Downcrawl 1E

** A new edition of Downcrawl is live now!! Find out how to get in on the revised and expanded version of the game, with improved rules and mechanics, gorgeous new art, and tons of great extras! **

Downcrawl is a tabletop roleplaying engine to help gamemasters run randomly generated, open-ended adventures in a weird and fantastical underworld called The Deep, Deep Down: a place so far from the surface that the sun and sky are only legends, and so vast that no bounds can be placed on its dimensions or contents.

Compatible with any fantasy roleplaying system, Downcrawl contains rules for taking dangerous journeys through unmapped places, tables of fungi with curious effects, procedures for GMs to generate strange new peoples, places, and encounters, and tips for running a satisfying, spontaneous campaign when your players might explore in any of six directions. Oh, and huge intelligent spiders who eat faces. Watch out for those.

• Gives GMs tools to create player-driven hexcrawls that maintain a sense of wonder and narrative momentum
• Roll dice to generate weird, story-rich Volumes for players to explore
• Each volume contains strange new intelligent creatures, and there's a generator for those too
• A Random Encounter generator that focuses on strange situations rather than yet another monster
• A full Journey system for underground expeditions
• Rules put the focus of rolls on Success or Complications, rather than Success or Failure
• Learn to forage for fungi and enjoy their many curious effects, or seek out a Fungal Druggist to get a more potent variety, with only a small chance of all-consuming addiction 
• Tips on running a campaign in an infinite world where languages, races, money, and maps are always changing

*** This free version of Downcrawl contains the rules and majority of the content in HTML. The full version of game, with art, additional examples of play, and more sample Folk and Volumes, is available in print and PDF from DriveThruRPG. ***