Calen March (Digital Zine)

Calen March is a love letter to the old Sega and arcade games I played as a kid like Gauntlet, Golden Axe and the like, and started as a campaign journal for my own solo play using BX.

Setting feel and naming  conventions of the NPCs  were kept to feel like the retro Japanese games of my childhood  I wanted to emulate, and care was taken with colors (all done by hand in watercolor and pen) to evoke that same feeling.

Here in full color, you’ll traverse the March and assist or doom the village of Brightstone as you cross steel or hurl magic at Blood Drunk Torgool and his ogre elite. 

Uncover the secrets of the Darkskull Covenant and its dread master, Grave Kaiser.

Do battle with King Kraven as he relentlessly harries the region. . 

The whole thing is 20 pages of hand lettered and typewriter written analog fun, everything on the nose and embracing the old fantasy tropes instead of subverting them. 

There’s factions, home base, situations, dungeons, forts, ogres, goblins, a titanic construct to try to wake up, a cult to fight (or join), a temple to clear, and much more. 

I hope you enjoy it. 

PS - I plan to add a few more maps and small materials to this as I get further with my own campaign. Those files will be added on for free to all who have the product at the current purchase price.