Swords of the Serpentine is an 2022 urban sword-and-sorcery role-playing game by Kevin Kulp and Emily Dresner. Its rules are based on the Gumshoe System[1] and it is published by Pelgrane Press.
Full publication of the game was delayed because of illustrators dropping out of the project during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. In June of 2020 the "Adventurers’ Edition" was released to pre-order customers: a PDF file with raw text and no illustrations. In July of 2021 a partly laid-out PDF file with many illustrations was distributed. Four months later a complete PDF version was released. The printed hardback book reached pre-order customers in July of 2022, over two years after the raw-text version.
Swords of the Serpentine won the 2023 Silver ENnie Award for Best Cover Art and Best Setting, and the Gold ENnie Award for Best Supplement and Best Writing.[2]