Through Monday, January 27 we present the Chthonstone Essential Enemies Bundle featuring dozens of bizarre monsters and artifacts from Chthonstone Games for Old-School Essentials and other old-school FRPGs, all designed by Johnstone Metzger (The Nightmares Underneath) and illustrated in full color by Nathan Jones for the Monthly Monsters Patreon campaign. Threaten, frighten, bedevil, flummox, and weird-out your player characters of any level with 87 twisted creations like Alchemical Greenery, the Crawling Head, the Dark Elf Witch Cult, the Eyeball Syndicate, Ghoul Monastics, the Howling Helm, Kobolds of Saturn, the Light Collector, Living Psychopomp, Malmensvird, Meat Goliaths, the Mung Mung, Rat Golems, Rhinocorns, Satyrical Dramatists, Spawn Summoners, Vat Zombies, and Void Sharks, among many, many others.
No orcs, no oozes, no run-of-the-dungeon placeholder encounters – these hallucinatory atrocities can provide plot devices, inspire adventures, or inflict conditions that could take a whole campaign to resolve. Just a few of these Essential Enemies:
- The Amalgam: This creature, the combination of dozens of people, tears holes in the walls of reality, opening portals to the strange new worlds beyond.
- Ammazriel: If his ten gemstone eyes can be assembled, the giant Keeper of the Maze will manifest and begin building the maze to trap the souls of humanity.
- The Bird Witch: She lives a life of decadence in a remote hut, building weapons of war for interdimensional clients.
- The Bisector: A wizard-spawned abomination hunted by adventurers eager to harvest its flammable guano, which it also uses as a weapon. If you seek it, beware, lest you become the hunted.
- The Griffarcus: A serpent-tailed beast of burden that can move between worlds, potentially taking a rider with it.
- Grumblesticks: A porcine faerie of the darkest kind. Her hut drags itself along like a slug. The centipede-bodied Grumblewyrm shares her taste for the flesh of dwarves.
- The Highway Haunter: A brigand of the night, he seeks the lost twin to the golden statuette he holds, cursed to keep up the hunt even past his own death.
- The Lich Sorceress: She has no name and a deep hatred of her fellow undead, but for a price she can use her magic to your benefit. That is, if her cat demon familiar doesn’t try to take your soul first.
- Mouth Eyes: A thing with mouths in its eyes that likes to abduct people and subject them to the magic of distant planes of existence to see how their minds and bodies change. If you survive such abduction, you may return mutated beyond recognition.
- Spirit Trader: Though its appearance may seem odd, this creature is an interdimensional merchant who buys and sells all kinds of spirits.
- Suckering Worms: Bird-beaked and slithering, these beings from another world run the most prestigious casino in all the monsterlands. What will you wager?
- Zyvoth: A city drowned in darkness, where octohedrone guardians cannot stop the invasive blooms of darkfish and sableworms.
Now you can get dozens of Chthonstone Essential Enemies for an unbeatable bargain price. Pay just US$17.95 to get all nine titles in our Enemies Collection (retail value $95) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the first eight Essential Enemies volumes: Things From Beyond, The Outer Darkness, The Haunted Forest, Between Two Worlds, Creations of Chaos, In Darkening Woods, Far Beyond Death, and From Under Ground. We also include the standalone RPG Dungeon Robbers From Outer Space, about alien astronauts who travel to fantasy worlds to search for magical artifacts.
This all-new Essential Enemies offer goes missing in the back rooms of the House of Chance, the glittering palace run by the Suckering Worms of the Casino Syndicate, Monday, January 27.
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/EssentialEnemies
(Content warning: Aside from their contents mostly consisting of violent monsters that are hostile to humans, these Essential Enemies books also contain mention of abduction, animated skeletons, apocalyptic cults, arms dealing, banditry, blackmail, bodily invasive parasites, booby traps, cannibalism, carnivorous plants, casinos and gambling, child soldiers, corrupted monasteries, criminal activity and organized crime syndicates, demons and fallen angels, demonic communion, dire poverty, forced mutation, forced servitude, ghosts, grave robbing, hazardous working conditions, hostile architecture, human sacrifice, idolatry, imprisonment, interbreeding of humans with supernatural entities, the looting of antiquities, magical imprisonment, magical insanity, magically animated furniture, mass destruction of cities, meat-eating devices, multiple human minds in a single body, mutations and involuntary transformation, necromancy, parasitic infestations of the human body, people slowly dying and becoming undead without their knowledge, piracy, radiation poisoning, religious killings, self-flagellation, the undead, unethical experiments upon living beings, vomiting blood, war profiteering, warfare, the wearing of flayed human skins, werewolves, witchcraft, zombies, and the use of monster body parts as ingredients.)
