Enter the Marshes and Crypts of Dodenmoor

Dodenmoor is a 48 page, full colour, A5 zine, introducing a mini setting developed for old-school role-playing games.

Within you will find three environments, offering 49 adventuring locations:

The Marshlands, haunted wetlands, home to cultists, witches, giant spiders, trolls, and the legendary Boneyard Turtle. Featuring:

•  The Ruins of Modrest, the crumbling remains of a once prosperous pilgrimage site, where the remaining humans struggle to survive, ruled by a drug cartel.
•  The Walking Town, a huge turtle in the process of being settled by dark elves.

The Crypts, a sunken necropolis, connected via a dense network of tunnels. Inhabited by awakened undead, sentient and trying to create meaning whilst coming to terms with their own ungodly existence.

The Glooms, caverns filled with the eery light of lichen, where fungi shepherds spread their spores over fields of rot, always working towards their return to their progenitor.

This is an example of one such site:

Locations can be used to stock a traditional hexcrawl, a pointcrawl, or in a looser narrative way.

Various opportunities for social encounters

• Four peoples, each provided with a general description, six unique NPCs, and three to four plot hooks
• Many factions, each trying to use the moors' denizens and resources to their advantage
• Encounters and situations made to be solved via diplomacy and negotiation

New creatures, flora, and fauna unique to the marshes:

Useful advice and tools for GMs:

• rumours that may lead players to the marshes
• history and mysteries of the marshes explained
• an overview of the marshes factions and their relationships
• possible short and long term developments

Random Tables

• Random Tables for Encounters in each Biome (Swamp, Crypts, Glooms)
• 2d20 Random magic items
• Random mundane item table

An example of the overland travel tables: