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Incunabuli.com — Adventure Gothic. A pen-and-paper RPG by Benton. Currently posting: Bits from the game. Lore oddments.

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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 29/09/2026
A new Incunabuli adventure just released in beta! CASTELLUM SWEEP. It's gross, nonlinear, and free. Check it out: incunabuli.com/ventures/cas...
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Castellum Sweep – INCUNABULI
Risk: Medi­um - Effort: Low - Yield: Low A swift ven­ture for new cut­ters. Con­tent note Nas­ti­ness. Can­ni­bal­ism. Poten­tial­ly upset­ting muti­la­tion in the cel­lar. TV-MA mate­r­i­al. INTRO Fo...
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 06/09/2026
Playtest round 3 signup is now public! Join us for one of two 4-hour sessions, coming in two weeks!
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Signup link: https://forms.gle/P3Qj51etKs5z4tC99 The time has come again. I'm scheduling two 4-hour sessions. Each will include four players
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 05/09/2026
It is that time again: Playtesting time. Patron signup for Incunabuli playtest 3 is live, and opens for everyone in 24 hours.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 04/08/2026
Incunabuli has undergone nearly 7 years of iterative #gamedesign and playtesting. Back in 2021, there were THREE PAGES of wound charts, including such trepidation-inducing afflictions as "unsealed neck."
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 31/07/2026
That scuttling in your crawlspace isn’t going away. It’s boarded up, sure, but it’ll not tire of banging loose the planks. And it can’t starve. It certainly won’t die—unless killed. So, stop ignoring your problems. Get a licensed coroner. Ignoring skeletons is how people become them.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 29/07/2026
They hanged him under the greenapple tree, a core tied round his neck. To steal a fruit’s to steal a life, they say. The only cure’s to give one back.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 24/07/2026
Savvy carousers know: Drink not the cheap gin, lest ye contract… Bungworms. incunabuli.com/resources/di...
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Diseases – INCUNABULI
Pestil­lence and infec­tion. on Grisodate Griso­date; the med­i­c­i­nal gray salt to which civ­i­liza­tion owes every­thing and all. With­out its dis­cov­ery, human­i­ty would be much reduced, if not ...
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 24/07/2026
I have committed the predictable act of indulgence known as an Appendix N. Check it out: incunabuli.com/resources/in...
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Inspiration – INCUNABULI
Texts that informed the genre, time peri­od, and tone of Incunab­u­li. Rec­om­mend­ed for your con­sump­tion, the bet­ter to influ­ence your game. Items with a fleu­ron (❦) were espe­cial­ly influ­en­...
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 24/07/2026
She’s taken a mallet down into the root cellar, just now. And a bundle of railroad spikes. And a splitting axe. Burying the old warlock has proven harder than expected.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 23/07/2026
The Biology Guild requires all members be measured and marked against the Guildhall doorframe. This is no childish custom: It is an early warning system against mutation in the membership.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 22/07/2026
For years, this map has featured two (2) Cheddars in error. Both are in this screengrab. After 6 years, version two cometh; the era of the Two Cheddars comes to an end. incunabuli.com/map/
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 22/07/2026
Catch me slubbering in the gullion. incunabuli.com/rulebook/sor...
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 22/07/2026
Turnable pages, brought to Incunabuli.com with a little #php and #css!
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 22/07/2026
Full moon next week. The hens stopped laying. Bread won’t rise. A dead sparrow down the flue. Doorstep knocking every night. Lay a ring of salt around the house. Just to be safe.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 21/07/2026
Damage distribution and probabilities by damage die in the Incunabuli system. Average military melee weapons: d4+3. Modern pistols: 1d6+1 Modern longarms: 1d8+1 incunabuli.com/rulebook/arms
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 21/07/2026
Just how hard is it to earn a pension, as an adventurer? incunabuli.com/lore/a-promi...
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A Promise of Wealth – INCUNABULI – Adventure Gothic
The oven door swung wide. Damp, rye heat billowed from within. Knotty hands slid a wooden peel into the depths, produced a gold and crackly loaf. The –
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 21/07/2026
The Compact is a triumph of exploitation. The banks are resolute, inextricable, and their pursuit of adventure capital shows no signs of slowing. The Coast enjoys a Gilded Age at their behest. Its people: Enraptured by the flowing lucre of the “venture rush.” incunabuli.com/lore/adventu...
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Adventure Capital – INCUNABULI – Adventure Gothic
Cutters are adventurers. Mercenaries, burglars, madmen, and thrill seekers. Charmed by visions of treasure, they embark on ventures to the darkest places built by ancient humankind.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 18/06/2026
Set out the bowl of milk. The hawberries. The boiled egg. The sprig of mistletoe. Don’t pray it works. It won’t. What’ll receive your gifts hears no faith
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 18/06/2026
The well is sulfurous. The cat missing. The gourds freakish. The milk sour straight out the cow. It may be time to appease the älves
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 07/06/2026
Rework of a longtime sort: the Killed-in-action. (formerly Revenant Soldier) incunabuli.com/rulebook/sor...
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 06/06/2026
New sort: Picador incunabuli.com/rulebook/sor...
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 14/05/2026
In a fit of madness, I cobbled a spreadsheet that tabulates Incunabuli time segments (peril, danger, and peacetime.) In the words of Gary G: "You can not have a meaningful campaign if strict time records are not kept"
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 13/05/2026
The Office of Northern Wilderland Management has rescheduled Mimingham Wood—formerly a Schedule 4 Forbidden Forest—to Schedule 3 ("risk to life and limb at all hours.") Mimingham locals are furious. This will destroy property values.
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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This is a well-made online rulebook! Still in development. It reminds me of Butterick's Practical Typography and his book-making process with Pollen (complimentary). Check out the game below. Link to Butterick in the reply. incunabuli.com/rulebook/
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Rulebook - INCUNABULI - Adventure Gothic
In devel­op­ment. Page up for navbar. Rotate device for table of con­tents sup­porton patre­on Bluesky @Incunabuli Red­dit r/Incunabuli Email sub­scribe here Dis­cord serv­er RSS feed Intro­duc­tion1 ...
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 13/05/2026
yet another new sort. 60 down, 66 to go incunabuli.com/rulebook/sor...
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Har·bowoputra @diceless.club · 13/05/2026
THIS WEBSITE IS HOT what the fuck i'm loving everything AND I JUST REALIZED WE'RE MUTUALS 😭🙏
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 12/05/2026
yet another new sort: Prizefighter incunabuli.com/rulebook/sor...
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 12/05/2026
new sort: Bindlestiff incunabuli.com/rulebook/sor...
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 12/05/2026
another new sort: Quacksalver
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 01/05/2026
Finally: Lore for a longtime Incunabuli monster. Warning: the dog dies in this one incunabuli.com/lore/beastmen/
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Beastmen – INCUNABULI – Adventure Gothic
A pair of grouse flushed from the sweetgrass. Two swift cracks split the morning air. A lop-eared hound scrambled down the line of fire, reaching one –
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 25/04/2026
Playtesting signup is now open to all!
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 24/04/2026
The time has come again! Signup is Patrons-only for 24 hours, then live to all.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 24/04/2026
Witness: A new sizzle page for the game. The elevator pitch. The stuff you want to know. The hook incunabuli.com/about/
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About – INCUNABULI | Adventure Gothic
The Gilded Age has run dry of gold.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 24/04/2026
Crap shooters under the floorboards again. Clattering bones, raucous jeers, bouts of dismay. Cigarette smoke and gin fumes. The coppers won’t do anything —they’re down there too.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 04/04/2026
A crack of dynamite. Falling masonry. The way revealed. A rush of blood. Catacombs cold as tundra. Now you are the interstice between past and future. A lethal chemical reaction. Sweat, blood, fear, gunmetal, ancient sorcery.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 01/04/2026
130 years ago, the last grey wolves were shot in eastern Leah. These were the world’s own wolves, who hunted long before humans ever named it Nôren. What wolves stalk the hinterlands now do not belong there.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 28/03/2026
You never forget who taught you to write in blood.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 02/03/2026
Absolutely sickening dinkus
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 02/03/2026
Further adventures in CSS: Dotted leaders.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 02/03/2026
Test run of a new title font for Incunabuli.com. 300% more gothic.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 26/02/2026
The Rug Merchants’ League has failed audit. The Gendarmerie is investigating. Only three verifiable carpet sales last year. The rest: Transported to and fro over the border—separatists rolled within the pile.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 26/02/2026
A note to all panel attendees: The honorable Magister Braun may pause before responding, careful to discern the phantom speakers from the real.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 26/02/2026
Nymph poaching is an ecological disaster.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 24/02/2026
It was a misdelivered letter that propelled her into magicianry. A red envelope stuffed with occult intimations. Read in rapture at the mail-slot. The threshold. The first of a thousand stolen secrets.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 24/02/2026
Something landed on the cottage last night. Slate shingles in the garden. A perceptible bow to the roofline. An unspeakable scat in the chimneypipe.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 20/02/2026
Operations ceased abruptly at Larch Valley Lead Mine. Miles of exclusion zone established overnight. Newshounds are flooding in. The Foremen downplays it; a cigarette trembling in hand. Only Berta talks, five drams in: Burials in the ore, she says. Lead skeletons in the deep galena.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 19/02/2026
A thinning in the summer air. An ozonic breeze from nowhere. A plum-bough sways in the still orchard. A sun-warm drupe falls, but it does not hit the ground.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 18/02/2026
Shieldbugs manifesting in your larder? The Office of Secrets wants to know. An incentive of three pounds monthly is available in exchange for unlimited excavation rights under your home.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 18/02/2026
First day of the melt. Send your children off to school with cricket bats and purses of lucky salt. What laid dead under the snow may want banishing.
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Incunabuli @incunabuli.com · 18/02/2026
Listen behind the walls. Use the earhorn your grandmother left you. She was never deaf, you’ll find.
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