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The hardcover Gamemaster sourcebook, Beyond Darkness and Madness, for KULT: Divinity Lost. This essential guide equips Gamemasters with tools for crafting chilling narratives and immersive gameplay.

Nominated for Best Writing in the 2022 Ennie Awards

Hardcover Gamemaster Sourcebook 296 pages

Beyond Darkness and Madness is a Gamemaster sourcebook for KULT: Divinity Lost. This supplement outlines the Gamemaster?s overall responsibilities and provides them with tools for running effective gaming sessions and presenting horrifying narratives. Additionally, the source book provides inspiration for developing compelling narratives, intriguing characters, and personalized settings.

The book is divided into three distinct sections - Storytelling, Atmosphere, and Reflections. It is written by Jason Fryer, a veteran of KULT who wrote the Purgatory source book for KULT 2nd edition in 1996. He made his debut in KULT: Divinity Lost with the quickplay scenario The Atrocity Exhibition. Additional writers include Jacqueline Bryk, Alex Obernigg, and Petter Nallo.

Part One - Storytelling discusses the various aspects and levels of plot-building, maintaining narratives at and away from the table, and upholding the game?s Agenda, Principles, Fiction, and Moves throughout the process. Additionally, techniques for utilizing and expanding the Intrigue Map, Downtime, and the Horror Contract are provided, including how to create compelling events, characters, and settings.

Part Two - Atmosphere provides an in-depth examination of various horror themes and milieus, and inspiration and techniques for utilizing them to enhance the storytelling experience. Specifically, chapters in this section explore the different aspects of body horror, extreme horror, existential dread, trauma, and the sublime.

Part Three - Reflections provides variant settings for the KULT mythos, allowing for more personalized and divergent stories. By utilizing the techniques and tools presented here, the Gamemaster can create scenarios and campaigns tailored to genres such as action horror, Asian horror, magical realism, survival horror, and the uncanny.

PDF is included via a code in the product (if it's missing, contact Helmgast)

Note: THIS  GAME EXPLORES  MATURE THEMES. The  content of this book  explores psychological and  body horror. There are explicit  examples of physical and mental abuse,  violence, sexual assault, religious exploitation,  child abuse, mental illness, kidnapping and abduction,  animal cruelty/death, pregnancy/childbirth, miscarriages/abortion,  drug use, self-harm and suicide, blood, and death.

A Gamemaster sourcebook for KULT: Divinity Lost. This essential guide equips Gamemasters with tools for crafting chilling narratives and immersive gameplay. This ?Black Edition? exclusive variant features an all-black cloth cover with the KULT name in blood red. This is for the hardcore KULT-fan, looking for something extraordinary. PDF included.

Nominated for Best Writing in the 2022 Ennie Awards

Hardcover Gamemaster Sourcebook 296 pages

The ?Black Edition? exclusive cover variant features an all-black cloth cover with the KULT name in blood red.

Beyond Darkness and Madness is a Gamemaster sourcebook for KULT: Divinity Lost. This supplement outlines the Gamemaster?s overall responsibilities and provides them with tools for running effective gaming sessions and presenting horrifying narratives. Additionally, the source book provides inspiration for developing compelling narratives, intriguing characters, and personalized settings.

The book is divided into three distinct sections - Storytelling, Atmosphere, and Reflections. It is written by Jason Fryer, a veteran of KULT who wrote the Purgatory source book for KULT 2nd edition in 1996. He made his debut in KULT: Divinity Lost with the quickplay scenario The Atrocity Exhibition. Additional writers include Jacqueline Bryk, Alex Obernigg, and Petter Nallo.

Part One - Storytelling discusses the various aspects and levels of plot-building, maintaining narratives at and away from the table, and upholding the game?s Agenda, Principles, Fiction, and Moves throughout the process. Additionally, techniques for utilizing and expanding the Intrigue Map, Downtime, and the Horror Contract are provided, including how to create compelling events, characters, and settings.

Part Two - Atmosphere provides an in-depth examination of various horror themes and milieus, and inspiration and techniques for utilizing them to enhance the storytelling experience. Specifically, chapters in this section explore the different aspects of body horror, extreme horror, existential dread, trauma, and the sublime.

Part Three - Reflections provides variant settings for the KULT mythos, allowing for more personalized and divergent stories. By utilizing the techniques and tools presented here, the Gamemaster can create scenarios and campaigns tailored to genres such as action horror, Asian horror, magical realism, survival horror, and the uncanny.

PDF is included and will be delivered via email within 48 hours from purchase. Note that the PDF only features the Standard Edition cover. 

Note: THIS  GAME EXPLORES  MATURE THEMES. The  content of this book  explores psychological and  body horror. There are explicit  examples of physical and mental abuse,  violence, sexual assault, religious exploitation,  child abuse, mental illness, kidnapping and abduction,  animal cruelty/death, pregnancy/childbirth, miscarriages/abortion,  drug use, self-harm and suicide, blood, and death.

This scenario collection for KULT: Divinity Lost contains seven standa-alone scenarios, set in different times and locations and explore different parts of the Kult mythos. This ?Black Edition? exclusive variant features an all-black cloth cover with the KULT name in blood red. This is for the hardcore KULT-fan, looking for something extraordinary.

Hardcover Scenario book 222 pages

The ?Black Edition? exclusive cover variant features an all-black cloth cover with the KULT name in blood red.

Taroticum and Other Tales contains seven stand-alone scenarios for KULT: Divinity Lost. They are set in different times and locations and explore different parts of the Kult mythos. The scenarios are all designed to be quick and easy to pick up and play.

Taroticum ? Taroticum revolves around a deck of Tarot cards that has the power to manipulate the Illusion. Set in London in 1892 and in 1992, in Inferno, and close to Achlys where time has ceased to exist. Oakwood Heights ? November 2016. We follow a group of people from the Detroit DA?s office and the local Police Force partaking in a crime scene reconstruction. Soon we learn that everyone has a hidden agenda as the story unfolds. La Cena ? Miami 1967. The Cruz family is preparing a seven course dinner for their eldest son who is returning from Cuba with the last Freedom Flight. The city trembles in the summer heat and so are the tensions and hidden frustration in the Cruz family. The Summit ? The Monarch, a skyscraper existing in Elysium as well as in Inferno. A borderland of struggle and violence. Each floor is filled with gruesome scenes and madness and in the top floor the Architect of this mad construction awaits. Island of the Dead ? On the 12th of June 2013, flight DY13001 leaves Bangkok, Thailand. After just over an hour it crashes into the stormy sea. A few survivors drift ashore on a remote island. They have to adapt and survive in the strange jungle and try to get away before the island will devour them. Laraine Estate ? In the late summer of 2018, a famous youtuber and urban explorer goes missing while breaking into the Laraine Estate, an old mansion with a long history. Deep beneath the old mansion something lurks, and drives people into lust and perversions. The Atrocity Exhibition ? At an exclusive midnight showing at the Cecil Torne Art Centre in the autumn of 2017, the complete works of Guy Vaquelines entire Triumph De La Mort collection will be displayed. What no ones knows is that the paintings are infused with magic and bringing them together like this will have unexpected consequences.

PDF is included via a code in the product (if it's missing, contact Helmgast)