MORIAH is a simple role-playing game of ordinary people facing the extraordinary. It is a game of sacrifice, where people living quiet lives at the base of a holy mountain must attempt to ascend it in order to ask for the mercy of the gods.
The gods are angry. You can quell their wrath. You know the road to mercy. You must answer the question, "What are you willing to give?"
MORIAH is a game of sacrifice and belief. Of a dangerous pilgrimage to the peak of a holy mountain, and of the what you will give in order to make this ascent. As players, you are cast in the role of ordinary folk seeking the ear of the gods in hope of preventing the ruin of your world. You will need to face down the Trials of the mountain while evening the odds by offering your bodies, your memories, and possibly even your lives to overcome what awaits you.
The game includes:
A sacrifice mechanic that sees you weighing up life and limb in order to overcome the challenges before you.
A simple DICE mechanic that evolves the more that you give, going from the humble d4 to the divine d100.
The means to become a DEITY, testing the players who were once your friends for their worthiness.
Challenges that span the breadth of flora, fauna, demonic, and divine, to be overcome with the use of DICE.
**As a general content warning: MORIAH does contain themes of sacrifice, blood, and death. It is necessary that before you begin play, as a table you all go over your limits. What you are and aren’t willing to have mentioned in the game. Whether you will scale back the level of violence, or speak of it in metaphor or in passing. At any point, you are allowed to interrupt play and express your discomfort, or to opt out of a given Challenge or experience as necessary.
It is a game of deep connection, of personal bonds, of love in all its strange and myriad forms and the things that we do for love. Safety tools are also referenced in the base text in order to create a safe roleplaying environment for everyone present.
MORIAH: Final Cut is the physical release for the full version of MORIAH, with a hardbound cover illustrated by Jaen Nighly Butler. The book compiles the full text of the MORIAH zineas well as additional commentary from designer Kyle Tam, all in a new layout by Johnny Isorena.
Further Stretch Goals will unlock up to three new Roads with new illustrations from Tony Tran, as well as short fiction about "The Ones Who Could Not Ascend" by five amazing contributors.
With the core text MORIAH fully finished and the Final Cuts not that far behind, our focus with pledge rewards is to make sure the book goes to print as quickly as possible after the campaign ends.
For backing at the Full Offering tier, you’re getting MORIAH: Final Cut in its 140+ page hardcover binding, complete with all unlocked stretch goals and a digital copy to match!
At The Ultimate Sacrifice level, you’re getting everything you need for your ideal play session of MORIAH: Final Cut, complete with a knife bookmark, a candle, and a paper doll sheet to cut out and track sacrifices.
Backing at The Wayfarer tier gets you everything from The Ultimate Sacrifice, PLUS the opportunity to submit a suggested Challenge, Place of Respite, or rest prompts for the new Road of Shattered Dreams! Limited to just 5 spots!
Finally, backing at The Ultimate Tam level also gets you everything from The Ultimate Sacrifice, and 4 additional games made by Kyle Tam in one big bundle. This includes Knowing Revenge of the Grasping Gods, Primadonna, Beloved, and the award winning We Wander Beneath Radiant Lights.
For each campaign Plus One EXP runs, we set a rate that allows us to pay the creators better if the campaign does well. ForMORIAH: Final Cut, every time we loop our base goal of $5,000 the creative team gets an incremental pay increase.
Kyle Tam (she/her) is a dreamer, writer, and full-time complainer from the Philippines. Her games include Indie Groundbreaker Award Winner We Wander Beneath Radiant Lights, Beloved, and Primadonna. You can find her on Bluesky @PercyPropa, or find her work at whatkylewrites.carrd.co.
Tony Tran is an Australia based illustrator and designer, with work appearing in Dying Hard on Hardlight Station, Resonant, BIG SWORD, ChainXLink, ERRANT and Branda Grove.
Jaen Nighly Butler is an artist whose work explores the fantastic, the sublime, & the macabre. She specializes in striking black & white compositions, as well as vividly colored iterations of her line-art for banners, covers, posters, & more. Follow her on bluesky @jnb.art and view her portfolio at https://jnb.art
Joan Zahra Dark is a writer, game designer and occasional actual play performer that loves getting people organized. They're currently working on DATE KNIGHT and can be found lurking around Chicago.
A. A. Voigt is a TTRPG video essayist and writer from the midwestern United States. He has words in Rascal News, Polygon, and Interstellar Flights Magazine. You can find him on Youtube @aavoigt, on Bluesky at @aavoigt.bsky.social, or at his website aavoigt.com.
Linda H. Codega is an author and critic who spends most of their time writing, hiking, and playing games. They co-founded the journalistic TTRPG outlet Rascal News and have written for many tabletop projects over the past ten years.
Snow is an award-winning game designer and writer. She lives in Chicago with her partners and her cat.
We’re currently accepting pitches for two more contributors for the Tales of Pilgrims! Submissions are open for two weeks and close on June 30th! This is a paid open call. Final text will be due August 1st.
Plus One Exp has a great and robust retail program that already exists. In order to not lock up your funds, and to avoid platform fees, we encourage retailers to sign up for our retail partnership program by emailing [email protected] and pledging $1 to follow along.
You will receive all benefits from backing the game unlocked or included in the campaign.
MORIAH is a fully finished game that’s only getting additional material before we head to print, we’re only a few months away at most from getting MORIAH: Final Cut finished for a digital release and sent off to the printers for a Fall release window.
Shipping will be charged in fulfillment once we’re ready to send books out. US Shipping will be ~$10-15 from Plus One Exp UK Shipping will be ~£8-12 shipping from Peregrine Coast Press
Other Locations will be ~$15-34 shipping from Peregrine Coast Press or Plus One
