Blackthorn is a roleplaying game designed to collaboratively tell pulp horror stories. It's not a game where player characters are destined to be the heroes, but rather one about the highs and lows characters experience when confronted with a seemingly insurmountable terror. It is deadly, in and out of high-tension moments, and dripping with horror.

The mechanics support lethal one shots where players will likely need to pick up a second character after their first perishes. Character deaths are always meaningful and an important factor of advancing the story. Characters rise to the occasion and fall short, strategize with no prior experience and are slain by terrors. Sometimes, they overcome the beasts, and sometimes they play through the origin story of a future nightmare.

We're pairing up with a couple of our favorite horror one shot adventure writers in order to provide a range of terrifying modules!

Belfast Vampire Massacre by Joshua Justice. A deeply horrifying vampiric blood bath drawing inspiration from Irish lore among other sources.

Murder Birds by Marco Serrano. After a ship carrying exotic zoo-bound animals crashes on the Connecticut coast, a vicious shock of cassowaries systematically kill off the animals shipped alongside them and the locals caught in their rampage.

Rite of Passage by M. Allen Hall. Local teenagers disappear in the forest surrounding Pembrook. When the adults band together for a rescue mission, they quickly find themselves entangled in the deadly games of the forest's psychic fungus.



Additionally, backers of the Blackthorn + Adventure Bundle tier will receive all Stretch Goals and the They Escaped From the Sea one-page adventure. Zombies rise from the sea floor in search of human sacrifices to bring to their old master.

>PLEASE NOTE: SHIPPING WILL BE COLLECTED AT A LATER DATE THROUGH BACKERKIT, and it is not included in your pledge.

>PLEASE NOTE: VAT and customs are not covered in our shipping collections.

>PLEASE NOTE: The list of countries we cannot ship to is below.

Spicy Tuna RPG works with Space Penguin Ink for all of our physical fulfillment and DriveThruRPG for our digital fulfillment. We had incredible success with them during our Outsourced and Greenhorns campaigns, and they have become a trusted staple for shipping TTRPGs. We expect similar smoothness for this campaign.

We have built in 90 days of extra time into our fulfillment schedule to best avoid being late on delivery due to potential delay of deliverables, disruptions to contributor lives, and any international shipping problems that might crop up.

Due to shipping limitations and challenges, we cannot ship to the following countries:
Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Brazil, Burma (Myanmar), China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Republic of Guinea (Conakry), Guinea- Bissau, Haiti, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Ivory Coast, North Korea, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Russia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Ukraine (Crimea/Sebastopol) and Zimbabwe.

Marco Serrano [Writing, Design, Illustration] Marco operates Spicy Tuna RPG and has the pleasure of managing this project with an amazing group of contributors. Marco's latest writings and design work include Outsourced: The Luko Fin Corp Deception, Constant Downpour Remastered, and Greenhorns: A Weird Space RPG. You can stay up to date with his and Spicy Tuna's releases at theguac.substack.com.

Joshua Justice [Writing: Belfast Vampire Massacre] Joshua Justice is a TTRPG writer/designer behind Hecate Cassette Archive, Radio Free Hekate + many more. In addition to publishing content for the Mothership RPG, they also host a radio show called Ghost Tropic. Their cat Bobbie is their muse. You can find more of their work at staticdistance.com.

M. Allen Hall [Writing Pamphlet Adventure 3 (Currently Untitled)] M. Allen Hall is a tabletop game designer and author. He is best known for his solo roleplaying games Godspark and Endling, and he has published adventures for a wide variety of systems, including D&D, Mörk Borg, and Liminal Horror. You can find his work at www.mallenhall.com.

Ryan TWS [Developmental Editing] Ryan hosts The Weekly Scroll Podcast with cohost Hunter Nelson, where they do overly long and pedantic deep dives of ttrpgs. Maybe one day he'll go from being a critic to a designer.

To Be Announced [Editing] We will be announcing our editor soon! 

Additional illustrations are sourced from the public domain, including illustrators and artists such as L.B. Cole, Käthe Kollwitz, and more.

All of our work is proudly human made.

Spicy Tuna RPG [Publishing] This is our 10th crowdfunding project! We live for interesting worlds and love everything horror and science fiction. Our latest published titles include Greenhorns: A Weird Space RPG, Outsourced: The Luko Fin Corp Deception, and Constant Downpour Remastered.

We're excited to share that we have partnered with Stillfleet Studio for a cross-collab during Pocketopia! We are bringing you two micro-adventures printed on the backside of an art print inspired by each others' games. An interdimensional twist that transports monsters from each world into the other.

Backers who back both projects at a physical level will receive Puddy Madness! inspired by the Slurps enemies in Enter the Nostalgitron, and of course The Blob (1958)! Plus, receive another micro-adventure from Stillfleet Studios featuring a 1920s Teen Wolf-inspired playset and Stillfleet pin!