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Obsidian dunes. A Land of Mirrors. Paranoid druids.


Downcrawl 2E is filled with evocative tables, but finding the right page in the book, rolling dice, and looking up the result takes time. The Downcrawl Deck lets you get a quick result from nearly any table in the book in only seconds, making ideas much quicker and more spontaneous to generate.
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A spread of Downcrawl Deck cards.

Here's how it works:

  • One result from each of 22 tables in the book is printed on each of 36 premium tarot-sized cards (replicating the d66 roll on each book table), for a total of nearly 800 different prompt words and phrases color-coded by category. Draw any card and find the category to get the equivalent of a random table roll.

  • Even bettercommonly combined tables are aligned on opposite card sides, meaning you can just flip over the top card and match the colors to get an A + B roll, like Aspect + Terrain (crumbling grottos) or Reputation + Person (eccentric gravedigger) far quicker than rolling and consulting two separate tables.

Animation of Downcrawl Deck card flipping over to show the prompt: flooded wasteland.

Designed for Downcrawl 2E (but useful for idea generation in any underworld campaign), the Downcrawl Deck offers subterranean prompts for everything from story hooks to creature appearance, terrain modifier to reputation, random resources, city locations, area themes, and more.

It also features an oracle for Solo play, answering yes or no questions with interesting complications, like No, but another approach presents itself.

The Deck puts Downcrawl's creative prompts right at your fingertips. It's a great aid to creative play, removing the friction of reaching for the dice and cracking open the rulebook to find the right table.


Terrains generated via the Downcrawl Deck: flowering ashlands, fungus-choked river


A spread of Downcrawl Deck cards


Downcrawl Worlds

But wait, there's more...

A complete standalone worldbuilding game has been designed around the Downcrawl Deck; you'll get a free PDF and mobile-ready version of the rules with your order. In the tradition of games like Microscope or A Quiet Year, in Downcrawl Worlds you'll collaboratively build a weird and curious underworld with your friends (or solo) and explore how it changes through time. Use the cards in your hand to bid completions to a prompt proposed by the current player:

Sure, scorpions are cool, but what if they were ghost scorpions? Singing scorpions?? Amethyst scorpions???

As you play you'll devise epic Ages, famous destinations, the curious peoples who inhabit this world, and even send them on quests to meet the legends of your underland. It is riotously fun.

Downcrawl Worlds can be played as a standalone worldbuilding game, or to generate a world for your Downcrawl campaign!

Laughing playtesters enjoying a game of Downcrawl Worlds.
Two Downcrawl Worlds Legends cards made by players, the Age of Cruel Glaciers and the Age of Sacred Shadows


The Downcrawl Deck in action (15-second explainer video)


Downcrawl Card Decks!

Downcrawl Deck prompts
  • The Downcrawl Deck puts nearly all the table results from the rulebook on a deck of tarot-sized cards
  • Want even more prompts? The Even Deeper Deck offers a completely new set of even weirder prompts. You can also get both Decks together with a colorful tuckbox.
  • The Encounter Deck helps you generate random mushrooms and travel encounters for Downcrawl (or any underworld adventure). Simply draw a card and follow the instructions for that card type to assemble an encounter out of further card draws.
  • Purchase all three decks in a Bundle for significant savings over buying them individually!
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