Medieval scribes liked to fill the margins of their illuminated manuscripts with pictures of strange creatures doing strange things. So in honour of their commitment to filling pages with weirdness, we’ve decided to bring that energy to a zine in the form of The Medieval Margin-agerie (Volume 1).

The Medieval Margin-agerie Zine presents fanciful and fantastical content in the form of nine strange creatures. Each comes with a measure of doubtful background, questionable research material, and stats suitable for most OSR games.

The Medieval imagination, not unlike the modern, tends towards an obsession with things below the belt. As a result, some of the content of the Margin-agerie is somewhat sexual or scatological. Forewarned is forearmed.

24-page format plus 4-page cover. PDF edition. Broadly compatible with most OSR games.

Concept, Design and Writing by Richard August.

Layout, Editing, Graphics and Additional Material by Paul Baldowski.

Binding and red spine thread stitching by All Rolled Up

Printed in the UK


Released: 27 June 2023