A fast-paced level 20 adventure chock-full of combat, exploration, and roleplay!
The sun has disappeared, replaced by a burning ring of black fire that has plunged the world into eternal night and separated mortals from their Gods. Nightmare monsters advance from the world of Nocturnia and an exiled queen plots her violent and fiendish revenge.
Curse of the Extinguished Sun is a level 20 adventure compatible with 5th edition created by Zeke Gonzalez, the writer of the best-selling level 17-20 Pretty Little Liches campaign. In addition to the adventure itself, the PDF includes:
- Random encounter tables for a nightmare world
- Battle tactics for an epic three-stage boss fight
- Five new high-CR monsters
- New magic items and spells
- Six pre-generated level 20 character sheets
This adventure is designed to be playable either as a oneshot that allows you to experience the epic action and drama of high-level play or added to your campaign as an excursion into a realm of darkness to claim a powerful magic item. This adventure is friendly to new players, veterans, or anybody in-between.
The adventure is wholly written, but we are crowdfunding in the hopes of getting professional art, layout, and editing to make this adventure stand out as a great example of tier 4 play. If you’re interested, check out our free preview below!
This preview includes the opening encounter of the adventure and a small exploration-focused dungeon that sets the stakes. Keep in mind that this preview is not the final product: it has not been edited and features placeholder art or maps that may be replaced in the final product.
Timeline
January 23rd - Feb. 28th: Crowdfunding!
March - Illustration & Additional Writing
- If we meet any stretch goals, this will be the period where we commission art and maps as well as write any new encounters. If we don’t meet our stretch goals, that will speed this step along considerably.
April - Editing
May - Layout
June - Fulfillment!
Meet the Team
Writer & Producer
Zeke Gonzalez (he/him) has been writing TTRPG games and monsters for 6 years now, with previous credits including the Pretty Little Liches and Grasp of the Crooked Coven campaigns among other work on the DMs Guild. His fascination with horror and love of science come together to create beautiful and strange fantasy locations and ecosystems. Keep up with Zeke’s work by joining his mailing list or following him on Twitter @FantasyEcology.
Layout Designer
Anja Svare Productions has collaborated on a multitude of products in the TTRPG space, as well as producing their own roleplaying materials. Some of the best-selling products they have worked on are the FASERIP-inspired Astonishing Super Heroes ruleset, the Odyssey series of Theros-based adventures, the Shipwrecked series of Solo adventures for 5e D&D, the Crooked Coven Adventure series for 5e D&D, as well writing, designing, and collaborating on over 70 products for both Pathfinder and Dungeons & Dragons.
Contact them on Twitter or Facebook , and see their projects at DMs Guild and DriveThruRPG .
Editor
jess (they/them) is an editor, writer, podcaster, occasional streamer, and recovering procrastinator. They’ve worked on over two dozen TRPG titles, including Journeys through the Radiant Citadel, Uncaged Volume I, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, and they’ve also written for TRPGs like Scarred Lands and Starfinder. jess also podcasts and streams TRPGs with the d20 Dames, a family-friendly actual play podcast; these episodes and updates can be found on d20dames.com. jess sometimes writes short fiction, and their writing can be found in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Sunspot Literary Journal. Keep up with everything jess gets up to on their website writejess.com and Twitter @writejessr.
Artist
David Markiwsky (he/him) is an artist and designer from Canada who is obsessed with all things fey. Most recently, he worked as art director and project manager on Uncaged: Goddesses and designed some spirits for Greater than Games' Spirit Island: Nature Incarnate expansion. You can find him screaming about fey things on Twitter @DavidMarkiwsky.
Stretch Goals
$4,750 — Full-Color Maps of the Monument of the Sun from Derek Ruiz of Elven Tower
$5,250 — Expand Nocturnia: A Mini-Setting Guide + 6 New Encounters
$5,750 — Full-Color Map of Nocturnia from Derek Ruiz of Elven Tower
The OGL
This adventure has been written and playtested since 2021 as an OGL 1.0a release, and we plan to use that license for this adventure. If that needs to change at any time, our backers will be the first to know.
Credits
The cover art for this adventure and the promo art used for this page are by Dean Spencer.
Perks
You'll receive the option to print the Standard Color Softcover version of Curse of the Extinguished Sun at special prices using DriveThruRPG's print-on-demand services. You also pay shipping.
You'll get a download of the full Curse of the Extinguished Sun PDF, your name in the credits, and the map + art pack for VTTs.
You can add a community copy to your order using this reward. When you purchase a community copy, one PDF of the adventure is made available for someone who is not able to purchase it or otherwise support the project monetarily. Community Copies will be available via itch.io when the adventure is released.
Tell Zeke about a character you’ve made and he will create a level 20 character sheet, to be included in the adventure for pick-up play! You'll also receive a PDF copy of the adventure , your name in the credits, and the map + art pack for VTTs.
Note: Zeke reserves the right to request a different name or character be used for any reason.
Work with Zeke to create one of the monstrous creatures of Nocturnia and have it illustrated by David Markiwsky! You'll also receive a PDF copy of the adventure, your name in the credits, and the map + art pack for VTTs.
Note: Zeke reserves the right to make changes to the monster for any reason.
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You'll receive the option to print the Standard Color Softcover version of Curse of the Extinguished Sun at special prices using DriveThruRPG's print-on-demand services. You also pay shipping.
You'll get a download of the full Curse of the Extinguished Sun PDF, your name in the credits, and the map + art pack for VTTs.
You can add a community copy to your order using this reward. When you purchase a community copy, one PDF of the adventure is made available for someone who is not able to purchase it or otherwise support the project monetarily. Community Copies will be available via itch.io when the adventure is released.
Tell Zeke about a character you’ve made and he will create a level 20 character sheet, to be included in the adventure for pick-up play! You'll also receive a PDF copy of the adventure , your name in the credits, and the map + art pack for VTTs.
Note: Zeke reserves the right to request a different name or character be used for any reason.
Work with Zeke to create one of the monstrous creatures of Nocturnia and have it illustrated by David Markiwsky! You'll also receive a PDF copy of the adventure, your name in the credits, and the map + art pack for VTTs.
Note: Zeke reserves the right to make changes to the monster for any reason.
