Explore the mysteries of a world beyond death. History, mutant madness, and old-school combat meet at the end of humanity.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Brilliant spoopy AP / Shout-out: The CryptID Show! / On mutations
6 months ago
– Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 10:16:30 AM
ICYMI, we have *a lot* of great Danse Macabre actual play to share
Really, these have been such fun AP sessions. They show off different elements of the game and its different tones, from horrifically wacky (for the most part) to brutally serious. Here is the list to date:
We have one more streaming episode coming up—on Sunday, 11/2, at 12 noon EDT—with game designers Laurie O'Connel, Kayla Dice, and Daniel Kwan. We really look forward to seeing how these brilliant storytellers handle a quest that sends them out to the unprotected high grasslands of Eastern Anatolia…
As ever, that game will be streamed to Twitch and YouTube.
We would be remiss not to note the end of the campaign for a new game called The CryptID Show published by our friends over at Plus One Exp. This one sounds arch-spoopy (apparently a new word that means spooky + goofy—i.e., the actual tone of most Halloween-themed art). Do yourself a favor and check out the intro:
Goooooood morning and merry Mothman hunting, you wild, wonderful, Chupacabra-crazed weirdos! Welcome to The CryptID Show—the paranormal power hour where your local cryptid encounters take center stage! Think you saw a selkie sitting on your sofa? Call in now and squeal like a squonk about your freakiest encounters with the unknown. Learn how to tell your trows from your trolls and how to stop them trawling through your trash bins!
The CryptID Showis a storytelling game for two or more players about constructing and deconstructing cryptid sightings. Working together, the Host and Caller will attempt to explain the unexplainable, aided only by a deck of playing cards and their own imagination. Together, you’ll sculpt bite-sized stories of the bizarrely sweet, the hauntingly esoteric, and the just plain weird, all in the form of a live call-in show.
Content preview: on maleficia (i.e., corruptions, mutations, mutant powers…)
The game features 100 maleficia, each with 3 levels, for 300 total mutation powers. By way of teaser, here are quick summaries of 4 maleficia, plus some cool art by Christopher Pickett:
Abdominal mouth – Your stomach is split open horizontally, forming a massive mouth that constantly drools and gibbers, allowing you to make a powerful new attack…
Caustic vomit – You can voluntarily projectile vomit extremely caustic stomach acid which can corrode metal and burn flesh, inflicting normal damage plus burn damage…
Electrokinesis – Your skin is scarred with branching fractal patterns, resembling lightning. You can manipulate natural electricity in and around your body, inflicting damage plus stun…
Marsupial pouch – A slit in your lower stomach opens into an internal pouch made of flesh, increasing your carrying capacity (your max inventory)…
And here is someone with Janus faces! Having Janus faces gives you a bonus to INS checks against being ambushed.
If you have any questions about the character raffle, hit me up in the comments, a DM, or (preferably) by email: co [at] stillfleet [dot] com.
Pilgrim-illustration Raffle! / Shout-out: Great Mayhem
6 months ago
– Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 08:54:57 AM
Get your Pilgrim illustrated!
Newsflash: we are launching a raffle to win a free player-character illustration by Danse Macabre's graphic designer—the infinitely creative Anthony Grasso AKA Odd Gob Grasso AKA Tonio Kabonio, creator of Blister Critters and one half of the Mad Borg team!
Details:
Share the graphic below on a social media channel, a relevant Subreddit, or a Discord server (not ours, anything reasonable counts)
Take a screenshot
Send it to us at co [at] stillfleet [dot] com
After the campaign, we'll pick a random winner (I'm probably going to write out names onto strips of paper, put them in a bag, and pull one)
Tony and I will contact you about what you want him to draw
Enter as many times as you want! If a ton of folks enter, I'll try to get Tony to draw a couple of Pilgriims (no guarantee)
Here's the graphic:
Want to complete this challenge on hard mode? We have plenty of other graphics to share! These just need to be accompanied by post copy that features the Kickstarter project URL or our wee vanity version, stillfleet.com/danse.
We've been impressed and slightly overwhelmed by the number of old-school-inspired (in whatever way) dark fantasy RPG projects that are funding this Spooky Season.
One OSR game I personally have not played but seen around for a while is Dragonbane—the one with the cool sapient ducks. A small crew of creators in Italy reached out to talk about their upcoming, arch-old-school-sounding Dragonbane campaign, The Taking of Great Mayhem by Revel Tales. Here is a sneak peek:
The fortress of Great Mayhem has fallen to a goblin assault.
Great Mayhem, the ancient dwarven stronghold, is the last bastion in the north. The mountains, already snow-capped by the onset of a bitter winter, are guarded by this grim and remote fortress: a strategic point that cannot be lost, especially now that winter is at the gates. The paths are becoming impassable with snow, and if you do not act swiftly, you will not be able to reclaim the stronghold from the goblins until next summer, when it may already be too late.
THE TAKING OF GREAT MAYHEM is a third-party supplement for the Dragonbane TTRPG. It is an adventure for 3–5 players set in a winter-bound dwarven fortress, where survival and hard combat intertwine with the memories of the bastion’s epic ancestors.
Reminder: 10/26 stream with players from Fun City!
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday… 6:30 PM EDT. Live on Twitch. Don't miss it! We've got a great story planned, and we cannot wait to see what sorta twisted Pilgrims our players—Bijan, Jenn, and Mike—come up with.
UNLOCKED: the OST has arrived! / Shout-out: Erebus Mythos
6 months ago
– Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 06:23:29 AM
The OST = unlocked!
Hell. Yeah. Now, we're excited to listen to the tracks as they come together. Two notes:
When the album is ready, you will be able to listen to the final low-res version on streaming services. The high-res, downloadable files are now available to reserve as a new digital add-on that supports the musicians
The current OST cover—using art by Christopher Pickett that shows a Pilgrim (PC) falsely dying and gaining a new maleficium (mutation)—is a mock-up. We don't know what the final version will look like yet, but it will be cool 😎
The next stretch goal? A new, Odyssey-inspired zine by the very talented guest writer Will Jobst!
This adventure will link together the Mediterranean settings and factions of the Danse Macabre Rulebook and Guide to the Abandoned World in a pointcrawl. Cross those fingers, and please let folks know about the game.
Shouting-out Erebus Mythos: Vampyr
We heard from a crew of indie creators in Greece who are working on a related game—Erebus Mythos: Vampyr, a Greek folk-horror campaign for Shadowdark focused on traditional vampire myths. You know we love historical fantasy and folklore! 🧛 Here is the quick pitch:
Erebus Mythos: Vampyris set in 19th-century Greece, a land torn between faith and reason, where superstition lingers and the line between myth and reality blurs.
Experience a new kind of adventure drawn from real folklore, with new systems like Evil Eye, Stain, Ritual Magic, and new classes and backgrounds. Easy to learn, ready to play, grab the Erebus Mythos Quickstart and play the introductory adventure, Erebus Mythos: Chymera, right away. Check it out >
Reminder: Kickstarter United ✊
Tonight. 7 PM EDT. Twitch. We're playing a game of Danse Macabre with some of the striking workers from Kickstarter United, the union that makes all of this <<gestures at indie TTRPGs>> possible. Please tune in, learn more, and consider helping KS United with their strike fund.
