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Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker, The Black Death / The Dancing Mania Link

This adventure is about the vile crimes of Christman Grippertenius and his associates Peter Stumpp and Peter Niers. May they rot in hell.

This is a Level 1-5 OSR adventure for an intrepid band of adventurers. The player characters will confront a group of murderers that has been terrorizing the region of Bergkessel. This adventure follows the genre of dark fantasy.

The main inspiration for the adventure is the historical stories about the murderer and bandit Christman Genipperteinga,1 Peter Niers,2 and Peter Stumpp.3

An obligatory content warning: The adventure features themes of violence, sexual violence, incest, pregnancy, abduction, child death, and body horror. Proceed at your own peril.

Published under the Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0


  1. see Wikipedia for a quick overview.↩︎

  2. see Wikipedia for a quick overview.↩︎

  3. see Wikipedia for a quick overview.↩︎