Chthonic Codex (d20)
Underground Magic Academentia!
Mysteric Religions & Initiation Rituals!
Magic¸ Murder and an iridescent lake of Mana Tar!
Chthonic Codex is about the dangerous world of fantasy academia¸ complete with drunken students¸ Devouring Idols¸ Initiation Rituals¸ crotchety Savants¸ and the Hypogea¸ a truly wondruous subterranean environment.
Play a magic academy student¸ a teacher¸ a stranger visiting the Hypogea. Find out that¸ despite the dangerous and scary subterranean environment¸ humanity is always the real problem.
Chthonic Codex is campaign sandbox setting for Swords & Wizardry¸ Adventure Fantasy Game¸ and other Old School games.
Dozens of new monsters and their role in the campaign setting.
New magic rules¸ mana-based system¸ completely new spell lists¸ spell research.
New magic schools: Fire Dervishes¸ Chimerists¸ Gatekeepers¸ Stargazers¸ Orthodox Necromancers¸ Artificers¸ Pharmacists¸ the Mysteric Chthonic Craft¸ and more.
New magic systems for all classes: join Mysteric Initiation Rituals! learn the hidden Laws of Reality!
Campaign creation and events¸ accomplishments¸ CHTHONOTRON (die-drop underworld generator).
Devouring Idols. They talk to you in your dreams¸ incessantly asking for their hunger to be satisfied¸ but at what cost?
New magic items¸ including many types of scrolls.
Reviews of the previously released boxed set edition:
"This is a unique and perhaps under-appreciated thing¸ quite unlike any other OSR product¸ that deserves more attention."
Patrick Stuart - False Machine
" There's a feeling that this a world on the edge and you've just walked through the door while university is almost in full panic mode. If your expecting Harry Potter's universe¸ absolutely forget it! This is the world that would have burned Harry's corpse¸ created a display for the ashes ¸ then put them in some back corner to be used for a demon summoning later"
Eric Fabiaschi - Swords & Stitchery