Heresy of Steel
Heresy of Steel
The "Heresy of Steel" adventure sets the stage for a story filled with eldritch horrors, political intrigue, and moral dilemmas. Your party finds themselves aboard a speeding train carrying both a curse and a chance at salvation. As the train hurtles towards Luyarnha, you become entangled in a web of dark secrets, eldritch mysteries, and perilous confrontations.
Uncover the sinister machinations of Malach, the Angel of Flesh, as he manipulates the city's factions to sow chaos and further his twisted agenda. Navigate the complex political landscape of Luyarnha, where the Radiant Church, the Scions, and the Forsaken vie for power amidst rising tensions.
Personal Missions
"Heresy of Steel" puts your characters' backgrounds and personal missions (which are built before the adventure begins) at the forefront. Each character's backstory is woven into the narrative, providing opportunities for growth, revelation, and—sometimes—heart-wrenching decisions. Will you unravel the mystery of your ancestry, confront the sinister forces that haunt your dreams, or expose the heretical truth that threatens to shatter your faith?
Branching Paths
We don't like railroading. This adventure takes its time to give implications and rewards to players for approaching problems creatively and making their own allegiances throughout the adventure. Your choices and decisions will have far-reaching consequences, shaping the fate of the city and its inhabitants.
Requirements
To embark on this journey, you'll need the 5th Edition core rulebooks or the freely available System Reference Document (SRD) and Basic Rules. Additionally, Steinhardt's Guide to the Eldritch Hunt is a necessary resource as it offers the rules for madness, the monsters, trick weapons and spells that your players will encounter.
This PDF contains:
- The first 4 parts of the adventure
- 120+ pages of content
- Dozens of sessions worth of gameplay
Join us from the beginning: your purchase includes all future updates as they release. The adventure's price will increase as substantial new content is added, but early supporters lock in the launch price.
Do you have what it takes to unravel the secrets of Luyarnha and turn the tide against the darkness, or will you fall victim to the city's impending doom? Find out in "Heresy of Steel" the heart-pounding beginning of an unforgettable adventure.
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What is Steinhardt's Guide?
Steinhardt's Guide to the Eldritch Hunt is a 491 page grimoire fusing Soulsborne and Lovecraftian inspirations for 5th-edition DnD.
Enhance your 5E game with nightmarish monsters, eldritch moons, and the ever-looming threat of madness. Create an unforgettable narrative as you lay waste to eldritch spawn with an arsenal of trick weapons, blasphemous magic, and twisted player options.
A World Turned Upside Down
Entrance your players as they unravel the mystery of the ravaged First Hunters, the zealous Radiant Church, and the erudite Obitus Scholare in this victorian-flavored, grimdark setting. Luyarnha is a city on the brink. With a ready-made cast of characters and an unending list of trials, your players will find ample opportunity to become the heroes these soiled streets need or die trying.
Lunar Lunacy
Alter the world around your players with a single die roll; the fires of a scorching moon can turn Luyarnha’s streets into an inferno, while a sanguine moon’s bloody malice can incense even the calmest of pacifists into furious feats of passion. Create an unpredictable and ever-changing landscape usingSteinhardt’sMoon Phases mechanic. Theeight eldritch moons’ distorting influence begets a new chaos and calamity with each cycle.
Madness or Death
Watch as your players descend into an otherworldly insanity using the revamped madness system.
Steinhardt’s Guide integrates madness as a core mechanic in the monsters you fight, the traps you trigger, and the bewildering moons upon which you gaze. Embrace the beneficial, detrimental, and entirely obscene madness effects that more than 10x the number of options from the base 5E rules.
Nightmares Made Flesh
Play as Scourgeborne, beings who never fully succumbed to the plague, Manikin, porcelain marionettes with a nervous system of gold, or any of the other dozen race options. Evolve your characters using the extracted essence of the eldritch scourge you vanquish! However, beware sacrificing too much of your dwindling humanity lest you become like your fallen comrades, men-turned-beasts.
Spawn Slayers
Weave gunpowder and the arcane with the Pact of the Trigger Warlock, turn bones into playthings as an Osteomancer Wizard, and marshall the maddening moons’ powers as a Ranger of the Lunar Conclave.
Trick Weapons
Trick Weapons are a shape-changing arsenal of armaments that enhance your hunters’ versatility. Fire yourmeat hookshot, latch onto the enemy, pull yourself to point blank range, then blow off their face as you switch your weapon to a blunderbuss, one of several revamped firearms.
F.A.Q
What is included in the PDF/Book ?
This supplement brings a hoard of new content to your 5e game:
- Rules for Eldritch Moons that corrupt the world.
- A system for Trick Weapons & Firearms which you can transform in the middle of battle for deadly power.
- A brand new ruleset for Madness with over 300 random effects!
- 64 destructive spells and a new magic: 'Osteomancy', granting you power over flesh & bones.
- 50+ macabre monsters, fallen comrades and spawns of the Old Ones.
- 50+ illustrated magic items & trick weapons.
- 19 twisted races and subraces.
- 17 new subclasses for your standard classes.
- A new class: the Jaeger, inspired by Bloodborne's Hunter, with 4 subclasses.
- 13 gorgeous maps.
- 5 nightmarish adventures.
- All the lore needed to craft a bloody, gothic campaign with your friends
All of this for a total of 491 pages of insanity! Get it today!
What is in the Digital Asset Bundle?
The Digital Asset Bundle (DAB) contains all of the standalone files you need to bring your gothic adventures to the next level!
These include everything to "make making your own VTT package easy":
- Tokens for every new enemy.
- High-resolution versions of all the battlemaps.
- Full Art Bundle: High-resolution monster illustrations, Eldritch Moon tarot cards, character art, sketches, and printable field notes to give to players on the hunt.
- Character Sheets for your players, including a unique one for the new Jaeger class.
- A free copy of the GM Cheatbook, this one is on the house!
What's in the VTT Package?
- Fully implemented stat blocks and tokens for every enemy, as well as spells and subclasses!
- Enhanced functionality for the battlemaps with walls and lighting, as well as all the creatures you’ll need for each level bracket of each adventure, ready to drop in.
- Handouts for all the spells and items in the book, as well as the lore, landscapes, sketches, creature and NPC art, and the monster field notes.
- Integrated trick weapons for your players. (Especially with the latest version of Foundry VTT, now each weapon transforms at the click of a button.)
Foundry VTT, Roll20, Fantasy Grounds
Do you play online, on platforms like Foundry VTT, Roll20, or Fantasy Grounds? You can get Steinhardt's on those platforms! Click the links for details.