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I'm Erik Indigo, a freelance writer who's writing weird, wonderful and wriggly supplements for Four Against Darkness, published by Ganesha Games. Here are my current projecs in the works for this marvellous game of mythic monstrosities.

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Crucible art by Andrea Sfiligoi (2018).

Note: No guarantees offered. This planning list is subject to Andrea Sfiligoi's final editorial decisions.

My Four Against Darkness books (2018)

Four Against the Netherworld
Outdoors adventures in the bleakest setting imaginable: hell. Featuring several dozens of disturbing monsters, new spells and magic items, two cleric variants (Zur, Foryos) and three new classes: Paladin, Demonologist and Cambion.

PDF: https://gumroad.com/ganeshagames
Print: http://www.lulu.com/shop/erick-n-bouchard/four-against-the-netherworld/paperback/product-23701448.html

The Courtship of the Flower Demons
Rules for potion crafting, over 100 magic potions and romantic adventures and a beautiful but deadly garden demonworld with grim mysteries to explore. Featuring flower demons and stone horrors to seduce or kill, new spells and magic items and three new classes: Wandering Alchemist, Satyr and Conservationist (wizard of life).

PDF: https://gumroad.com/ganeshagames
Print: http://www.lulu.com/shop/erick-n-bouchard/the-courtship-of-the-flower-demons/paperback/product-23835069.html

The Crucible of Classic Critters
Woodlands dungeon tiles and unique rules (swimming, cutting down trees and more), new tiles, rules for animal companions and mounts, subduing and flying monster and new monster and spell tables. Featuring a new class (Beastmaster), hags with boiling cauldrons and evil squirrels.

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Print: http://www.lulu.com/shop/erick-n-bouchard/the-crucible-of-classic-critters/paperback/product-23885218.html

My Upcoming Books (expected for 2019)


Breachers of the Bone Belfry (in layout)
A deadly adventure for dead characters eager to find life again. Featuring several new rules and two classes: Death Paladin and Succubus (with an option to play flower demons as characters).

The North Beyond the World (awaiting layout)
An epic narrative campaign in the far north with hex exploration rules compatible with Four Against the Netherworld. Can be played as a follow up of Breachers of the Bone Belfry or on its own. Classes and clerics: bard, ice elf male, ice elf female (immune to magic), moonbeast, xwart, marksman. Also, barbarian scarring powers. Clerics of Tauramin (time), Tezany (sea) and Winterheart (frost).

Digressions of the Devouring Dead (awaiting layout). 
Necromantic dungeons with new multiple level tiles, hardcore rules (e.g. food and fuel management), new missions and monsters and traps tables, and several dark classes (assassin, leper, harlequin, mutant, golem, necromancer, shapechanger) and clerics of Ter Za Necht and Alkebertz and Darim.

Revenge of the Ravenous Ratmen (awaiting layout)
Humorous and light city adventure. Humorous classes: cheesemeister (with the ability to milk  monsters for making magic cheese), shrews, clerics and paladins of Gobras (jester god), Gro Khair (famine god), Radah (rat god), Sebas (car goddess).

Treacheries of the Troublesome Towns (in writing and early playtest)
Massive dynamic town system generator with over 50 quests and a quasi-A.I. system. Countless adventures and rules for your home and ship, divine alignments, political factions, crisis, marriage, political play, banking, commerce, inter-city travel, weird cities (undead towns, demon towns, aquatic towns...) and thieving actions. Urban spells and new classes: beggar, court magus (political), light goblin, ogre, town troll and lutin.

More Monstrous Mayhem (in writing)
Mountains dungeons with new tiles. Lots of magic items and new animal companions and mounts. New Classes: half orc (over a dozen varieties), fire elf (pyromaniacs), dark elf (whip & lace), night elf (casts temporal spells), "salmon man" (ichtyan) and specialized clerics to be determined.

Yoke of the Yogic Yetis (in writing)
A spiritual quest in a northern abbey set in the North Beyond the World. Stand alone and for any level. Classes: monks (unarmed, sword and hammer specialists), snow elf, possibly others (e.g. yogic yeti), clerics of Fudar and Cloudcutter (living weapon gods).

Pirate Ports of Pestilence (in writing)
A mysterious and sinister city adventure set in a town engulfed by an evil, poisonous fog and an ancient secret in an Innsmouth homage to Lovecraft. New class: plague doctor.

Mötörtrücks Agäinst the Cthülhücalÿpse (title may change, in early design)
Stand alone "combat cars" vs Cthulhu stand alone game where your characters are customizable war vehicles with blades and missile launchers and their crew play as retainers against Mythos monsters, zombies and crazy biker gangs. To feature three mini settings: Northern Mexico/US ("The Great Wall"), Switzerland/Italy/France ("Humanity's Last Haven") and Nepal ("Where It All Began").

Slithering Swamps of the Sinister Snakemen (in early design)
Swamp/jungle thematic dungeons around the theme of Ssiklis and Aztec pyramids. Featuring the snake charmer class and clerics of Ssiklis (snake goddess).

Other Things I Wrote

Uchronia: Mecha Exodus
A stand alone indie roleplaying game experiment about giant sentient robots and North Korea.
http://www.lulu.com/ca/fr/shop/erick-n-bouchard/uchronia-the-mecha-exodus-stand-alone-rpg-version/ebook/product-17487461.html

Something Silly
http://membre.oricom.ca/samedi/si-e-bt1.pdf