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OSRaon Icon Pack

OSRaon Icon Pack by cthos OSRaon Icon Pack is an asset pack designed for OSR map making. This top-down icon pack currently includes 177 icons across 17 categories: * Decoration * Misc * Bedroom * Bath * Camping * Dungeon * Weapons * Library * Nature * Storage * Seating * Kitchen * Temple * Sigils * Graveyard * Lighting * Forge The pack itself includes a

Ascention

This is part of a series of Ten Candles Settings we're sharing every Friday and Monday. Sign up for more! There are realms that you cannot perceive. Much like a two-dimensional character on a piece of paper can't comprehend a third dimension, so too do you find yourself in a

Digital Dreams

This is part of a series of Ten Candles Settings we're sharing every Friday and Monday. Sign up for more! The world ended in fire and smoke and your physical form along with it. Your digital form, however, endured. A small number of individuals, mostly scientists and the ultra-rich, uploaded

The Map Mine: Alchemist's Laboratory

The Map Mine: Alchemist's Laboratory

Every Wednesday Alex will walk through a map he's created and discuss some of the design choices behind it. Welcome to the 3rd episode (edition? post?) of the Map Mine. Today we'll be having a look at an example Alchemist/Necromancer's laboratory. It occurred to me as I was setting

+++ ESCAPE THE BLACK SHIP +++

+++ ESCAPE THE BLACK SHIP +++

This is part of a series of Ten Candles Settings we're sharing every Friday and Monday. Sign up for more! ATTENTION IMPERIAL CITIZEN / HERETIC. AS YOU KNOW, TEN DAYS AGO AFTER INITIATING WARP TRAVEL, BLACK SHIP ANGELLIUS ENCOUNTERED AN ANOMOLY. THE SHIP APPEARS TO HAVE EXITED THE WARP IN A

OSRaon Icon v1.4: The Laboratory Update

🔗This is crossposted over on the itch.io product page. Welcome to v1.4 the Laboratory update! As far as updates go, this is one of the smaller minor version updates, but it adds 10 icons: * Wrapped body * Pitcher * Test Tube Rack * Beaker * Pestle * Mortar * Pestle + Mortar * Burner * Toadstool * Fungal

Crossing the Threshold

Crossing the Threshold

This is part of a series of Ten Candles Settings we're sharing every Friday and Monday. Sign up for more! It's your second week on the job. Things have been really weird around here. Well, weirder than meeting a horrible demise and then immediately being pressed into service as a

The Map Mine: Chaos House

The Map Mine: Chaos House

Every Wednesday Alex will walk through a map he's created and discuss some of the design choices behind it. Alright, so this map... is an extremely obvious attempt to show the collection of icons from the OSRaon icon set. The rooms themselves make very little sense as a collection in

There is no Crisis in Ba Sing Se

There is no Crisis in Ba Sing Se

This is part of a series of Ten Candles Settings we're sharing every Friday and Monday. Sign up for more! We made it through the 100-year war by the strength of our walls. We made it through the assassination of the Earth Monarch Hou-Ting. We prospered under Kuvira and her

The Endless Records

The Endless Records

This is part of a series of Ten Candles Settings we're sharing every Friday and Monday. Sign up for more! Outside of time, at the edge of everything, there is a vast library. Held within is a record of every event that has ever occurred or will occur; in this

The Map Mine: The Small Library

The Map Mine: The Small Library

Every Wednesday Alex will walk through a map he's created and discuss some of the design choices behind it. For the first post in the series, we'll start with a super simple map: "The Small Library". This is an example room of a functional-library where some sort of fight took

The Hydrologean Depths

The Hydrologean Depths

This is part of a series of Ten Candles Settings we're sharing every Friday and Monday. Sign up for more! At the bottom of the ocean lies a cyclopean city, surrounded by an inexplicable dome of breathable air. A coalition of nations banded together to send a scientific expedition to

Neko no Mura (猫の村)

Neko no Mura (猫の村)

This is part of a series of Ten Candles Settings we're sharing every Friday and Monday. Sign up for more! Nestled at the base of Mt. Fuji is a village of contradictions. With one foot in the spirit world, Kami and Humans walk side-by-side on a daily basis only barely

Generation Ship Destiny

Generation Ship Destiny

This is part of a series of Ten Candles Settings we're sharing every Friday and Monday. Sign up for more! For 600 years, the generation ship Destiny has sailed the eternal darkness of space, home to the last remnants of humanity searching for a new home. Children learn to run

OSRaon Hex Tiles Launch

OSRaon Hex Tiles Launch

OSRaon Hex Tiles by cthos Hey friends! So, one of the things that became readily necessary as I was working on Fortress of Kelnor is that I needed to make a much simpler hex grid for the adventure. The one I'd started with was made in Inkarnate, which is awesome

Projects Update - April 22

Projects Update - April 22

Cthonicstudios project updates, April 2022

Corrupted Temple of Una

Corrupted Temple of Una

Release Date: TBD The temple of Una was built 1200 years ago at the height of the Blood Moon Tide as a place of refuge for all of those that had to flee when the Woods that Eat suddenly became more active, and the night things began appearing from the

Lucerna Tenebrae

Lucerna Tenebrae

Lucerna Tenebrae started as a simple way to play Ten Candles online. One of the most interesting aspects of running Ten Candles is with candles that can go out on their own. Tea lights in particular can have a run time of less than 4 hours, which means the pacing

Annalise Helper

Annalise Helper

Annalise is part of the ttrp.app suite of apps. Annalise Helper is a simple app for facilitating playing Annalise online. I originally created the system to manage passing out secrets between the players in an orderly fashion (I couldn't find a good system for shuffling the secrets around -

OSRaon Icon Pack

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OSRaon Icon Pack

OSRaon Icon Pack by cthos OSRaon Icon Pack is an asset pack designed for OSR map making. This top-down icon pack currently includes 177 icons across 17 categories: * Decoration * Misc * Bedroom * Bath * Camping * Dungeon * Weapons * Library * Nature * Storage * Seating * Kitchen * Temple * Sigils * Graveyard * Lighting * Forge The pack itself includes a

Fortress of Kelnor

Fortress of Kelnor

About four centuries ago, the Kingdom of Sanfjord controlled the only viable pass through the Norwald mountains. They stationed fortresses at either side of the pass, publicly to collect tolls and to defend against bandits. Privately, however, the southern fortress was created to protect and house the greatest treasure the