Caesar Ink - Doomsong

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Chris + Tamsin Cæsar + Morgan Finley || Game designers || Creators of Doomsong Doomsong: caesar.ink/shop Patreon: patreon.com/Caesarink Newsletter: eepurl.com/iwDb0-/ Discord: https://discord.gg/gAkaq58PRj

Map of Nottinghamshire (photo credit: https://onetruekev.medium.com/nottingham-castle-4e549c07fcd8)
black and white hyena-like creature, with fur that mimics a ribcage. It looks happy (slavering) to see you. Doomsong TTRPG
The heading of a D66 ttrpg table, titled "Six and Thirty Laceworkers"
Black and white image of a witch trial from Doomsong TTRPG campaign, Thou Shalt Not Suffer The Wycce
Four raggedy-looking people holding shovels. The art is hand-drawn and handinked in a medieval, black and white style
Title: Stroke of Luck Subtitle: At long last, Baron and Baroness Roake have borne a son. To celebrate, they are hosting a tournament. No expense has been spared: jousting and feasting will fill the day. And yet, a servant lies dead and the baroness is uneasy...
Doomsong TTRPG corebook, posed before flowers and eye-catching brick walls. Dappled sunlight falls upon the cover, as if Joy herself has chosen to bless the image
Logo for Backerkit's Ennies Emporium
The Doomsong TTRPG core rulebook displayed in the Roleplaying Games section of the International English Library in Düsseldorf, Germany
A table and folding chairs set up to play Doomsong. This appears to be quite early in the 24 hours, judging by the angle of the sun and the closed nature of the Doomsong ttrpg books
A poll with 4 options. Cult of the Iron Pact is currently in first, at 32% of votes, with Cult of the Grinding Axe a close second and Cult of the All-Rot pulling in dead last.
Doomsong: Dirge of the Apocalypse The Doomsong TTRPG cover, but with 'Doomsday Elegy/Dirge of the Apocalypse' written in Chinese characters
Filename: Zanvurm Happy
A heavily used, spiral bound copy of the Doomsong ttrpg corebook. The front cover is missing and the back cover has fallen off.
Front cover of special edition. The Doomsong is overlaid in gold foil over the Doomcoin image
A coffin, a bouquet of black and white flowers and the 2025 UKGE award for Best Roleplaying Game Adventure, awarded to Doomsong: Lord Have Mercy Upon Us
A priest, a coffin and a skull walk into a UK Games Expo...
Screenshot showing two Doomsong TTRPG npcs. One is a Wycce of Chance (with a cute laceworker familiar on his shoulder). The other is a stryllademalion (half-laceworker, half-woman, all-consuming).
A beadman's tax chest, filled to the brim with heretical obols (and a skull, and candles, and some dice)
This year's Golden Doomcoin (entirely unique, much golden, very wow).
The Doomsong TTRPG core book (ash-white thermo leather, without its dust cover jacket) and the Lord Have Mercy Upon Us campaign (charcoal gray thermo leather), on a table in a spooky dungeon. Secrets Revealed: It's the Pit and the Pendulum. We love the Pit.
A copy of the Doomsong TTRPG sits in front of a bouquet of white and black flowers. Dappled sun falls across it and the stone walls behind.
A priest of the Immortal Corpse, complete with stole and Doomsong TTRPG
Three Doomcoins side by side. One is the original Pestilence coin, the middle is Famine's Golden Doomcoin, and the other is the new Famine coin.
Painted miniature. A sick rabbit with glowing orange eyes is embraced by slime and tentacles. His name is Hoagie
A Bloodbowl team from Greebo Games. Nurgle rabbits.
Black-and-white illustration of an octopus crawling out of a fancy urn. The title reads 'Nullibites, favoured by Oblivion'.
screenshot of the Doomsong TTRPG's heirarchy of Traitor Gods. It's very colourful except about The Immortal, who was murdered before the beginning of all things, and Joy, who was killed more recently by the Templar. A small, teal line shoots all the way across the page, connecting the Sublime Feast to his lover, the Lamentide Famine.
A D6 table determining the state of the flyer. The entries range from 'Scraps', which orders the GM to tear the handout up and scatter most (but not all) the bits on the table to 'Plentiful', in which someone has gone way overboard for the Shepherd Reborn.
A candle lying on its side. It has three segments. As your players light it for in-game effects, the world slides from Act I to Act II, then finally to Act III.
A screenshot of three upcoming creatures. The top strip reads 'Tryptics, Cursed by the Grimme' and shows skeletal creatures. The middle strip reads 'Nullibites, Favoured by Oblivion' and shows an octopus of some sort, coming out of an urn. The bottom strip reads 'Malics, Cursed by Perception' and shows a brd.
A priest shows off the vertical random encounter table found in Doomsong: Lord Have Mercy Upon Us. The table is a coffin.
Screenshot of the Doomsong TTRPG Patreon Annual as it appears on the Caesar Ink webstore
Black and white image showing a woman wearing a hedgehog mask, on a bed, surrounded by pieces of her own body. She has just hacked off her left hand using a bone saw. Text reads: She performed an unholy ceremony, offering up pieces of herself for the chance to inflict her despair on others.
Caesar Ink at the Nottingham Beltane Market, with coffin
The forecast for the forthcoming Saturday, 26 of April, 2026
Even the campaign book's wonderfully evocative title, Lord Have Mercy Upon Us, wastes no time in setting the mood and letting us know exactly what we're getting ourselves into. Speaking which, where did that portentous title for the campaign book comes from? Naturally, for a game that features both a plaguescape and a Father Plague it turned up while researching historical poxes and pestilence. "It's from Samuel Pepys' diary," reveals Caesar. "He describes how during the plague they would paint this cross on the front of sort of plague-ridden houses and write Lord Have Mercy Upon Us on the door. And so that was the inspiration for the title and the cross that we put on the cover of the books." -Excerpt from "Murder Ballads", an article about the Doomsong TTRPG, from Wyrd Science, Vol. 1 Issue 8
A two-page spread in the Doomsong TTRPG style. The header reads 'Stygian Knights' and the black and white illustration shows a knight riding atop a huge heron. She carries a lance.
The Doomcoin has been used to create a wax seal on the front of a pack of Doomsong TTRPG reference cards. This pack has silver foil on it. It rests on a cotton map with splashes of purple visible.
close up of the Doomsong Patreon Annual, Vol 1 (2025-2026)
Doomsong ttrpg reference cards in a foil box, sealed with wax
A person applies stain/oil to a coffin. This is a display item for the Doomsong TTRPG. The picture does not convey how stinky this task was.
A screenshot of three profane items called phylaktērs. These ones belong the to the Traitor God known as Feast and they riff on the See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil theme.
A Doomsong TTRPG corebook splayed open to show the heretical lineage of the gods (splash of colours indicate heresy). Above it on the table, a skull with the Cross of the Immortal etched into its forehead.
Doomsong: Thou Shalt Not Suffer The Wycce. A TTRPG campaign about finding wycces and stopping heresy before it's too late. The handdrawn, hand-inked image shows two men embracing each other. They have halos around their heads: one in teal, the other in gold.
Doomsong: Il Cantico Dei Dannati
An overview of cultists who worship Chance. This goddess, cult is named the Cult of the Lace Queen and she loves laceworkers (a heretical type of spider) and seamstresses.
Hand-drawn, inked art showing a beautiful woman wearing fine silks and laces. But what's that lurking behind her finery? That couldn't possibly be.... a laceworker?!
Cover art for the book, Looking Glass Sound, by Catriona Ward. A glass jar of green ink with a cabin inside it.
The cover and contents page of the Doomsong Patreon Annyal, Vol #1. On the cover, a vulture queen with four wings and a woman's head flexes beneath the light of Famine's moon. Macabre dark art in a hand-drawn style
A screenshot of the InDesign 'Sorry, an error has occurred' prompt that appears when you breathe on the program wrong.
A portion of the Birdcatcher Origin text, written for the Doomsong: Lord Have Mercy Upon Us TTRPG campaign
Illustration showing the 4 different sects of birdcatchers within the Doomsong: Lord Have Mercy Upon Us TTRPG campaign. The title reads 'Playing as a Birdcatcher'
A coffin
Text reads Allies & Adversaries. Picture shows a Cyteaen Knight from the Doomsong TTRPG; these knights live in a mountainous region and train 'rock herons' as steeds.
Approaching Apple Manor at dawn is a risk to life and limb, as Lady Nyre is probably out hunting with a falcon. Written for Thou Shalt Not Suffer The Witch, a Doomsong TTRPG campaign in the OSR style.
A well-rounded family schedule doing normal things like normal people
Entries No. 52 and 53 of a D66 table. One gives the entire Guildhall fleas and the other has gravediggers betting on who will live the longest.