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Best Left Buried: Deeper

Created by SoulMuppet Publishing

A new version of the rules light fantasy horror roleplaying game, Best Left Buried.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Final Update: Mists of Madness and Grimoire Edition
over 1 year ago – Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 05:01:52 AM

Hi everyone

This is our final update. It's got one last adventure in it, then a special real fancy I hope I lot of you will be interested in. 

Mists of Madness

Gav Thorpe's new one pager THE MISTS OF MADNESS is available on the SoulMuppet store right now!

Deep in the forest, cultists gather in the shadows while strange fogs  corrupt the land and an eldritch god stirs in its eternal prison.

To claim these zini pamphlet adventure, come on over to our lovely webstore, add the three adventure to your cart and then use the discount code WeNeedToGoDeeper.

So not everyone sneakily pirate our adventure, you'll have to use the  email you used for the Kickstarter during your checkout. Email  [email protected] with any issues and we'll get to you as soon as we  can.

The Grimoire Edition

This should be of interest to you all. 

So this one is a bit of a story. I met Claudia from Creative Quest at UK Games Expo back in June. Creative Quest is a UK based small business that specialises in custom and luxury bookbinding. I gave them my personal copy of Best Left Buried: Deeper (and a bit of money) with the instructions to 'make it look like it had come out of a wizard's grave' and they gave me back this: The Grimoire

The Grimoire has the same interiors as Best Left Buried: Deeper, but it's bound in a distressed and textured leather, ornamented with a bunch of lovely metallic bits, and debossed so there's a bloomin' spade on it. It even has a little book clasp to keep it shut. We waxed and stained the edge of the pages so it looks OLD, but the interior is the same old Deeper Edition you know and love. 

If you want your own copy, you can pledge for one on the project. They're expensive and limited in quantity, but that's because it's a beautiful handmade custom object with pricey materials and no small amount of labour. Kickstarter also take a handy 10% cut. 

We'll be offering them in the brown (above) and the alternative choice of two more leathers (red and black). We're just making 10 for now, but if demand goes off the charts we might offer more of them. 

If you want one, head on over to Throne of Avarice to pledge for it (and don't forget grab the two new Best Left Buried adventures while you're at it). 

If you have any questions about them, comment below or email [email protected] 

This should be the last update. We've fulfilled everything from the project, so now I will fade into the shadows of the Crypt and annoy you no more. 

Thanks so much for support, and I pray you enjoy Best Left Buried for years yet to come, 

Zach

Taste of the Goods!
over 1 year ago – Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 05:11:36 AM

Hi everyone 

It's been a while so I won't keep you for long, but we have more stretch goal adventures. 

Grant Howitt's new one pager A TASTE OF THE GOODS is available on the SoulMuppet store right now! 

In this adventure, the Cryptdiggers are hired to reclaim a wizard’s stolen property:  bandits hijacked a shipment of potions to their dilapidated fort half a day’s ride from the city. Retrieving the box of special black-bottled potions is paramount—anything else is simply useful to sell.

To claim these zini pamphlet adventures, come on over to our lovely webstore, add the three adventure to your cart and then use the discount code WeNeedToGoDeeper.

So not everyone sneakily pirate our adventure, you'll have to use the email you used for the Kickstarter during your checkout. Email [email protected] with any issues and we'll get to you as soon as we can.

We've got 1 more zini that you'll get in the next few days once I sort an export issue. Expect an email in your inboxes. 

Throne of Avarice

In other SoulMuppet news, we're hard at work on a new Best Left Buried book, THE THRONE OF AVARICE, which is going to go on Kickstarter next week. It's about Calmyn, one of the Thirteen Duchies, where the seats of colonialist power that fund and hire the Cryptdiggers sit. It's a big book (60,000 words!) about the evils of capitalism and colonialism, and contains brilliant art and writing by Brian Yaksha. Drop us a follow on Kickstarter! 

A colonial outpost, the subject of one of the chapters in Throne of Avarice, allowing you to one into your ongoing game.

It contains tons of random tables for character, company and campaign creation. It'll be a great book to stitch together your Doom to Speak adventures, or build a new campaign by itself. 

Thanks 

Zach

Stretch Goal Zines - Batch 1
almost 2 years ago – Tue, May 31, 2022 at 08:14:19 AM

Hey 

After a long period of inactivity, we've finished 2 of the promised Stretch Goal Zinis. 

  •  You didn't back for this one, but I'm giving it out anyway. Monster Manual author Nick Spence has panned A Garden Most Foul, a horrific adventure containing some fairly obvious inspiration from everyone's favourite plague god of chaos. 

To claim these zini pamphlet adventures, come on over to our lovely webstore, add the three adventure to your cart and then use the discount code WeNeedToGoDeeper

So not everyone sneakily pirate our adventure, you'll have to use the email you used for the Kickstarter during your checkout. Email [email protected] with any issues and we'll get to you as soon as we can. 

We've got 2 more zinis at the final stages of layout, and we're making a whole bunch more for A Doom To Speak Volume 2, that we're planning for later this year. 

UKGE

We're at UK Games Expo at Birmingham's NEC this weekend. Come say hello to us, tell us about your BLB games, grab yourself a FREE physical copy ofA  Garden Most Foul and our OB adventure One Hundred and Sixty Acres. We'll also have dozens of other RPG books on sale from all over the world for your perusal and purchase. 

Honestly we're going mad for Pamphlets here at SoulMuppet

Gangs of Titan City

It's that time of year again and we're running another crowdfunding project.

Gangs of Titan City is a new grimdark future roleplaying game from SoulMuppet. Thrusting its characters into a nightmare supercity that wants them dead, Gangs of Titan City casts your players as desperate gutterscum who will soon dominate the underworld as crimelords or end up dead. The game helps you create stories in the vein of Peaky Blinders, Scarface or Blades in the Dark, but cast into a brutal and uncompromising urban future.

A digital mockup of our grimdark hyperfuture urban RPG

 We'll be back soon with the rest of the pamphlets! 

Thanks 

Zach

Final Fulfilment Update
over 2 years ago – Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 03:45:47 AM

Hey all,

I think everyone should have received their book, or if not some tracking info by now. 

Uploading tracking to BackerKit has been very painful, it took about 6 hours work and a back and worth email chain with the support team at BackerKit. 

Some of you might have received shipping data just now for books received in September or earlier, and if so I really apologise for the inconvenience. There's no way to different dates in the protocol, so I've just sent everyone who has it already shipping. 

If you're missing tracking info, or a book, and want it, please email me at [email protected] (including your pledge level and country) and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Kickstarter messages are useless and very difficult to manage, email is the best way to get me. 

Thanks,

Zach

Final Fulfilment Updates
over 2 years ago – Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 03:12:39 PM

Hey everyone, 

Very short fulfilment update. 

All non-US backers should have their books by now, and a number of US backers should have had their books with a few exception below:

  • If you are in the US and ordered a Beneath the Missing Sea or a Stygian Library, these orders are being fulfilled from the UK as we don't have stocks of either of these books stateside. 
  • If you are in the US and ordered any of three stretch goals zines, we're still waiting on our printers for these. They should arrive in the next few days, and reach you in the early New Year. 

If you haven't received your books yet, please wait until the New Year and then send us an email. 

Thanks for your patience, 

Zach