True Crime Bestiary: Killer Monsters for D&D 5E

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True Crime Bestiary is a 200-page full-colour hardcover for D&D 5E: 15 serial killer monsters, each written as an open case file. Every entry gives you the killer, the victims, the crime scenes and the clues that connect them. Run it as a monster book, or drop any killer into your campaign as a ready-made investigation.

True Crime to Terrorize Your Game World

Most monsters get a paragraph of lore and a stat block. They show up, they fight, they die, and nobody ever asks why they killed.

True Crime Bestiary turns that around. Its 15 serial killer monsters hide in plain sight as a shopkeeper, a saint, a neighbour. Each one has a motive, a secret and a pattern written in blood. Work the case. Learn how the killer thinks. Then turn its mind against it.

New Hunter Subclasses

Every case needs someone to crack it. Four new subclasses are built for the hunt, and two of them might become what they hunt.

The Profiler (Rogue) thinks like the killer to catch it. Every case leaves a little of the killer behind.
Path of the Pitchfork (Barbarian) carries the whole town’s fury and never stops to ask if the accused is guilty.
The Final Girl (Fighter) gets deadlier as her friends fall, and gets back up when she should stay down.
The Wizard for Hire (Wizard) can follow anyone from a single hair or drop of blood. Whatever he hunts can find him too.

Meet the Killers

Fifteen minds. Fifteen methods. Meet four of them.

Sister Suture

The gutters have a saint who saves the ones nobody else will. Nobody has seen them since.

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Caption: "Sh-h, love, just let me help… I promise it won't hurt. Only a little."]

The Smiling Boys

Five polite boys keep leaving flowers on her windowsill. They only want a mother, and they are very patient.

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Caption: "You will be here. Yes?"]

Drop-in Dungeon Houses

Every killer has a home. Go inside.

Each case ends at the killer's door: a lair that drops into any town as a one-session dungeon. Traps, trophies, and the evidence that finally proves who did it.

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About Obliscope RPG

Obliscope RPG is an independent tabletop RPG publisher of sourcebooks for D&D 5E. Every book we make follows one rule: nothing exists without a cause and a cost. True Crime Bestiary is our third book, after 100 Skeletons in the Closet and Zanrik's Guide to Mythic Metals.

• Ilia Kuznetsov - Lead Designer & Writer
• ArcSwan - Lead Artist
• Ranko Trifković - Writer
• Yana Voronina - Artist
• Konstantin Nechaev - Artist
• Irena Voylenko · Artist