Downcrawl Adventure Zine #2: Where the Rock Stops

Where the Rock Stops is a 20-page minicampaign for Downcrawl in zine format. It takes you to a strange new Region at the lowermost ends of the Down. In the Clutchlands, cities and wilderlands cling desperately to an endless roof, suspended over a black and monstrous void. Some call it merely an oversized cavern. Others call it the end of the world. What adventure will you find here in the dark deeps, where the rock stops?

Downcrawl Adventure Zines can be played like a traditional module, but are also designed to work in Impromptu or Solo mode where there is no GM, and no one has read through the adventure in advance… effectively, a module that requires zero prep work!

Here’s how it works: the contents are divided into a series of printable cards corresponding to Moves you would ordinarily trigger while playing Downcrawl: moves like Plan a Journey, What’s the News? or Travel Encounter. You keep the cards face-down on the table: when you trigger a matching move, someone picks up that card and reads the hidden reverse side to learn a new piece of the ongoing story. In Guided mode (with a gamemaster), the GM can keep the cards totally secret behind the GM screen, using them as reminder triggers to advance the plot, or have them on the table to show the players what moves will trigger more plot, but read and reveal cards themselves.

The list of face-down cards shows you which moves will advance the story further, hinting what actions you might take next to progress. And the adventure is designed to integrate with your ongoing campaign: you’ll discover new secrets about Volumes you’ve already made and new NPCs from Folk you’ve invented at your own table.

Each Downcrawl Adventure Zine is its own set of special moves that can be played alone, gathered up and set aside for a while to put that plot thread on hold, or even shuffled together to play multiple Adventure Zines at once.

6″x9″ black and white zine printed on heavy paper (designed for cutting out story cards to use at the table).