Lowlife is a toolkit for old-school RPGs about delving into tunnels, trenches, and mines. Inside, you'll find: Systems and consequences for caving, climbing, and tunneling: all the ways you might interact with (and suffer horrible fates in) caverns and mines. Hazards, challenges, and encounters players can grapple with, down in the dark: flammable gases, toxic molds, and mysterious geological phenomena. A handful of monsters and beasties that might live in the shallow underground: critters like the dire hellbender, the precognitive mole, and the greater trollworm. Items to use in the tunnels: the standard tools and dynamite, yes, but also exciting chemicals (like gelignite) and strange devices (like singing holler-hammers). Tables for generating your own warrens and trenchworks from scratch, if you want to build a hellhole dungeon from the ground up (or down, as it were). Guidelines for modifying existing dungeons to be denser and tighter, if you already have a dungeon in mind but want to up the level of tension and danger. Bits of flavor, aesthetic, and worldbuilding scattered throughout. Written and designed by Sam Sorensen. Illustrated by Seweryn Jasiński. Edited by Jarrett Crader. 36 pages, staple-bound softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches + a pamphlet.*PDF will be emailed once the physical item ships.
