Grim Lands Adventure

“Terrible things happening in the most distant borderlands,” says the emperor. “Odd monsters occur there, we’ve lost outposts under unknown circumstances, and dark sects seem to gather. In short, we know nothing for sure, but people desperately call for help. So I send you, my best scout! Do not interfere, just write the most thorough report. Power will be used then.”

Will you adopt this story and delve into scouting, followed by adventuring? - The pack consists of 54 poker cards with dark fantasy encounter/location artworks and blank flip sides on which you can write, setting stats of the creatures and events, in one phase, followed by the second phase, when you try to beat the danger you created (i.e. “scouted” from the story's perspective). You get useful instructions in the "rules" document that you can also check out here before purchasing...

...Or will you rather use these 54 grimdark pictures for any other purposes of yours?

You can do both in the end! – Only one thing needed: a bit of experience with RPG or Gamebook playing, and maybe having some TTRPG books ready. Mork Borg is recommended, but you can go with any dark fantasy system!

Eventually, you can just take this thing as a card-form artbook of the artist known as Droned Artworks who contributed to a row of third-party Mork Borg supplements and makes album cover art mostly for Doom Metal and Dungeon Synth bands.

For a price lower than one coffee you get here:

• 54 poker-sized picture cards on 7 pages of A4/US Letter compatible layout depicting dark fantasy creatures, NPCs, locations, boss-type villains, castles, fight groups, etc., with blank flip sides,
• a cover art sticker in two different sizes, 1× the same size as the cards, 1× postcard size (2 times bigger) that you can stick on a box you may have,
• a 2page PDF document with rules that you can print on one sheet and store folded in the box,
• a layout of 8 blank poker cards on one page for the case you like to print your writing instead of handwriting.

A few tips:

• Finding a little bigger box is recommended so you could store more things than just cards in it, for example, dice, character sheets, and other things you may need, based on what system you use with this game.
• As a game master, you can use the cards when preparing a scenario for your players, both as an inspirational source, random encounter/event generator, or anything you can think of.
• If you are by chance a fan of the DOOM PILGRIM board game you can now build your own mutation of DOOM PILGRIM for you or your friends - you get the pictures here and now you can try to add story/game effects to each picture as it was done when DOOM PILGRIM was being created. In fact, the Grim Lands Adventure idea came when I saw how keen people were to house-rule DOOM PILGRIM.
• Grim Lands Adventure is available also in the physical version, with the only difference there is a hook box with rules written on it instead of the rules document.
• This project is not very compatible with laminating the cards. But if you insist on laminating, you can do it after statting the cards. (See in the rules what I mean.)