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The Stygian Library is a creepily genteel dungeon set in an infinite extradimensional library. Each expodition generates its route as it explores, resulting in new locations being iscovered with every visit. Included within: 

  • Systems for generating locations within the library, including Entrance Foyers, Map Galleries, Tea Rooms,  Planetariums, Calculation Engines, Phantom Databanks, Paper Beehives, Phantom Pumps, Jarred Brains and the Sheol Computer.
  • 40 monsters tailored to the Library, including Lantern Bearers, Skeleton Crew, Origami Golems, Guardian Shades, Lost Souls, Ink Elementals, Animate Spells, Archivist-Liches, Infernal Merchants, Escaped Fictions, Educated Rodents, Conceptual Wells and the orders of Librarians themselves. 
  • A system for searching for specific knowledge within the library's depths, as well as 30 unusual books and the secret knowledge they contain.
  • Tables for generating treasure, dreams, rumors, and various other useful details.
  • A unique class of Mummified Sages, post-human accademics who've dwelled in the Library for decades or more. 

It's a big spooky library full of dangerous knowledge, spiritual automata and ghost-fueled computers.

This got a Judge's Spotlight Ennie, which is nice.

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Mark G February 02, 2023 2:39 pm UTC
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The remastered version of the book is now sold out at Exalted Funeral and it doesn’t appear there will be another printing. So will a POD version be made available again here ?
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Richard B March 01, 2023 8:21 pm UTC
I'd buy the POD version too!
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FU B March 01, 2023 8:27 pm UTC
It is still available from the publisher at https://usa.soulmuppet-store.co.uk/products/the-stygian-library
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FU B March 01, 2023 8:28 pm UTC
Here you go: https://usa.soulmuppet-store.co.uk/products/the-stygian-library
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Mark G March 02, 2023 2:49 pm UTC
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Thanks! I thought Exalted Funeral was the only distributor of print copies. Now let’s hope shipping from the UK isn’t prohibitively expensive.
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Shane M April 24, 2023 3:56 pm UTC
https://floatingchair.club/en-ca/collections/miscellany
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FU B April 24, 2023 5:25 pm UTC
I thought they were rather reasonable.
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Mark G April 24, 2023 5:29 pm UTC
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Got a copy directly from SoulMuppet about two weeks ago. They have a distributor here in the US, so shipping wasn’t a dealbreaker.

Thanks to everyone who helped!
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Mark M January 14, 2023 2:20 am UTC
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You know what this is pretty good. I like the alternative to a tavern to start. Put this in a city and you have a start. IF YOU SEE FLAWS THEN WORK AROUND THEM AND KEEP IT SIMPLE.
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Clinton O December 14, 2022 3:30 pm UTC
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Does this product come with complete rules for play, or do you require another rulebook?
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FU B December 14, 2022 4:34 pm UTC
Clinton, it is meant to be played with an OSR system like LotFP (Lamentations of the Flame Princess), which is available here for free in an art free version. Look up "Lamentations of the Flame Princess Rules & Magic" to find it.
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Robert L August 27, 2022 5:57 pm UTC
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On the “Types of Books” d100 list, entry 76 (my lucky number) is missing, which is mysterious, cool, and triggers my inner completionist terribly. Please notify the the Librarians of the Yellow Order, immediately.
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FU B August 02, 2022 1:05 pm UTC
I love this adventure. It fits perfectly in Vornheim's Zorlac Library or connected to The Maze of the Blue Medusa, which may have inspired it. I like the tie-ins it has with other LoTFP products like Veins of the Earth and Blood in the Chocolate too. There are some spelling, formatting, and other minor errors, but otherwise it is a masterpiece. I would love to see the rest of Emmy's books be in hardcover like this one is.
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Claudio P July 18, 2022 2:43 pm UTC
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Wonderful product and amazingly fast client support!
Played twice (5e and d6) and ready to GM it on a old school system.
It is a must to try in terms of improvisational GMing, the source book has the perfect size and an intuitive layout, reduces flipping to the bare minimum, requires barely any preparation and can run endless number of adventures.
I consider it a must to have in a GM arsenal.
It is also a nice case study for home-brewing and eventually sandboxing
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Robert B March 26, 2023 3:18 pm UTC
How did you run it in 5e what level? Any advice?
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Jeff L December 15, 2021 8:43 am UTC
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Very creative, lots of random tables, and it looks fun to run. However, the procedures are a tad confusing, the vocabulary for those procedures is lacking at times, and there are no bookmarks which is its biggest downfall. Buy it, read it, but don't run as intended.
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Matthew R October 07, 2021 8:39 pm UTC
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I see it says "just won an Ennie" so is this the Remastered version or the original?
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Edric L March 13, 2021 6:31 pm UTC
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So creative and fun! I especially love how it centers around one core mechanic, then details each result clearly, which helps me run this is my 5e games with little modification. I'll be running a session with this as soon as I can!
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Scott G March 11, 2021 7:24 pm UTC
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Love the creativity! Brilliant imagination!

Regarding the pdf: no bookmarks is disappointing -- that's one major way a pdf shines over physical book. Even better would be to also have internal links, at least for page# references.

Also it does not show the cover as a thumbnail in windows file explorer. Maybe a glitch on my end, but my Gardens of Ynn pdf does not have this problem, so I think it might be something in the pdf format itself.

Hopefully an updated pdf out soon? I'd even pay a little extra regarding the extra work.
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Beau Y April 17, 2022 4:24 am UTC
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Just ran this for my group minutes ago. I own the physical copy of the book, and it's a beautiful object, but a bookmarked PDF would make running this game a lot easier at the (virtual) table.
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jeremy W February 16, 2021 5:26 am UTC
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missed the kicksarter would love a print copy of the new version. is it for sale anywhere or coming to pod?
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Cameron W January 23, 2021 2:25 am UTC
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The PDF could sure use links within the text, but this is overwise a wonderfully evocative book.

Even if you just cherry-picked monsters or ideas and never ran the Library with the procedure as written you'd more than get your money's worth.

And the copious art by Alex Sorensen nails the tone perfectly.
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Perry H January 15, 2021 9:54 pm UTC
What level characters would this work best for?
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Beau Y April 17, 2022 4:27 am UTC
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It depends on how well everyone behaves. Even the neurovores (the mind flayer substitutes, who have a really interesting rationale for being there and are charming and cultured) aren't necessarily looking for a fight. The things that are overtly hostile to everyone can mostly be handled by low level characters. The tougher stuff can be bargained or reasoned with.

I had a group of three level one characters go into the library looking for Cardenio, a lost Shakespearean work, and made it out alive, having only had to fight a giant trapdoor spider hiding in one room. They were polite and stayed the heck out of trouble with both the librarians and neurovores.
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Donald M November 22, 2020 4:20 pm UTC
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Is the treasure table using the silver standard?
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Beau Y April 17, 2022 4:28 am UTC
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Gold and silver are both mentioned in the text, so it's gold standard, realistically.
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zunzun Z October 14, 2020 7:06 am UTC
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IMHO pdf needs bookmarks to be really usable at the table.
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Bruce L May 27, 2020 6:28 pm UTC
What happened to the POD version? Very interested, but I prefer the POD. Thank you.
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Aaron C May 29, 2020 6:58 pm UTC
Looks like they are remastering it: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulmuppet/the-stygian-library-remastered
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Mamading C July 06, 2020 4:38 pm UTC
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Gah, how did I miss this?
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