ENNIE Award Nominated RPG (Best Rules, Product of the Year 2025) Memento Mori is back with the limited Deathless Edition, and a brand new Campaign: The Old City
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Memento Mori, the folk-horror roleplaying game set in Europe in 1347 and ENNIE Award nominee for Best Rules and Product of the Year 2025, is back with a brand new campaign book: The Old City.
The Black Death is exacting its toll on Europe, and it will quickly exterminate a third of the population. The characters are a group of Drifters, infected people who come in contact with dark creatures from folklore due to their condition. With every new horror they experience, the characters will become ever less human and increasingly similar to the creatures they are fighting.
Only the Dream burning within them can keep them alive. What will they sacrifice for it?
In the Winter of 1348, Italy is shivering with the slow, relentless advance of the plague, which recently made its way into Florence. A few days ride to the south-east, stands Orvieto, Urbs Vetus, the Old City.
After diving in millennia-old tunnels and wells, the Drifters venture into a tangle of alleys haunted by otherwordly creatures, and make their way through sacrilegious celebrations and ancient pagan rites. They follow an Omen about families at war, templar orders, and horrors buried beneath the knoll.
The Old City is a brand new campaign book, with new opponente and new characters beautifully illustrated by Francesco Biagini,that will guide players to the darkened heart of Memento Mori, where the Drifters’ Dream is the only light shining over the final moments before the end.
In addition to the the campaign book we will produce an an amazing historical map of the Urbs Vetus (Orvieto) made by our talented friend Fabio Porfidia, who many of you already know for the Household maps!
Memento Mori has an original game system created to highlight the process of corruption and transformation undergone by the characters.
The system uses two pools of six-sided dice distinguished by color. White dice represent the human skills of Drifters, while black dice represent the supernatural powers and monstrous features that they develop.
The Drifter Sheet
When rolling dice, the Players’ objective is to roll as many 5 and 6 as possible in order to overcome the difficulty set by the Narrator. The powers developed during the Drifters’ adventure come at a steep price, because the Players are forced to choose a part of their character to sacrifice whenever the corruption grants them a new ability.
Every element on the character sheet is subject to change in order to achieve their Dream and unlock new powers.
We will produce 3 books for Memento Mori, plus a book-shaped box containing official dice and tarots. You will only need the Memento Mori corebook to start playing.
MEMENTO MORI: [Corebook] 200+ pages in black and white, hard cover, A5 format with Gold Edging. The corebook contains everything you need to play, the setting, and a short introductory adventure complete with four Drifters ready to play. All neatly binded, with a canvas-style hardcover with gold lettering, and a ribbon bookmark.
CODEX GIGAS: 200+ pages in black and white, hard cover, A5 format with Gold Edging. This expansion is composed of Addendum (setting), Bestiarium (creatures), Herbarium (plants), and Lapidarium (minerals). Thanks to the supernatural myths, descriptions, treasures, and ingredients in this book, the Narrator can lead the group of Drifters beyond the boundaries of the known world.
EX VELUM: 150+ pages in black and white, hard cover, A5 format with Gold Edging. In this compendium of esoteric knowledge from Beyond the Veil you will find everything that was previously kept secret from Drifters because too dangerous and too powerful. Rules to use Tarot cards, and menacing revelations, a Lost Bestiarium (secret creatures), Legends from the Ephemeral Land (prominent individuals), and a Grimorium (rituals and magical items).
THE OLD CITY: [NEW CAMPAIGN SUPPLEMENT] 100+ pages in black and white, soft-touch softcover. It comes with a map of Urbs Vetus. The Old City is a brand new campaign for Memento Mori. The perfect way to introduce your players to the dark and lonely world of Memento Mori. Will you solve the mystery of the Old City and face the vile creature that hides within it? Thanks to the book size, you will be able to store it inside your Arca Fati box!
ARCA FATI: Box shaped like an A5 hardcover book. This box holds the most precious materials from this edition of Memento Mori. The Tarot deck, the custom-made dice, and also the Binding Pacts and the Blades of Ruin handout we unlocked in the first campaign! NOTE: You will need the Ex Velum supplement to use Tarots in Memento Mori.
The Arca Fati contains a deck of gold laminated Tarots, and 14 dice
DEATHLESS EDITION: Slipcase with a detachable magnetic 3-panel Narrator Screen. This slipcase holds the 3 Memento Mori books, and the Arca Fati box and the brand new The Old City campaign supplement. The front is a detachable 3-panel Narrator Screen that features summary tables for all the main game rules.
If you are a proud owner of a Deathless Edition and want everything new: Take the EAGLE pledge
If you are new to Memento Mori and want the essentials: Take the MARKED pledge to have the digital version of all the books old and new, or the DRIFTER pledge to grab the hardcover Corebook. If you are more interested in the accessories, you can choose the VIPER pledge that includes the Arca Fati box, The Old City and all the books in pdf.
If you are new to Memento Mori and you want EVERYTHING, old and new: Take the DEATHLESS HERO and you will receive the deluxe Deathless edition containing every book and every accessory, old and new. Only interested in books? Take the LIBRARIAN pledge instead!
Memento Mori is written and designed by Italian artists Marco B. Bucci and Andrea Felicioni, and produced by Two Little Mice (Outgunned, Household)
Marco B. Bucci is a scriptwriter and game designer who creates scripts for comic books, writes role-playing games, and manages cultural projects with horror and esoteric themes. His comic book series were published in the United States, Italy, France, and Spain. He is credited for creating the settings for tabletop games such as Dogs of War, and for D&D 5e modules such as Apocalisse.
Andrea Felicioni is the Creative Director for several digital educational projects. He also works as a UX and game designer, specializing in tabletop and role-playing games. With Marco, he is co-author of the Memento Mori saga.
Two Little Mice is an independent studio founded by Riccardo "Rico" Sirignano, Simone Formicola, and Daniela Giubellini.Among the game designed by Two Little Mice we have Household, winner of the prestigious Italian award Role-Playing Game of the Year 2019, and the action RPG Outgunned, Ennie Award winner for Best Game and Product of the Year in 2024.
The books are beautifully illustrated by Francesco Biagini, Fabio Porfidia, Alessandro Manzella and other talented Italian artists, with a marvelous slipcase/screen art by Daniela Giubellini. The English translation of Memento Mori is in the skilled hands of Caterina Arzani (Household, Broken Compass, Outgunned), who is once again teaming up with editor and friend John Marron. Antonio D'Achille (Household, Broken Compass) will take care of the new design of The Old City.
We will be charging shipping after the end of the campaign, based on the actual costs incurred to ship. We will collect this via our pledge manager after the campaign ends, using PayPal or Stripe. All physical rewards will be delivered by the end of March 2026.
Following is a list of rough estimates for shipping the base pledges.
