The Potato King
A downloadable TTRPG module
Presentation
The Potato King is a scenario for the tabletop roleplaying game Liminal Horror that I am trying to craft during Zine Month. It tell the grotesque story of an elder god being fried and served to the people of a small town through the greasy fast food stand of the Potato King. Eating the fried cosmic entity expose the local inhabitants to strange events and beings that the player characters can investigate.
The scenario will be playable in 3 different modes: occult investigation, slices of life horror and single session survival horror.
I need financing to finish writing the module, do additional illustrations and to hire a text editor and a layout artist.
What's in The Potato King:
- A playable horror scenario written for Liminal Horror but also playable with other occult investigation roleplaying games.
- Occult investigation mode: how to run the Potato King like a classic occult investigation, where characters investigate an occult mystery and try to prevent something horrible to happen.
- Slices of life horror: how to run the Potato King as a series of vignettes that affect the personal life of the player characters. In this playmode, inspired by the manga Uzumaki, the focus is not on the investigation but on how the horror change the life of the characters.
- Survival horror: how to run the Potato King as a single session one shot event that focus on surviving through the night.
- Pre generated player characters: a set of six pregenerated characters directly tied to the local town and it mystery.
- Original illustrations made in my distinctive style.
LIMINAL HORROR (TTRPG )
The Potato King is a third party adventure module for Liminal Horror (a modern hack of Cairn), it is a rules-lite, fail forward TTRPG system. The core rules can be accessed a few different ways:
- PDF version can be purchased on it's itch.io page.
- A free web-based version can be found here.
- A physical + pdf can be purchased at Exalted Funeral.
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ITCHFUNDING
What is itchfunding?
Itchfunding is when a game designer uses the sale feature of itch to crowdfund an unfinished project. This acts as an alternative to other platforms (such as Kickstarter). All funds collected can be used even if the goal it not achieved, creating flexibility for the creator. and the project.
What do you get when you back?
You will receive a first draft of The Potato King. The day one PDF file present the skeleton of the mystery but I still have a lot of writing to do and stats blocks to complete.
What do you get soon?
There are a few items in development currently (as of 02/02/22) that should be released in the next few weeks:
- Updates of the main PDF that present the mystery.
- Stats blocks for the different antagonists of the mystery.
- Set of 6 pre generated player characters.
- Guidelines for the three modes of plays.
- An art package that enable to easily share the illustrations of the PDF with the players.
What funding will do?
Funding will allow me to finish writing the module, draw more illustrations, hire a text editor and a layout artist to craft the final PDF.
What about a physical version?
The ultimate goal of this campaign is to create a beautiful PDF file that I will be able to use to do a print run . I plan to do the print run in collaboration with Exalted Funerals, the current publishers of Liminal Horror. If the printed product interest you, you will have to order it separately later as it is is not included in the itchfunding campaign.
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LOGISTICS
FUNDING GOAL = $1000
Additional Stretch Funds may include:
- Stat blocks for different occult investigation games.
- A set of alternative characters creation random tables for Liminal Horror
- A fallout random table customized for the mystery.
- Local town map.
- The menu of the Potato King fast food stand.
Timeline:
- End of February: fully playable second draft of the module.
- End of March: final draft.
- End of April: final PDF with all the illustrations and the layout.
- May: using the final PDF to do a print run.
What happens if it doesn't fund?
I will still produce the final playable PDF version but I may end up having to do the layout myself which will greatly slow me down and may discourage me from doing a print run.
Content Warning
This module has the following content warnings for death, violence, hallucinations, food addiction, peer pressure and body horror. I am trying to be careful not to link the body horror to weight loss or gain.
Status | In development |
Category | Physical game |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (15 total ratings) |
Author | Evlyn |
Genre | Adventure |
Tags | cosmic-horror, liminal-horror, Mystery, scenario, Tabletop role-playing game |
Purchase
In order to download this TTRPG module you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $6.50 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- Playtest and soon to work on final draftJun 17, 2022
- The Second DraftApr 02, 2022
- March UpdateMar 02, 2022
- Work in ProgressFeb 21, 2022
- Video presentations of my Zine Month projectFeb 04, 2022
Comments
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is the final version still coming anytime soon
My plan is to try to finish it as I finish the Tales from the Void pamphlet adventure.
What a great adventure!
Used the second draft to run this with one player and me GM'ing, and it was great! Every character is so fleshed out it was so easy for me to prep the game, and to find any additional information my player wanted to know that i missed.
Loved the art style as it was the main reason why i got this !
The Potato King is fully financed! Thanks everyone! I am looking forward writing a proper playable version. :)
Making good progress! Thanks everyone, we can do it. :) :)
50% funded! I will try to write a second draft this weekend. :)
This looks amazing! I'm ordering a copy now, and here's to meeting the funding goals!
Excited to finally see this come to fruition after seeing the hints to its existence!
If you end up falling short of funding goals (however unlikely), I’d be more than happy to do layout free of charge, if you have no interest in doing it yourself. Goblin Archives and I are teaming up for the next “official” Liminal Horror adventure, so I’m already buried in that mindset.
This sounds so totally up my alley! What a wonderfully weird premise (and great art)! Backed and boosted on social media!
I guess I should finally buy Liminal Horror too!
I hope to update the draft around February 9 to make it more playable.