u/SaucedUpWizard

Does the Dying Lands got you feeling down? Turn your plagues into poisons! Short on time to hunt for lunch? Eat your torches instead!

https://shortrestpress.com/2026/08/17/choketree-cemetery/

Another encounter from the upcoming volume of DRINK.
I'll be dropping text-only WIP encounters and procedures from the point crawl over at my blog. Got community copies up of volume 1 if you'd like to check it out on my itch page. And here's a snippet of the full post!

Torch-eater

Flesh like hot embers. Fire spills from his belly. It speaks one word, “SORCHA”.
HP 14     morale –     ember flesh -d2     molten vomit d2 attacks, d6 + special
Special If hit by 2 molten vomit attacks, swallow the spew and inherit the embered curse. Gain the fire swallower trait. For each 10HP restored by fire consumption, test presence as your flesh cracks and smolders. On a failure, your belly bursts with spilling embers. A torch-eater is born.
Fire swallower: Consuming torches restores d4 HP. Consuming lantern oil restores 4 HP. Emit a bright glow for d4 + presence hours after consumption.
Burning hate: The torch-eater chooses 1 target to become the focus of its hate. So long as the focus lives, it knows their location and pursues them tirelessly. If the torch-eater is reduced to 0HP, its embers drift to the winds. Over the next 24 hours, its face briefly appears in open flames near its focus, after which it will emerge from the closest fire to continue its pursuit. If fled, there is a 1 in 6 chance it appears during any subsequent encounter.
Driven to consume light. All it knows is hate.

You like weird trees? Then you'll like The Weeping Crater. I'm releasing WIP excerpts and encounters from the upcoming volume of DRINK over at my blog.
https://shortrestpress.com/2026/08/11/the-weeping-crater/
It's also got a little bone mutation table for those unsatisfied with their normal unmutated bones. Enjoy my fellow scoundrels!

Bonemeal

Bones vibrate when near. Contact and roll a d6. Consuming more than once causes a spiked mass to erupt from the body, killing instantly.

1. Bony shards tear through your skull, forming a pale white crown. You cannot wear hats or helmets. On a successful defense roll, there is a 1 in 6 chance you deal d6 damage.
2. A bony prehensile tail extends from your spine. It can grip and lift things as a normal arm could. Sitting is uncomfortable.
3. Your bones grow thick and strong. Increase HP maximum by d6. You weigh as much as if you were wearing heavy armor and sink in water.
4. Uncontrolled bone growth. Broken bones repair while resting. Lost limbs regenerate as fleshless limbs in one day and are inexplicably usable. Going a full day without any major wounds has a 1 in 6 chance of spurs piercing your organs, causing an agonizing death.
5. An arm grows long and spindly. Several new scissor joints allow it to retract and become spring loaded. It can reach up to 20 ft away.
6. Using a power, release the skeleton from its flesh cage. Leave the binds of meat existence behind. Experience calcified ecstasy. Attacks from sharp weapons do minimum damage and blunt weapons do maximum damage. If not returned to a meatsuit in d4 minutes, the bones fall into a lifeless pile.

https://shortrestpress.itch.io/frink

You are a patchwork monster of parts and pieces that were never meant to coexist. Stitched together and shocked to life by a father who hates you.
GO HOME AND KILL YOUR DAD!

Just dropped our submission for the One-Page RPG Jam. It’s a little chaotic game with a complete dungeon-climb included on the back page.

https://shortrestpress.itch.io/frink

You are a patchwork monster of parts and pieces that were never meant to coexist. Stitched together and shocked to life by a father who hates you.
GO HOME AND KILL YOUR DAD!

Just dropped our submission for the One-Page RPG Jam. It’s a little chaotic game with a complete dungeon-climb included on the back page.

https://shortrestpress.itch.io/frink

You are a patchwork monster of parts and pieces that were never meant to coexist. Stitched together and shocked to life by a father who hates you.
GO HOME AND KILL YOUR DAD!

A little chaotic game with a complete dungeon-climb included on the back page. Made for the One-Page RPG Jam, but we’d like to do a full zine/booklet version in the future!

https://shortrestpress.itch.io/frink

You are a patchwork monster of parts and pieces that were never meant to coexist. Stitched together and shocked to life by a father who hates you.
GO HOME AND KILL YOUR DAD!

Just dropped our submission for the One-Page RPG Jam. It’s a little chaotic game with a complete dungeon-climb included on the back page.

I host a hobby night every Wednesday from 5PM-10PM over at Adventure on Main.
If you’re interested in indie tabletop games, come by and say hi! We’ve got a real cool scene cooking up and are always looking for community-minded folks.