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Nightmare Fuel, the latest crowdfunding effort for the Dungeon Fantasy RPG is coming to a close at 5pm Central Time on November 6, 2022 on Backerkit Crowdfunding.

If you are going to pledge to the campaign, it’s time!

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The project features three new themed bestiaries from three different authors.

Serpents of Legend features snake-themed creatures of all sorts, from the inscrutable coatl to the family of corrupted shadow-worms (myrkra ormur). Also included is a template for snake-folk (snákamaðr) as a playable ancestry module, as well as advice on snake cults and the nightmare corruption of the World Worm threatening to undue all creation. Meet Dulsa Thoom, the snake-cult leader who is absolutely not based in any way on a character from the first and best movie featuring a well-muscled barbarian with a thick Cimmerian accent. Also contains several creatures of myth and legend, including hydra variants and totally-not-Medusa creatures.
The Bugstiary is chock full of ants, beetles, bees, crabs, and of course giant murder hornets. Because if asian giant hornets are scary, a giant hornet the size of a full-grown person is just right for the Dungeon Fantasy RPG. Beetle-folk have playable ancestral modules, while one of the creatures – the giant hermit crab – is in the book makes “mobile home” a bit too literal. Also are an assortment of spiders and arthropods, such as scorpions of unusual size, and creatures that are absolutely not chuul or Mi-Go.
Garden of Evil gives you a bloody green thumb, with fighting and awakened trees, giant venus flytraps (that sing!), vroom-hoom treeherders, and the terrible devil blossom, shown on the book’s cover. Since some of the creatures have the mobility of, well, plants, they are shown as traps or environmental features rather than as creatures with agency.

Read the entire post, including art samples and many links, on the Gaming Ballistic blog.