Hand-drawn deck for Scoundrel, the solitaire dungeon crawling game

Happy new year!

Yesterday I played a lot of Scoundrel. Scoundrel is a wonderful little solitaire dungeon crawling game, created by Zach Gage and Kurt Bieg. You can find the rules here (free PDF). The game is played with a standard deck of cards. E.g., a 10 of Spades is a monster of level 10, an 8 of Diamonds is a weapon with 8 damage, and so on. I drew my own minideck, with little images for all the monsters and items.

Download the deck from here,

or from itch.io (it's free, of course),

cut it up & play!!

Have fun!

On the itch page, you can also download a template for you to draw your own deck.

And here's a list of the cards:

	♦ (Diamonds) Weapons	♥ (Hearts) Health	♠ (Spades) Monsters 1	♣ (Clubs) Monsters 2
2	Dagger	Bandages	Skeleton	Goblin
3	Battle Axe	Soothing Ointment	Pixie	Cultist
4	Bow	8-hour Sleep	Ghoul	Mimic
5	Trident	Potion of Lesser H.	Killer Bees	Fishfolk
6	Scimitar	Potion of Greater H.	Giant Snake	Chaos Dwarf
7	Magic Wand	Antidote	Plant Monster	Moon Elf
8	Blunderbuss	Meditation	Smilodon	Ooze
9	Sword of Legends	Divine Intervention	Werewolf	Troll
10	Laser Rifle	Regeneration Vat	Mummy	Rival adventurers
J = 11	-	-	Ghost	Giant
Q = 12	-	-	Beholder	Evil High Priestess
K = 13	-	-	Lich	Hydra
A = 14	-	-	Elder Dragon	Mindflayer

The best adventures from Footprints --- seven free old-school modules!

After going through all 25 issues of the old-school zine Footprints, I am in a good position to say that
a.) it's a treasure trove of gaming materials and a real community effort, and
b.) it has a bunch of GREAT adventure modules.

The modules, I think, don't get enough attention and love, perhaps because they are hidden inside the sometimes quite sizable zines. So, without further ado, I present here my subjective list of the seven best adventures from the pages of Footprints!

You can get these PDFs for free over at Dragonsfoot.

*drumroll*

Behold... The Magnificent Seven!

1. "Gilded Dream of the Incandescent Queen", by H.D.A. (levels 3-6), Footprints #25. A floating double-tetrahedron, with lots of weirdness and psychedelic vibes!
2. "The Emperor's Lost Army", by John A. Turcotte (levels 5-7), Footprints #9. Sandbox exploration adventure set in an overgrown ruined city; lost world, A. Merritt vibes.
3. "The Secret of the Wood of Dark Boughs", by R.N. Bailey (levels 3-5), Footprints #20. Mystery/investigation module with many moving parts, set in a rural area, with folk horror vibes.
4. "The Tenebristic Orb", by Malrex (levels 4-7), Footprints #25. Weird dungeon enclosed in an orb! Strong light/shadow/darkness theming.
5. "The Haunted Inn of the Little Bear: Revenant’s Revenge", by Brian Wells (low levels), Footprints #15. Mystery adventure with a Solomon Kane vibe.
6. "The Mired Cathedral", by C. Wesley Clough (levels 4-6), Footprints #18. A small but solid location-based adventure.
7. "Death From Above", by Michael Haskell (levels 6-9), Footprints #10. Flying cloud giant fortress.

Looking back at my own list, it's pretty obvious that I have a soft spot for two kinds of adventures: bonkers psychedelic floating orbs/pyramids or low-magic folk horror locations... Oh, and pulpy "lost worlds", too.

I shared longer write-ups of all the materials that caught my attention in my previous posts:  #1 through #5, #6 through #10, #11 through #15, #16 through #20, #21 through #23, #24 and #25.