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Monday, March 24, 2025

Free OSR - DragonsFoot.org

Most of you know about DragonsFoot. In the days of forums and bulletin boards, before the coming and waning of blogs, places like DragonsFoot were the place to be. Say what you will about forums, but Facebook, and Discord, and X don't hold a candle to what forums often offer - a static location to upload and download files.

Are you looking for adventures for your OSR campaign and have a tight budget? Let your fingers do their scrolling at DragonsFoot, and you may be amazed at what you find, freely given to the public.

Yes, even I need to remind myself to visit Dragonsfoot on an irregular basis...

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Sunday, March 23, 2025

Deal of the Day - Modern Necessities: Professional Edition (OSE)


Looking to add some modern weaponry to your fantasy OSE (or likely ANY OSR game)? You may want to run some modern-day campaigns, with or without magic and fantasy elements. Maybe GURPS just isn't up your alley ;)

If any of the above rings true, Today's Deal of the Day -  Modern Necessities: Professional Edition for OSE is the book you need for your OSR toolbox!

Normally, Modern Necessities: Professional Edition for OSE is 14.99 in PDF, but until tomorrow morning, it is priced at 8.99. Note that Modern Necessities is also available in print versions.

Modern Necessities: Professional Edition is a 3rd party supplement for Old-School Essentials that adds rules, classes, equipment and more to run your campaigns in any modern setting, including those that mix the contempary with magic and monsters. 

The book includes the following across 169 pages

  • 20 modern themed classes, from soldiers and hitmen to detectives and hackers.
  • Rules for giving modern traits to a small selection of fantasy races
  • 60+ modern weapons, from pistols to rocket launchers and airstrikes
  • Numerous firearm attachments, ammunition types, and even modifiers based on the firearm design philosophies of different fantasy cultures. 
  • 15+ modern themed types of armor.
  • Assorted equipment, from flashlights to aerial drones.
  • Specific, named magic weapons, armor and equipment.
  • Vehicle rules, including 19+ sample vehicles.
  • 48+ Technomancy spells.
  • 20 Psionic powers.
  • Multiple modern themed enemies to do battle against.
  • Rules for hiring modern themed mercenaries.
  • Optional rules such as weapon jamming, weapon conditions and armor damage.
  • Sample plot hooks, providing quick and simple ideas for one shots or even entire campaigns.
  • Assault on Blackfang Tower: A short intro adventure set in a world hit by a magical apocalypse. Defeat the dark wizard and his armed Goblin minions controlling a small, ruined town.

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Saturday, March 22, 2025

Deal of the Day - The Midderlands - OSR Bestiary and Setting


The Midderlands is Glynn Seal's baby. I have backed every Kickstarter he's run and have all his work in print & PDF. I've enjoyed his art and maps in the products of many other publishers, and I consider Glynn a friend. 

The Midderlnads - OSR Bestiary and Setting is where all of this begins. 

The Midderlands is an old-school game setting with bestiary for use with old-school role-playing games. It is based on Swords & Wizardry Complete, but could easily be used with other old-school systems and even non-OSR systems such as D&D or Pathfinder.

It is a green-hued, dark-fantasy, late-middle ages, early-renaissance view through grime-smeared spectacles. The setting itself is based on an area in the middle of England near where I live called The Midlands. Many of the locations are loosely based on reality, but others are pure fantasy from an addled mind.

The setting part of the book contains something I call "game-juice". Not heavy of history and monotonous detail, but enough to get the game-juices flowing and let the game master twist and tweak as they need to in order to fit their campaign.

Glynn has a Kickstarter in the works, and we will do our best to get him on The Tavern's YouTube channel for a live it does kick off.

If you don't already have The Midderlands—OSR Bestiary and Setting (and you should), don't miss out on the chance to get the PDF for 8 bucks instead of the usual 20 (still a bargain for the content you get).

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