Exclusive Cover Reveal: The Gardens of Ynn

Find a wall covered in ivy, vines, moss, or similar. Clear that vegetation away, and using chalk and charcoal draw a realistic door (with keyhole, hinges and doorknob) on the surface below.

Write upon the door “Ynn, by way of [the current location]”.

Leave, so the drawing is no longer visible, and on return the drawing will be replaced by a real door. When it is opened, the Gardens of Ynn will be on the other side. The doorway remains there for a full day, after which it fades away as if it never existed, leaving anybody still on the other side stranded.”

What is The Gardens of Ynn?

The Gardens of Ynn is a depth-crawl adventure set in an ever-shifting extradimensional garden. Each expedition generates its route as it explores, resulting in new vistas being unlocked with every visit.

The book contains a selection of different Locations, Details, Events and Encounters used to procedurally generate new levels of Ynn as you play. 

When you enter a new level, roll d20 for each of the three elements, adding the Depth of the level (beginning at 0 and increasing infinitely).

Once the players have finished exploring the room, they can either Stay Here (subjecting themselves to Events), Go Deeper (generating a new level one level deeper) or Go Back (heading to the Entrance they created, or then trying to Go Deeper from a previous level). 

The deeper you head into the Gardens, the more perilous and unusual the locations become, ending in whatever secrets lie in the Garden’s deepest depths. 

This Kickstarter will remaster the adventure Emmy originally wrote in 2018. With new art, layout and an offset print run. The book is written by Emmy Allen, illustrated by RiotBones and published by SoulMuppet Publishing.

Gardens of Ynn is statted generically for Old School Systems, but can be easily converted into other TTRPG systems.

Gardens of Ynn Features:

• Systems for generating locations, details and events within the garden.
• 50 weird and wonderful monsters specifically tailored to the Gardens each statted for generic Old School Systems.
• Details for The Idea Of Thorns and other dream-viruses that infect the garden.
• Tables for generating treasure, Ynnian mutations, and various other useful details.
• A unique class of Ynnian Changelings, human survivors adapted to the garden. 

Features of the Remaster:

• A beautiful bookcloth bound cover that will look stunning on any shelf.
• 24 new pieces from Riot Bones to replace the illustrations in the original book. 
• An editing pass to clean up any inconsistencies and spelling mistakes.
• Brand new layout to match the new art, making the book a pleasure to look at while being easy to run.
• A reprint of The Stygian Library - Emmy Allen’s previously released depth-crawl adventure with a new complementary cover.

Gardens of Ynn pull quotes

“Ynn appears as a vast garden, now untended, overrun, and fallen into ruin. Once, this place was a realm of rarefied luxury, but its masters are long dead and the machinery that maintained it has fallen into disrepair.”

“Ynn is a perpendicular world. Compare the concept of parallel worlds: from any place in the real world, you can cross over to an equivalent in the parallel world. Any place has its parallel version, just shifted slightly. A perpendicular world, meanwhile, exists at right-angles to reality. Crossing over at a certain point, the further one travels into the perpendicular world, the less like reality it becomes.”

“Find a wall covered in ivy, vines, moss, or similar. Clear that vegetation away, and using chalk and charcoal draw a realistic door (with keyhole, hinges and doorknob) on the surface below.Write upon the door “Ynn, by way of [the current location]”.Leave, so the drawing is no longer visible, and on return the drawing will be replaced by a real door. When it is opened, the Gardens of Ynn will be on the other side. The doorway remains there for a full day, after which it fades away as if it never existed, leaving anybody still on the other side stranded.”

“Imagine the peacocks that mill about formal gardens. Now imagine if they’ve gone feral, grown to the size of moas. Mutated to grow little teeth in their beaks, long curved claws, predatory intelligence, but they’re still the regal lustrous creatures they were before. Elegance and floral beauty stretched into exotic monstrous things.”

Gardens of Ynn team

Emmy Allen, Writer. Previous Works: The Stygian Library, Dungeon Bitches, Esoteric Enterprise. DyingStylishly on Twitter.

RiotBones, Illustrator: Previous Works: The House Doesn't Always Win, The AO-33 Nebula, Inevitable. riotbones on Twitter.

Mina McJanda, Layout: Previous Works: Heart: The City Beneath, Lancer, Legacy: Life Amongst The Ruins, Orbital Blues: All That Glitters. minahoneybat on Twitter.

Pammu Punzalan, Editor: Previous Works: Journey to the Radiant Citadel, Spire, Thirsty Sword Lesbians. TheDovetailor on Twitter.

SoulMuppet Publishing, Publisher. Previous Works: Stygian Library, Inevitable, Orbital Blues. soulmuppetRPG on Twitter.