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Open Post - August Release - Morgus, The Kingdom of Screaming Flesh
🕑 Added 2025-08-03 03:03:21 +0000 UTCTier Release Links
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Hey Critical Crew!
This month, we venture deep into a land where magic is not born of nature, but from something far darker. Morgus, a realm suspended in the twisted depths of Perjus and ruled by The Deceiver - a god-like being known as an Outsider whose very essence thrives on lies and torment. Here, the land itself pulses with the agony of the damned, and corruption seeps into the bones of all who enter. From blood-stained markets to the ever-watchful Celestial Eye, power comes at a heavy price, and those who seek it may find themselves lost to the darkness they wield. Are your players prepared to embrace the corruption, or will it consume them whole?
.STL's
This month brings our latest .STL for our Apprentice and Loremaster tiers - the hungry terror known as the Mawmnomer! This .STL file comes presupported and ready to print.
As always - STL's are NOT backlogged, so be sure to download it locally this month!
Encounters
We've got 5 brand new Body Horror encounters of varying challenge ratings and settings -ready to drop right into your existing campaigns, or can just as easily be used as a springboard into a new adventure.
Enter into the courts of a mawmnomer and find yourselves invited to a feast beyond your wildest imagination; cross paths with a massive behemoth known as a Gaffing Giant as it drags tormented bodies across the desolate planes; and send your players into a tomb of living flesh, where the whispering body parts hold the secrets for their escape...
Stat Blocks
You get 5 brand new monster stat blocks of various challenge ratings and our latest Dermamort Monster Template - allowing for easy reskinning of existing monsters into fleshy variants!
Unleash horrors from the twisted realm of Morgus with monstrous beings that will leave your players trembling in terror: Encounter the Gaffing Giant, a lumbering abomination that drags the dead and dying on its cruel hooks, roaming the flesh-bound expanse of Morgus; the Fleshie, an ever-growing, intelligent abomination that absorbs its victims and takes on their memories, serves only one purpose - unrelenting growth through consumption; and the Mawmnomer, a grotesque entity created by The Deceiver itself, that rules over the Flesh Lands with a terrifying hunger and insatiable will.
Player Options
This release also introduces our latest subclass for our necromancy-based original player class the Gravebound (originally introduced in our "Wretched Dead" release) - the Dermamancy Devotion! Dermamancers draw their power from the manipulation of flesh and skin, allowing practitioners to control and shape living matter in grotesque and terrifying ways. Dermamancers can raise up dermamorts, undead husks of flesh that obey their will, serving as both shield and weapon. At its core, Dermamancy is about using the raw, visceral power of flesh to dominate others, transforming both the caster and their enemies into malleable tools of destruction.
We also have our latest player race - the Penitent! a race of tortured souls condemned by The Deceiver, forever trapped in a state of endless suffering. These disfigured, flayed beings are marked by their painful tasks and the cruel missions they serve under the Deceiver's command. Born from torment, the Penitent can communicate through telepathy, using their anguish as both a curse and a weapon. With their unique ability to endure unimaginable pain and their connection to the dark forces of Morgus, the Penitent are driven by a need for redemption - or perhaps, something far darker....
Items
You will also find our 5 latest Items - like the Living Spellbook, the Flayed Cloak, - and 4 latest Grafts - like the Elongated Tongue and the Extra Mouth - to both help set the theme for the setting and reward your characters for their roleplaying! And lastly, you also get our 5 latest sigils (magical runes that can be applied to items and equipment to bestow magical features to them)!
Spells
This release also brings our 5 latest magic spells to help bring the body horror vibes to your tables with spells like Crawling Skin, Skinion, and Fuse Flesh!
Maps
We've also got 10 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 20 VTT-ready tokens for all of your online needs!
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As always, we have to share some love with the folks in the Hivemind for helping us brainstorm and fine tune the content in this release! If you have yet to join the Critical Crafting discord community and get involved, you're missing out!
- Dillon, Cameron, Connor, and Sarah
