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Core rules, expansions, and monster hordes for the BattleSauce tabletop RPG system.
Full-color | 177 pages | Instant download.
BattleSauce is the world's tastiest RolePlaying BoardGame - a fast, exciting, and immersive new system for players of all ages and experiences. BattleSauce combines the best ingredients of roleplaying games with board games to create a fresh, logical, and quick-to-learn spin on RPGs.
Create powerful spells, master Evolutionary Traits, and hone Trades in a world where strategy and creativity collide. Whether you're a seasoned RPG veteran or new to the table, BattleSauce offers a flavorful mix of gameplay that's accessible, over-the-top, and endlessly playable.
This is the complete rule set, fully illustrated with gameplay examples and rules for creating your own Trades, Evos, Spells, and more. You get a zip file with a blank Protein Pack (character sheet) and two book versions: a single-page layout for easy reading on mobile devices and a two-page spread layout for larger screens.
177 Full-Color Pages
5 Ready-to-Play Trades: Chef, Revenant, Monster Magnet, Umbral Weaver, and Body Snatcher
10 Sample Mutations
Illustrated Combat Rules, including overwhelming odds and army combat
Sample BoardGame Map
Complete Vehicle Rules
Magic Rules with ten spell examples
And more!
This 16-page zine condenses the whole BattleSauce experience into a compact, portable format that delivers a fast and impactful experience. Perfect for quick sessions, new players, or anyone who likes their RPGs over-the-top and can learn within an hour.
Each Zine features a unique cover from a rotating lineup of artists, each one released over time and each cooked to perfection.
Inside, you’ll find:
Streamlined rules for lightning-fast play
Combat, vehicle mechanics, and the coolest spell system
Army and overwhelming odds combat
Blank Protein Pack for building your own chaos
Your ship is crashing toward the planet below; your crew is missing (we all know they’re probably dead or wish they were, and you just woke up in the morgue with only 30 minutes left before impact. This BattleSauce Snack will have you racing against time as you navigate twisting corridors, evade the “thing,” eliminating your crew, and either stop the countdown or evacuate before it’s too late!
Things In Space is a one- to two-player game for the BattleSauce CookBook rule system. It is a BattleSauce snack, which means it's played entirely like a board game on BattleMaps—with no role-playing narrative elements. Unless you want those, then go for it! Otherwise, you can play this game in a single sitting.
This is a zip file, so we can't share a flip-through, but here's what you get in the download.
28 Pages of sci-fi goodness.
1 Playable character with a complete Protein Pack (character sheet).
1 Starship with stats and labels.
5 New weapons - four ranged and one stabby one.
4 Starship BattleMaps - gridded and suitable for any game.
2 New Horrible, terrible, no good, very bad Monsters.
4 High-res PNG maps of the ship.
Players dive into the depths of a dungeon rumored to conceal the HellForge, the legendary home of the HellSword, a weapon capable of, well, unleashing Hell. Not really; it just seemed to fit all the references to Hell. However, the HellSword can pierce any armor, inflicting fatal blows with a single strike. But that’s not all hidden in Dungeon Krawl 3: like so many little Easter eggs scattered across the map, there are many powerful treasures—if you can survive long enough to claim them.
Dungeon Krawl 3 can be played solo or with a few friends using the BattleSauce rule system. As a BattleSauce snack, it's played entirely like a board game on BattleMaps—with no role-playing narrative elements. Unless you want those, then go for it! Otherwise, you can play this game in a single sitting. Do you need a character to play? Well, yes and no. All you really need is your BattleSauce character's Grit, Armor, and any Sting or Float bonuses they may have, and you can start playing right away. But if you have a more in-depth character, those work fine too!
Here are the Ingredients you get in the download.
25 Pages of epic fantasy dungeon mayhem
1 Panic-inducing BattleMap created with Inkarnate and Photoshop
7 New, not-so-friendly Monsters
1 Revealing Item
2 New Weapons
The tranquil fishing village of Driftmoor has been thrown into chaos. The village Elder’s daughter, Hana, has been swallowed by the fearsome demon fish, Ishinaru, who demands a steep ransom to allow the villagers to continue fishing the lake and retrieve Hana from its lair.
To save the Elder’s daughter, you must find a way into the dark, treacherous waters, face Ishinaru’s wrath, and defeat the demon before Driftmoor is lost forever. Make every moment count, for tomorrow, we die.
Tomorrow We Die is a fast-paced, one-session RPG that promises quick, exciting gameplay with minimal commitment. Players embody a nomadic ronin mayfly with only two days to live, pushing them to make every moment count. Each episode offers a narrative-driven experience with unique characters, monsters, and rich lore. With the streamlined BattleSauce rule set, players can shape their defining Moment with honor.
Each Tomorrow We Die (TWD) episode acts as a seed or game hook, featuring a few engaging sentences, characters, and settings to establish the scene and spark creativity. TWD accommodates two to four players. One player takes on the role of SauceBoss or Game Master, guiding the others through the game’s conclusion with the seed and additional descriptions as reference. Players embody a variation of a ronin mayfly, striving to embrace every moment during its brief two-day lifespan. This fleeting existence is reflected in the game’s core rule, allowing players only one hour to finish each episode.
This PDF book features 20 unique, winter-themed monsters created for the BattleSauce system, but they are playable with any RPG! The Winter Monster Horde is an interactive PDF that allows players to roll 1D20 or select one of the monsters from the Table of Contents and click the title to go directly to the monster’s art page—so players can’t see the monster stats if the SauceBoss or game-runner doesn’t want them to.
Each Monster includes concise stats, background information, and descriptions of attacks, ensuring quick and thrilling confrontations.
In this alternate history World War 2 Appetizer, the SunDevils - an elite squad of soldiers - must successfully parachute behind enemy lines, navigate treacherous terrain, and enter the occupied village of Saint Claire undetected. Once inside the village, the SunDevils are tasked with destroying the clock tower before it can be used to summon enemy reinforcements! To play this Appetizer, you will need the BattleSauce Boiled Down CookBook.
3 Blank maps for creating your own games including:
5x5 gridded BattleSauce short map
11x11 gridded BattleSauce short map
18x23 gridded BattleSauce full length map
Also included:
Stone walls
Branch/vine/Root walls
Trees
Plants
Wooden walkway
Stone floor
Table
Potions
Doors
Treasures
Weapons
And More!
The BattleSauce Adventure Map book is designed for minimal ink usage with print friendly assets. Print your own maps and start creating your adventures today!
Printer friendly
Black & white art
Line art for coloring
Minimal icons for easy legibility
Multiple assets on each page for maximizing paper usage
Be sure to grab the free BattleSauce Rulebook and Monster Horde - for everything you need to know to start playing BattleSauce including 20 nasty, quirky, and troublesome monsters!
Learn more about the game, discover new characters-weapons-maps-monsters, and follow along with developments at thisisbattlesauce.com or on our Discord server!
Feedback always appreciated and happy to answer any questions about BattleSauce.
The Dig Deep is a brand new BattleSauce Ingredient for Adventure (IFA) I created as a supplement for the full length adventure Shadow of the Dragon! As an IFA, the 'Tavern can be added to any BattleSauce adventure or even used as a game board short - with more details about usage included in the PDF.
The free version contains the tavern map and detailed information on the proprietor Hule Gage. The Patreon version of this ingredient includes the tavern map, the apartment map, the stable map, and new character.
I hope you all enjoy this free version and as always, thank you for your support!
Be sure to grab the free BattleSauce Rulebook and Monster Horde - for everything you need to know to start playing BattleSauce including 20 nasty, quirky, and troublesome monsters!
It's FREE!
Written and Illustrated by Michael Startzman (No Thank You, Evil, The Strange Bestiary, The Ninth World Bestiary)
Over 20 weapons for you and your BattleSauce adventures - we call adventures Meals - keeping with the whole food theme. Tasty and filling! These weapons and special weapons were designed for the BattleSauce fantasy cuisine of No Kings - a time of barbarians, magic, and monsters. These weapons will work well in all available BattleSauce games.
What do you get for less than the price of Airhead Assorted Flavors Chewy Candy Bars, 3.3 Oz., 6 Count? Well, I'm glad you asked such a pointed and oddly specific question. Read on!
20 stabby type weapons
Magical weapons with extra stabby bonuses
Bonuses doesn't look like it's spelled correctly
But it is
Printable weapons pages
Printable weapon cards
You'll also get the wonderful feeling of helping me maintain the website while creating more Saucy content! It's the best feeling ever!
Black + White Line Art for Coloring
Prompts for Kids to Draw + Write
That's pretty much it
Tavern of the Grumpy Wizard Anti-Coloring Coloring Book
FREE! Not even .99!
Line art by Michael Startzman (No Thank You, Evil, The Strange Bestiary, The Ninth World Bestiary) and Adam Craft (Lostlorn).
TOTGW ACCB (whew, it's a mouthful) is a printer friendly BattleSauce activity snack for kids! Anti-coloring books are designed to encourage kids to draw from their imagination - filling in the prompts themselves. But coloring monsters is fun too so we threw a little bit of that in too.
What's included in the Tavern of the...oh you get it.
The BattleSauce TOGW Monster Horde awaits your help with hairstyles, feeding time, naming new mushrooms, creating devices to fly, singing songs, looking inside Eye Scream and more!
Printer friendly pages with line art maximized for drawing and coloring
Two-page spreads will require some taping ingenuity - be prepared!
Amazingly Just $1.99!
Written and Illustrated by Michael Startzman (No Thank You, Evil, The Strange Bestiary, The Ninth World Bestiary, Henshin! A Sentai RPG: Worlds Collide), Adam Craft (Vampire the Masquerade, Lostlorn), and new character art by Gus Fredrickson on Instagram as cptnstrftr.
UNCHARTED is a collection of 6 blank maps and monsters inspired by classic movie monsters and created exclusively for BattleSauce! Spelunk into dark caves, splash in the black waters, sneak into ruins of the gods, discover the mysteries of the Engineer's laboratory and more in BattleSauce UNCHARTED! We provide the maps and gentle prods, you provide the stories!
Not ready to buy? Try any of our free Snacks and chow down on some BattleSauce bite-sized adventures - perfect for learning the not-too-many rules - and available wherever BattleSauce battles are sold. HINT: DriveThru and my website have a bunch of free ones too.
You can't even get a sub par bagel with cream cheese for less than $2 any more. But here's what you can get:
6 Brand new, full color, gridded maps!
6 Sparkling New Murderous monsters! Use 'em, don't. Your call. Scaredy cat.
1 New character with a long name and longer sword ready to lend a...two handed sword! With one hand even!
8.5x11 Formatted maps with 15x20 grids.
Or…Woodland Safe House. It’s a tree house in the woods! You know! Ok, anyway.
Tree Safe House
Still only .99! (Looking at you Marvel Comics!)
Written and Illustrated by Michael Startzman (No Thank You, Evil!, The Strange Bestiary, The Ninth World Bestiary).
As a BattleSauce ingredient, this uncharted map can be used in virtually any of our games. Ingredients are add ons to BattleSauce games providing a little extra flavor to your adventures.
Hidden high among the trees players can use the safe house as a place of rest and recovery when traveling long distances through the jungle or woods. Or as a location to make a last stand. Just saying.
But that's not all! What do you get for loose change you could probably find on the couch?
A brand new map full of luscious green trees to chase away the gray days
A key identifying significant elements and locations in the map
11 x 17" poster map ready to print
JPG map too.
So many maps.
The Temple of Time is hidden deep within the treacherous Creeping Jungle - another uncharted region of the Southern Hemisphere. It is rumored the temple contains four windows capable of propelling players through time: one window to the past and one to the future. It is unclear where or when the other two windows lead - if anywhere at all.
The Temple of Time is a BattleSauce Ingredient which means it's not a game but can be added to any BattleSauce (or other?) Meal. Especially useful for when your wily players go off-script.
This awesome battle map features 13 chambers for the bravest of souls to venture through - uncovering magic books, enchanted scrolls, potions and more! Join our membership and get this map along with all kinds of exclusive, spicy supplemental goodies - monsters, weapons, and magical items, every Friday!
Get a taste of the system-agnostic Dungeon Maker with this free set of five modular Tavern tiles, designed to drop straight into your next session. The pack includes two distinct dining areas, a connecting hallway, a fully equipped kitchen tile, and a storage room/cellar tile with secret doors. These tiles are perfect for tavern brawls, secret meetings, or any scenario when players need a place to recover or regroup for when you need a reliable tavern setup on short notice.
Each tile is high-resolution, print-ready, and delivered in four versions: gridded, ungridded, transparent-background PNGs, and JPGs.
Use the Dining Room tiles to create two different taverns, link them together with the hallway tile, or create a tavern with two floors!
This pack features Dungeon Maker: Tavern Tiles 001-005
2 Dining Rooms
1 Connecting Hallway
1 Kitchen tile
1 Cellar tile
Gridded & ungridded versions of each tile
Transparent PNG files for combining tiles digitally