For characters with the newly sapient heritage, life is brand-new. Or at least, this type of life. 

One moment, they were a something—unaware and perhaps even unsentient and unmoving. Then suddenly, they found themselves to be a someone—filled with thoughts and emotions that they were never really meant to experience before some quirk of the universe intervened. 

Since the bonds that newly sapient beings share rely on miraculous happenstance rather than a single origin, no real social connection exists between a newly sapient character and their equally rare ilk. They may have been the familiar of a grand wizard granted consciousness as a final gift for your years of faithful service. They might have been a statue sitting in a church courtyard, given the spark of life in exchange for their assistance in completing some divine task. Or they could have simply opened their eyes one day to find themselves aware and alone, with no indication of how or why they’ve found themselves in their new circumstances. 

This lack of true community can make newly sapient characters feel alone in their singularness, even while surrounded by a family or group that once doted on them. And as such, most are driven to a life of travel and adventure. You may have set out to find that missing connection, searching for anyone who might have knowledge regarding your anomalous situation. Alternatively, the call of a world of new experiences and opportunities waiting over the horizon might have been too much for you to resist. No matter your reason, you’ve set out on a path of self-discovery that will last a lifetime.  

New Mind. Your mind is fresh and malleable, making it easier for you to learn new things than it is for others. When training, it takes you half as long to learn a new language, gain proficiency with a skill, weapon, tool, or armor, or gain a new talent (provided you meet the prerequisites).

Strange Fate. Who knows what the universe has planned for you? You can have a maximum of 6 Luck at one time.

Languages. You know Common and one additional language of your choice. Typical newly sapient characters choose a language they would have heard most often before their awakening. 

Between now and 12/5/25, when you join The Underground as a member, you'll receive a $15 gift card for our store!

Gift card balances don't expire, so feel free to save it for upcoming drops or use it now to fill in your UO collections. 

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(Existing members at the qualifying tier have already received their codes in their member messages.) 

Glimpse from The Underground: New Talents For Intrepid Adventurers is live and available for purchase!

This supplement offers new magic, martial, and technical talents that provide new ways to showcase how characters have honed their abilities and grown their spark through their adventures.

This Glimpse includes: 

• 4 new magic talents
• 4 new martial talents
• 4 new technical talents

Members of The Underground receive this PDF for free. (Promotion applied at checkout)

It was an eventful October for us here at Underground Oracle, and it looks like we'll be powering through all the way into the New Year, so buckle up, gird your loins, and read on to find out what's going down in The Underground.  

Kickstarter Projects and Launches

We recently added a page to the website that will serve as a hub showcasing our past, present, and upcoming Kickstarters. When you hit that page now, you'll see that we have a launch page up for both Cypher Dimensions and Foxfire. The logical question that provokes is, which one will be launched first? That wholly depends on when they hit their follower goals.

Like many things, crowdfunding has become more volatile lately compared to a few years ago, so we're doing our best to make it as stable as possible for our team and our backers and supporters. That means setting realistic funding goals and launching when it looks like we can hit them for large projects like these, rather than launching on a wing and a prayer with vanity goals that fund fast but won't actually bring the books to fruition. So for the foreseeable future, we'll be pushing the launch pages to hit those follower counts that indicate the project will be as amazing as we know it can be. 

If you'd like to see us launch a project sooner rather than later, hit that follow button and help us share the page around. 

On the Tube

Friend of The Underground, ZealZaddy, kicked off an actual play mini-series set in Harrow: The Blighted Plane last week! Although it's not an official UO AP, our very own Kayla Bayens is playing one of the characters, and you can watch the VODs on the ZealZaddy YouTube channel here, or catch it live every other Monday on Twitch here. 

While you're on YouTube, you can also check out Qedhup's review of Harrow: The Blighted Plane, which he posted earlier this week, and watch my walkthrough of Harrow on the Cypher Unlimited channel. 

October's Harvest

Last month, we released several new titles to the storefronts, the biggest and most beautiful being our first full-length TTRPG, Harrow: The Blighted Plane. We also released a slew of bonuses for our members and a free-to-read collection of horror encounters for Harrow, so it would have been easy not to catch everything that dropped. Here's what you might have missed from us in October: 

• Store - Harrow: the Blighted Plane (Cypher System)
• Store - No Mercy For Monsters (Wretched & Alone)
• Store - Glimpse From The Underground: Terrorborn and Nightmare (Black Flag)
• Free  - Chance Encounters: Horror on Harrow (System-Neutral)

All of the titles above are also available in our DrivethruRPG storefront if you'd rather snag them there.

Member's Corner

We're proud to say that our members had a particularly fantastic October here in The Underground, getting something for Harrow, Daggerheart, and Black Flag before Halloween closed out. For our members who missed it, you can always see the exclusive member articles here, and you can see all of the free and/or exclusive PDFs you have stacking up here. 

And keeping up with last month's plethora of offerings, here's a little spoiler of what you have coming this month: 

• New talents for Black Flag
• A new class, subclass, and a lot more for Foxfire
• A batch of new kit tech cyphers for Harrow: The Blighted Plane

If you're reading this and you're not yet a member, there's no better time to hop on. 

As always, thanks for your support, and happy gaming!

~ Jess Pendley

Explore A World Like No Other!

Take to the watersands with your scrap house crew and unlock the secrets of the Blighted Plane! Strike out from one of the Four Nations and claim precious resources from the ever-shifting landscape, or travel to wastes and ruins risen from the sands to discover old-world treasures and newly imbued sources of the crystalblight—radiant energy that generates magic-like effects and shapes all life on the Blighted Plane. During your travels, you’ll outmaneuver your rivals, outrun ship-destroying leviathans, and overcome surges from planar tears and rifts to become legends. 

Harrow: The Blighted Plane contains everything you need to explore this incredible crystalpunk fantasy world: 

• Sleek, narrative-focused rules for story-based tabletop roleplaying games that reward exploration and discovery.
• A concept-driven character creation system that allows you to choose from a myriad of options to play as your ideal character. 
• A fully fleshed-out world with unique cultures, strange locations, and deep lore that provides an immersive roleplaying experience. 
• Sandship customization rules that allow every crew to alter and outfit their vessel to their needs.
• Dozens of mutations that transform characters and creatures alike, imbuing them with powerful ways of using the crystalblight. 
• A menagerie of feral beasts, blighted monsters, and horrifying leviathans—massive creatures that hunt the sands and skies of the plane. 
• One complete adventure and two one-shots to launch and expand your campaign.
  
  

Buy It Now!

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