Plundergrounds 5: The Far Erinyes

Plundergrounds is a series of theme-forward zines devoted to Dungeon World adventures. Each 24-page issue features a new and different setting with enough content to keep a group of players happy for 1-5 sessions.

The Far Erinyes is a crossroads - something that I think every GM can use. It's a city that sits at the nexus of several adventure worlds:

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• The Olvani Spire is an island-city where people from all over the known world might run into each other. However, it's also at the edge of the known world and a secret world lies inside of the spire, so it might also be a place where people go to get lost. 
• Of course the seas that surround the Erinyes provides grand opportunities for sailing adventures, and...
• The Luminferous Ether is a jumping off point for sword-and-planet stories; swashbuckling in fantasy "space."
• Finally, the mysterious world under the waves awaits those who might attempt to invade the realm of the Tritons!

In this issue you'll find lots of great questions and impressions to get things started, new monsters, new mini-systems, lots of quick NPCs, and three dangers in which characters might become embroiled.

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Plundergrounds 4.5: Pack World (Free!)

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This 20-page free zine is a system-neutral, collaborative, campaign frame. It was originally intended to be part of issue 5, Rakka's Raiders, but the concept was a pet project for me and I wanted it to have its own space.

Pack World will help you quickly generate a campaign setting about a "pack" of riders who are devoted to each other and to their remarkable animal friends. Inspiration comes from The Dragon Riders of Pern and Elfquest.

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Plundergrounds 4: Rakka's Raiders

Plundergrounds is a series of theme-forward zines devoted to Dungeon World adventures. Each 24-page issue features a new and different setting with enough content to keep a group of players happy for 1-5 sessions.

In This Issue  

• The Beast Rider compendium class, for animal lovers and characters with trusty mounts
• Chasing, fleeing, racing, and stunt moves for riders
• Rakka’s Raiders – a military campaign in which characters take on the role of beast riders caught between a tyrannical overlord and the empire that stole their tribal land
• Demon Engines: war machines powered by bound demons
• The Mad Bomber compendium class, because sometimes you just want to blow something up!

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Plundergrounds 3: The Hoard

Plundergrounds is a series of theme-forward zines devoted to Dungeon World adventures. Each 24-page issue features a new and different setting with enough content to keep a group of players happy for 1-5 sessions.

This one is all about dragons, their strange hoarding compulsion, and the ecosystem that develops around/within their unique lairs.

In This Issue  

• The mysteries of elder dragons revealed!
• Three hoarding dragons and their incredible lairs: Salucidiar's toxic wasteland, Balthazorial's flotilla of wrecked ships, and Lord Moamaug's vast catacombs.
• Blood-sucking dragon crabs and other nasty hoard denizens!
• The many uses of dragon blood.
• The Staff of Ariol Graymane (a powerful relic and magical mcguffin for tying together the disparate hoards)
• A toolbox on developing place-as-character.
• All with art by Juan Ochoa, Karl Stjernberg, Sean Poppe, and yours truly

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Plundergrounds 2: Kazarak

Plundergrounds is a series of theme-forward zines devoted to Dungeon World adventures. Each 24-page issue features a new and different setting with enough content to keep a group of players happy for 1-5 sessions.

Kazarak! Last of the ancient, underground citadels to fall. No dwarf will willingly speak its name. Its story harbors a dark secret and with its demise a portion of dwarf history and culture was forever lost. What treasures, and unspeakable horrors, lie buried in the ruins?

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• Explore an abandoned subterranean city.
• Meet Hillar Rockboots, dwarf archaeologist.
• Encounter rust monsters, xorn, and derro!
• Fight a petulant wizard, the inhuman mistress of a deadly garden, and a thoroughly evil ... rock?
• Witness a world-ending battle between titans!
• Eye-popping art by Sean Poppe, Karl Stjernberg, and Jim Jones!
• D8 Dwarf Twists
• The Risk Die
• Establishing Questions

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Plundergrounds 1: Ape City

After a seemingly endless climb on crumbling stairs, spiraling up through a chimney of rock, you emerge into blinding sunlight. Before you lies a massive plateau. At its center, a great lake is surrounded by a peculiar city of glittering domes, spires, and elevated walkways. The architecture, obviously not conforming to human measures or logic, causes a vague unease in the recesses of your brain. Who built this ... monstrosity ... and when? Who or what might still live here?

A solitary hooting noise is your only warning before a mob of hairy figures crash out of the brush around you, flinging nets over you and your friends.

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• Grizel Farstrider, keeper of secrets
• Intelligent apes
• Gladiator battles
• An insane dimensional portal
• Rules for ape characters
• Weird alien technologies
• Pteranodons with laser eyes
• Movie trailers for dungeons

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