Twisting Unseen is the second installment in the Sleeper Crew Adventures series, where the Sleeper Crew awaken from Extended Duration Cryosleep into exceptionally dire circumstances. In this adventure, space-time distortions locked Kagami Arcology underground, and the crew need to discover the portal control center to escape.

The core mechanic of Twisting Unseen has the players building the dungeon. Their characters use a Gate Diagnostics Tool to choose their destination and map a path through the Kagami Arcology. They place the connecting Map Tiles before traversing their newly built space. The Map Tiles double as a timer, with transdimensional consequences if the crew exhaust their supply.

To Build the Superstructure, every zine comes with three US Digest-sized inserts of the map pieces illustrated by Ripley Matthews, and a 23 x 17 inch fold-out map. Cut out the map pieces to configure and construct a path through this sunken bunker. With each Map Tile explored, the Warden rolls a unique location, and checks for Events. The basic zine package includes:

• The 36pg zine, Twisting Unseen
  • Fully illustrated characters & creatures by Paul Enami a.k.a. Meatborg
  • 1d100 Bygone Relics
  • 1d100 Untwisting Event table
    • Voidcrawl-inspired event table that doubles as five individual roll tables for (More) Relics, Omens, Hazards, NPCs, Incursors
  • Four ancient and bitter factions
    • Admin: ruling techno-priestess class
    • Teknik: guild of mystical engineers and doctors
    • The Shawl: military force, and delvers of the Substrata
    • Underthings: Small, cyborg peoples from another reality
• Three US Digest-sized inserts of the map pieces
  • Cartography by Ripley Matthews
  • Twelve “stable” zones across Five Map Sections
  • Fifty Twisted Substrata Map Tiles
    • Five 1d10 tables; one for each Phase of the Untwisting
• 23 x 17 inch map, folds down to 3.8 x 8.5 inches, like a road map.
  • Inside contains square grid map to paste down map pieces
  • Opposite side features Creature Fiche details, with art by Paul Enami.
• Digital & Printable Asset pack of art and maps.
• Crossover Endings that could land your Player Crew in the world of Cloud Empress via The Unseen City, or in the 5 Million Worlds on the CIN Tail world of Oravera.

The Unseen City is a 20pg reversible zine, containing an underground biome and adventure for Cloud Empress RPG. Use the generation tables to create a unique underworld setting of Mystling peoples to interconnect disparate regions within the world of Cloud Empress.

• Full Illustrations by HodagRPG.
• A 1d20 Point Fill procedure to randomly generate a map of the Unseen City unique to each table.
  • 25 Locations, including 6 adventure locations.
  • Three 5d5 tables of Towns, Guilds and Mystlings to randomly generate eight different NPC-centric locations.
  • New Spores, Spells, random encounter table, and other adventure hooks.
• Adventure Location, Down the Snail’s Spire:
  • Two feuding magicians, desperate to control (or liberate) a skyscraper-sized cyber-magical, Imago-eating snail.
  • Six Whorls, massive interactive zones of the Spire.
  • 2d10 Gate Chambers leading to terrible and fantastic lands

• Maps of the Cluster, star system, and the planet Oravera
• Zoom in pointcrawl map of the Canyontown complex
• Canyontown Council and Choral Interstellar Nations factions and NPCs
• Spinalis Gorge adventure location, linked to Twisting Unseen.
• Two new Forms, and Oraveran Trad tables
  • The Choral, a mammalian-crustacean Form
  • The Kurruk, a diminutive cyborg Form
  • Oraveran Trads, the transhuman clans of the world

As more adventure locations, worlds, Forms, and star systems are added to the zine, the price will increase. By supporting at this level, your EARLY ACCESS means that you’ll receive those updates for free!

Find the player’s guide for 5 Million Worlds RPG for free, here.

This work was made by humans from A to Z. No AI or Machine Generated works are included in any part of this project. Supporting this project means you are supporting real human beings who have dreams, passions, & bills. Thank You.

Zine Month is a community-driven effort to make cool shit that's been going on for five years now. It's how I got my start making projects in the indie ttrpg space, and I wouldn't be here without shout-outs from fellow cool indie designers. Here are some Zine Month projects this year that I think are worth checking out.

• A Familiar Tower: DirectSun put together a Puzzle Dungeon Crew following the itch game jam he hosted. In the follow-up to the acclaimed Aberrant Reflections, he's funding his new OSE puzzle dungeon, A Familiar Tower.
• CAIN SUN: My homie Waco Matrixo is launching a new Mothership zine where you play parasitic worms controlling a human body in Cain Sun! You are the alien. You will not trust your friends. Mothership through and through.
• RESERVOIR: Cameron Maas is stitching together their meat flesh body horror puzzle dungeon Reservoir which looks 110% my shit. I mean, "The Elemental Plane of Flesh," c'mon that's just too cool/gross.
• Outcast Unseelie and the Ooze Between: And because the gunk is in the air, apparently, haha, Jesse Winter has arcane ooze figuring into the puzzles of their 30+ room dungeon, Outcast Unseelie and the Ooze Between.
• Dead Internet Theory: In this three-mission CY_BORG zine, David H. K. Jackson teams up with Roque Romero to send yer cyberpunks through cadavercore dance floors, mutant-filled sewers, and high-end labs to unveil creepy cult activity.