Bestiaries drawn from real mythology, tactical guides that make monsters play like opponents, and toolkits for the parts of the game nobody writes about. Fifth edition and system-neutral.
Five ongoing series. Each takes one idea and does it properly, over and over, in a shape you can rely on.
A complete folk-horror setting for 5e — bestiary, subclasses, magic items, the customs of the Hollow itself, and a founding campaign. The flagship.
Ten monsters from one culture’s real folklore, statted for the table. Celtic, Norse, Slavic, Welsh, Scottish, Japanese — and the deep north.
How a creature actually fights. Not new stat blocks — a manual for turning the one you have into an opponent that plans.
Fifteen items per volume, each drawn from a sourced myth and carrying the folklore note that explains it. Scholarship you can hand to a player.
Villains who come back. The unplanned session. Tension and pacing. Chases, sacred bargains, mysteries. The twenty minutes before initiative.
A setting sourcebook about hope, memory and gentle magic in a dangerous world — with its own bestiary and a collection of relics woven from memory and light.
Every ongoing series is collected into a bundle on DriveThruRPG, priced below the sum of its parts. If you know you want the line, start here.
titles in print. Everything is a PDF, delivered instantly, yours forever.
Nothing in the catalogue matches both of those.
Elderlight publishes around ten new books a month — bestiaries, toolkits, magic items, folklore. At $5 you get at least four of them. At $12 you get all of them, for less than the price of two.
Four or more new books every month, the day each one ships. Bestiaries, toolkits, magic items, folklore. Yours to keep whether you stay or not.
The complete month — every book, not a selection. Plus the collected compendiums when they land, early PDFs, and a vote each month on which culture, monster or toolkit comes next.
Everything above, plus one bespoke piece a month made for your table — an NPC, an encounter, a micro-setting. Limited slots.
Take these and use them tonight. No signup, no catch — they’re a fair sample of how the rest reads.
A d100 table of omens, wrongnesses and quiet warnings for a party who have been in the deep woods too long. Most of them are not encounters.
Download the PDFA d100 countdown. Fifty entries of a dragon learning about the party, and fifty of it doing something about it.
Download the PDFA printable one-page form for building an investigation that can’t dead-end. Ten minutes of prep for a whole mystery.
Download the PDFElderlight Press is a one-person independent publisher working out of rural western Kentucky. It makes supplements for fifth edition and for anyone who runs a game — bestiaries, tactical guides, magic items and toolkits — at a pace most publishers don’t attempt.
The thread running through all of it is real folklore, made usable. When a book says a creature comes from the Kalevala or the Shan Hai Jing, it does, and the sources are named. The mythology is researched properly and then turned into something you can put in front of a party on a Tuesday.
Books are available here, on DriveThruRPG, and to patrons the day they ship.