Vitiorum Mortis: The Seven Deadly Sins

Darkness doesn’t wait for motion. It thickens in stillness, where thought replaces action and memory replaces will. That’s the realm of Vitiorum Mortis: The Seven Deadly Sins. It invites you to explore the places where conviction fades and desire sleeps. Within The Simple Approach framework, this book gives you narrative tools for building characters, settings, and stories shaped by the pull of temptation and decay.

Occult fantasy blends mystery, transgression, and revelation. Its stories live where faith and fear meet. You tell tales of forbidden knowledge, pacts made in quiet, and truths that twist those who seek them. The genre thrives in roleplaying because every discovery changes belief. When you and your group question what’s real, you turn philosophy into action.

You can use this book to roll or choose elements that define tone, conflict, and consequence. Every table entry and trait sparks story instead of simulation. Build a haunted abbey, a weary saint, or a faction that studies sin itself. Each option becomes a prompt for drama and transformation, not a mechanical reward. The focus stays on what your characters feel and risk, not on what they own or win.

The Simple Approach uses narrative-based traits that describe purpose and tension. Those same traits appear here, adapted to reflect the sins and virtues that drive play. You can use them alone or combine them with any rules system. The Principia core book expands the framework, but you don’t need it to start.

The tools here help you ask better questions of your world. They push you to build stories that breathe. You’ll find space for both creation and corruption, for struggle that feels personal. That freedom keeps your table flexible. You decide how far to follow temptation, and what redemption costs.

Whether you play with two people or six, with dice or without, this book fits the rhythm of your table. You can drop its ideas into an ongoing campaign or use them to begin something new. Every page supports narrative play where choice carries weight and consequence shapes growth.

Start here, but don’t stop. Let stillness speak. Let the sins move your story.

This Book Contains

Every sin begins in stillness. Vitiorum Mortis: The Seven Deadly Sins gathers the quiet forces that shape temptation and decay into tools for storytelling. You’ll find no rigid rules here, only the means to awaken motion from inertia and thought from silence. Each section offers story-centered guidance for you and your group to shape your own descent and discovery.

• The Seven Deadly Sins Genre: Defines the occult fantasy mood and shows how its mysteries, temptations, and revelations turn naturally into playable stories.

• Characters: Describes the kinds of souls who inhabit this world and provides traits to inspire or define them within The Simple Approach framework.

• Settings: Explains what gives occult spaces their pressure and presence, with traits that help you build haunted sanctuaries and cursed cities.

• Factions: Examines the orders, cults, and councils that move unseen power, with traits to distinguish their motives and influence.

• Stories: Offers plot hooks, obstacles, and adversaries drawn from sin and redemption to guide your own adventures.

• Genre Tools: Supplies adaptable advice for shaping mechanics to echo the weight and tension of occult fantasy.

• Techniques: Shares narrative methods that reinforce mood, pacing, and consequence across any system.

• Glossary: Clarifies the language of both the genre and The Simple Approach for smooth play and shared understanding.

• Bibliography: Lists key sources for deeper study of sin, faith, and the occult imagination that informs every choice you make at the table.