The Howling Tomb (2025) is a little adventure for characters level 2-3. I backed it during ZineQuest 2025 and also got Lair of the Bog Lich (2025), a level 1-2 adventure. I wasn’t expecting that! But they make a nice pair.

These are lo-fi zines and I like it. Folks often complain about how zines have gotten so fancy. I don’t mind fancy chapbooks being called zines, especially since quality pre-press and printing have become more affordable (or, at least, they were, for a minute there). But at the same time, I really dig a stripped down, no-nonsense zine. These are little black and white jams, six pages each, on nice paper but no cover stock. It gets the job done.

The job is providing OSR-ish adventure! Lair features art by Simone Tametta and has players investing why villagers are sleepwalking into the swamps, never to be seen again. Clearly, a monster is at work, in this case a Bog Lich, which is less like an Acererak and more like Ted Sturgeon’s It, which I dig. More muck monsters in D&D, please! The Howling Tomb features art by Melotyca, I quite like the forlorn cover. The scenario is the six-room tomb and the source of the howl is a colorful opponent whose nature I won’t spoil, since it’s not in the title of this one.

These are both snappy scenarios fit for being dropped into any campaign. They’re a buck fifty for PDFs on itch.io, what are you waiting for?