Manors Macabre: A Campaign Supplement is your cemetery gate to Gothic Horror adventures! Whether you want a weekend of terror or an entire campaign filled with nightmares, this book provides everything you need to get started. This book is separated into two distinct parts: the Player's Guide, which details new options for player characters during character creation while introducing a few new concepts to the game, and the Dungeon Master's Guide, which gives the DM insight into the fearsome Presence that inhabits cursed lands and haunted abodes.
Within these 110 pages, you will find:
-Two lineages, the Horrorborn and the Zyrasha.
-Three classes, the Dancer (and its subclasses: School of Ballet, School of Courtly Dance, School of the Feywild, and School of the Macabre); The Seer (and its subclasses: Harbinger of Doom, Medium, Prophet, and Truthseeker); and the Witch (and its subclasses: Hearth Witch, Broom Witch, and Familiar Witch).
- Eight backgrounds: Doctor, Farmer, Grave Digger, Poet or Writer, Rancher, Scientist, and Seer.
-Four optional background features such as Doomed Bloodline, Haunted, Aura of Innocence, and Touched by Madness.
-Six Gothic-inspired deities.
-Nine new spells.
-Rules on fear, dread, morality, virtue, sins, and mistrust.
-Storytelling tips on how to run Gothic Horror adventures.
-A Gothic adventure to incorporate into any ongoing campaign, intended for 3rd-level characters or higher.
The Manors Macabre: A Campaign Supplement is 5e compatible.
Having written since they were able to pick up a pen, Nathan Reese Maher has had a profound interest in writing throughout childhood which included attending several young writers conferences and even reaching out to TSR (Publishers of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons) about a manuscript at the age of 14 and receiving some very heartwarming advice from the editors there. Nathan attended the University of Iowa in pursuit of a Dance degree in Classical Ballet, which shifted back to their original love of writing after an injury prevented further advancement. In 2005, Nathan graduated with a BA in English Literature with an emphasis in Classics and Creative Writing. Their first book, "Secrets of the CitySpire - A Familiar Love Song" was published in 2010, and is well known for the following quote: "All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea." Which has been cited in several independent works including art, poetry, video, photography and papers. The quote was even featured by Buzz Feed and hailed multiple times on World Goth Day. In November 2017, Nathan was awarded the Royal Dragonfly Book Award for 1st place in Middle Grade fiction for their book, "Lights Out - Book 1", a book which continues to be their highest selling book. In March of 2020, Nathan opened NRM Books and remains the purveyor of those haunting tomes. Nathan continues to write to this day, with several projects completed and waiting on representation or self-publication. They live in Tacoma, Washington with their amazing and highly supportive spouse and child.
