Shadows of Esteren Book 0 – Prologue

Shadows of Esteren is a medieval role-playing game with horrific and Gothic overtones. Drawing inspiration from Celtic myths, this universe has a discreetly fantastic side under a bleak, realistic surface. This world is populated by humans who have to cope with a harsh daily life and supernatural threats lurking in the dark. Focused on investigation and survival scenarios, Shadows of Esteren is a game in which the atmosphere and the interactions among the players are paramount.

Prologue will be your first journey into the universe of Shadows of Esteren’s role-playing game, and will prepare you for the first episode of the official campaign.

You will find:

An Introduction to the Universe. Familiarize yourself with the main concepts of the game, as well as with a general presentation of the universe.

A Summary of the Game System. All the necessary elements to grasp Shadows of Esteren’s system and play your first scenarios.

Six Template Characters. Illustrated and ready-to-play characters: Yldiane the Varigal, Arven the fighter, Ean the fugitive, Liam the scholar, Mòr the Ionnthén, and Urvan the Blade Knight.

Three Scenarios. The triptych “Omens” offers three scenarios, which are very different, and yet linked by a single red thread. They are meant for players and leaders of all levels.

Poison: An ideal scenario to discover Esteren and take your first steps in role-playing. The village of Melwan is threatened by a poisoning. Will you be able to discover its source and how to stop it?

Loch Varn: Dive into the confines of nightmare in an elaborate scenario with original narrative concepts and discover the secrets of Loch Varn’s vale.

Red Fall: A dead man and a missing woman. Lead an investigation in Dearg and experience an initial overview of the vale in which the first episode of the official campaign will be set.

ALSO INCLUDES: Games aids and clues for the scenario Loch Varn, Abridged character sheets, Book 0 Prologue Player's Guide and a catalog including a FAQ. 

Book 1 – Universe

Esteren won three Ennies for the year 2013 : Best Interior Art GOLD, Best Production Value GOLD and Product of the Year SILVER!

"Sometimes a game just comes along and blows you away in all respects. This year, that game was Shadows of Esteren."

Esteren also won three "Tabletop Gaming Awards" for the year 2012! The awards are : Best Art, Best New Game and Best New Core Rulebook.

These awards are given by Diehard GameFAN

Picture a peninsula with steep hills, thick forests that barely let the sunlight through, misty valleys, and fortresses clinging to the mountainside... and beyond the oceans, the vast and mysterious Continent. In such awe-inspiring landscapes, the Shadows of Esteren role-playing game will introduce you to a gritty, realistic world, where supernatural elements are never trivial or meaningless, and where men have to face fierce threats lurking in the dark.

Intended for Game Leaders as well as for Players, this book is the first of the Shadows of Esteren series.

Within, you will find:

A Gaming Universe

Discover the world of Esteren through the eyes of its inhabitants, especially those of Tri-Kazel's peninsula. Divided into three kingdoms, its political, geographical, and historical aspects are described. The lifestyle, the antagonisms among the factions, and the problems its inhabitants have to cope with on a daily basis are extensively portrayed.

A Complete System

Giving priority to the atmosphere and interactions among the Players, the game system of Shadows of Esteren will notably allow you to create your Characters, manage the evolution of their sanity, use Magience, uncover the secrets of the Oghamic arts, call upon the power of the Creator, etc.

Player Aids

This book includes six archetypes illustrating a few of the possible roles you can play, technical texts about assembling a group of Characters, a complete glossary and index, the character sheet, etc. These player aids will allow you to set up your first game sessions while fully introducing you to the Shadows of Esteren series. 

Check out the Esteren universe here:

The Monastery of Tuath

A medieval role-playing game with a horrific and gothic influence

Shadows of Esteren is a medieval role-playing game with horrific and Gothic overtones. Drawing inspiration from Celtic myths, this universe has a discreetly fantastic side under a bleak, realistic surface. This world is populated by humans who have to cope with a harsh daily life and supernatural threats lurking in the dark. Focused on investigation and survival scenarios, Shadows of Esteren is a game in which the atmosphere and the interactions among the players are paramount.

Tuath is the fourth book of the Shadows of Esteren series. It is focused on the Temple faction and features a large investigation scenario inspired by The Name of the Rose, as well as several game aids.

Contents include:

50 pages supplement:

The Temple and the Religious Life: An aid sheet which tackles the commitment to one order of the Clergy, the organization of the spiritual life as well as the optional rule of the « Six Vows » and its impact on the Characters. The Monasteries of the One: Some details about the daily life of the monks and the organization of the monasteries.

The Monastery of Tuath: A religious institution of the Temple in a Gwidrite valley, near the Talkéride border, described with all its residents.

« Vengeful Words »: An investigation scenario in the monastery of Tuath, inspired from The Name of the Rose, a true adventure set behind closed doors which lead the Characters to the discovery of a sinister secret.

10 Game aids:   clue cards and suspect cards, summary of the scenario chronology of the scenario summary of the clues documents for the Players

1 Map of the monastery

The Stygian Library - Remastered

Hard Cover

OSR D&D B/X BECMI Dungeon Adventure by Emmy Allen, published by Soul Muppet Publications

Bonhomie Games is a proud Kickstarter backer of The Stygian Library

The Stygian Library is a creepily genteel dungeon set in an infinite extradimensional library.

Originally published by Emmy Allen of Dying Stylishly Games in 2018, it won a Judges' Spotlight award at the 2019 Ennies.

The original book was illustrated with Public Domain art and printed through DriveThruRPG Print-On-Demand, but now Dying Stylishly have partnered with SoulMuppet Publishing to create a remastered version. The new edition features the artistic talents of Alec Sorensen, who has previously worked on such great RPG books as Electric Bastionland and Obachan Panic.

The Stygian Library is a procedurally-generated library dungeon set in the extra-dimensional space between every library in the universe.

Each expedition generates its route as it explores, resulting in new locations and forbidden knowledge being discovered with every visit.

Included within:

Systems for generating locations within the library, including Entrance Foyers, Map Galleries, Tea Rooms, Planetariums, Calculation Engines, Phantom Databanks, Paper Beehives, Phantom Pumps, Jarred Brains and the Sheol Computer.

40 monsters tailored to the Library, including Lantern Bearers, Skeleton Crew, Origami Golems, Guardian Shades, Lost Souls, Ink Elementals, Animate Spells, Archivist-Liches, Infernal Merchants, Escaped Fictions, Educated Rodents, Conceptual Wells and the orders of Librarians themselves.

A system for searching for specific knowledge within the library's depths, as well as 30 unusual books and the secret knowledge they contain.

Tables for generating treasure, dreams, rumors, and various other useful details.

A unique class of Mummified Sages, post-human academics who've dwelled in the Library for decades or more.

It's a big spooky library full of dangerous knowledge, spiritual automata and ghost-fueled computers.

The adventure includes stats and sparse amounts of mechanics intended to be broadly compatible with most old-school RPG systems, and easily adapted to any other fantasy RPG.

Esoteric Enterprises by award winning writer Emmy Allen, published by Soul Muppet Publications

Imagine the typical adventuring party of most old-school games, but in a modern-day setting. A world with police, the internet, chain stores... The familiar band of mercenaries, occultists, criminals, weirdos and outcasts drift into the underworld. This is the premise of Esoteric Enterprises: the occult exists in a dangerous black market, where organised criminals traffic in magical grimoires and relics alongside narcotics and weapons. Hidden from the public eye, various gangs, cults and covens struggle for influence and resources in the dark tunnels beneath every city. Beneath that, stranger things lurk; inhuman creatures turn their cold gaze on the mortals who intrude on their subterranean realm.

The book contains both player-facing rules and extensive GM tools.

On the player side, there are eight classes, covering various career criminals, mad doctors, occultists and mystic cultists, as well as a customisable ‘Spook’ class for non-human PCs.

The game rules will be familiar to fans of old-school roleplaying, providing a spin on traditional mechanics fitting for the modern setting. Combat is brutal, fast and can result in serious injury. The GM’s section is designed to assist running a campaign straight out of the book. Included are guidelines to create an extensive undercity megadungeon and the complex network of factions within. The book is dense with sample content and random tables to generate your own setting.

The book is an A4 248 page hardback. Emmy Allen is responsible for Ennie Award winning The Garden's of Ynn, as well as the Stygian Library and Wolf-Packs and Winter Snow.

Level Up 5e - Advenced Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition Roleplaying Game from EN Publishing (A5E)

Bonhomie Games is a proud Kickstarter Backer of A5E

This book comes in at a tidy373 pages

Journeys, Treasure, and Mystery Await!

This essential rulebook for Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition contains the full journey and exploration rules of the game, including details on regions, discoveries, and boons, dozens of exploration challenges, and rules for random encounters of all types.

Not only that, Trials & Treasures also contains over 500 magic items and rules for crafting them, from fantastically powerful artifacts to minor enchanted trinkets, and pages of advice and tools for creating encounters and running the game.

PURCHASE INCLUDES FREE PDF.

We do NOT sell PDFs as standalone products.

Haunted West RPG Core Rulebook

by Chris Spivey

from Darker Hue Studios

Haunted West is about hope through struggle. It is a role playing game that amplifies the voices of the often overlooked people of the Old West, the people who have been whitewashed by history. Venture into an alternate history that imagines a post-American Civil War world where Reconstruction flourishes for many years, instead of meeting its abrupt end, and imagine a new reality with greater opportunities for all who inhabit the United States. Step out of your door into the Haunted West. But, beware! It isn't for the faint of heart.

HISTORY BELONGS TO ALL OF US.

This corebook has everything you need to explore the Old West, including:

• An extensive historical account from prehistoric times through the last stagecoach robbery
• The Ouroboros System, a modular three-tiered system powering your adventures using d100, degrees of success, and a unique Jacks mechanic
• Haunted West: Reconstruction, an imaginative alternate history
• Robust Weird West content including magicks, creatures, mechanics, and more
• The Night of the Aerostat, a thrilling adventure set in the Weird West
• An in-depth city-building process for creating the setting you want
• Lifepath character creation to build characters firmly entrenched in the world
• Twelve Paragon categories enabling you to create any type of player character you choose
• Haunted West World, a Powered by the Apocalypse hack

WEIRD, WEIRDER, OR WEIRDEST?

Make your West as Weird as you want the way you want (if you want). Plug in magic, the Mythos, steam tech, mad science, dinosaurs, or even aliens and flying saucers. Haunted West gives you the tools you need to make your definition of "Weird West" a reality. Battle traitorous rebels as a Black gadgeteer with your rifle and jetpack, rustle cattle as a Chinese drover while keeping the dinosaurs at bay, combat a legion of undead monsters as an Indigenous gunslinger, or traverse the Oregon trail as a Jewish homesteader while being haunted by the specters of those who perished along the way.

You have the power to tell your story; you have the power to tell the American story.

Orbital Blues RPG - Day Edition

Indie Kickstarter SciFi RPG from SoulMuppet Publications

Bonhomie Games is a proud Kickstarter Backer of the Orbital Blues RPG - a game about sad space cowboys, blending wry humour and inspirational elements from TV shows such as Firefly and Cowboy Bebop.

THIS IS AN UNPARALLELED AGE. A galactic age. An age of bounty hunters, vagrants and bleeding-heart outlaws.

This is the NEW REBEL ERA, and the only thing worth a damn is the sweat off your back, the bullet in your chamber and the fuel in your tank. The galaxy is a lawless expanse, known as the FRONTIER GALAXY, and you are an INTERSTELLAR OUTLAW. Together with YOUR SHIP and YOUR CREW you have to eke out a living in the Frontier Galaxy, and chase down the intergalactic dream of freedom and success.

ORBITAL BLUES is a new lo-fi space western roleplaying game from SoulMuppet Publishing, written by Sam Sleney & Zachary Cox. A roleplaying love-letter to off-beat sci-fi, vintage music, and cooperative old-school styled roleplay, Orbital Blues allows you to play out rules-light tabletop adventures in the style of space westerns such as Cowboy Bebop, Firefly and Guardians of the Galaxy.

Coyote & Crow RPG the Nebula Award nominated Kickstarter-funded RPG

Coyote and Crow is a tabletop role playing game set in an alternate future of the Americas where colonization never occurred. Instead, advanced civilizations arose over hundreds of years after a massive climate disaster changed the history of the planet. You'll play as adventurers starting out in the city of Cahokia, a bustling, diverse metropolis along the Mississippi River. It's a world of science and spirituality where the future of technology and legends of the past will collide.

The core game focuses its storytelling lens on the people indigenous to North America and includes short descriptions of the alternate fates of the people of MesoAmerica, South America and the Caribbean Islands.

The game is created and led by a team of Native Americans representing more than a dozen tribes and we've built a game that both Natives and non-Natives will thrill to explore and build upon.

Level Up 5e Narrator's Screen - for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition Roleplaying Game from EN Publishing (A5E)

This Narrator's screen for Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition contains useful table and references for use during play.