• Time Pressure (The Clock) – When delay hardens outcomesCOMPLETE CRISIS ENGINE

• Public Reaction – How society responds under stressCOMPLETE CRISIS ENGINE

• Authority Response – Cooperation, crackdown, collapse, or manipulationCOMPLETE CRISIS ENGINE

• Immediate Complications – Escalation when momentum stallsCOMPLETE CRISIS ENGINE

• What the Crisis Wants – How the situation pushes the PCs into difficult choicesCOMPLETE CRISIS ENGINE

• Cost of Intervention – The price of success COMPLETE CRISIS ENGINE

• If the PCs Ignore It – How the world hardens without them COMPLETE CRISIS ENGINE

This structure ensures that crises do not “reset” after resolution. They transform the campaign landscape.

crynoptica is a haunting journey into the wreckage of Umwelt where lost souls brave the tower of black glass, the lone surviving megastructure in a long-dead city. Fueled by desperation and hope, players navigate treacherous terrain, confront ancient horrors, and unravel the mysteries of a world ravaged by time and conflict.  

Exquisitely cast glass sculptures greet the lost souls ascending the tower, each depicted in a moment of fierce action.  The red light of the eclipse refracts through their triumphant features into dazzling patterns that shift and dance up the walls and into the shadows overhead.  Silhouettes drift through the light, mimicking the shifting patter, always just out of reach.  Perhaps it's merely the mirage, but they seem as if they beckon the lost souls further up the tower towards some unknown end.

Issue 10 of crynoptica contains a level of the tower of black glass, a wasteland ruin to discover, as well as supplementary rules, lore, monsters, and NPCs for your game.  The core rules can be found in issue 1 or the crynoptica Omnibus.

🌿 Roots of Ruin

Cities Swallowed by Nature

18 Modern Overgrown Urban Battlemaps

Civilization has fallen.

Concrete has cracked.
Steel has rusted.
The wild has returned.

Roots of Ruin: Cities Swallowed by Nature is a complete 18-map battlemap bundle featuring modern urban environments reclaimed by nature. Perfect for post-apocalyptic campaigns, modern survival horror, environmental collapse settings, or near-future urban exploration adventures.

From flooded streets to abandoned hospitals, from moss-covered office towers to malls torn open by massive trees — every map tells a story of a world where nature has won.

🗺️ Included Battlemaps (18 Total)

• Apartment Block Hallway with Roots

• Botanical Research Lab Run Wild

• Cracked Highway with Tree Breakthrough

• Flooded Cul-de-Sac

• Flooded Underpass with Lily Pads

• Gas Station Overgrown and Rusted

• Grocery Store Reclaimed by Nature

• Hospital Wing Reclaimed by Nature

• Library with Sunlight Through Broken Ceiling

• Mall Atrium with Tree Through Ceiling

• Office Tower Floor with Moss Carpets

• Overgrown Downtown Street

• Parking Garage with Hanging Ivy

• Power Station Overtaken by Vegetation

• Railway Line Taken by Vines

• Rooftop Garden Gone Wild

• School Hallway with Ivy-Covered Lockers

• Suburban Home Interior Roof Collapsed

🎲 Designed For

✔ Post-apocalyptic campaigns
✔ Modern zombie outbreaks
✔ Survival exploration
✔ Environmental disaster settings
✔ Urban horror adventures
✔ Scavenging encounters
✔ Near-future collapse scenarios

🌱 What Makes This Bundle Stand Out

• True top-down tactical design

• Fully gridded for immediate play

• High-detail environmental storytelling

• VTT and print-ready

• Consistent visual style across all maps

Each location is crafted to feel abandoned, reclaimed, and dangerous — giving your players not just a battlefield, but a narrative space.

The roots have broken through.
The skylines have fallen.
The wild has returned.

Bring your campaign into a world reclaimed by nature.

Open the Vault!...

Introducing an update to our campaign setting for Maela for Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition.

When the vault is cracked, everyone grabs what they can! This tome includes 5e updates to Maela's treasures as well as many new additions to the vault. Check out the table of contents & prepare to get your hands on 18 new species, new weapons & armor including modifications & special materials, new alchemical items & poisons, over 240 new magic items, 31 new spells, whole new types of magic, over 250 new monsters, 17 advanced NPCs, and more!

This campaign setting supplement provides updates & new content for the Legacy of Maela campaign world.

Please note that Legacy of Maela items contain No AI Content! All materials are handmade through a combination of mental power, full engagement of imagination, & tapping into the wellspring of human creativity!

Enjoy!

All communication has been lost at the Fort Knox Gold Repository, what's happening there?  And who is that guy with the tail?  Your heroes head to this historical place, but this time there's no Odd Job.  Check out this classic rebuilt and updated to modern gaming!

Includes PDF and Hero Designer Files

Bloody, Bloody Murders

Hope dies in the borderlands when a dozen people, all noted for their good works, turn up dead. From pious priests to community leaders, they met grisly ends—cut throats, poisonings, and knives between the ribs. In light of this assault against goodness and dignity, the area’s surviving bright lights turn to the best heroes in the land to unmask the villains and bring them to justice. 

In From Hell’s Heart, the characters locate the culprits but must delve deep into the heart of darkness to avenge the fallen. Written for a group of characters in the master tier, this quest presents difficulties and dangers aplenty—and villains dancing on strings held by a diabolical foe. You need copies of Shadow of the Weird Wizard and Secrets of the Weird Wizard to enjoy this scenario.