In this inaugural issue, a Guidebook to the Viridian Maw! This 24-page digest-sized zine contains fodder for a wilderness sandbox campaign in an overgrown meteor crater, mutated and reshaped by fungal influence. Everything is system neutral & stats agnostic, though the material is written with genre assumptions leaning toward D&D/OSR games (but adaptable for games like Apocalypse World or Dungeon World, too).

• 26 wildlife entries including plants, animals, fungi & trees

• 14 interior illustrations (click through the thumbnails for some examples!)

• Overview of peoples living in the crater

• Backstory for the ancient history of the Viridian Maw

• Advice and tips on using the material

• Random tables to generate interesting ruins & encounters

• Hexmap with 12 keyed locations

The zine’s cover and hexmap are both in color; all other art and illustrations are in B&W. The PDF is in single-page layout format. Need it another way? Let me know!

Forking Paths is a project partially supported by my Patreon.