New Dungeons & Dragons Campaign Takes Place within the Creepiest of Carnivals

An upcoming Dungeons & Dragons marketing campaign guarantees to make any adventurer hate clowns. Earlier this week, Hit Point Press launched a Kickstarter marketing campaign for the Heckna! Carnival Horror Campaign Setting, a brand new marketing campaign setting and journey ebook detailing a ghoulish pageant run by the mysterious Heckna. While not a lot is thought about Heckna’s origin, his Revelia wanders from aircraft to aircraft, trapping unwitting rubes to change into a everlasting a part of his carnival expertise. The ebook will function each a marketing campaign setting information and journey ebook for a Level 1-10 marketing campaign, with the journey decided by utilizing a brand new Shuffled Stories Engine that makes use of a deck of playing cards to randomly select encounters and managers when prepping for an encounter.

As a carnival horror setting, creepy clowns are a should for Heckna! Hit Point Press previewed a number of creepy clown-like monsters, together with the Shnozling, a parasite that latches onto an individual’s face and takes the looks of a bulbous purple nostril because it turns its sufferer right into a thrall, and the extremely creepy Children of the Candy Corn. This marketing campaign sounds good for any DM who liked Killer Klowns From Outer Space or some other campy horror film that includes lethal circuses.

Hit Point Press is finest often called the maker of the favored “Deck of Many” animated spell playing cards, which makes use of lenticular printing to indicate off superb animations on the again of playing cards. They additionally made the favored Humblewood marketing campaign setting, which featured anthropomorphic birds and mammals in a magical woods. Heckna‘s lead author is Ashley Warren, an skilled tabletop RPG designer with credit on a number of official D&D adventures, together with the upcoming Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden. Between the pinnacle author and a writer with a confirmed observe document of success, Heckna! needs to be a 5-star hit for any D&D group.

Heckna! Carnival Horror Campaign Setting has already topped its $20,000 Kickstarter marketing campaign purpose and is shortly approaching $150,000 in pledges as of press time. You can take a look at the full campaign, or a public playtest on Hit Point Press’s web site.