300+ pages of 5E arcane lore await! Hags, lairs, witches, covens, subclasses, playable races, spells, items, and heaps more!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
🧙 Hags Tested & Nightwing’s Reveal + Want to Run a Hag Arena? We’re Looking for You! 🎭
about 1 year ago
– Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 03:27:13 PM
🌒 Beloved Acolytes—The Dream Is Taking Shape!
The cauldron is bubbling, the quills are scribbling, and the hags are howling... with delight—because we’ve got another enchanting update on Tome of Hags!
🧪 First Round of Playtesting—Complete!
We’ve just wrapped up the first round of internal playtesting, and the results? Wickedly promising! Our brave testers dove headfirst into the mire of curses, claws, and chaos, and came out haggier (and happier) than ever. We’re now handing off our most challenging hags to a team of professional designers and playtesters for a final round of tweaks and revisions. These are the big ones—the mechanics that twist reality, haunt your party’s dreams, or break every polite table rule in the best possible way.
🎭 Calling All Charismatic DMs!
Want to be part of the magic? We’re looking for a sharp, experienced, and engaging DM who is not camera-shy to help us run a few playtest arena sessions on Discord. If you’ve got the flair to tame hags and lead brave adventurers through nightmare realms, we’d love to hear from you.
📬 Email your DM portfolio to [email protected] and tell us why you’re the one for the job!
🎨 A Peek from the Shadows: Meet the Nightwing Hag
Art production is almost complete, but a few shadowy figures are still sneaking in under the wire. Behold our latest creation: the Nightwing Hag—a two-faced shapeshifter that drifts between dreams, nightmares, and reality-warping magic.
Pro tip: Try flipping the image upside down. She sees you either way. 👁️👁️
📚 More Previews Coming Soon
With playtesting nearly wrapped, we’re preparing to share more early resources with you very soon. Your feedback on the Shadowveil subspecies was incredible—thank you! We can't wait to hear what you think of the upcoming content.
👑 Citizen and Hero-level backers, keep an eye on your exclusive Discord channel—a preview set of subclasses is dropping there in a few days! Not in the Discord yet? Come join us!
🔮 Everyone else will get access shortly after—hag magic loves to spread... just like smallpox.
Thank you again for your unwavering support, brilliant feedback, and for being part of this wild coven we’re building together. We’ll be back soon with more updates, reveals, and sneak peeks from the Tome.
Wind guide you, 💜 Quill & the Tome of Hags Team
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Creators' Corner
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Following the success of their first campaign, Murders at Lorelahc Manor, Andie from MargoMods is launching a new heroic ecohorror project for D&D 5E that uses real-world biology, ecology, and environmental science as inspiration for epic, world-altering invasive species for your campaigns! Exoecology for Monster Hunters includes a boss bestiary with 6+ adjustable bosses, 30+ new enemies, 40+ new monster-themed items, 6+ new subclasses, rules for joining 4 monster hunting guilds, and a level 2–8 campaign that pits your party against invasive species from other planes! This book will be compatible with D&D 5E and D&D 2024 and will have fully integrated VTT modules, printed item cards, and more!
Fighting Fantasy aficionados - Arion Games is teaming up with Hod Publishing to bring Advanced Fighting Fantasy RPG 2nd Edition to Foundry Virtual Tabletop! Whether you're a die-hard fan or just discovering the magic of AFF, get ready to dive into epic quests and experience a timeless adventure in a whole new way!
The folks at Hod Publishing are the same ones behind our VTT content, and they create incredible, high-fidelity conversions of tabletop RPG content into Foundry VTT modules. Their approach focuses on accuracy and usability, ensuring that what you see in the original book is faithfully recreated inside Foundry, with only minor adaptations for better digital gameplay. They are a guarantee that these VTT modules will be an absolute banger!
If you like Fighting Fantasy and virtual tabletop adventures, this campaign is for you: check it out!
Tariffs, Timelines & Tomecraft – The Latest from the Coven! 🔮
about 1 year ago
– Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 02:10:19 PM
Beloved Acolytes, 🕯️
The coven has been busy, and it’s time to pull back the veil and let you see what’s brewing inside Satzija’s Tome of Hags!
We’re thrilled to report that the manual is nearly complete—the last major piece, our adventure Fate of the Raven Hag, is currently in production, and the artwork is nearly finished. The book is beginning to look like the grim, yet gorgeously colorful grimoire we’ve always envisioned—and we think you're going to love it.
Here's a new preview - the Mountain Hag!
Behind the scenes, professional playtesting is in full swing, making sure our mechanics are balanced, flavorful, and fun. And guess what? We’re preparing a new piece of playtest material just for you, which will be released very soon. Get your dice ready. 🎲
(PS: exclusive playtesting materials will be given to our Discord community members as well, so make sure to join if you'd like to see what we have in store for our Discordian side of the coven!)
In terms of overall production, things are moving steadily and confidently forward. We're still on track to meet our original October 2025 fulfillment goal. We’re not rushing—we’re crafting, refining, and obsessing over every word, stat block, and ink stroke to give you a truly special book.
🧾 Let's Talk Tariffs (But Keep It Light)
We’ve had a few questions about potential tariff impacts, especially with recent changes in international trade. Since we've planned to use print-on-demand (likely Lulu, to ensure prints of the highest quality) from the beginning, we’re in a good position. This means we won’t be importing massive print runs from overseas, and we’ll avoid some of the most punishing fees.
That said, POD providers like Lulu may still adjust pricing based on materials and hardware tariffs. It's too early to know exactly how things will shake out, but rest assured—we’re watching it closely, and we remain optimistic. 🪶
All our projects are more than just a product for us—they are a love letter to worldbuilding and DnD at large. No matter what happens, we’re committed to delivering a best-in-class resource, from writing to layout, from mechanics to magic.
If you know our work, you know what we stand for: quality, creativity, and community. That won’t change. This tome will be rich, wild, and beautifully wicked—just like the hags who inspired it.
Thank you, as always, for your trust and support. We couldn’t ask for a more inspiring coven to build this with.
Wind guide you, 💜 Quill & the Tome of Hags Team
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Creators' Corner
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Ethical Dilemmas - Because "kill everything" gets boring fast
Rich Narrative Seeds - Each encounter can spark entire side quests
Worldbuilding Elements - Seamlessly expand your setting while traveling
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These are the kinds of gaming supplements we actually USE at our own tables. No fluff, no filler - just immediately useful content that makes our games better.
🌑 Shadowveil Subspecies Are Ready to Playtest—We Want Your Feedback!
about 1 year ago
– Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 06:37:59 AM
Beloved Acolytes,
The veil stirs again... and we've got something beautifully cursed for you to behold. 🎭
More art is rolling in, and today, you get to feast your eyes on the newest addition to our growing gallery—the mysterious and mesmerizing Curseweaver Bard! 💙
Thanks again for your incredible feedback. As you can see, it made a huge difference!
But wait... there’s more! The Shadowveil subspecies for all SRD species are now ready for playtesting! 🌑 Want to explore the hags' demiplane as a glamour elf or a high orc? This is your chance to dive in and help shape their final form.
💬 Feel free to leave your thoughts and suggestions directly in the doc as comments!
Also—we’ve heard your whispers in the coven. Several of you have asked for kobold and goblin subspecies, as well as unique new lineages. We’re all ears! If you want to vote for your favourites or pitch your own, we’ve set up a form just for that:
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🧿 The College of the Curseweaver Needs Your Eye for Detail!
over 1 year ago
– Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 06:02:28 AM
🔮 Beloved Acolytes,
Behold! A new illustration needs your feedback!
The time has come for your keen eye 🧿🧿 to shape our next incredible illustration for Tome of Hags! This time, we're unveiling the College of the Curseweaver Bard, the ultimate master of hexes and curses! 🎭✨
To create the visuals of this new subclass, we drew inspiration from Mediterranean folklore—from the watchful blue eye beads covering her garments to makeup echoing the Eye of Horus. And, of course, no curse-wielding jester would be complete without the sign of the horns, an ancient gesture meant to ward off (or channel) misfortune.
But we need your input! Which pose, clothing, and expression best captures the spirit of this cunning, spellbinding trickster?
Let us know your thoughts in the comments! 🖌️🧿
PS: only three days to back Bibi's Stolen Hearts Club. We are less than $100 away from unlocking a new Rogue subclass - Heartrenderer!
For half a century, a blood pact between the local vampire coven and the roaming werewolf pack has kept the people in Saltby village safe. However, the pact must be renewed every seventh year. This is a dangerous time, and the fragile alliance is in peril when the mayor’s daughter is suddenly missing! You must unravel the mystery before dawn to save the alliance. Should you fail, lovers will turn enemies, and more blood will be spilt under the full moon. A night filled with mysteries, intrigues, and dark romance awaits you at Wightcliff Castle.
Until Death Do Us Part is a Gothic romance & mystery adventure inspired by Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, for the world’s largest roleplaying game (5e).
You’ll get the following: ➛ A Gothic romance & mystery adventure inspired by Bram Stoker! ➛ The compendium Creatures of the Night, featuring all unlocked stretch goals and more ➛ Six premade characters so that you can start the game straight away ➛ Gorgeous character sheets with illustrations with a dark romance theme designed by Bookwyrmling ➛ Free VTT pack with tokens, maps, and digital handouts for online gaming
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🎨 Sneak Peek: Oath of Endings Paladin & New Playable Species!
over 1 year ago
– Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 09:32:29 AM
🔮 Beloved Acolytes,
The Coven has spoken! The votes are in, and the winning pose for the Shark Hag is… Option A! 🦈✨ Our artist is already hard at work finalizing the piece, and we can’t wait to share the finished version with you soon!
In the meantime, how about a sneak peek at the Oath of Endings Paladin, brought to life thanks to your votes?
Behold!
Thanks to you, this fearsome, wickedly dark knight is everything we envisioned—sleek, relentless, and stealthy as hell!
We know how frustrating it is when a project delivers gorgeous cover art but underwhelming visual content overall—we’ve been there as backers and collectors ourselves. That’s why we’re committed to making Tome of Hags a feast for your eyes, from cover to cover. No shortcuts. No compromises. Just top-tier art and design, worthy of the eerie majesty of hags.
And speaking of amazing art, feast your eyes on this early draft of our new playable species—the raxisi!
Initially designed by our incredibly talented lead artist, Cat, and now redeveloped by our amazing friend Spikulec, these small hag-made "monstrosities" (a DnD term, not mine—lol) are filled with intelligence, charm, and potential. We can't wait to share more details soon!
📜 Final Call for Surveys!
If you haven’t completed your Kickstarter survey, now’s the time! Please check your inbox and submit your answers ASAP, especially if your pledge includes a commission, spell, or item adoption. The sooner we have your details, the sooner we can bring your vision to life!
Thank you again for your incredible support and enthusiasm. You make this journey magical!
Wind guide you,
Quill & the Tome of Hags Team
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Creators' Corner
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WELCOME TO IMMORTALS A dark fantasy campaign setting that paints a grim reimagining of Ancient Mythic Greece, based on the 5E system and written by the Greek studio of Black Lantern.
Join the world and delve into a land where myth and horror dance together! Explore a vast and rich wilderness full of dangerous beasts and fabled relics. Battle with Titan minions, defend Olympus or assist in its destruction, defy Kronos and Zeus alike, and carve your own path to immortality!
What's included:
New Magic System (Aether): Uses the breath of the Gods to cast powerful spells inspired by Greek mythology.
Hubris & Glory System:
Hubris: Boosts abilities but anger the Gods if overused, leading to divine punishment.
Humans – Ambitious builders of civilization, highly adaptable.
Centaurs – Former rulers of the wilds, now warriors against Tartarus' horrors.
Hephaestians – Fire-forged artisans, descended from Pandora, striving for immortality through craft.
Tartarians – Titan-blooded wanderers seeking redemption and glory.
Nymphs – Ethereal guardians of nature, preserving their sacred lands.
Satyrs – Mischievous mystics and storytellers, eager to be remembered.
Classes & Subclasses:
New Magos Class: A spellcaster wielding aether.
20+ Subclasses, including:
Polemarch (Barbarian) – Blends fury with tactical prowess.
Oracle (Cleric) – Interprets the fates’ will.
Myrmidon (Fighter) – Masters of intricate combat maneuvers.
Rhapsode (Bard) – Uses epic poetry to inspire allies.
New Backgrounds: Combine personal, racial, and class backgrounds to craft a unique character origin, with tailored options for different roleplay styles.
New Feats & Magic Items: Introduces heroic feats and legendary items that grow in power alongside your character's renown.
All-Encompassing Experience: A dark yet vibrant setting where the Second Titanomachy rages, Olympus faces ruin, and Tartarus spills into the world—calling heroes to shape destiny.
