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Horror and dark fantasy games built on OSR principles: brutal combat, dangerous dungeons, terrible monsters, and players who survive by their wits.

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Worlds

Pick a darkness

Each setting has its own tone, rules and table. Torches in the Dark is our flagship; the others grow at the table every season.

Flagship, third edition in playtest

Torches in the Dark

Six centuries after the Slender Crown shattered the sky, Ayotha clings to the thinning edge of survival. You are not a hero. You are a survivor.

Enter Ayotha
Hard sci-fi horror

Infinite Darkness

4900 CE. Corporations, alien enclaves, and the Creep.
Stone age horror

Barbarous

Clans, cannibal gods and the Deep Dark.
Frozen survival

Shadows of the North

The tale of Orenda, the last flame in a cursed north.
Ink and desire

Roses & Scrolls

The Wilted World.
Weird-west folk horror

Gravesmoke

The Black Meridian: gonzo OSR on a haunted frontier.
Frontier horror

Out of County

The dead keep secrets. The living keep guns.
The system under our games

The Conflict Engine

A d20 ruleset with nine ability scores, the Strikes damage system, horrible wound tables and the Grim Sorts class system. It runs at the table, on Roll20, and inside World of Warcraft as an addon.

Rules reference WoW addon
Compendium

The archive of Ayotha

Lore Wiki

Races, curses, rituals, places and people, searchable.

Gods of Ayotha

The Ogdoad, Shaldrot's Children and the Choir of Ruin.

Bestiary

Beasts and horrors with full stat lines.

Spell Compendium

Spells and miracles by school and tier.

Timeline

From the Exodus to the current age of death.

Map Gallery

Cartography from across our worlds.

The Arkkadian Chronicles

Fiction from the archive.

Downloads

Rulebooks, supplements and licenses, free.
Tools

For players and game masters

Character Builder

Roll up a survivor for Torches in the Dark.

Generators

Names, places, hooks and more.

Dice Roller

Any pool of dice, with history.

Interactive Map

Explore the South Kingdoms.

Loot Oracle

Generate treasure on the fly.

Creature Oracle

Generate creatures for an encounter.

Dungeon Creator

The evershifting dungeon builder.

War Table

Our live session tracker.

Resources

Map makers, VTTs, audio and design tools we use.
“Ayotha does not need heroes. It needs survivors: people stubborn enough to hold a torch when everything in the dark wants it extinguished.”
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