Don’t Bring the Paladin Along on This One

It’s a dark night, a rain-slicked street, and a dead-end alley. No one notices one more puddle on the streets of a city like Zobeck, and no one will miss one more would-be schemer. If you want to get out of this city alive, you need to be quick, clever, and one step ahead. Being lucky never hurts either.

This collection of gritty, dark, and compromising adventures takes you into the seedy side with double-crossing merchants, femme fatales, corrupt councilors, and more. See the Free City’s most notorious den of iniquity, a rooftop garden of delights and dangers, and the underground market. Witness the lengths people will go to for lust, for greed, for revenge—and if you’re very lucky, get rich doing it.

• 7 adventures of underhanded rogues and shady deals
• 6 unusual locations such as the Cartways Black Market and Old Stross Bathhouse,
• 8 dark and desperate NPCs who populate these dirty corners, and
• dozens of new clockworks, magic, and equipment for your game world.

Lead Designer—Ben McFarland
By Ben McFarland, Mike Franke, Richard Pett, Christina Stiles, and Matthew Stinson

Ben McFarland: Everyone Lies, The Dragged Woman, Pavic, Radu Underhill, Sam Nesclem, Sergeant Hendryk, Cartways Black Market, Old Stross Public Bathhouse, The Silk Scabbard
Christina Stiles: Flesh Fails, The Fish and the Rose
Ben & Christina: Jayzel, Slinger, Syssysalai
Mike Franke: Ripper, The First Lab, Goldscale, Cracked Coin
Richard Pett: Rust
Matt Stinson: Rebuilding a Good Man, Joony Verasso, Hommel’s
Scott C. Bourgeois: The Black Lotus
Jesse Butler: Rampant Roach, Ulmar’s Books
Chad Middleton: Joshiel the Gutter Prophet, Traits
James Thomas: Joshiel the Gutter Prophet, Small Treasures

Feats: Ben McFarland, Scott C. Bourgeois, Mike Franke, Chad Middleton, Christina Stiles
Traits: Ben McFarland, Jesse Butler, Mike Franke, Chad Middleton, Adam W. Roy
Magical and Mundane Miscellany: Ben McFarland, Mike Franke, Jim Groves, Christina Stiles, James Thomas
Designers: Ben McFarland, Mike Franke, Michael Furlanetto, Richard Pett, and Christina Stiles
Editor: Christopher Bodan
Cover Artist: Pat Loboyko
Interior Artist: Glen Zimmerman
Cartographer: Gill Pearce and Jonathan Roberts (Old Stross Bathhouse)
Layout: Callie Winters

Playtesters: Jimmy Ashley, Hunter Cook, Carlos Cortez, Mike Franke (GM), Hans House, Heath Medlin, and Mike McCauley, Erin McCleary, Mike McCleary, Jessica Milasich, Nicholas Milasich (GM), Nick Schroeder, and James Zack

Patrons: David Ackermann, Jason Alexander, David Allen, Andrew Baggott, Michael Baker, Jared Berrien, Scott C Bourgeois, Sean Bradley, Leslie Brown, Daniel Brumme, Jonathan Burstein, Jesse Butler, Kenneth Axel Carlsson, Tom Carpenter, Truly Clark, Jim Clunie, Bill Collins, Bradley Colver, Andrew Craig, Patrick Curtin, Matthew C. Cutter, Adam Daigle, Sam Daish, Michael Davenport, Mark Daymude, Alexander Delp, David DeRocha, Bret Dodd, Mark Evers, Jarrod Farquhar-Nicol, Ben Ferguson, John Fetridge, Mike Franke, Stephanie Franklin, Michael Furlanetto, Mark Gedak, Steve Geddes, Ben Gerber, Georg Gerleigner, Thilo Graf, Norman Gross, Jim Groves, Daryl Gubler, Brian Guerrero, Patrick Halverson, Günther Hamprecht, Dave Harrison, Lyle Hayhurst, Brandon Hodge, Lutz Hofmann, Ronald Hopkins, Garret Hudlow, Brian Isikoff, Christian Johnson, Clare Jones, Jay Joyner, Alex Kanous, Alex Kanous, Danny Keen, Toni Kettunen, Jason Kramer, Skjalg Kreutzer, C Krumins, David Lai, Troy Larson, Adam Leckie, John Leonas, Eric Lopez, Luis Loza, Michael Machado, Emiliano Marchetti, Les McFadden, Hans Meijs, Francois Michel, Chad Middleton, Nicholas Milasich, Steven Milner, Olivier Miralles, Jeff Moller, Sean Molley, Matthew Monteiro, Chris Mortika, Paul Munson, Charles Myers, Zachary O’Connor, Sean O’Donnell, Jeffrey Oyler, Nick Pater, Roy Pettitt, Markus Plate, Patrick Plouffe, Callum Prior, Stefan Radermacher, Trent Revis, Kevin Reynolds, Chris Riedmueller, Wade Rockett, Jan Rodewald, Franz Georg Roesel, Toby Rogers, John Rondeau, Adam Roy, Eddy Schmidt, Benjamin Sennitt, Frank Signorino, Sean Silva-Miramon, Hugo Solis, Peter Sotos, Marzio Spairani, Christina Stiles, Matthew Stinson, Jared Strickland, Paul Sudlow, Brian Suskind, Keith Taschner, Laura Teddiman, Constantin Terton, James Thomas, Keith Unger, Machiel van der Wal, Roberto Vargas, Giorgio Vergani, Oliver von Spreckelsen, Dan Voyce, Jani Waara, Michael Waite, Stephen Wark, Justin Webb, Seth White, Matt Widmann, Andrew Wild, Paul Woods

Publisher: Wolfgang Baur

Streets of Zobeck
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Edited by Christopher Bodan
Cover art by Pat Loboyko
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