The Broadsheet #1: The Road to Blackguard

A flintlock-fantasy by gaslight setting, where law and corruption share the same shadow!

What is The Broadsheet?

The Broadsheet is a digital magazine exploring a flintlock-fantasy by gaslight setting; the grand industrialized metropolitan city of BLACKGUARD, the capital of the Atroxian Republic.

Flintlock-Fantasy. It’s not magic, but firearms that give Atroxia an edge over other nations.

By Gaslight. Gaslit lanterns line the city’s streets, bathing them in soft, yellow light.

Industrialized. A technological revolution is taking the nation by storm, impacting every aspect of life, and not only for the better.

Metropolis. Blackguard is a massive metropolis, with numerous boroughs that feel like distinct cities unto themselves.

What's in this Issue?

In this hefty 56-page document you'll get the following chapters:

ADVENTURE: THE NIGHT TRAIN - A super-detailed 18-page modular mystery adventure you can run in a single night that'll introduce 1st level characters to both Blackguard and Atroxia.

GAZETTEER: THE ARGENT SECTOR - A 12-page deep-dive to one of Blackguard’s boroughs, including a gazetteer of locations, an introduction to some villainous factions, and 12 plot hooks to expand your adventures in Blackguard.

SETTING: AN INTRODUCTION TO ATROXIA - A broad 16-page overview of the Atroxian Sea as a campaign setting with an introduction to its themes, history, nations, cultures, and factions.

APPENDICES - In 6 pages of appendices, you'll find a powerful artifact, 3 mundane marvels, and 11 monsters.... like Archibald Cheddarfield, an aristocratic cheese farmer!

Below I've attached the following files:

• The PDF containing the entire 56-page zine, with interactable page numbers, and hyperlinked headers and a working table of contents. All done to make it as navigable as possilbe.

• A full-scale detailed map of Atroxia that couldn't fit within our pages.

• A .zip file with the art we created for the zine, like the battlemaps and characters, perfect for plugging into VTTs or Tokens.

• A large-scale map of the Argent Sector with no annotations, if you want to share the layout with your players without the text.

• A second .zip file you can unzip and plug into your Obsidian vault. It includes the zine and the statblocks as separate files. It looks especially nice on the SRD Vault we've been making our statblocks in.