MORS VINCIT OMNIA: City of God Campaign Book, Demonic Horror TTRPG

IN THE END, ONLY YOUR FAITH WILL PROTECT YOU.

Mors Vincit Omnia is the first campaign book for City of God, a supernatural horror investigation roleplaying game by Spilled Ink Studios. The book contains 120 pages of content and art, with two original City of God scenarios for your gaming group to enjoy.

City of God is a demonic horror investigation TTRPG which places you in the role of an exorcist that is investigating demonic spirits in the world of the religious Dark Ages. You are powerless against these immortal beings, and powerless to the anarchy and violence of the world around you. Yet, it is your duty, enshrined by the Holy testaments of God, to banish these demons to their hellish domain, and restore God's light upon the Earth.

The purpose of the book is to allow Narrators to run two scenarios which, played together, form the beginnings of a City of God campaign. The first scenario, The Trial, introduces the Missionaries to the world of City of God, as they are kidnapped, tested and ultimately, initiated as elite agents of the early Christian Church, leading the fight against demonic entities and other supernatural evils..

The Trial is designed as a vehicle by which the players and the Narrator can get to know the Missionaries the players have created, and explore, through roleplay, the choices the players made during the Missionary creation process.This type of scenario takes inspiration from similar concepts in other tabletop roleplaying games, such as the first session of many campaigns of Delta Green, which often involves the party being inducted into the eponymous secret organisation. It also draws from Vampire: The Masquerade, where players are encouraged to roleplay their experience of being turned into a vampire.

The Trial is a test of character. It is a test of morality. But it is also a test that shows whether the Missionaries have the strength required to be part of the only fight that truly matters, the forever war against undying evil. The stakes in this war are clear: it is a war for the souls of human beings, and it is a fight that cannot and must not be lost.

The second scenario, Where Devils Make Their Nests is a longer adventure for the Missionaries, wherein they hunt a demon through the streets of a crime-riddled port town in North Africa. Both scenarios are intended to be set in the late 5th century AD, shortly after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Either scenario can also be played as a standalone.

Caracalum, a port town on the North African coast, is a well established hive of sin and vice. The town teems with not just pirates, smugglers, and other criminal lowlifes, but numerous brothels, gambling dens, and taverns of the lowest moral virtue. Violence is common on the streets, and devils lurk in every shadow. Following the seemingly ritualistic murder of a priest - one Father Avitus, in a brothel in Caracalum - the local Bishop has sent a team of missionaries from Carthage to get to the bottom of the matter and smooth over any potential embarrassment to the Church. You are that team of missionaries, lucky devils that you are. Do not fear though, my brothers and sisters. For if devils you be, then you have come to the right place: this Sodom by the sea, where any devil would be glad to make their nest.

WHAT YOU GET

1. 120 pages of original content, art, and demonic horror.
2. Two full scenarios for City of God which can be run as the beginnings of a full campaign.
3. Two original demonic adversaries for your Missionaries to confront and (hopefully) banish.
4. Advice and ideas on how to run a full campaign of City of God.

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