The world of shadows needs a wider pool of spooky and cursed books to choose from and that’s why we present Withdrawn From Circulation, a sourcebook zine for any horror or dark fantasy game. In it you’ll find a selection of six horrible magical objects,  system agnostic and ready to be slipped into your favorite RPG’s  Secret Library or onto the dais of whatever Squid Cult you’re using.

Features contributions from Michael Van Vleet, Aaron King and Gabriel Robinson! Design by AJ Summers.

There are libraries of knowledge to be discovered and lingered over in a simple cup full of urine. Skin only gets in the way.

Possessions:
• Tiny l’il cups
• Urine spectroanalysis mechano-tongue

Advanced Skills
Truth 4
Drugs 3

1. Stabby Dodge-y
2. My Knife Is A Question
3. Finger Parade
4. Where’s the Pirate Ship, Matey?
5. Catch
6. Right Side Up
7. Pumpkin Jack
8. Toothpick Tango
9. Swisharoo
10. Who’s the Butter / You’re the Butter
11. Kansas City Handshake
12. Bootlegger’s Kiss (optional rules for 3-4 players)
13. Down the Lane
14. Tic Tac Poke
15. Hide
16. Where She Lands
17. The Game of Knife (aka “Knife Game”)
18. All Meat
19. I Don’t Like This Game
20. Connect Four (with a knife)

I may have failed to kill Moby Dick in life, but in death I shall be avenged when that great devil-cetacean comes to pass water upon my very grave.

ALT: I may have failed to kill Dracula after a life of pursuing him across the continent, but in death I shall be avenged, for I have proffered to that slick-haired fiend an invitation to enter my grave plot, an honor to which he shall be supernaturally compelled to take advantage.

Autodidactimal

No university in the realms could teach you what you yearned to know about being an animal. Your adopted curriculum: Lived Experience

POSSESSIONS
Animal skin
Hydration pouch
Notepad

ADVANCED SKILLS
Instincts 4
Scholarship 2
Herd Safety 2

Your creator failed to give you purpose and so you found your own: to make of your stitched-together flesh a paean to passion.

POSSESSIONS
• Easily removable outfit
• Charging station

ADVANCED SKILLS
Dance 4
Romance 2
Pathos 2
Science 1

There was about half a year
where I was often alone
in the office and
I wouldn’t bother
to turn the lights on

I’d make coffee in the dim
kitchen and pretend
it was the apocalypse already

imagine the windows blown out
and an unobstructed view
of the lake below

but I still wasn’t ready
for the pandemic and never going back

for grocery shopping with
fogged glasses
and empty
shelves

maybe ’cause all the
lights were
still on