HELLCRAWL is a jumbo sized hexcrawl set in Nethria, the Burning Hell. This infernal module is built for Old-School Essentials and will throw your unfortunate players down into the darkest depths of hell.
When the party dies, the campaign doesn’t end. It goes to Hell.
When the party dies, the campaign doesn’t end. It goes to Hell.
The cursed souls at Agamemnon Press brought you The Painted Wastelands, Mr Unpronounceable Omnibus, and Empire of Bones. Now their sinful ways have spawned a wholly strange and horrifying nightmare. HELLCRAWL turns a total party kill into the start of a new campaign. Your characters awaken in Nethria, the Burning Hell, stripped of everything and forced to survive a wasteland of devils, demons, and desperate souls. Escape, seize power, or have your eternal soul ground up into a devil dollar. Death was only the beginning. The HELLCRAWL starts now!
Your hapless players are doomed to an eternity of suffering. Can they escape this endless torment or will are they doomed to succumb to the ceaseless despair of Hell? Take a peak at the amazing cover by Tim Molloy!
HELLCRAWL is a brutal, procedurally generated hexcrawl through Nethria, the Burning Hell.
Dead characters awaken in a hostile wasteland ruled by devils, demons, and ambitious nobles fighting for power. The players will navigate an ever shifting political landscape of viscounts, archdukes, and infernal factions while trying to survive long enough to find a way out.
In Hell, souls are currency. Demons will grind the party down into devil dollars, or the characters may give in to the corruption of Nethria and become something worse than what they were in life. .
The All-In Pledge comes with the HELLCRAWL Limited Edition Cover and PDF, Giclee Art Print, HELLCRAWL T-Shirt, a pack of 250 devil dollars, and the Deck of the Dead.
This limited print run is a cursed volume filled with hateful scrawling and ill intent.
The book is wrapped in leather that is absolutely, definitely, and unquestionably faux leather and not human flesh. I promise. I swear.
Each copy features a gold stamped design by Tim Molloy, making this a true collector’s piece worthy of any shelf, altar, or forbidden library. The book is 8.5"x11" and about 100-108 pages long.
Disclaimer: Legal tender is accepted. There is no need to sign over your immortal soul to purchase this item.
This limited edition is available as an add on. Available as an add on. Limited Edition backers and All In pledge backers will receive a copy automatically.
All new tarot sized cards
Unleash chaos on your game table with the Deck of the Damned. This 22-card deck comes with powerful 1 use abilities, but power is not free in Hell. Players can risk a small portion of their soul to draw from the deck. It is a powerful magic item and tool for referees to tempt their players to deeper levels of depravity! This deck is available as an add-on and automatically a part of the All-In Pledge.
Once a soul has been properly broken, it is pressed into a devil dollar and spent for the rest of its miserable existence, traded between demons for goods, favors, and power.
Backers may add a stack of 250 Devil Dollars to their pledge. These infernal bank notes are the official legal tender of Nethria and a perfect table prop for bribery, bargaining, and corruption. Available as an add on.
All In pledge backers will automatically receive a full stack.
Receive a limited edition giclee art print signed and numbered by Tim Molloy. The print is 8.5" x 11"
This print run is exclusive to this project. Once they are gone, they will never be produced again.
Printed in archival quality, this mind bending piece makes a striking addition to your game room, studio, or dungeon wall. This art print depicts our brave Templar Knight standing strong against the endless hordes of Hell!
Available as an add on. All In pledge backers will automatically receive a copy.
This is Agamemnon Press’s fifth crowdfunding project. If you missed any of our earlier releases, this is your chance to add them to your pledge and build your collection. All physical copies come with a free PDF.
Physical and/or digital copies available:
The Painted Wastelands
Strange Tales of the Painted Wastelands
Painted Wastelands Player’s Guide
The Quest Unpronounceable
Mr Unpronounceable Omnibus (comics!)
Empire of Bones
All add ons will ship together with your HELLCRAWL pledge.
If you would rather not wait, these titles are also available now at AgamemnonPress.com.
We will never use AI generated art, text, voice over, layout, or music in our products and advertising. Everything we produce for you is made by humans.
We will never bring a project to BackerKit until it is written (at least in the first draft form). HELLCRAWL is already written and most of the artwork is complete. We've been working on this project for over a year before we brought it to BackerKit.
This is not a pre-order, this is a pledge. Without supporters like you none of this would be possible. I will never leave a backer hanging. If there is an issue with your delivery please reach out to me. I will do everything in my power to make it right. Please remember that we are working together to make this project real. We're all humans who want to explore the same dreamscape.
Most projects participating in OSE Month are using bulk shipping. Agamemnon Press will be handling fulfillment ourselves.
Shipping for HELLCRAWL will be charged separately from bulk shipped projects. This allows us to offer a wider range of add ons and gives you full flexibility to build your pledge exactly the way you want. Because we manage fulfillment directly, you can add as many items as you like without restrictions or bundle limits.
This is our fifth crowdfunding campaign, and our focus is simple: deliver quickly and deliver reliably.
HELLCRAWL is already well into production. The book is written, the rough layout is complete, and most of the illustrations are finished. Our current timeline is to finish the artwork and final layout by August and ship items out by October.
Our book is printed by Qin Printing, a great company that has served as a constant partner of Agamemnon Press since our very first project. If you're looking to publish your own project, I highly recommend them. https://www.qinprinting.com/
Old-School Essentials Month
Old-School Essentials Month is a group-collab project led by Exalted Funeral and Necrotic Gnome, featuring a new 176-page OSE book — the Demonic Grimoire — and sister projects from 16 other renowned creators in the OSE community.
The theme of OSE Month 2026 is: DEMONS! Get ready for hordes of new monsters, adventures set in the realms of hell, fiendish new character options, and lashings of blood-dripping art.
Group Achievements
We will be announcing a series of achievements tied to the success of all OSE Month projects jointly! To start with:
All projects funded: When all OSE Month projects fund, we will arrange a community Ask Me Anything session on Discord, featuring creators from across the projects. This will be a chance to chat with the OSE Month creators about their projects.
Old-School Essentials (OSE) is a role-playing game of fantastic adventure inspired by classic games of the 1970s and 1980s. Players delve into forsaken ruins, battle fearsome monsters, explore haunted forests and perilous mountain ranges, sail the high seas in search of lost lands, recover fabulous treasures, and unearth secrets of ancient magic.
