Steinhardt's Guide to the Eldritch Hunt: The Madness of Kings

About the adventure

"Beg. Plead. Bargain with Gods you'd long abandoned! It'll do you no good. Once the night sky becomes crimson, and the moon beckons and bleeds, one thing is certain! It is a terrible night for a Hunt..." Delve into the city of Luyarnha and combat the Eldritch horrors of a Bloodborne-inspired world, unique to anything D&D ha been before! *A World Turned Upside Down: 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 of an all-consuming madness. *Lunar Lunacy: Alter the world with a single die roll; the fires of a scorching moon can turn Luyarnha’s streets into an inferno, while a void moon’s bloody malice can incense even the calmest of pacifists into furious feats of passion. The eight eldritch moons’ distorting influence begets a new chaos and calamity with each cycle. *Madness or Death: Watch as you descend into otherworldly insanity using the revamped madness system. Embrace the beneficial, detrimental, and entirely obscene madness effects that more than triple 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 of sacrificing too much of your dwindling humanity lest you become like your fallen comrades, men-turned-beasts. *Trick weapons: A shape-changing arsenal of armaments that enhance your hunters’ versatility. Fire your meat 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 “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, mind whole and intact; but rather to skid in broadside, blunderbuss blazing, in an eldritch-enhanced carapace whose psyche desperately clings to the shreds of reality, and loudly proclaiming “...Why did I come here, again?” " - S. Thompson, First Hunter