Backwoods Adventures: Something Rotten

Adventures | OSR | Crunchy | Post-apocalyptic

Backwoods Adventures is the adventure companion for Backwoods (CORE) with 100+ pages, 2 full adventures, 2 one-shot adventures, and 10 adventure hooks. It features an adventure by Bay Stater Matt Joro and a cover by New England artist Nala J. Wu.

Adventures in a Backwards America

You find yourself in a bizarre, post-apocalyptic America, where decaying structures and dwindling once-great family lines resemble a crumbling and corrupt nation on its last leg. Meanwhile, monsters emerge from dust-covered legends, and the vast American landscape threatens to swallow civilization whole.

For Reading & For Playing. Although this book is written for playing, it is also written for your reading pleasure. Rules and guidance for the Backwards system is non-intrusive, and the adventures can be adapted easily for other games.

Do you need a specific core book to enjoy this collection? Nope! You can pick up this book simply to read, and you can play the adventures with any of the core books or free quickstart guides.

Backwoods Adventures:
Something Rotten

This collection includes two full scenarios, "Bad Apple" and "I Smell a Rat," along with two one-shot adventures: "The Night Shift" and "By Land & By Sea & By Sky." All stories are set in and around the American northeast, the Heartlands Ward of the Backwards Universe.

Bad Apple by Matt Joro. A roadside encounter in a small western Massachusetts village forces the investigators to seek shelter in an abandoned cider mill.

I Smell a Rat by Asa Donald. A rich mill owner and their collection of Old World artifacts disappears. Years later, investigators are given the opportunity to explore parts of the mill that have been hitherto examined.