It found the Wizard and brought him here, found Dorothy and brought her along, too. You did not plan for Oz to take you, but then there were cyclones, angry mobs, gunfire, storms at sea, holes in the world you thought would bury you. And then you flew, and you belonged to Oz. Your monochrome life was over for good. The Emerald City gleamed with color and sunlight, and you found a home. You had adventures. You learned a little witchcraft. You had people to love like a family.

But Ozma vanished, Dorothy fled, and Oz fell.

Now you live in Verdigris, the cavernous, sunless, electric-light capital of Oz Below.

Dark Designs in Verdigris is a game about what's left of the Emerald City long after Oz fell.

Built on a single-move PbtA system inspired by World of Dungeons and Offworlders, the text of Dark Designs in Verdigris is available under a CC-BY 4.0 license. The new edition includes rules clarifications, details on the dimension-spanning Heuber's Museum of Books, and new art from Tess Fowler and Brian Sago with layout by Mike Martens.

A new edition of R. Rook Studio's first game game! First appearing in Codex Emerald and Codex Childhood in 2019, the game of post-apocalyptic Oz is revised for a new release.

Print Edition

The print version wil be out from Plus One EXP as the January release for Zine Club! Preorder (or once it releases, just order) from that page.