#teratoscope

So it's Creator Day on itch.io, which means everything you spend there goes to the writers, artists, designers, etc. All my stuff is half-off, or you can get literally everything I've ever made on itch for $15. That's like. You can buy my best bestiary for $15 for that much on any other day. That's a steal. You are literally stealing the food in my mouth with your bare hands when you buy this from me, or you would be, if I was not a liar.

It's still a frankly ludicrously good price for some quality ttrpg materials tho. The sale ends in like 9 hours tho, so you're gonna have to act fast.

the stars go out and they don’t come back

there’s a smell of hot metal and sex, and you nearly choke on it

the air’s thick and cloying, like you’ve walked into a dog’s mouth, and there’s a sudden wind that threatens to strip the flesh from your bones, and with it a terrible howling

when it passes all is still, and though the heat and the smell and the dark persist, you wonder if you are dead or dying

but there are lights—guttering flames—in the distance, suggesting the narrow mouth of a long, dark passage, its surface glistening, limned with that faraway orange glow

there is no way back.

Are you curious about some yet unilluminated corner of the Amnion campaign setting? Looking to spice up an encounter you have planned for your next session? Desperate for an alternative to More Orcs?

Our ask box is open! Step right on up and getcher crimes against God!

Every good-faith request will be honored, but on a strictly first-come, first-serve basis, and the window to submit requests closes Monday, June 3, so get ‘em in as soon as you’ve got ‘em!

Are you curious about some yet unilluminated corner of the Freestar One campaign setting? Looking to spice up an encounter you have planned for your next session? Desperate for an alternative to More Orcs?

Our ask box is open! Step right on up and getcher crimes against God!

Every good-faith request will be honored, but on a strictly first-come, first-serve basis, and the window to submit requests closes Monday, June 3, so get ‘em in as soon as you’ve got ‘em!

Wow, okay, so that was a way worse delay than I’d intended. Sorry y’all, this semester gave me a fuckin’ beating.

However.

The summer interim is upon us, and as such Teratoscope will return, starting tomorrow. I’m doing a little extra on top of my usual stuff this time around, so updates may be a little slow and patchy as I find my rhythm again, but we are going to get all those leftover Request Week messages responded to before anything else. Freestar One is far from over; hopefully we’ll be about at a wrap for season 2 by the end of this summer.

The Unbounded Lands collected edition is pretty much finished. It’s illustrated, it’s formatted for the pdf release (with handy internal hyperlinks and everything!), and it’s gotten a final editing pass—all that’s left is for me to jump through some hoops on the business and distribution end.

Starting Monday, June 25!

Are you drawing a blank for something to populate your dungeon with that’s on-theme?

Have you got a rough idea for something to menace your players with, but you’re beating your head against the mechanics?

Is there a monster that you think has a kernel of something good and cool to it, but it’s buried under a mountain of horseshit?

Are you curious about the implicit world of TERATOSCOPE and want a closer look at an underrepresented facet of it through a monstrous lens?

Fear not! Send us your monster requests!

Lesson: the flavor of the cultural moment is apparently “would not be out of place in a Kill Six Billion Demons splash page”