THE NAVE: Complete Location Module

A comprehensive resource for running sessions in the Cathedral's beating heart where democracy is violent, authority is negotiated, and survival requires community.

WELCOME TO THE NAVE

The Nave soars thirty meters high like a ruined cathedral—the Cathedral's political and social center where the Council of Captains meets, markets appear and vanish, and the fragile community holds itself together through mutual need. Once the central operations hub coordinating an entire processing facility, it now serves as town square, marketplace, meeting hall, and the closest thing to government the Cathedral has.

This is where deals are witnessed, disputes are settled, executions remind everyone that freedom has rules, and the station's desperate society proves daily that civilization can exist without central authority. The acoustics are spectacular. The politics are brutal. The stakes are survival.

WHAT'S INSIDE THIS COMPLETE MODULE:

Design & Layout (Module 01)

• Complete overview of the Nave's structure and social dynamics
• 12+ detailed locations: Main Floor, Council Dais, Catwalks, Gallery observation ring, Market Corners, Undercroft, Archive Wall, meditation spaces
• Atmospheric details: cathedral acoustics where whispers carry, dramatic lighting through viewport windows, crowds and solitude
• Council of Captains mechanics and operational notes
• Notable features like The Echo (where sound behaves impossibly), The Blood Mark (execution stain that spreads), Memorial Candles (that never go out)

NPCs (Module 02)

• 50 fully-developed characters with motivations, connections, and secrets
• Council of Captains members representing major factions
• 16+ NPCs appearing in both The Nave and The Docking Cradles for seamless cross-location integration
• Extended families (Volkov, Hassan, Cross, Melnyk) creating interconnected storylines
• Market vendors, religious leaders, youth organizers, criminals, and wildcards
• Each NPC connected to others through family, faction, or conflict

Rumors (Module 03)

• 100 rumors mixing political intrigue, family drama, and existential threats
• Heavy cross-location integration with The Docking Cradles
• Categories: Council Politics, Crime, Religious Conflict, Family Secrets, External Threats, Mysteries
• Investigation hooks connecting to adventure seeds
• References to extended families and factional conflicts
• Table format for easy random selection

Encounter Tables (Module 04)

• 200+ dynamic encounters across six distinct areas
• Main Floor (100 encounters): public gatherings, market days, Council sessions, violence erupting
• Council Dais (20): political maneuvering, assassinations, challenges to authority
• Catwalks (20): surveillance, romance, structural failures, sniper positions
• Gallery (20): contemplation, suicide watches, external threats visible
• Market Corners (20): commerce, exploitation, cultural exchange
• Undercroft (20): hidden dealings, forgotten people, dangerous discoveries

Adventure Seeds (Module 05)

• 25 fully-developed adventure hooks ready to run
• Each includes: initial hook, potential developments, involved NPCs, difficulty, tone
• Strong emphasis on moral complexity and impossible choices
• Categories: Council Politics, Crime & Corruption, Labor Organization, Religious Conflict, Family Drama, Mysteries, External Threats
• Cross-location plots involving characters from The Docking Cradles
• Campaign finale options that reshape the Cathedral permanently

CONNECTIONS TO THE DOCKING CRADLES:

This module is designed to work seamlessly with The Docking Cradles (sold separately). Sixteen major NPCs appear in both locations, creating natural story flow as characters move between the Cathedral's gateway and its political heart. Family networks span both modules. Plots initiated in one location resolve in the other. Purchase both for the complete interconnected experience.

PART OF THE SCRAPYARD CATHEDRAL SERIES

The Nave is the second complete location module for the Scrapyard Cathedral setting—a derelict processing station turned lawless haven in the asteroid belt. When combined with The Docking Cradles, you have comprehensive resources for running campaigns in two interconnected locations with over 100 unique NPCs, 200 rumors, 400 encounters, and 50 adventure seeds.

Additional Cathedral locations (Salvage Row, The Warrens, The Reliquary, The Garden of Rust, The Spire Reaches) coming soon. Each location works independently or as part of larger campaigns exploring life where freedom has a price and survival is never guaranteed.

SYSTEM AGNOSTIC: Works with Stars Without Number, Traveller, The Expanse RPG, Mothership, Scum and Villainy, Starfinder, TAG and most sci-fi systems. 

The Council meets. The markets open. The candles burn. Welcome to the Nave.

Snow Golem is a free, CR 4 adversary ready for use in Pathfinder 1e, complete with a statblock, lore entry and creation requirements.

Transdimensional Lite - 2nd Edition is a revised version of the original Transdimensional Lite rules, adapted to be a gateway to the 2nd Edition of the Transdimensional Adventures rules. It is further streamlined from the original Lite rules, as well as having combat rules and character generation revised for compatibility with the main 2nd Edition Transdimensional rules. 

The second edition is compatible with existing adventures for the Transdimensional rules & other products.

In a world where dead bodies can get up and walk around, people tend to take their funerary practices very seriously. In the Age of Empires, the Volk of the Eastlands carried their dead to remote shrines where mushroomfolk priests would safely return the bodies to the land.

In the current Age, most Volk just cremate their dead. No one has the time or resources to make the journey to those remote, woodland shrines — except, that is, for crawlers!

In this 16-page puzzle dungeon designed for Shadowdark, crawlers will explore a forgotten shrine that now houses families of ettercaps and goblins. To succeed, they'll need to manage the tension between the two factions, interact with the spirits of mushroomfolk priests that haunt the dungeon, and creatively use fungi to their advantage.

You have been sent to investigate a strange noise in the North. Isolated from the rest of the world, who knows what kind of things can happen to you and your team...

Arctic Station is a 25x25 squares map, perfect for horror, survival, and exploration games!

The full map pack includes:
- Grid and Gridless
- Day/Night
- 3 Weathers: Rain, Snow, Clear Sky
- 4 Color Filters: Classic, Colorful, Oppressing, Retro
- 4 Floors: Basement (with natural cave), 1st Floor, 2nd Floor, Roof
- 2 Environment: Light Snow, Lots of Snow
- High Quality (4000x4000 px) and Lower Quality (2000x2000 px) to suit your preference and chosen platform

Trials of Atheniel: The Ashen Accord

Containment Trial II (Level 4)

The city is not under siege.
It is holding its breath.

In Beggar’s City, execution pyres burn in public squares—not to enforce law, but to provoke response. Inquisitors tighten their grip. Spark-gifted citizens prepare to retaliate. The streets hum with the tension of a conflict waiting for permission to begin.

Croix will not intervene.
Not yet.
Not openly.

Between fear and violence stands a single figure—Isabella—whose presence alone prevents the city from igniting. She commands no army, issues no orders, and wields no visible power. And yet, if she is removed, everything collapses.

The Ashen Accord is a Containment Trial for Ash & Oath, focused on civic unrest, ideological pressure, and the fragile balance between authority and belief. This is not a mystery to solve or an enemy to defeat. The threat is already visible. The clock is already ticking.

What Is a Containment Trial?

A Containment Trial centers on situations that cannot be solved—only managed.

These trials emphasize:

• Escalating pressure driven by fear, rumor, and provocation

• Breaking points that force prioritization and sacrifice

• Authority and belief as sources of tension

• Consequences that reshape the setting long after the trial ends

Containment does not mean peace.
It means deciding what is allowed to burn—and what must not.

This Trial Features

• A city on the edge of open conflict, shaped by fear and public provocation

• Escalating breaking points that demand immediate, imperfect decisions

• A living symbol whose survival determines the fate of thousands

• Containment through legitimacy, restraint, and difficult compromise

• Multiple containment paths, each reshaping Beggar’s City’s future

System & Play Info

• System: Ash & Oath™

• Recommended Party: 4–6 players

• Recommended Level: 4

• Format: PDF

Requires the Ash & Oath™ core rules to play.

Trials of Atheniel: The Quiet Orchard

Containment Trial I (Level 3)

Some places survive because no one asks what they cost.

Nuttenberry is a prosperous town at the edge of fertile land. Its wagons leave full. Its storehouses stand strong. For generations, its orchard has never failed. Nothing looks wrong—until people begin to sicken, and the silence surrounding the orchard grows too heavy to ignore.

North of town, the trees still bear perfect fruit. The soil is rich. The work is careful and constant. Whatever lies beneath the roots has been held in check for a long time, and the price has been paid quietly by those willing to endure it.

The Quiet Orchard is a Containment Trial for Ash & Oath, focused on moral pressure, slow harm, and systems held together by fear, silence, and sacrifice. There is no enemy to strike and no clean solution to uncover. Every choice preserves something—and costs something else.

What Is a Containment Trial?

A Containment Trial centers on situations that cannot be solved—only managed.

These trials emphasize:

• Systems already under strain

• Escalation caused by silence and inaction

• Difficult decisions with lasting consequences

• Moral pressure instead of combat spectacle

Containment is not victory.
It is deciding what breaks slowly instead of all at once.

This Trial Features

• A seemingly stable town built on an unseen burden

• A living containment system that poisons as it protects

• NPCs complicit through fear rather than malice

• Multiple containment paths, each with permanent consequences

• No true victory—only decisions about what is allowed to continue

System & Play Info

• System: Ash & Oath™

• Recommended Party: 4–6 players

• Recommended Level: 3

• Format: PDF

Requires the Ash & Oath™ core rules to play.

Trials of Atheniel: Extraction Trials

Some jobs are not meant to be remembered.

Extraction Trials presents three pressure-driven scenarios for Ash & Oath, designed for Level 1 characters and built around restraint, timing, burden, and consequence rather than combat or spectacle.

These are not dungeon crawls or heroic assaults. Each trial asks the party to remove something that should not remain where it is—quietly, carefully, and without drawing attention. Success is measured not by victory, but by whether the situation is made no worse than it already was.

Included Extraction Trials

Extraction Trial I — The Locked Reliquary
A sealed shrine. A box that was never meant to move.
Get in, retrieve it intact, and leave before the place finishes deciding what you cost it.

Extraction Trial II — The Weight of the Dead
A body must be removed from a brothel before the night turns questions into authority.
This is not a fight. It is a burden carried under watching eyes.

Extraction Trial III — The Borrowed Hour
A ritual component must be returned before dawn.
The space reacts to delay, hesitation, and mishandling. Time does not end the trial—it removes mercy.

What Is an Extraction Trial?

An Extraction Trial is a focused scenario built around:

• Quiet entry and controlled movement

• Pressure that escalates through delay, noise, and mistakes

• Environmental response rather than enemy patrols

• Consequences that follow the party even after success

Extraction is not theft.
It is correction.

Something was in the wrong place, for too long, and consequences were beginning to form. You are sent not to fix what is broken, but to make sure it does not break further.

This Book Includes

• Three complete Extraction Trials designed for low-level play

• Keeper guidance for managing pressure, escalation, and consequence

• Trials that reward restraint, planning, and endurance over brute force

• A foundation for Marks, reputation, and the kind of work no one thanks you for

System & Play Info

• System: Ash & Oath™

• Recommended Party: 4–6 players

• Recommended Level: 1

• Format: PDF

Requires the Ash & Oath™ core rules to play.

Because "It's a big rat" doesn't quite capture the horror.

You have the adventure. You have the stat blocks. Now you need the visuals to prove to your players that yes, that rat is on fire, and yes, it is looking at them.

The Runsbane Asset Collection is the dedicated VTT companion for Rats!, our debut adventure in the Runsbane saga. We have taken the maps and artwork directly from the book and optimized them for digital play, saving you from the misery of bad screenshots and resizing headaches.

What’s Inside:

• The Crime Scenes (Maps): High-resolution battlemaps for every major encounter in the adventure.
  • The Apothecary Shop (Floors 1 & 2): Where the goo hit the fan.
  • The Cellar: Complete with the glowing mushrooms your players definitely shouldn't eat.
  • The Tower: For the inevitable vertical combat.
  • The Barrow: The final ritual site.
• The Vermin (Tokens): A complete digital menagerie. This isn't just one generic rat copy-pasted ten times. We’ve included custom tokens for every mutant variant in the module:
  • The Rainbow Rat (The star of the show)
  • Plague Rats
  • Puff-Bellied Rats
  • Razor-Toothed Rats
  • Shield Rats
  • Rapid Rats
  • Rats of Many Sizes
  • Plus generic Light/Dark Rats for your standard swarm needs.

Technical Specs (The Boring but Important Stuff):

• Format Flexibility: Every map comes in WebP and PNG.
• Grid Options: All maps include Grid and No-Grid variants.
• System Agnostic: These are universal image files. They work with Roll20, Foundry VTT, Owlbear Rodeo, Fantasy Grounds, or any other virtual tabletop.

Note: This product contains visual assets only. The adventure text, stat blocks, and subclass rules are sold separately in the Rats! PDF.

Funded on Kickstarter. Drag, drop, and roll initiative.

The Rat has a theme song. You have a smell you’ll never wash off.

Let’s face it: nobody wants to go into the sewers. But when the City Guard pays, you hold your nose and you go.

Sewers of Runsbane is a 5th Edition adventure for 1-3 players of levels 1-2. Whether you’re continuing the pest-control saga from our previous hit Rats! or just looking for a dirty job for a new party, this module is ready to drop straight into your game night.

The Mission: Rufus Rollhaver, the long-suffering Captain of the Guard, has a problem. The Rainbow Rat is back. Yes, that rat. The one that leaves a glittering trail, runs faster than a horse, and is currently terrorizing the downtown shops. Your job is simple: go down there, find the rat, and don't touch anything sticky.

What’s Inside:

• A Villain with Style: Face off against the Rainbow Rat, a legendary critter with legendary actions (and a legendary ego).
• Unforgettable NPCs: Meet Sewer-Man Joe at his exclusive "Bed & Breakfast" (please bring your own tea) and negotiate with Rediss Olflame, a smuggler who really wishes you’d leave.
• Tricks & Traps: Survive the "Bye-Bye Hole" (it’s exactly what it sounds like) and solve the mystery of the ghostly ballroom hidden beneath the muck.
• Zero Prep Required: Includes full maps, stat blocks, and enough flavor text to make your players physically recoil.

Perfect for:

• GMs who need a solid, one-shot adventure for a small group.
• Players who think they’ve seen everything a low-level dungeon can throw at them.
• Anyone who enjoys a bit of whimsy with their waste management.

Grab your boots and your constitution saves. It’s time to get your hands dirty.