New RPG Roundup: Hex Crawl Through Hieronymus, Punks vs. Evil Cult DCC Adventure, and More

Hieronymus: Garden of Earthly Delights Edition

In Hieronymus, you play a group of refugees fleeing an astral terror known only as the Follower. As it pursues you, you rip your way through reality into strange worldscapes inspired by the paintings of the medieval artist Hieronymus Bosch, the Follower only a few steps behind.

Hieronymus is a hex-crawling TTRPG unlike any other.  It was released in 2021 to acclaim and saw a limited print run. Now, new maps and content, new character playbooks, and expanded guidance for players and game runners make this a more complete experience.

Heroes & Hardships Core Rulebook 

Any Setting! Any Character! Any Adventure! Anything You Can Imagine!

Heroes & Hardships is a universal roleplaying game that allows gamemasters to craft any story they desire. Heroes & Hardships contains many options to facilitate diverse styles and genres of play; GMs can easily create standard fantasy, sci-fi, modern, historical, and super hero games. And of course, feel free to readily mix and match all of these genres in any way they see fit. 

Decomposer

You are a larva, a spore, a bacterium, a seed. You were born into a life you didn’t ask for, fated to feed on the remains of a creature too enormous to fathom. You are the decomposer of a dead god. You are the creator of a new world.

Decomposer is a GM-less tabletop roleplaying game you can play in one session of about 1-2 hours, solo or with up to 6 players. You’ll roll dice, dig through the remains of a mysterious creature, and digest its body into something new. It’s inspired by Norse and Mesopotamian creation myths, and games like The Quiet Year. It was designed for the 2023 One-Page RPG Jam.

Ashes of Käsedorf – Mörk Borg

Ashes of Käsedorf is is a pointcrawl/hexcrawl through the valley that’s home to the smoking ruins of Käsedorf. It features multiple groups working for their own interests for you to meet and conspire or conflict with.  Enemies are mostly self-contained in the bestiary, so nothing more is needed than a copy of this module and either a copy of Mörk Borg or Mörk Manual (the classic fantasy hack for Mörk Borg. Some minor things would need tweaked (one item forces corruption rolls, which are similar to catastrophes).

This module features:

• 17 pages of fun filled mayhem!
• Encounter tables for random fun!
• The possibility of a total party kill!
• 11 stat blocks for possible threats!
• A dungeon! Yes, a dungeon! It’s located in a hex. You heard that news here first, folks!
• Hooks for furthur play.

Beyond the Silver Scream – DCC

Beyond the Silver Scream is a hair-metal-infused 0-level funnel for DCC in which you and your fellow players take on the role of teenage punks fighting against an evil cult that has set up shop in their local multiplex. Grab your quarters, find a weapon, and get ready to kick some cultist ass! This 36-page adventure will take a large group of 0-level punks and leave you with a handful of first-level adventurers—provided any survive the experience!