Steinhardt's Guide to the Eldritch Hunt PDF

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Fight Nightmarish Monsters, Survive the Madness, and Join The Hunt.

Steinhardt's Guide to the Eldritch Hunt is a 491 page grimoire fusing Soulsborne and Lovecraftian inspirations for 5th-edition DnD.

Enhance your 5E game with cursed monsterseldritch moons, and the ever-looming threat of madness. Create an unforgettable narrative as you lay waste to eldritch spawn with an arsenal of trick weaponsblasphemous magic, and twisted player options

This contains the PDF of Steinhardt's Guide to the Eldritch Hunt
Steinhardt's Guide to the Eldritch Hunt PDF

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Alexander Scheel
Horrifyingly beautiful

The Art in the whole book is beautiful as is the actual content.
The moon mechanics are very interesting and I really like how the Trick weapons function although it could have used some more „mundane“ ones that players could get early(not gonna put the axe that turns into a living nightmare of eyes, flesh and steel into the hands of a lvl 4, or maybe I should..). That being said every single one feels like it was made with passion!
What surprised me was the Jäger class. Normally with 3rd party books I more or less ignore the included class as they either felt too „themed“ (I thought the tamer from Heliana‘s felt A LOT like a Pokémon trainer which I wasn’t interested in, something I will definitely give another shot after this book) or are underpowered/overly complicated. But the Jäger?! I think it has amazing class design!
I’ll be looking into taking the momentum idea and grafting it into other martial classes while taking apart the blood hunter to put into the jaeger.
I haven’t really sunk my teeth into the lore and quests provided in the book, but from a glance it looks very thought out and on theme.
And the monsters! I could gush about every single one. The mechanics of the bigger menaces in the book are a really cool idea to adapt (like the stance switching or the „here’s 1000 people that attack you as one monster, have fun“)

Definitely worth it if you liked bloodborne, horror-themes or just a very well designed book with cool ideas to adopt or reflavour.

And last but not least: woe, Stick be upon ye!

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Johnny Mullins
Amazing Work!

This is an extremely well put together compendium! I love the inspiration and I love how you’ve made everything feel familiar yet distinctly original!

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Connor Carson
Really great content

Been following MonkeyDM for years and I love this sourcebook.

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Johnathon't
Excellent formatting, one nitpic

I got a copy of the pdf (Steinhardt) and love the work and formattingnput into it. A friend was so intrigued that he got a physical copy of the book. While this is less of an issue with the PDF as there is a find command usually in pdf readers, I noticed through the physical printing that there is no indices in the book which would help drastically for finding words and phrases that show up for powers, spells etc for those who have access to the physical book. Give those with the physical book an analog to the digital search function, if that is possible. Aside from this nitpic I think this a masterfully done campaign setting, weapons module, new class, and class expansion for the ruleset!

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Kyle Cartier
Fantastic Book

Love the pdf of this book. Will be implementing a lot of this in my games

Join The Hunt

What is Steinhardt's Guide?

Steinhardt's Guide to the Eldritch Hunt is a 491 page grimoire fusing Soulsborne and Lovecraftian inspirations for 5th-edition DnD.

Enhance your 5E game with nightmarish monsterseldritch moons, and the ever-looming threat of madness. Create an unforgettable narrative as you lay waste to eldritch spawn with an arsenal of trick weaponsblasphemous magic, and twisted player options.

A World Turned Upside Down

Entrance your players as they unravel the mystery of the ravaged First Hunters, the zealous Radiant Church, and the erudite Obitus Scholare in this victorian-flavored, grimdark setting. Luyarnha is a city on the brink. With a ready-made cast of characters and an unending list of trials, your players will find ample opportunity to become the heroes these soiled streets need or die trying.

Lunar Lunacy

Alter the world around your players with a single die roll; the fires of a scorching moon can turn Luyarnha’s streets into an inferno, while a sanguine moon’s bloody malice can incense even the calmest of pacifists into furious feats of passion.  Create an unpredictable and ever-changing landscape usingSteinhardt’sMoon Phases mechanic. Theeight eldritch moons’ distorting influence begets a new chaos and calamity with each cycle.

Madness or Death

Watch as your players descend into an otherworldly insanity using the revamped madness system.

Steinhardt’s Guide integrates madness as a core mechanic in the monsters you fight, the traps you trigger, and the bewildering moons upon which you gaze. Embrace the beneficial, detrimental, and entirely obscene madness effects that more than 10x the number of options from the base 5E rules.

Nightmares Made Flesh

Play as Scourgeborne, beings who never fully succumbed to the plague, Manikin, porcelain marionettes with a nervous system of gold, or any of the other dozen race options. Evolve your characters using the extracted essence of the eldritch scourge you vanquish! However, beware sacrificing too much of your dwindling humanity lest you become like your fallen comrades, men-turned-beasts.

Spawn Slayers

Weave gunpowder and the arcane with the Pact of the Trigger Warlock, turn bones into playthings as an Osteomancer Wizard, and marshall the maddening moons’ powers as a Ranger of the Lunar Conclave.

Trick Weapons

Trick Weapons are a shape-changing arsenal of armaments that enhance your hunters’ versatility. Fire yourmeat hookshot, latch onto the enemy, pull yourself to point blank range, then blow off their face as you switch your weapon to a blunderbuss, one of several revamped firearms.

F.A.Q

What is included in the PDF/Book ?

This supplement brings a hoard of new content to your 5e game:

Rules for Eldritch Moons that corrupt the world.

  • A system for Trick Weapons & Firearms which you can transform in the middle of battle for deadly power.
  • A brand new ruleset for Madness with over 300 random effects!
  • 64 destructive spells and a new magic: 'Osteomancy', granting you power over flesh & bones.
  • 50+ macabre monsters, fallen comrades and spawns of the Old Ones.
  • 50+ illustrated magic items & trick weapons.
  • 19 twisted races and subraces.
  • 17 new subclasses for your standard classes.
  • A new class: the Jaeger, inspired by Bloodborne's Hunter, with 4 subclasses.
  • 13 gorgeous maps.
  • 5 nightmarish adventures.
  • All the lore needed to craft a bloody, gothic campaign with your friends

All of this for a total of 491 pages of insanity! Get it today!

What is in the Digital Asset Bundle?

The Digital Asset Bundle (DAB) contains all of the standalone files you need to bring your gothic adventures to the next level!

These include everything to "make making your own VTT package easy":

  • Tokens for every new enemy.
  • High-resolution versions of all the battlemaps.
  • Full Art Bundle: High-resolution monster illustrations, Eldritch Moon tarot cards, character art, sketches, and printable field notes to give to players on the hunt.
  • Character Sheets for your players, including a unique one for the new Jaeger class.
  • A free copy of the GM Cheatbook, this one is on the house!
What's in the VTT Package?
  • Fully implemented stat blocks and tokens for every enemy, as well as spells and subclasses!
  • Enhanced functionality for the battlemaps with walls and lighting, as well as all the creatures you’ll need for each level bracket of each adventure, ready to drop in.
  • Handouts for all the spells and items in the book, as well as the lore, landscapes, sketches, creature and NPC art, and the monster field notes.
  • Integrated trick weapons for your players. (Especially with the latest version of Foundry VTT, now each weapon transforms at the click of a button.)
Foundry VTT, Roll20, Fantasy Grounds

Do you play online, on platforms likeFoundry VTT,Roll20, orFantasy Grounds? You can get Steinhardt's on those platforms! Click the links for details.