Essentials - Simple Caves Part 1

Essentials - Simple Caves Part 1

The Ankheg Nest

Something lurks beneath the ground

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Our team voted early in 2026 to stick to specific themes for the year. For this illustrious year, The Director choose Caverns. This set is the result of that choice and our continuing effort to republish our caverns with OpenLOCK base options and new tiles in every set. Our original cavern sets were huge, with hundreds of models and size limits that made our publishers (and their IT staff) cry across continents. We’ve made an effort to keep these reworks reasonably sized, but full of all the adventure that the originals had, and more.

Thank you for your support of Aether Studios. We can’t tell you how much we appreciate the place you’ve saved for us at your table.

The first sign is the silence. Not the absence of sound—there is wind, there are voices, there is machinery humming in obedient rhythms—but the silence beneath it all, like a held breath that never exhales. Systems report stability. Structures gleam with reassuring geometry. Life moves according to schedule, ritual, and function. Everything is correct. Too correct. Records insist this place has always been this way. That it was built with care, sustained with purpose, perfected through sacrifice. Every surface reflects intent. Every inhabitant knows their role, speaks their part, wears their meaning with quiet pride. Yet memory fractures when pressed. Dates do not align. Faces repeat. Names feel borrowed. There are moments—fleeting, intrusive—when the light bends wrong, when shadows lag behind their owners, when reflections blink out of sequence. Some swear they hear whispers in the machinery, syllables threading through data-streams and prayer-codes alike. Others claim to dream the same dream: a vast shape beneath everything, patient and old, wearing the world like a mask. The faithful dismiss it as stress. The administrators label it interference. The wise say nothing at all. Because those who look too closely begin to notice the seams. Walls that breathe when unobserved. Corridors that subtly rearrange. Flesh that heals too cleanly. Death that feels postponed rather than prevented. And always, always, the sense that this place is watching—not with malice, but with curiosity, as if deciding what you are worth. You have been drawn here by rumor, by duty, by debt, or by accident. Whatever the reason, you are now part of the pattern. The question is not whether the truth will reveal itself. The question is whether you will survive understanding it.

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In this Solo Adventure you assume the role of an adventurer in the shadow-stained expanse of the Known Galaxy. You will require the Haven Fallen Core Rulebook (CRB) and any associated Expansions you wish to use. The world responds to you—your interpretations, your fears, your ambitions—and you will act as both Character and Storyteller. The Actions you take should depend on who and what you meet, what horrors cross your path, and how you choose to engage with them.  Record the outcomes. Evolve the world. Allow rumours, consequences, and scars to reappear later. As you progress, you will become your own Storyteller, shaping a living cosmos that remembers what you do. The outcome of Actions in Haven Fallen is determined by:

Desert Born is a game of roleplaying in the American West based on the Open D6 system. It is meant to create cinematic action, heroic and flawed characters, and deep narrative challenges.

One player acts as the Game Master and the other players act as characters within the game. The GM prepares the game sessions, establishes rulings within the session, and portrays non-player characters. The other players assume the role of characters and are responsible for managing them and portraying them within the world created by the GM.

The game is primarily played in “the theater of the mind.” Players should also keep some writing materials and D6s in their holsters.

This book contains information for the player characters, such as how to create characters, how to grow them, and how to interact with the dangerous world around them. It also contains guidance for the GM for creating the world, creating exciting adventures, and guiding the other players.

A companion to the Empire Fantasy Reference Guide

Empire fantasy, treated as historical fantasy, examines power that persists without spectacle. Authority appears as an environment shaped through record, route, and delay. Paper fixes decisions so they outlast intent. Roads normalize movement in ways that favor the center. Distance stretches control while preserving its claim. Together, these elements create a setting where power feels continuous, procedural, and difficult to escape. Stories framed this way emphasize systems that operate whether anyone believes in them or not. Characters act inside inherited structures that reward fluency with process over dramatic defiance. The genre gains historical weight because these pressures mirror how real empires endured. What matters is how orders travel, where they’re enforced, and when correction arrives. This section frames empire fantasy as a study of governance made ordinary.

No-Win Scenarios: Future Imperfect
Volume 2

for
Warp Space: Science Fiction Roleplaying

Note: You do not need any of the core Warp Space books to enjoy this supplement, but if you wish to have more details on the worlds that are referenced here, pick up a copy of Warp Space: Smuggling & Trading in the Tail.

Step into a region of space where danger is rarely a firefight and success is measured in consequences rather than victory. No-Win Scenarios for Warp Space is a toolkit built around situations where every option is defensible, every option is damaging, and the galaxy will remember whichever choice the Heroes make.

These 30 scenarios are grounded in the realities of the Tail. Cryonite shipments delayed by icebound warlords, who control transport but not the resource. Research cargo that cannot be delivered without violating cultural law, provoking House retaliation, or triggering military intervention. Squall lines, gravity wells, ancient wrecks, and poisoned atmospheres that turn routine contracts into cascading failures. In this book, doing the job correctly often means doing it wrong by someone else’s rules.

Gamemasters are given tools to apply pressure without relying on villains. House Rangers enforce hands-off agreements. IKU Offices freeze transactions at the worst possible moment. Starbases issue lawful orders that guarantee disaster. Indigenous cultures draw lines that cannot be crossed without permanent consequences. The conflict is not good versus evil, but obligation versus outcome.

For players, these scenarios create defining moments rather than clean resolutions. They explain why a character distrusts authority, avoids certain worlds, carries old guilt, or refuses to compromise when others would. Skills, loyalties, grudges, and ethical codes are shaped not by triumph, but by survival in situations where every path costs lives, stability, or the future.

This is not a collection about winning or fixing the galaxy.

It is about choosing what breaks, and living with it.

Enter No-Win Scenarios for Warp Space knowing that there are no correct answers, only consequences—and that even when the galaxy does not thank you, it will remember what you chose.