https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thomasz/benthic-the-scattered-seafloor/

For 1 year now, I've been working on my deep-sea Mork Borg hack BËNTHIC, which puts players in the role of divers delving into the depths of an ancient, malicious trench of otherworldly ecosystems. While I'm not ready to put the full book up for crowdfunding just yet, I've prepared a prelude campaign to get a better understanding of crowdfunding before tackling such a huge project.

The Scattered Seafloor is a large hexcrawl adventure detailing the seafloor surrounding the trench that main game takes place in. Divers will journey across vast sand dunes, navigate through a gargantuan, labyrinthine school of fish, discover an ancient city within a volcanic wasteland, and confront an unsightly crustacean abomination atop a seamount within its fetid domain. You can expect the following from this complete zine:

• Details on 4 regions with their own unique encounter tables and atmosphere, constituting one massive hexcrawl.

• 4 Bonus One-Page Pointcrawls from the BËNTHIC Core Rulebook.

• 32 sunken treasures, unusual items with obscure powers to be used.

• 24 monsters, wildlife both natural and aberrant that dwells upon the seafloor.

• 24 unique locations with greater detail, spread out across the four regions.

• A unique, detailed villain to act as a considerable threat to those that dare face it.

• Layout designed for ease of use at the table, inspired by recent developments in the OSR adventure design scene.

• Full Compatibility with Pirate Borg, with the adventure being easily convertible to any other Borg-like and usable in other OSR games with some light work.

• A complete original soundtrack by Thomas Zitkevitz and featuring a guest track by DJaycer, with music for all four regions, combat music, and music for the main antagonist.

Also available in this kickstarter is a deluxe zine version of BËNTHIC: Scoured Edition, in its final form, featuring final touch-ups to the rules and a beautiful character sheet by Federico Marroni. This is not the final version of BËNTHIC, as the full hardcover core book is in production for crowdfunding Q1-Q2 2026. This is simply my way of getting my feet wet with Kickstarter on a much easier project while getting some products made that would be difficult to fund otherwise.

A free update to BËNTHIC: Scoured Edition will be coming in the next few weeks, featuring these final rules tweaks and the character sheet. Don't worry, the Scoured Edition will always be free. This Kickstarter is only to buy a premium quality physical copy of it for reference or to purchase this new adventure.

Follow the campaign at this link to be there for the Scattered Seafloor crowdfunding campagin on August 19th, 2025!