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MAZES City of Skull - A Low Prep, Rules Light RPG

Created by 9th Level Games

MAZES Fantasy Roleplaying is an old school dungeon crawler with 15 minute setup and one shot play in just 2 hours. This campaign expands MAZES with the City of Skull campaign setting, adventure, and additional accessories.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

All Hallows Update - Death to the Witchlords
29 days ago – Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 02:52:37 PM

9th Level's writers and designers have been hard at work at a variety of things, including moving forward with the many threads that make up CITY OF SKULL. Here's a quick update on some of the action - and a BONUS sneak peek at one of the CLASSES from the upcoming book.

Mazes News

Mazes continues to grow and adapt - with new features like ALCHEMY VTT play and coverage and inclusion in the latest DWARVEN FORGE miniatures scenery project.  https://gamefound.com/en/projects/dwarven-forge/dungeons-reforged

*Check out a LIVE PLAY featuring 9LG's PATRICK CLAPP - the MAZE ARCHITECT - doing a live play on Saturday with the good folks from Dwarven Forge featuring an all new module based on a design of their terrain by Patrick! http://twitch.tv/dwarvenforgelive



Writers Summit
The team behind the CITY OF SKULL got together for an extended retreat to do writing and editing.  The team has found to be effective to get everyone in the same room to hash out ideas that cross from one book to another. At the last summit, a chunk of rules content - originally going to be in the BEYOND CITY OF SKULL book has been moved to the main City of Skull book - and a decision was made to get the original HEX CRAWL rules out there for people to play with - you can download them NOW. CLICK HERE!



SNEAK PEEK

"The Grim Skulltaker"

Thanks for your support, 
9th Level Games 

Pre-Orders Open, Coins, and Surveys this Week!
3 months ago – Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 07:59:46 AM

City of Skull Coin Set

We are working with Campaign Coins for the City of Skull coin set. If you had the Mazes copper coin set, this is the same manufacturer so you are aware of the quality. Check out the renders and samples below.






Pre-orders

 
Did you miss out on the City of Skull campaign? Our pre-order store is open! 



Ennie Nominations, Gencon, & Surveys!
4 months ago – Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 08:49:16 AM

5 ENNIE NOMINATIONS! 


MAZES Zero Prep Adventure is ENNIE Nominated for Best Free Product! 
Did you download it yet? Grab your copy HERE.

‼️Voting is OPEN NOW, click HERE to vote through July 21st.



Our Other Nominations 




Going to Gencon? 

  • Come see us at BOOTH 555 
  • Special MAZES event Saturday Aug. 3rd at 6:30pm @ Good Games Indy. Read More. 
  • Most events are SOLD OUT, but we have two sneak peak sessions of Thunder Road: Vendetta RPG which is also based on Mazes.  Thursday 7pm   Friday 7pm 


Thank you!
5 months ago – Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 05:05:29 AM

Thank you for supporting this project! It's exciting to have hit all our stretch goals and roll OVERTIME MODE for almost an hour of extra time! 

Here is a recap of all the extra stretch goal upgrades! 


🔥Enhanced digital supplements 

  • Printer friendly character sheets 
  • Form Fillable character sheets 
  • Printer friendly City of Skull in-world Zine 
  • Printer friendly reference materials and City of Skull in world items

🔥Free Alchemy MAZES Module

  • All backers get the Alchemy RPG MAZES Fantasy Roleplaying module for free! 

🔥Add Adventure to Maze Controller Screen

  • We'll create a new one-shot adventure in the City of Skull for introductory play that will come with the Maze Controller Screen.

🔥Free Digital Adventure "Prophecy of the Blacklight Archive"

  • All backers will get a free digital adventure that can also be played in BLACKLIGHT with UV reactive paper and/or dice. Comes with the adventures, pre-gens, soundtrack, and set up plan. 

🔥More Art! 

  • We'll double the art budget for all new City of Skull campaign items including City of Skull, Beyond City of Skull, Prison Tomb, and the Maze Controller Screen. 

🔥Free Digital Adventure "Dragonseye"

  • All backers receive the MAZES Adventure Dragonseye, which takes place in the City of Skull. 

🔥Add Embossing Features to the Screen 

  • We'll add silver embossing features to the Maze Controller Screen for a more luxe look.

🔥Print & Play PDF of City of Skull in-world Card Deck

  • This card deck also includes rules for in-world games that an adventurer may play on their own at camp, for divination, to socialize at the tavern, or to gamble coin. 


Thank you, 
9th Level Games 

Final 2 Days! New Stretch Goal Announced!
5 months ago – Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 03:45:55 PM

We have less than 48 hours to go for MAZES City of Skull.  

Last week we were at Origins Game Fair 

We ran 15 minute demo's at our booth that took place in City of Skull and featured our Dwarven Forge City of Skull Burning Parade maze build, we did a big 50+ person game of Mazes til Midnight in blacklight, and of course celebrated 25 years of Kobolds Ate My Baby!






As we approach the end of this campaign, we are less than $500 away from our current stretch goal. So we went ahead and added another stretch goal for something different and fun! 

$50,000 - Print & Play PDF of City of Skull in-world Card Deck

  • This card deck also includes rules for in-world games that an adventurer may play on their own at camp, for divination, to socialize at the tavern, or to gamble coin. 



Progcore Fantasy, The Dark Age of Theer

Todd Stashwick, a Friend of 9th Level Games, just launched his Multimedia Fantasy RPG Experience on Kickstarter. Check it out!