TTRPG Books
Game Master’s Worldbook
$35.00
This book contains the best tools and templates I ever made for myself to make writing, worldbuilding, and GMing easier. The first time I took it to a convention, my whole stock sold out. Only the rules reference section is Relict-specific; everything else in here could be used for any worldbuilding or GMing project! -CD Corrigan
This workbook has over 200 pages of categorized note space, reference material, and brainstorming prompts to help tabletop Game Masters build, run, and organize their game worlds. Create settlements, NPCs, and quests with ease, track your player's character histories, keep a log of your group's sessions, plan encounters and quests, and more!
The organizational tools and note space in this book should be suitable not just for Relict games, but for any system or creative project that involves worldbuilding. This book can be filled out ahead of time and used as a "world bible," filled out over time to keep track of the world's canon as it's established, or (my preference), a bit of both.
Book Sections:
- Reference Material
- Game Master Tools
- Random Name Tables
- World Calibration Sheet
- Blank Map Grids
- Overworld scale to encounter scale
- World History
- Timelines
- Myths, Pantheons, & Legends
- Factions & Organizations
- Locations
- Regions, Settlements, & Points of Interest
- NPCs
- Quests
- Initiative Tracker Pages
- Session Notes Pages
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Adventurer’s Journal
$25.00
Create, organize, and manage up to eight different Relict characters with this incredibly useful journal!
Each section of this book contains a character sheet, backstory worksheet, damage and affliction chart, inventory pages, and TONS of room for freeform session notes.
Also included is a quick reference section containing all of the most-often looked-up rules for players, letting you focus on the game and not digging through multiple browser tabs for a rule check between turns.
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Relict Starter Book
$35.00
Start playing Relict right now!
Funded by our amazing backers on Kickstarter, this book includes the core rules of the Relict TTRPG system for players and Game Masters, pre-made characters, and a complete adventure module: Hunger at the House of Healing.
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Relict RPG Character Compendium
$65.00
Create your ultimate adventurer.
Dive into Relict RPG's expansive character creation options with this Compendium, and get ready to create the most exciting and unique characters of your adventuring career. Mix and match martial, mage, and lineage options to fine-tune your ideal heroes. Play as anything from a sword-wielding human warrior to a teleporting gorgon, a diminutive pixie plague doctor to gravity-powered crab person; if you can dream it, you can play it in Relict.
This book compiles the first wave of Relict RPG player character options:
- 18 Playable Lineages. Be a charging centaur, a skittering kobold, a towering minotaur, hungering vampire, and much more!
- 20 Classes. Wield steel, shot, and stealth, cast fire and fury, twist the skein or reality itself; Relict heroes (and villains) are a cut above.
- An arsenal at your disposal. Blades, bows, and battle staves—dozens of weapons and armor choices to equip your adventurer, plus potions to pump them up and magic items to give them an edge.
- A world to explore. Whether you plan to set out into Rubica or take your character into unknown worlds beyond, we've got you covered with lore and ideas to give them depth and direction.
- Support indie games. Relict is an open-source passion project by a solo creator, designed from the ground up to equip players, GMs, and other developers to tell awesome stories.
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The Black Ballad | Setting and Campaign by Storyteller's Forge
$80.00
!! Important note !!
This is the 5e compatible version of the Black Ballad. It's listed here because Relict creator CD Corrigan (hi!) wrote one of the tie-in novels and has since worked closely with Storyteller's Forge on a number of other projects, including future Relict content. This is not a Relict book, but we still want to see STF succeed on everything they do!
You Died. Now What?
Where do the dead go when they rest?
The poetic mystery of death has long been a fascination for the living. The images of warm hearths and a familial embrace are conjured for some, while others picture screaming in eternal torment at the hands of a demon. And yet, clerics have the power to pluck the dead back from that plane, thrusting them back into their mortal coils or even raising them into a state of eternal Undeath. Surely the gods would grow weary of their clerics pinching souls that rightfully belonged in their afterlife. Wouldn’t they?
A partnership forged in fire and blood between musicians, artists, writers, editors, and more currently rests in your hands. The Black Ballad is a 10-chapter roleplaying campaign made alongside DiAmorte’s second album, a savage metal opera of cosmic proportions. This saga will let players decide the fate of the afterlife itself while immersing themselves in musical works focusing on loss, acceptance, and determination in the face of one’s own death. Will your campaign have the gall to challenge the will of divinity?
Features:
-Over 300 pages, designed with both Storytellers and Players in mind.
-Multiple endings and player agency options. Choice matters.
-Full story campaign with 10 major cinematic chapters, 30 acts, and over a year of gameplay.
-A detailed look into how gods in fantasy settings deliver divine magic to their clerics.
-New mechanics for the faithful such as The Godless Core Class, New Domains, New Spells.
-New lineages designed for dead characters such as the Unhallowed or the Soul Stitched.
-The setting of The Sunless Crossing, a realm of waiting for the dead, built to handle the impact of resurrection in fantasy settings.
-Dynamic encounter design to accommodate Theater of the Mind and Grid Style. Every fight is epic.
-ADA compliant multiple formats (pdf, epub, and more!) for digital distribution.
-Full orchestral soundtrack by DiAmorte! Composed by Drake Mefestta, Mike Pitman (Riot Games), and Michael Romeo (Symphony X) WITH PURCHASE!
-Purgatory Poker mini-game for bartering within the lands of the dead!
-Written and illustrated by award winning game designers and artists from around the world!
-Compatible with 5E and designed to be easily convertible to any D20 system.
-Official P2FE Rules Conversion Packet available for free at www.storytellersforge.com
-Audio Introduction by Carlos Ferro, voice of Dom from Gears of War and Leonardo DaVinci from Assassins Creed.
-Storytellers Forge campaign design for Tier 4 play, yet scalable and written for all levels. Perfect for any home campaign no matter what level the party is.
Wyrmlings All-Ages TTRPG by Lone Colossus Games
$40.00
In the great green vale of Dragonsdale, we're gonna tell a wyrmling tale - the tale of the Wyrmling Brigade!
Tell your own stories with Wyrmlings: a cute, wholesome, all-ages TTRPG about young dragons going on adventures and overcoming challenges with friends. Designed to capture the feeling of cartoons like Steven Universe and My Little Pony, the adventures you go on will vary from facing down an evil wizard to simply trying to find the best birthday present for a friend. It's all up to you and the stories you want to tell!
With emerging complexity built into the system, the game is perfect for everyone from long-time roleplayers to newcomers. Its narrative focus makes it excellent for episodic series and one-shots alike, and a pair of intro adventures will get you playing in minutes.
The book includes...
- An all-ages system with emerging complexity and an emphasis on friendship and teamwork
- Dozens of adorable illustrations
- 15 adventures, including two tutorial style adventures you can use to learn the rules - just open the book and jump right in!
- Suggestions for randomly generating fully improvised sessions for last-minute play opportunities
- Basic and Advanced rules, which allow your group to choose the level of complexity that makes the most sense for your players
- Rules that emphasize improvisation and role-play without a lot of preparation from the GM
- A chapter containing places and people you can use to start fleshing out your own version of the Dragonsdale setting
Houndsong Games was proud to contribute to Lone Colossus' Wyrmlings. You can learn more about the game here: https://www.shop.lonecolossusgames.com/collections/wyrmlings
Novels
Tattered Pawns by CD Corrigan | Endmage book 1
$25.00 - $40.00
Only a few left!
In a world brimming with magic, Whistler stands apart. A rare endmage, he’ll never sling a spell or speak a magic word—but he can nullify even the mightiest wizard with a snap of his fingers. Little loved and often feared, he’s made his way by selling his unique gift, hunting powerful spellcasters who would use their magic to kill and conquer.
It’s...usually enough to put food in his belly.
When Whistler learns that a string of deadly incidents are connected by a shadowy puppet master, Broker, it kicks off a continent-spanning chase that has him crossing swords with devils, angels, and kings, unraveling ancient secrets, and racing to catch Broker before his mysterious plans can come to fruition. Along the way, Whistler is joined by Ivy, a cocky thief with an infernal bloodline and secrets of her own, and Gruff, a mage-bred warhound who manages to be the most well-adjusted of the three despite being a quadruped. The trio fights to keep one step ahead of their quarry, even as they themselves are hunted by powerful outside forces with agendas of their own.
Fun Fact: Tattered Pawns is the reason Relict exists! I set out to design a system that would let me mechanically build all the weirdo characters I write about. And now, here we are.
The Memory Thief by CD Corrigan | Streets of Nox Valar Book 1
$25.00 - $40.00
Cypress Monroe: shapeshifter, spymaster, dearly departed.
Cypress went to her grave having discovered a plot to overthrow her Queen — and her paramour. Now her soul scours the realm between life and death for a way to get word to the living before it’s too late.
Dimereial, an angel of redemption, has an offer for Cypress. Relieve a few fellow souls of their worst memories before they shuffle on, and Cypress can be put before the right people in time to save her beloved. Memory theft is a heinous crime in Nox Valar; but if it’s done to save the living and dead alike, what’s the harm?
Rasa’s first memory, her only memory, is crashing to the Ashen Fields, a flash of screaming soulfire and momentous impact. Then she was fighting, beset by tattered shadows that clawed and scratched and wailed as she tore their essence from them. Secan, a shepherd of lost souls, found her there. Amidst a mound of sundered undead, he inherited his hardest task yet: trying to guide a soul that doesn’t know itself.
Dusk Walker by Crystal Wood
$25.00
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Alchemy is dangerous, especially when your afterlife is on the line.
Echo discovers that Professor Dradon has gone missing in a land beyond the living. With rumors of a strange creature consuming the souls of the deceased, the cleric will risk everything to bring her former teacher back.
With the help of her best friend, the roguish halfling Finn, Echo forms a party of adventurers to find her former teacher. Complications arise when the party mistakenly traps Hale, a mysterious ranger with no memory of his past. Will Echo and Finn find a way to save the professor from a fate worse than death? Or will her dangerous alchemical experiments, no matter how well-intentioned, blow up in her face?
To Slay A God by Brian Fitzpatrick
$25.00
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Death isn’t as restful as they imagined.
When the god of pestilence invades their world, what else is there to do but assemble the most badass collection of fighters, spell casters, and divine protectors to slay the foul beast? For the heroes, Severina, Karas, and Heliosa, it turns out to be a very bad day. While they are ultimately victorious, they unfortunately find themselves dead.
That’s when the real adventure begins. Traversing the Sunless Crossing, they must adapt to a whole new world of souls, monsters, and destinies. Guided by Severina’s gargoyle protector, the group discovers the truth behind death and the afterlife.
Unbeknownst to them, a dark force also ended up in the Sunless Crossing—cult members hell-bent on resurrecting their fallen god.
Gathering allies and escaping local criminal elements, the heroes race to stop the cult—and their leader, known only as The Harbinger—from resurrecting a being that threatens not only the Sunless Crossing, but every living world connected to it.
Mortal Coils by Chris Durston | The Necromancer's Apprentice Book 1
$25.00
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How far will she go to earn her place in the Great Beyond?
When the necromancer Mara finds herself in purgatory, she only has two options: wait for her master to drag her back as an undead slave or find a way to pass on to whatever waits beyond.
But her afterlife won't come easy, not when her god's condition is that she must disturb the eternal rest of deities long buried. For Mara, who's spent the past ten years training to be a remorseless practitioner of the dark arts, reviving dead gods doesn't sound dubious at all, but she'll need help to accomplish the task.
Donations & Subscriptions
If you'd simply like to contribute to the ongoing maintenance and expansion of Relict, there are a couple ways to do that!
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Support the Patreon for the official Relict show, The Nyx Archive.
Patrons can get shout-outs, early access episodes, and access to our talkback show! Funds from this Patreon go towards equipment, software, and so on. 
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Support the Houndsong Games Patreon.
I'll be honest, I...haven't quite figured out what to do with this thing. We have a handful of diehard supporters on there (woo!) but the various reward schemes I've explored haven't really garnered much interest. But if you'd like to support Relict via this path, it is available - and I'm open to ideas! 
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