VAULTS OF VAARN #4 RELEASE

After a long gestation period, the fourth issue of the main Vaults of Vaarn zine series is finally available for purchase. Printed copies of the zine, along with special edition cassette tapes of the official soundtrack by Out On Our Own, can currently be purchased from my online store Antipode Zines.

I will be adding more retailers here as time goes on. I will also offer a Lulu POD edition, but it requires different formatting so I’m not doing that today.

This fourth installment takes readers beyond Vaarn’s sky-blue deserts to the Great Wall, a towering megastructure so large that it contains entire civilisations within its ancient, decaying bounds. The Wall is inspired by the superstructure depicted in Tsutomu Nihei’s manga Blame! and the overgrown industrial environments of the videogame Rain World.

The Wall can be used as a palette cleanser in a long-running Vaarn campaign, or it can be a campaign setting in itself, with the PCs hailing from the societies that have established themselves within the colossus. 

Inside Issue 04

• An introduction to the Wall and the cultures dwelling within.
• Campaign seeds, if you need excuses to involve the PCs in the affairs of the Wallborn.
• Three new PC Ancestries: the climbing Wallborn, fearsome feathered Harpies, and gas-filled Stratosfolk.
• Five factions that influence the Wall’s politics: the aristocratic Forty Families of Sargattea, the resolute Sargattean Guard, the cruel Royal Roost of Ostriel, the secretive Krypteia, and the mysterious, Wall-hating Levellers.
• Maps of the rival city-states of Sargattea and Ostriel.
• Wall travelling rules and procedures.
• 20 location generator tables to create a fully detailed Wall-crawl, including Beetle Ranches, Cloudspires, Hanging Jungles, Sky Pirate Dens, and more.
• A bestiary of 22 new Wall-dwelling monsters.
• Appendices, containing new rules for Vaarnish poisons and Alchemy.