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Debauchery in Derelis returns to the realm of The Deceiver. Leave behind the safe harbors and honest sails, and head into the black seas of Perjus where betrayal is currency and survival rarely comes clean. This release will make the sea feel hostile - filled with paranoia, desperate bargains, and the slow realization that trust is a luxury you can’t afford. Whether your players are boarding cursed vessels, negotiating ransoms on moonlit docks, or simply trying to survive another night at sea, Derelis is always watching for weakness.

So chart your course carefully.
Keep your distance from the rail.
And if a ship with screaming sails appears on the horizon… don’t expect mercy.

Welcome to Derelis....

This 55+ page Seafaring supplement includes:

  • 1 printable STL
  • 4 Encounters
  • 6 Stat Blocks + 1 Ship
  • 1 New Subclass - The Harrowed
  • 1 New Race - The Crenari
  • 4 Feats + 2 Deficiencies
  • 21 Items
  • 5 Spells
  • 10 Maps
  • 11 VTT Tokens
  • Lore

.STL's

This month brings our latest .STL for our Apprentice and Loremaster tiers -

The Snatcher Shark! This Large .STL file comes presupported and ready to print.

Your players are no longer safe on land, sea, ship or even in the air! The flying snatcher shark attacking wherever it pleases. 

As always - STL's are NOT backlogged, so be sure to download it locally this month!

Encounters

Brave the black seas of Derelis with a series of ready-to-play encounters designed to drop into any seafaring campaign, or be strung together into a slow descent through betrayal, desperation, and predation.

Negotiate a ransom on a moonlit dock where violence is always one bad word away. Watch a familiar crew member vanish mid-song as something drags them screaming into the dark water below. Infiltrate a pirate vessel to assassinate a paranoid first mate whose cabin listens, watches, and strikes back through living barnacles. And when all hope seems lost, face the Traitor himself - stranded at sea, offered salvation by a liar who never gives without taking something far worse in return.

Stat Blocks

This release brings you six new stat blocks pulled and our latest ship statblock to sail the dark seas

Confront Derelian Pirates, undead sailors formed of bone and seawater whose bodies burst with living sea creatures when destroyed.

Try to keep your footing as Snatcher Sharks stalk your vessel, climbing rigging, gliding through storms, and hurling sailors screaming into the depths.

Match wits and steel with the Forsworn, monstrous first mates rewarded for their treachery and empowered to turn crews against themselves through paranoia, lies, and magical compulsion.

And at the center of it all looms Sudaj Suturb, the Traitor - an immortal pirate lord and one of the Deceiver’s Eight Eyes, whose presence reshapes the sea itself and whose defeat is never as final as it seems.

Sail with the horrid crew of The Doom Of Derelis, and literally EAT other sailing ships with the horrific maw of the vessel, or control it with the Backstabber's Blade!

Player Options

Play as our latest player race - the Crenari - drowned traitors reforged by the crushing depths of Derelis into something heavier, slower, and impossible to ignore. Once sailors, pirates, and oathbreakers, Crenari are souls that sank through the black waters and were rebuilt over years or centuries into bodies of barnacle, chain, coral, and wreckage.

And we're also revisiting our Tether player class (first released back in April of 2022 in "Courts of the Unseelie) via its first new subclass - the Harrowed Discipline! Harrowed tethers are those whose bond with their ardent has been scarred by their ardent's own death, betrayal, and unfinished business within the seas of Derelis. Their ardent is no longer just a guide or companion but is instead something dragged back from the edge, shaped by trauma and refusal to fade. This bond allows the Harrowed to fight as one who is twisted by loss, drawing power from fear, endurance, and the inevitability of suffering. Playing a Harrowed Tether means embracing a darker kind of partnership - one forged not in balance or harmony, but in shared survival.

And don't forget our 4 latest feats and 2 deficiencies to futher help your players customize their PC's.

Items

This supplement comes also brings a whopping 21 new items to your table, that are sure to bring the feelings of unease. Check out the Ship in a Bottle for any time your players have a need for a fully fledged pirate ship in a fix, and the Backstabber's Blade for loot that is sure to be memorable!

Spells

This supplement also brings you our 5 latest magic spells. Take control of a ship with I'm the Captain Now!, cover a target with debilitating barnacles with Binding Barnacles, and cause chaos with Let Go of the Anchor.

Maps

We've also got 8 total battle maps (gridded and gridless variations) - ready for the included encounters (or just as easily used as standalone maps).

Tokens

And lastly, we are bringing you 11 VTT-ready tokens for all of your online needs!

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