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In the Shadow of Tower Silveraxe   - Fantasy Roleplaying Adventure Module
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Dredge   - A solo journaling game about sailing eldritch waters and pulling up odd items.
Dungeon Goons   - A Classic Fantasy Hack for Tunnel Goons.
Fogheart: The Torso of The Giant King   - A setting and adventure for Cairn and OSE
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Mothership: The Haunting of Ypsilon 14   - Miners are going missing aboard the Ypsilon-14... solve the mystery in this pamphlet module before you get disappeared!
Moonlight on Roseville Beach   - A Queer Game of Disco & Cosmic Horror
Carrion Protocol   - There's Something Wrong in the Meat Lab
The Pried Eye: A Trophy Dark Incursion   - Step into cosmic body horror and ego death
Bork Cthorg   - Play as animals in the cosmic horror setting of Cthork Borg.
WuDe - The Five Powers SRD   - A setting agnostic Cooperative Storytelling Game + SRD
Into The Wyrd and Wild   - Wilderness Horror Setting for D&D and the OSR
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