DEEP CARBON OBSERVATORY

Deep Carbon Observatory - print only

This is an adventure. It got some pretty good reviews.

Click here to go to our Lulu page to buy it in print only. If you want to you can buy it from Lulu along with Fire in the Velvet Horizon.

LULU

Maps!

Some people found the side-on map of the observatory hard to read. Gus L of 'Dungeon of Signs' has created some top-down maps and Luka Rejec has edited them to make them more easily useable.

Print and pdf

Its the SAME THING as above, but WAIT, if you buy it from RPG.NOW instead you can get it in print and pdf at the same time for no extra cost. But you can't buy FotVH along with it. A dark irony.

RPG.NOW

The Maps

Podcast!

The GG NO RE podcast are doing a series where they play through DCO. It has already killed them once. At the time of writing they are on episode ten.

Then again, this is also an imaginative, fantastic adventure, one of the best about going into a strange and forbidding place full of things which will eat your face. You get to feel properly out of your depth, and that’s a rare feeling in RPGs (again, Carcosa did it, although in a completely different way).	Either way, this is a module everyone should at least read, and many people should play. It is well worth your time to do both. And in doing so, you’ll contribute back to the community and people like Patrick and Scrap to continue doing what not only they love, but what the RPG community needs.	"It’s like traditional fantasy D&D meets Lovecraft meets Lewis and Clark meets the most epicly-worded-yet-simply-spun beautiful prose I’ve ever read in my life."
This guy hated it.	"DCO is at once disturbing and weird, because as I'm reading the pdf the sky is dripping down with rain and history. You see in 1955 my home state of Connecticut suffered one of its worst disasters so far the flood of Nineteen Fifty Five!W
"Final Scores:7+ sessions of play Average of 0.7 PC deaths/session. 2-3 apocalyptic scenarios inbound."	"Deep Carbon Observatory does have a rich science-fantasy vibe..... Deep Carbon Observatory is a fine entry into that tradition."	"Go buy this fucking thing… It’s incredibly good and very, very interesting."
"This adventure deserves to be spoken about in hushed tones and discrete symbols."	"Seriously, my points here are - it gives you pretty much everything you need for 4-8 sessions of gaming, depending on your style (my style of games would probably end up at the higher end of that amount) - which for $10 is a steal."	"The nearest I can figure is avant garde is code for everything in this module is interesting and novel."
"GREAT adventure. More than enough content, and the content is VERY easy to build off of."	"I love this thing. It has introduced myself and a rotating circle of about ten friends to Old School role-playing and we are having the best fucking time."	"The phrase "There's a flood and your PCs are compelled to investigate!" is not in the module because it got in the way of poison and rules for the stairs, and because doing awesome things is taken as granted in your players."
"Like many contemporary adventures it’s shock full of desperation and sadness and malice. What makes it stand out, however, is the human scope."	"Ultimately Deep Carbon Observatory is a thought provoking and wonderful adventure, almost novelistic in its scope and strangeness." ..."Despite my affection for the creator of Deep Carbon Observatory it has troubles. "	"Scrap Princess’ illustrations contribute to the overall tone of the book. I find her work is so frenzied and terrifying. Maybe that’s not the right word, but there is something about how she draws that I find really visceral. I don’t know anyone else that draws like her."

Deep Carbon Observatory - print only

Maps!

Print and pdf

Podcast!

Either way, this is a module everyone should at least read, and many people should play. It is well worth your time to do both. And in doing so, you’ll contribute back to the community and people like Patrick and Scrap to continue doing what not only they love, but what the RPG community needs.

"It’s like traditional fantasy D&D meets Lovecraft meets Lewis and Clark meets the most epicly-worded-yet-simply-spun beautiful prose I’ve ever read in my life."

This guy hated it.

"DCO is at once disturbing and weird, because as I'm reading the pdf the sky is dripping down with rain and history. You see in 1955 my home state of Connecticut suffered one of its worst disasters so far the flood of Nineteen Fifty Five!W

"Final Scores:7+ sessions of play Average of 0.7 PC deaths/session. 2-3 apocalyptic scenarios inbound."

"Deep Carbon Observatory does have a rich science-fantasy vibe..... Deep Carbon Observatory is a fine entry into that tradition."

"Go buy this fucking thing… It’s incredibly good and very, very interesting."

"This adventure deserves to be spoken about in hushed tones and discrete symbols."

"Seriously, my points here are - it gives you pretty much everything you need for 4-8 sessions of gaming, depending on your style (my style of games would probably end up at the higher end of that amount) - which for $10 is a steal."

"The nearest I can figure is avant garde is code for everything in this module is interesting and novel."

"GREAT adventure. More than enough content, and the content is VERY easy to build off of."

"I love this thing. It has introduced myself and a rotating circle of about ten friends to Old School role-playing and we are having the best fucking time."

"The phrase "There's a flood and your PCs are compelled to investigate!" is not in the module because it got in the way of poison and rules for the stairs, and because doing awesome things is taken as granted in your players."

"Like many contemporary adventures it’s shock full of desperation and sadness and malice. What makes it stand out, however, is the human scope."

"Ultimately Deep Carbon Observatory is a thought provoking and wonderful adventure, almost novelistic in its scope and strangeness." ..."Despite my affection for the creator of Deep Carbon Observatory it has troubles. "

"Scrap Princess’ illustrations contribute to the overall tone of the book. I find her work is so frenzied and terrifying. Maybe that’s not the right word, but there is something about how she draws that I find really visceral. I don’t know anyone else that draws like her."