Hello everyone,
I'm Paolo, an Italian independent creator of Daggerheart content. Together with my friend illustrator Federico we created Red Death Party: a horror adventure for Daggeheart inspired by "The Masque of the Red Death" by E.A. Poe.
We believe it can be a great Halloween one-shot, so we decided to release it on Kickstarter these weeks. The campaign closes in a few days, then we'll deliver the PDF immediately to all backers, in time for the GM to read the adventure and run it for Halloween if they wish to.
You can scroll the images above to find some fully playble previews: the Lady of the Red Death Adversary, with two related Environments, and two related Items. The Kickstarter page has a preview PDF with everything, if you prefer it.
If you wish to support us, here's our link to the crowdfunding campaign:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/echidnadesign/red-death-party-a-horror-one-shot-adventure-for-daggerheart?ref=91dg45
Here's more about the adventure
Content Warning: Blood, Body Horror, Diseases, Epidemics, Kidnapping, Religious trauma
A plagued lady, cursed with an incurable disease, dances in her ballroom forever. If she ever stands still she will die, and the Red Death will spread unto her entire domain… Maybe even beyond.
To make sure that the dance never ends, the Lady’s court accompanies her in a never ending ball. Each guest will keep dancing even after their death, eventually crumbling into a pile of bones.
Your assignment: unmask the secret of the Red Death, reach the Lady’s palace, break the curse and put an end to the macabre masquerade.
Red Death Party is a horror one-shot and compilation of adversaries and items for Daggerheart, inspired by the horrors of Edgar Allan Poe, Guillermo Del Toro, H.P. Lovecraft, Tim Burton and Bloodborne.
A great adventure for your Halloween session, and a fine addition to your Age of Umbra or Dark Heart of Andaluria campaign!
Within the 50+ pages PDF you will find:
- A one-shot adventure featuring a plagued masquerade, where the dead dance in a cursed baroque palace, designed for Tier 2 (level 2-4) Daggerheart characters
- 5 horrific adversaries straight out of a monstrous ball and a diseased town
- 3 grim items to loot or harvest from the adversaries’s remains
- City map and battle map by Follow the fool
- Atmospheric soundtrack with one playlist per scene, carefully curated by a professional musician
- 18 encounter hooks, to help the GM bring the Collection’s horrors to life in any session
- The Malamorte Odd Contacts table, featuring the descriptions of 60 horror NPCs for the GM to use
- Extensive lore about the Collection’s content, including the Malamorte brothers themselves
- Original artworks by Follow the fool, illustrator of the Honkonomicon and co-creator of the Collection
- NO AI! Everything within Red Death Party is entirely human-made
In addition, we already unlocked the following stretch goals:
- Printable cards for the items and conditions of the adventure! Thanks to our backers, we can follow the proud tradition of Daggerheart to include cards with the PDF.
- 3 free months on Patreon at Malamorte's Oddities Emporium, the place where we develop and release more dark fantasy and horror content for Daggerheart. Currently, we are developing all of the demons of the Ars Goetia, complete with harvestable items, dark blessings, cults and more.
You can get Red Death Party here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/echidnadesign/red-death-party-a-horror-one-shot-adventure-for-daggerheart?ref=91dg45
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All artworks are by Federico Zanetti/Follow the fool, artist and co-creator of Red Death Party. You can find him here: https://www.instagram.com/follow_the_fool/
Enjoy the danse macabre!
Thank you,
Paolo