The Phylactery is BACK! The creative team at Planet X Games has put together yet another issue and we're bringing the heat with an all new FOURTH installment. Its bigger, badder and louder in every respect, with the same heart and feel of the old school fantasy RPGs we grew up playing back in the day.

Every issue of The Phylactery is PACKED FULL with page after page of fantasy adventure, and The Phylactery 4 is no different! Every issue of The Phylactery is meant to be a quick and easy resource that you can pull ideas and plot hooks from for use directly at your gaming table. There’s no fluff in here and nothing padding out the page count - just pure old school goodness created exclusively for the fantasy gaming community. Like every issue, we have absolutely JAM-PACKED a ton of RPG goodness in here for you.

Includes:

• New Adventure Locations like Hellgrim Hall, The Citadel of the Broken Pact and The Temple of the Eye, illustrated by Alex Damaceno and Dan Smith
• Forgotten Secrets of the Deepearth - What Lurks Beneath the Sunlit World?
• Heresies of Pain - Tuon, the God of Torment (Including All-New Spells and Magical Items)
• Evil Books and Eldritch Tomes
• Secrets from the Lich's Crypt
• TWENTY Wildly Strange Rumors Overheard in Raucous Festhalls, Lonesome Taverns and Wayward Inns Across the Land
• An All-New Selection of Forgotten Gods, Lost Deities and Minor Godlings
• FOUR All-New, Fully Illustrated Monsters 

The Team:

Dedicated to Doug Rhea

Written by Levi Combs, John Larson, and Ian McGarty
Color cover by Ed Bickford
Interior art and contributions by Ed Bickford, Cheese Hasselberger, Lawrence Hernandez, Adrian Landeros, Je Shields, Dan Smith, and Eric Smith
Cartography: Alex Damaceno Dan Smith
Layout: Tracey Steele
8GDWS: Casey Christofferson
Bitchin’ Space Camaro: Lawrence Hernandez
Layout and design by Tracey Steele

Publisher: Planet X Games

48 pages, saddle-stitched zine, 5.5 x 8.5, color cover, black & white interior. PDF included. 

Check out the other Phylactery Issues and more from Planet X Games!

Nine lives to stalk the earth!

Nine times to die with sword in paw!

Nine Lives to Valhalla!

You are a death metal viking cat, earning your place in the drinking halls of Valhalla by casting a wake of blood and carnage upon the blighted earth in each of your 9 lives. Guided personally by DEATH, your merry band will leave a wake of ruin ending only at the hands of a truly worthy foe. Find treasures, trade with merchants, mercenaries, or ghosts, and follow DEATH to seek worthy foes, fiendish traps, and ensure your place among the greatest warriors of catkind!

About the game:

Key Features:

• An original rule set designed for high speed carnage across a post-human landscape, playing as a member of a cat warband or DEATH itself, where every roll of the dice is a life on the line - sometimes even the GM’s!
• All new original art depicting the inhabitants of the Age of Beasts including cat vikings, mouse knights, and leash-worshipping dog sorcerers!
• A full spate of blessings from the Panthera Pantheon for your Cat to earn through glorious death, including Witches Sight, Rustum’s Darting Flame, and Eyes that Burn as Stars!
• Everything you need to make magickal, armored, giant, and tricky foes on the fly, from hummingbird assassins to skeletal dragons.
• Guidance on how to discuss tone, establish boundaries, and adjust situations on the fly to help all players enjoy an evening of outrageous ultra-violence.
• A printable character sheet with combat reference to track your warrior cat's blessings, deaths, and hated nemesis.
• A full pantheon of great cats, a world of strangers and traders, and plenty of treasure to drive your game!"

The Team:

Written by Kali Lawrie and Dan Phipps.

 32 pages, A5 saddle stitched zine, color throughout. Includes PDF.

Also check out the adventure for 9 Lives to Valhalla, The Wreck of the Murderous! 

Die Hard meets Alien in this thrilling escape from a hijacked station, made for the Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG.

In Dying Hard on Hardlight Station, your team of grizzled PCs will be torn between saving friends locked in the Healthtek facility or crawling to freedom in the vents of the corporate-controlled Hardlight Station, all while avoiding capture by the brutal Blackshield Mercenary Company. However, unbeknownst to all, Blackshield’s invasion has caused the containment protocols at the Healthtek facility to malfunction. Now, in the bowels of the station, something horrible has awoken, and, after a long, torturous sleep, hungers to feed.

Dying Hard on Hardlight Station is a 28-page, full-colour adventure zine designed to work as a one-shot, mini-series, or as a part of your ongoing Mothership (or any other Sci-Fi RPG) campaign. Its control panel layout is table-ready and packed with efficient, evocative details big on imagination and light on overlong prose; each page is stuffed with unique locations, scheming NPCs, and terrifying horrors on the hunt. A night on Hardlight Station is one you won’t soon forget.

Sci-fi mayhem and a horde of haunting horrors await in the pages of Dying Hard on Hardlight Station, including:

• Four Station Locations - Mapped out and loaded with loot tables, adventure hooks, custom encounters, and interesting NPCs. 
• Three Original Factions - The Blackshield Mercenary Company, Station Administration Nakatomi Solutions Inc, and Healthtek AG with their ravening Alien Hybrids. Each vying to come out on top in the battle for the station.
•  The Hardlight Station Gazetteer - a guidebook filled with shops, entertainments, NPCs and jobs for your crew... should anyone survive the initial adventure. 
• Custom Art and Professional Design - bringing the whole adventure alive in glorious red, black, and white.
• Hardlight Radio - Three emergency broadcasts, two sci-fi Christmas carols, and three ambient remixes totalling 8 original audio tracks to enhance your games. 
• GM Screen and Printable Maps - A digital GM reference for key factions and NPCs along with printable maps for your home or virtual tabletop.

• Adventure The Horror on Tau Sigma 7 - included in the Limited Edition print run only of Dying Hard on the Hardlight Station

Credits:

Choose from 2 options:

Dying Hard on Hardlight Station - Standard 1E Edition Zine +PDF

28 pages, A5 zine, stable bound, full color. PDF included. 

Dying Hard on Hardlight Station Bundle - Standard 1E Edition Zine + decrypted/the.nakatomi.papers Zine + PDF

• Dying Hard on Hardlight Station 1E Standard Edition:

28 pages, A5 zine, stable bound, full color. PDFs included. 

• decrypted/the.nakatomi.papers Zine - An in-world bonus zine packed with even more original art, compelling story hooks, new monsters, lore, and NPCs for your games. 

32 pages, A5 zine, stable bound, full color. PDF included.