What is Zine-o-Map vs Mini-Adventure?
Zine-o-Map vs Mini-Adventure, or "ZVM", is a 2 book zine by David Glass featuring cartography by David and one-page adventures written by Jess Levine, satah @sitcom, and Rhiannon Daly @rhiannon. With 35 hand-drawn maps, GMs have a variety of locations to drop into their existing games, or run as a one-shot. The 35 mini-adventures provided in Book 2 are system-neutral can be added to any fantasy campaign in virtually any system.
If you want to get the zine...
You can do that via the crowdfunder here! If you're a busy GM that wants 35 ready-to-go, low-prep or no-prep sessions for whatever system you're playing in...check it out! You can also share it on Twitter to support us further.
We are just 5% from crossing the funding goal and have just 48 hours to do it!
What else is there?
So much. We have maps ranging from mystery to horror to classic dungeons crawls to comedic pastiche to genre-mashes so specific I'm not even sure how to describe them! Rhiannon, satah, and I had a lot of fun playing with, into, or inverting genre tropes and conventions in these adventures, and we think you'll get a lot out of them too!
So what about these maps above? "The Town Unwell"?
This 2-map set is a collaboration between satah and I, where the party investigates a strange illness and the many rumors behind it, before delving into unique piece of fantasy infrastructure and the strange creatures that both power and haunt it. It's a combat-light, lore-heavy social investigation adventure about relationship to nature, community, and death. In satah's words:
its been so hard for me not to talk at length publicly abt the creature i came up with here that is basically "what if there was aaa worm/fungus equivalent that contributes to the health of the spiritual ecosystem by eating um ghost rot & cycling it into like uh psychic nitrogen"
what if there was a fantastical water filtration plant & what if human animals occasionally faced consequences for not recognising their connection to the rest of the ecosystem & what if denying decay as an extant part of life made u sicky . and what if. There was a gghost
plus there's a NEW $50 add-on to get an acknowledgment with your name in the zine and add TEN free community copies to those who need it at the game's launch!
and we're $100 from the THIRD stretch goal!!!
that's just 2 acknowledgements!! or 10 backers who get both zines!!