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Saltgrave key art: a lighthouse above a stormy sea and a giant sunken bell

LANTERNFALL PRESS PRESENTS

Saltgrave

30 Drowned One-Shots for 5e

Thirty one-shots. One drowned bell. Every table will hear it toll.

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Something under the sea is ringing a bell. Your players have one night to find out why.

30one-shot adventures
60new monsters
320full-colour pages
12battle maps
A gothic sea-horror anthology you can run tonight

What is Saltgrave?

A gothic sea-horror anthology you can run tonight

Saltgrave is a hardcover book of thirty standalone one-shots set along a cursed coastline, where a sunken bronze bell still tolls at high tide. Every adventure runs in a single 3-4 hour session, needs ten minutes of prep, and works for levels 1 to 10.

Sixty new monsters, ready to use

Meet the drowned

Sixty new monsters, ready to use

From the Drowned Bell-Ringer to tide-hags and barnacle knights, every creature gets a full stat block, a tactics box and a one-line hook you can read straight to the table.

Drowned Bell-Ringer

Medium undead, chaotic evil
Armor Class 15Hit Points 97 (13d8 + 39)Speed 30 ft., swim 40 ft.Challenge 6
Toll of the Deep. When the Bell-Ringer pulls its rope, each creature within 60 feet must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom save or be frightened until the end of its next turn.
A new subclass: the Lantern-Bearer

Play the light

A new subclass: the Lantern-Bearer

Lantern-Bearers walk the shore when the bell rings. A new subclass for any class, with storm-lantern magic that turns darkness into a weapon and a lifeline for the whole party.

The Saltgrave hardcover with bronze dice and miniatures

The book

A 320-page hardcover, built for the table

  • Every one-shot fits on a two-page spread
  • Lay-flat binding and two ribbon bookmarks
  • A pull-out sea chart of the whole coast
  • PDF with linked maps for virtual tables

Rewards

Choose your pledge

Digital

Lantern Light

£15
  • Saltgrave PDF
  • 12 printable battle maps
  • Backer name in the book
Pledge £15
Limited: 500

Bell-Ringer Collector

£79
  • Foil-stamped collector hardcover
  • Saltgrave PDF + maps
  • Bronze 7-dice set
  • Cloth sea chart
  • All unlocked stretch goals
Pledge £79
Limited: 40

Harbour Master

£140
  • Everything in Collector
  • 3 extra hardcovers for your group
  • Your character drawn into the book
Pledge £140

Add-ons

Add to any pledge

Add-onPrice
Extra hardcover£35
Bronze 7-dice set£18
Cloth sea chart (60 x 40 cm)£22
Monster card deck (60 cards)£20
Lantern-Bearer miniature£12

Stretch goals

Ring the bell higher

unlocked
Funded: the book is real
£12,000
unlocked
Ribbon bookmarks x2
£18,000
unlocked
Five bonus one-shots
£25,000
locked
VTT-ready map pack
£40,000
locked
Audio drama of the first adventure
£50,000

For the reviewer

Built to take new art and new prices

Every price, tier, stretch goal and piece of art on this page comes from one data file. When the final art or a price change arrives, one command rebuilds this page, the prelaunch page and every Kickstarter image below. Here is the same header export before and after a change.

Header export, first version
Version 1. First key art, hardcover at £45.
Header export after the change
Version 2. New key art arrives, hardcover moves to £49, goal becomes £15,000.

The whole change: "key": "art/keyart_alt.png", "price": 49, "goal": 15000. Rebuild time for everything on this page: 54 seconds.

Kickstarter-ready exports

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Hook and contents
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Story 1: What is Saltgrave?
Story 1: What is Saltgrave? 1360 x 1182 px
Story 2: Meet the drowned
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Story 3: Play the light
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The book
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Reward tiers
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Add-on chart
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Stretch goals
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Stretch goals (gif)
Stretch goals (gif) 680 x 679 px, 13 frames
Header: the bell tolls (gif)
Header: the bell tolls (gif) 680 x 380 px, 18 frames

Header and ad variants

Three hooks to test

Ad variant 1
Hook A. The bell has tolled. Thirty one-shots rise from the deep.
Ad variant 2
Hook B. Run a full horror one-shot tonight. Prep time: ten minutes.
Ad variant 3
Hook C. Sixty drowned monsters. One cursed bell.