Through Wednesday, June 24, jump-start your fantasy campaign with the all-new Dungeononomicon Bundle featuring hundreds of pages of system-neutral settings from Raging Swan Press. Want to run your own fantasy adventures, but you lack the time to prep? Grab one of more than 30 fully detailed, self-contained system-neutral adventure sites in The Dread Dungeononomicon – stock the dungeon with monsters, treasure, trinkets, and trash from Thingonomicon II – and set up your players’ base of exploration with any of the four dozen towns in four volumes of Village Backdrops. At the gaming table, keep the Miscellany of Many Things handy to drop in colorful characters, monsters, and treasure as needed. You’re good to go!
Functionally akin to a theater set before the cast arrives, the Raging Swan Backdrops occupy an unusual middle ground between short bullet-point fronts and detailed modules. Raging Swan owner and Dungeon Backdrops designer Creighton Broadhurst recounted his inspiration:
“The germ of the idea for the Dungeon Backdrop line was born in a conversation I had with a chum back in 2019. He’s a fellow GM, and an inveterate tinkerer and worldbuilder. He commented that he never ran a published adventure as written; often, he’d do a wholesale rewrite so it better suited his campaign’s setting and overall plot. Sometimes he’d use little more than the map. Of course, that’s fair enough – I’ve been ‘guilty’ of the same practice on many occasions – but it got me thinking.
“Assuming he wasn’t an outlier (and I don’t think he is, given the popularity of the Dungeon Backdrop line), it stood to reason other GMs also don’t want or need a fully detailed module – they just want a ready-to-go dungeon / ruined tower / whatever to serve as the setting for their own adventures. Thus, the Dungeon Backdrop line was born.
“Since we started publishing Dungeon Backdrops, I’ve used more than a few in my own campaigns. As a GM, I love how customizable and flexible they are. I don’t have to bother drawing the map (my most hated part of any design) or thinking about the place’s physicality – all I have to do is stuff it full of monsters and treasure. That cuts down on my prep time and lets me be more creative in the wider campaign. For me, that’s a double bonus.”
Pay just US$17.95 to get all eight complete system-neutral sourcebooks in our Dungeononomicon Collection (retail value $100.50) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including The Dread Dungeononomicon, plus its Markdown Files; The Thingonomicon II, a sequel to the original Thingonomicon we presented in October 2024 and again in December 2025; all four volumes of the GM’s Miscellany: Village Backdrops – Volume I, II, III, and IV; and a collection of Raging Swan’s “Sunday Supplement” blog posts, the Miscellany of Many Things.
Get this all-new Dungeononomicon offer before it vanishes into the Subterranean Study of the Pit of Unquiet Souls Wednesday, June 24.
