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Face Cosmic Horror in 5e with Blackvault's Book of Madness

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Blackvault promises—or maybe even threatens—to bring Lovecraftian horror to 5e with Eldritch: the Book of Madness.

​This award-nominated, 348-page hardcover book offers a new setting—and a new campaign—for your games of 5e. Bursting with new monsters and cults, locations and dark magic, this book represents a dark nursery of otherwordly adventure seeds. These can also be added to your own campaigns.

The Book of Madness also includes new rules on dread, madness and corruption, all of which are designed to instill cosmic horror and howling insanity into your player characters.

See the Blackvault website for more details.

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Nov 18, 2024

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Cosmic dread and Sutter Cane levels of insanity - Blackvault unleash 'Eldritch: the Book of Madness' A 348-page leviathan of Lovecraftian horror "The oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown" . #Blackvault #BookOfMadness #5e #Cthulhu #Lovecraft #DnD

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