Short Summary

Gethsemane Games is a small company consisting of husband and wife team Bryan and Marie Irving and the cat, Gethsemane, whom we named the company after. Together we bring indi RPGs to the gaming public and this year we would like very much to release a wide range of adventures, modules and supplements for our horror RPG “Haunts and Horrors (H+H).

Haunts and Horrors has been a labour of love for us, we are both very big fans of good horror and grew up on the likes of Hammer Horror, Universal Studios horror films and so on. In H+H we have brought this love of horror, and our love of the Victorian an Georgian period of history to the table top in a game designed to let players create horror adventures in any historical period that they please.

This year, we would like to release a range of products for the game including (but not limited to);-

“Blood Money”, an adventure set in England durring the early years of Queen Victoria's reign. The old coaching inn “The little drummer boy” has seen better days, the advent of the railways has hit the inn's custom, but perhaps not so much as the tales of a strange phantom horseman that plagues the highways around the inn.

“The Curse of Amon Menetnashti” A Victorian period mini campaign set in Ottoman ruled Egypt in which the party are part of an archaeological expedition which seems to have found a long forgotten Egyptian Priest. Whoever this priest was, his Ka does not seem to care for the expedition as things take a dark and mysterious twist.

“The Drowning Pool” Takes us to England during the regency period. Romney Marsh is plagued with smugglers and something far, far more sinister, a thing from the Celtic myths that has returned to menace the living.

“Suffer Little Children”. Something is plaguing the dreams of children in a small English village, visiting terrible nightmares upon them. Already 3 have been driven mad, and others may suffer the same fate unless the party and the local asylum can get to the bottom of the mystery and face the horror that lurks in the sleepy community. Both an adventure and a setting with a fully detailed town and Asylum and extensive notes on mental health in England after the Asylum reform act.

“The Sins of The Fathers”. A strange ghost dog stalks the moors, but what has brought it back?

What We Need & What You Get

Our funding goal is fairly modest, given the scale of our project. This is because we are a small independent company with minimal outlay (we don't have staff to pay, we work from an office in our home and so on).

We would very much like to be able to outsource the editing and layout of the products to other independent professionals in the industry, freeing us up to spend more time writing. We would also like to purchase some custom artwork for the products in order to free us up to write rather than draw and to minimise the amount of stock art we use in the products.

Our supporters will be able to choose form a wide range of perks, from a credit in the products, to a product of their choice, PDFs of all our H+H line, personalised products, unique material and so on.

The Impact

Your contribution will help us to bring this exiting range of RPG material to the tabletops of players around the world. If we exceed our goal it will also help to fund Gethsemane Games appearing at an increased range of games conventions with demonstration games and will help us to fund an even wider range of H+H material.

Haunts and Horrors has been popular with our customers to date, and we would very much like to bring it to an ever expanding audience as well as giving current fans a range of supporting material for their games.

Even if we do not reach our modest funding target, we are committed to the release of this range and will release it, all be it at a slower rate than we will be able to achieve with a successfully fully funded indiegogo campaign.

Other Ways You Can Help

We are aware that not everyone who would like to see us succeed can contribute financially, but there other ways you can help if you would like to.

Spread the word! - The more people you tell about the indiegogo campaign, the greater the chances of us hitting our goal.

Play H+H! - The more people who play the game, the wider the games name spreads and the more fans it gathers. Play it, have fun with it, and pass your love for it on to other players.