Return to the Rainy City with Flott's Miscellany Vol.3
A system-neutral Rainy City zine of eclectic tomfoolery from Superhero Necromancer Press
For Zine Quest 2025, Superhero Necromancer Press is back with its next crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for the Rainy City–a doomed fantasy metropolis at the end of the world where wizards guard their rotting magical tomes, gargoyles leer from the rain-drenched rooftops, and thieves prowl through the closes and back alleys looking for scores, all while the rains never stop!
Flott’s Miscellany Volume Three is a system-neutral TTRPG zine offering a wonderfully curated collection of random charts, name lists, esoteric and unusual facts, and yet even more lists about the Rainy City. It will be a 36-page, 5.5x8.5” saddle-stitched zine booklet containing:
- Eighteen-to-twenty pieces of black and white line art in a faux 17th century woodcut style by Bill Spytma, creative director of Superhero Necromancer Press;
- Themed sections for each of the Eight Districts of the Rainy City (Vagabond Bay, Old Town, Levee Town, the Sump, the Mids, Embassy Row, the Headlands, and the Tower Cliffs), as well as sections for the floating pirate haven of Rickety and the flooded Grand Academy of Magic beneath the mist-shrouded Murk;
- A Tales of the Rainy City section on the Clanger-themed, reverse heist “Return to the Duns,” which serves as a short event scenario made up of interrelated narratives, art, charts, lists, random tables, and a rooftop map of the ghostly manor–offering busy GMs helpful building blocks they can use to run this Rainy City event in their campaigns, whether set in the Rainy City or not.
Like the first two volumes of the Miscellany, which came out in 2021, this is built as a companion to A Visitor’s Guide to the Rainy City by Rich Forest and Bill Spytma, which first made its debut during Zine Quest in 2020. However, being system-neutral, any busy GM needing quick flavor or interesting content can use Flott’s Vol.3 for their own campaigns without the Visitor’s Guide. As the good Mr. Flott would advise, rummage the Miscellany for your own bits of lore and esoterica, friends!
"We circled back to finish Thaddeus Flott’s weird collection of Rainy City esoterica partly because we wanted to finish the series trilogy," said Andrew D. Devenney, publisher of Superhero Necromancer Press, "and partly because we feel the Flott’s zines are the most gaming-table-ready of all our Rainy City zines. And we wanted to get back to making another one like that."
"Writing Flotts volumes allows us to indulge our whimsy and to poke into aspects of the city we haven’t always touched on very much. Every time we work on a Flotts zine, we learn new things about this doomed city we love so much."
About Superhero Necromancer Press: Superhero Necromancer Press (SNP) is an independent publisher of tabletop role-playing games based in the currently frozen tundra of Mount Pleasant, Michigan. SNP publishes RPG zines set in the Rainy City, a doomed fantasy metropolis at the end of the world where the rains never stop. You can find us on Bluesky, Facebook, and Instagram.
