Ramen Sandwich Press is coming back to crowdfunding to raise money for our next project, The Book of Plagues, an efficient, flexible way for making your player characters sick. It's designed for compatibility with Dungeons & Dragons (5th Edition and 2024) and Pathfinder (both 1E and 2E), but it can be adapted to any d20-based RPG system with some conceptual mapping and simple math.
The Book of Plagues will feature 30 or so IRL diseases, ranging from the potentially lethal (bubonic plague) to the merely irritating (swimmer's itch), with the chance of contracting it, circumstances under which you might contract it, incubation period and symptoms expressed in terms compatible with D&D 5E and 2024 as well as both editions of Pathfinder.
Why would you want to introduce diseases into your fantasy RPG campaign? Well, maybe your players are getting a little too high on the hog and you want to force them to spend some resources, like a spell slot committed to cure disease or having to spend gold on a cure from the local temple. Maybe they've been dawdling and you want to use the risk of influenza or cholera to urge them to leave an encampment or a comfortable urban dwelling. Maybe you just want to add a touch of grim realism to what is, after all, a pre-modern world. Diseases with a creature vector, like malaria or Lyme Disease, can add a dangerous bit of potency to certain encounters.
The Book of Plagues will launch on February 2 on both Backerkit and Kickstarter. On Backerkit, the campaign will be part of their Zinetopia 2026 event, and we will have cross-promotions going, one with Sneak Attack Press and another with Greedy Gorgon Press, for backers who back both our campaign and theirs. Follow us on either or both platforms to make sure notified when we launch!
The Book of Plagues will feature 30 or so IRL diseases, ranging from the potentially lethal (bubonic plague) to the merely irritating (swimmer's itch), with the chance of contracting it, circumstances under which you might contract it, incubation period and symptoms expressed in terms compatible with D&D 5E and 2024 as well as both editions of Pathfinder.
Why would you want to introduce diseases into your fantasy RPG campaign? Well, maybe your players are getting a little too high on the hog and you want to force them to spend some resources, like a spell slot committed to cure disease or having to spend gold on a cure from the local temple. Maybe they've been dawdling and you want to use the risk of influenza or cholera to urge them to leave an encampment or a comfortable urban dwelling. Maybe you just want to add a touch of grim realism to what is, after all, a pre-modern world. Diseases with a creature vector, like malaria or Lyme Disease, can add a dangerous bit of potency to certain encounters.
The Book of Plagues will launch on February 2 on both Backerkit and Kickstarter. On Backerkit, the campaign will be part of their Zinetopia 2026 event, and we will have cross-promotions going, one with Sneak Attack Press and another with Greedy Gorgon Press, for backers who back both our campaign and theirs. Follow us on either or both platforms to make sure notified when we launch!
