Chromatic Soup 01 Review

I've talked about two of Evlyn Moreau's books, The Kobolds' Art Exhibition and Spinetooth Oasis, before. Today I wanted to talk about a project that she spearheaded, Chromatic Soup 01. Physically the zine, I think I'm going to call it a zine, has odd dimensions (4.25"x6.88") and features Evlyn's unique black and white art.

The zine discusses two different (but connected) swamp areas, the Biting Marshes and the Mae Khwam Kruna rice lands. Another nearby area, the Flatstone Fortress is also mentioned and lightly detailed.

The Biting Marshes are the home to the Swamp Duke and his growing army. While he plays humble, he secretly eyes for more power. His army includes swamp marines, log-jaw pipers, and stew pot witches. Each of these groups gets a class variant. Log-jaw pipers command packs of gators. Stewpot witches are my favorite though, because of their animated pot familiars. This section also details a goblin tribe, bobcat men, a few locations, and include charts that help flesh out the flora and fauna of the swamp.

The rice lands details the unique magic of the land and it's shrines. It also includes a variant magic-user. New insectile fae are introduced as well. The Flatstone Fortress is home to an order of merchant knights (the receive class treatment). Various charts are given to flesh them out, give them squires, and a few example knights are presented. The book ends with several charts and articles about swamp encounters (that would work in either swamp).

If you like a bit of weirdness in your OSR, you need to pick this up. At 176 pages, it's only 5.04. Its a great supplement to Fever Swamp.