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Spawns of the Mindrender

Created by Elderbrain Inc.

Spawns of the Mindrender is a massive, 600-page D&D 2014 and 2024 5e-compatible dark fantasy adventure and campaign setting for levels 11-15 with extensive player options. >>> IMPORTANT NOTICE! <<< All listed Spawns of the Mindrender products are exclusive to this pre-order store. Due to high US and EU tariffs, uncertain printing and freight costs, and rising logistics expenses, we will not stock these items on Elderbrain.com or reprint previous physical products and accessories. Physical products will become available again through future crowdfunding campaigns. Existing physical products for Crown of the Oathbreaker, Torrents of the Spellhoarder, and Scepter of the Lightbringer remain available at Elderbrain.com while supplies last. PDFs, VTT modules, and other digital products for all our releases will continue to be available from our online store. If you want to own a physical copy of Spawns of the Mindrender or any of its accessories, purchase it now.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Product Highlight: Miniatures of Vordan
3 months ago – Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 09:34:19 AM


Product Highlight: Miniatures of Vordan


Our miniatures come unpainted, include support structures, and contain access to their STL files for personal 3D printing. These minis are available exclusively in higher-level physical reward tiers and bring some of the most iconic figures of the campaign to life:

  • King Ralukkar Doomhammer VI (Medium): The barbarian king of Vordan, rampaging across the realm in his relentless conquest for power.

  • Battleframe Master (Medium): A Vordani warrior clad in a light exoskeleton engineered to support the immense weight of oversized weapons, allowing them to strike with impossible force.

  • Archivist of Hollow Names (Medium): A bulbous, many-limbed, tick-like aberration with parchment-like skin who endlessly records the names of all who have lived and all yet to be born. Should it inscribe your name, you begin to disappear— first forgotten by others, then losing your reflection, then your memories, until you vanish entirely.

  • Mindrender Beast (Medium): A four-legged horror from the Farrealm, quick and predatory, using mind-numbing psychic surges to disable its victims before tearing them apart.

  • Warhusk (Large): A brutal mechanical war-platform mounted on multi-jointed limbs, capable of carrying its pilot into battle with powerful armaments. Its shifting plates, piston-driven strides, and reinforced chassis make it a terrifying mobile weapon of war.

  • The Starved Apostate (Large): A celestial exile reduced to a desiccated humanoid husk that devours its own body to sustain cursed immortality. Each bite unravels a law of physics nearby — gravity slackens, time fractures, and light bends away. The more it consumes, the less real the world becomes.

  • Varkhal (Huge): The iron giant cultist and leader of a sect that venerates madness and the eldritch entities of the Farrealm, towering above his followers as both prophet and executioner.

If we reach our stretch goals, the miniature lineup expands with three additional figures: the Doomhammer Commander (medium), the Ironhoof Rider (large), and the terrifying Shandar the Mindrender (huge). These minis provide a dramatic, atmospheric way to bring the story’s most memorable foes and figures onto your tabletop.


A Word From Our Friends at Old Oak Games

From the lead designer of the award-winning Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound and Broken Weave comes
Beyond the Woods, a brand new dark fantasy campaign setting inspired by Irish myth and legend for 5th-edition (and 5.5 edition!) Dungeons & Dragons. Having successfully raised over $240k on Kickstarter in 2024, late pledges for Beyond the Woods are closing soon. Pre-order your copy here to take advantage of the exclusive discount before time runs out.


Beyond the Woods brings classic open-world fantasy roleplaying and exploration to 5e. It's a hexcrawl survival game set against the backdrop of a beautiful and terrifying world inspired by Irish mythology. The incredible core set gives players the freedom to explore the lands of Tír Nascath, hex by hex, and to customise the map as they brave fallen cities, rediscover lost villages, and uncover the secret history of this ancient and mysterious world.

A Word From Our Friends at Everything Dice

Everything Dice is a collective of resin artists working together to bring you the very best accessories for your tabletop gaming experience! All our dice are crafted in-studio, made lovingly with care over hundreds of hours of practice. We hope you enjoy rolling our dice as much as we enjoy making them!
 
Visit https://everythingdice.com/discount/ELDER15 or manually enter ELDER15 at checkout for 15% off your first purchase.

Vote to Shape the Adventure

Don't forget to cast your vote on our latest poll that decides the nature of the creature(s) that inhabit the dungeon we are about to create.

Art Highlight: Gravik Timelapse
3 months ago – Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 10:30:31 AM



Art Highlight: Gravik Timelapse


Experience the creation of Gravik, the scrav vampire, in this chilling timelapse video. Gravik is a vulture-like humanoid predator who feasts on the blood of the fallen and serves Faerryl Myrryn in her grand design to drown the world in blood and darkness. Watch as the artist shapes his gaunt avian features, predatory posture, and vampiric hunger from the first rough silhouette to the final render.


A Word From Our Friend Adam at Twelve Realms

Adam is one of our colleagues, and he’s an amazing person with extensive experience in D&D and tabletop RPGs. We’d love for you to support him in reaching his goal and bringing this dream project to life. With his passion and expertise behind it, this is sure to become a fantastic product that you’ll truly enjoy.

Twelve Realms is an original TTRPG featuring simultaneous dice rolls that instantly tell you everything you need to know about turn order, movement, attack, and damage. Resolve each die one by one until you choose to end your turn or you run out of dice. Each failure gives you experience, which you use to improve your item- and trait-based abilities.

The game also offers a worlds-spanning fantasy setting written by an award-winning and bestselling team. Assemble followers, animals, and wagons to level up your rests and downtime activities as you wander the Thirteenth Realm and unravel its many mysteries!

Check out Adam's project now! 


A Word From Our Friends at Crippled God Foundry

If you're looking to upgrade your tabletop experience, this one is worth your attention! Crippled God Foundry is running a storewide Spring Sale with 30% OFF everything, including both physical and digital products!

Why We Think You’ll Like Them
Crippled God Foundry creates high-detail miniatures, terrain, and props designed for immersive fantasy tabletop play perfect for DMs, painters, and collectors.

Their catalogue includes:
 
• Premium resin miniatures (ready for the table or display).
• Large-scale terrain & scenery to bring encounters to life.
• STL files for high-quality home 3D printing.
• Over 1000+ unique designs; from heroes to monsters to epic set pieces!

Whether you're:

⚔️ Building or upgrading a campaign
🎨 Looking for your next painting project
🧙 Expanding your collection or army
🖨️ Printing detailed miniatures at home

now is the perfect time to grow your collection!

Head out to crippledgodfoundry.com

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and find their entire catalogue with 30% OFF!

Let the adventure begin!
📣Limited time offer - Sale ends May 4th.



Vote to Shape the Adventure

Don't forget to cast your vote on our latest poll that decides the nature of the creature(s) that inhabit the dungeon we are about to create.

Secrets of Vordan: Creature Feature
4 months ago – Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 11:23:08 AM


Secrets of Vordan: Creature Feature


Your adventure teems with horrors: aberrations, constructs, beasts, undead, and ancient titans, each adding its own flavor of terror and wonder to the world of Vordan.

  • Shandar, the Mindrender – An ancient eldritch horror and living gateway to the Farrealm.

  • The Starved Apostate – A self-devouring celestial exile whose bites unravel the laws of physics.

  • The Archivist of Hollow Names – A parchment-skinned scribe whose records erase living beings from existence.

  • The Womb of the One – A pulsing, organic entity that births malformed lookalike aberrations.

  • The Orb of Dissonance – A floating psychic anomaly that distorts thoughts and balance.

  • The All-Consuming Whisper – A creeping swarm of fanged mouths that whisper incomprehensible secrets that spread madness.

  • The False Awakening – A dream-parasite trapping victims in looping, indistinguishable nightmares.

  • Mindrend Beast – A four-legged aberrant hunter whose psychic aura numbs the mind.

  • Iron Giant – A colossal metal titan with magnetic telekinesis and metal-shaping power.

  • Rust Dragon – A dragon capable of melting magical and mundane metal with a corrosive breath weapon.

  • Serpentbear – A large, furred serpentine creature with a massive bear’s head and crushing coils.

  • Mountain Chimera – A white dragon–goat–bear hybrid of frost, horns, and crushing strength.

  • Dorrakh – Savage, mutated, ork-like drow with blindsight and tremorsense.

  • Krampus – A horned winter fiend that hunts the guilty and desperate.

  • Tsukumogami – A ghost that possesses objects and animates them into violent constructs.

  • Broodroot Pine – A colossal, monstrous, root-twisted tree that spawns ravenous plant creatures.

  • Ironhoof Rider – A Vordani berserker mounted on a massive ibex equipped with a portable siege engine.

  • Beast Rider – A mounted Vordani fighter bonded to deadly wilderness creatures.

  • Oreworm – Burrowing molten-metal-eating giant worms erupting in blasts of burning ore.

  • Dynadog – A mechanical canine construct built for patrol, pursuit, and precision.

  • Scrav – Vulture-like humanoids with predatory instincts and a sense for the dying.

  • Wendigo – A gaunt, frost-bitten revenant driven by endless hunger, stalking the wilderness with predatory silence and cannibalistic fury.

  • Qalupalik – A slick, seaweed-cloaked fey that lurks along icy shores, luring and stealing small creatures from the edge of the frozen waters.

  • Mahaha – A shrieking ice-spirit whose chilling laughter freezes flesh solid, leaving victims locked in helpless, frostbound terror.

  • Kallikantzaros – A malicious winter trickster that rides the backs of the weary, tormenting its victims as it feeds on exhaustion and despair.

  • Velithid Spawnling – A spider-like aberration that leaps onto prey to suffocate and cocoon them, hibernating without food while sensing nearby life.

Vote to Shape the Adventure

Don't forget to cast your vote on our latest poll that decides the nature of the creature(s) that inhabit the dungeon we are about to create.

A Word From Our Friend, Bob World Builder

Under the Shadow of Helfast Spire is a zine of new material designed for Shadowdark RPG, by Bob World Builder! Inspired by binge-reading pulp fantasy novels, this 64-page zine includes the following:

  • 4 New Classes! - The Berserker sacrificing themself to protect their allies, the Mountaineer crafting makeshift weapons and defenses, the Tunneler tinkering with explosives, and the Necromancer grappling with Death itself!

  • 16 New Monsters, each with Unique Loot! - From the cursed bitu-men to Uldruun the Great Black Heron!

  • 30 New Magic Items, Gear & Hazards! - Including dangerous cavern fumes (inspired by real coal mines) and the fantastical mushrooms used to detect them!

  • 10 Hexcrawl Wilderness Sites! - From a vengeful village to a volcanic chasm to Helfast Spire itself!

  • The Coal Catacombs Dungeon! - The 22-room, Jaquays-style, vertical dungeon crawl where even Death is no escape!

The zine is already written, the campaign is already funded, and it'll ship out later this year! But for a limited time, you can still join the campaign with a late pledge to get the Helfast Spire zine plus all the Stretch Goal rewards for free!



Back Bob World Builder's project now on Kickstarter!

 

A Word From Our Friends at Dungeon Damsel

We wanted to highlight another Shadowdark RPG project that’s been also getting a lot of attention lately: Druskara, a third-party campaign setting.

Druskara is a brutal sandbox campaign built around rival factions, forbidden magic, and a world that doesn’t sit still. Light is fading, harvests are unreliable, and the shadowdark is encroaching on the surface world.

You don’t have to go looking for danger—it’s already here, and dungeons are only the beginning.

There’s been a strong response from the community:

“Druskara has the potential to be Shadowdark’s Dragonlance.”
— Aiden, Flippant Wizard Ink

“It’s about exploring what’s possible in Shadowdark itself.”
— Seven Winds Okinawa Gaming Collective

"It’s a fascinating, well-built setting full of lovingly crafted details, layers of truth to keep players digging, and enough random tables to make it all feel both uniquely yours and vibrantly alive!” 
– Matt Forbeck, lead writer/designer, Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game

If you’re running Shadowdark and want something with more movement, more pressure, and more consequence, this is worth a look. And you'd better do it right away! The campaign wraps up in just a few days. So don't hesitate and visit their page now

Player's Options: Vordani Battletech
4 months ago – Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 10:50:50 AM

Player's Options: Vordani Battletech


The Vordani reject magic, so they have mastered machinery instead. Their answer to spellcasters, monsters, and rival clans is Battletech: brutal exosuits and weapon systems powered by kinetic energy and engineered for war. These devices appear throughout the campaign and can be operated, repaired, or mastered by characters who train in their use. Below is a full overview of all known Battletech gear found in the land of Vordan:

Battleframes are light, mobile exoskeletons worn over armor, built for frontline berserkers. They allow their wearers to wield oversized weapons with speed and stability:

  • Sawblade Arm – Spinning forearm disc that deals heavy slashing damage and tears deeper on crits.
  • Pulverizer Hammer – Piston-driven hammer delivering concussive blows, knocking enemies prone.
  • Lance Driver – Reinforced charging spike that deals extra damage after moving.
  • Spear Launcher – Short-range bolt launcher built into the frame.
  • Flayer Blades – Spinning shoulder blades that lash all nearby enemies.
  • Razor Ring Shield – A shield with a spinning blade that retaliates when foes miss.

Warhusks are heavy, nonmagical exoskeletal vehicles. They enhance Strength, boost AC, and turn their pilots into a walking siege engine. Warhusks impose penalties to Dexterity and movement, but massively enhance raw power and durability. A warhusk can carry three modular weapon systems from these options:

  • Sawblade Arm – High-damage rotating disc for brutal melee attacks.
  • Pulverizer Hammer – Piston hammer that knocks targets prone.
  • Lance Driver – Armor-piercing strike with bonus charge damage.
  • Flame Belcher – Shoulder-mounted flamethrower (20-ft cone).
  • Spear Launcher – Heavy bolt launcher dealing serious piercing damage.
  • Flayer Blades – Spiked chains that shred nearby creatures.
  • Saw Shield – Reactive spinning shield that damages attackers.

Vordani ammunition and specialty bolts are used with crossbows or mounted ballistae.

  • Chain Bolt – Fires a trailing chain to pull targets or anchor shots.
  • Shrapnel Bolt – Explodes into shards on impact.
  • Ignition Bolt – Ignites targets and flammable terrain.
  • Shredder Bolt – A spinning, embedded disc that continues shredding on the next turn.

Vordani bombs are thrown mechanical grenades engineered for battlefield control. Some of the more unique ones are:

  • Ooze Bomb – Acid burst that slows enemies and creates difficult terrain.
  • Mold Bomb – Necrotic spore cloud that poisons and blinds.
  • Rust Bomb – Corrosive dust that weakens nonmagical metal weapons and armor.

Vote to Shape the Adventure

Don't forget to cast your vote on our latest poll that decides the nature of the creature(s) that inhabit the dungeon we are about to create.

A Word From Our Friends at Eldritch Foundry

Planning to take your party into Spawns of the Mindrender? Eldritch Foundry’s Easter Sale can help you get table-ready: 25% off physical + digital minis with code EASTER25. Build the heroes, the allies, and the creatures your players should never meet alone.

Art Highlight: King Ralukkar Timelapse
4 months ago – Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 02:00:41 PM

Art Highlight: King Ralukkar Timelapse


This timelapse reveals the might of King Ralukkar Doomhammer VI, the barbarian king of Vordan and an unstoppable force of conquest. Watch the process as raw sketches sharpen into a fearsome warlord whose presence dominates the battlefield. The final piece reflects his force of authority, boundless ambition, and the violence that follows in his wake.


Vote to Shape the Adventure

Don't forget to cast your vote on our latest poll that decides the nature of the creature(s) that inhabit the dungeon we are about to create.

A Word From Our Friends at Roll For Combat