Free OSR - Wherein Evil Lies (Dragon Horde Zine, V2, #1)

New Big Dragon Games Unlimited used to be a leading provider of high-quality, old-school RPG materials. Wherin Evil Lies (also known as Dragon Horde Zine V2, #1) is chock-full of classes, spells, magic items, monsters, adventure, and more for your B/X game.

Wherein Evil Lies is waiting to join your electronic collection of RPG books - priced at PWYW, it should already be there...

Part zine, part mini-splat book,

Wherein Evil Lies includes a host of evil and undead resources for classic/BX editions... 

Including:

• 3 new classes: Deathslayer, Witch Doctor, Half-orc (Assassin)
• 9 new spells: fatigue, death rage, mummy's touch, ossify, revenance, wailing fear, necrotic portal, greater ossify, aura of fear
• 6 new magic items: equinox orb, fiendish mantle, hammer of salvation, plague mace, purity ring, stole of radiance
• 7 new basic psionic abilities: infuse terror, psychic vampire, destiny dissonance, aura of fear, psionic daze, crisis of breath, shadow twin
• 6 new monsters: atori, cackler, crypt riddler, korper, hill haunt, spawn of Chuamisi
• optional rules for killing vampires
• new petty god & minion: Anguia Umbra (petty god of iophilia, toxicophilia, assassins) and his chimera minion/familiar Azamus
• a new adventure for 5-7 characters of 3rd-5th level: The Black Chapel
• 3 new d30 tables: quirks caused by becoming unhinged, methods of sacrifice, evil hooks & seeds for encounters and adventures

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Free OSR - Hexcrawl Basics

Sure, other books talk about hexcrawls (I've even done a video on it - What is a HexCrawl and Why Should You Run One?), some folks just don't have much experience playing in a hexcrawl, let alone running one. That's where Hexcrawl Basics comes into play - 26 pages of exactly what it says on the tin at PWYW pricing.

If you are interested in hex crawls and want to get your feet wet, grab Hexcrawl Basics and Blackmarsh to reference the concepts - both can be had for free, and they may just open your eyes.

This supplement is a guide to the mechanical methods of running a hexcrawl style campaign. It is written for OSR-style games, specifically Necrotic Gnome's Old School Essentials, but can easily be adapted to fit others. It includes methods of both traveling through hexes and exploring within a hex, clarifications on rules for getting lost, populating a hex with lairs, determining the range of monsters within the lair, and more.

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Free OSR - Guidebook to the City of Dolmvay (City Setting)

Wow! Talk about nostalgia. I'm relatively sure I have a print copy of the Guidebook to the City of Dolmvay on one of my bookshelves. I remember when Pete was putting this together, and he inquired about including a Tenkar's Tavern in the book - there are a few places that such a place exists in published works, and the Guidebook to the City of Dolmay may very well be the first.

Dolmvay is an excellent city setting, ready to be dropped into most any Fantasy campaign. Go ahead, have your party visit Tenkar's Tavern ;)

The Guidebook to the City of Dolmvay is a FREE Labyrinth Lord™ supplement that details the people, layout, and government of the City of Dolmvay. The city is presented in broad strokes and is open to customization. It was specifically designed to give Labyrinth Lords a convenient and familiar city setting to place their adventures.

The Guidebook to the City of Dolmvay is largely open content. Small Niche Games would like to encourage professional and amateur publishers to use the Guidebook as a shared city setting and set their commercial adventures within the City of Dolmvay. Labyrinth Lords (and publishers) should feel free to change, add, or remove any of the information in this book to better suit his or her own game.

The Guidebook to the City of Dolmvay contains:

• A breakdown of city-based adventure themes
• History of the City of Dolmvay
• Detailed overview of the City of Dolmvay including government, religion, commerce, and laws and punishment
• Descriptions of over a dozen major festivals
• An overview of the citizens of Dolmvay including a breakdown of social classes, daily life for commoners and nobles, style of dress, arms and armor, rumors and gossip, and common gestures, curses, and phrases
• Layout of the city including details on architecture, street lighting, sanitation, as well as detailed descriptions of the city's wards, districts, quarters, neighborhoods, and businesses
• Descriptions of dozens of factions and stat blocks for hundreds of NPCs
• Descriptions of common shops and businesses, prices for food and lodging, and a dozen sample inns and taverns
• Over 100 unique city encounters
• Over two dozen new plants and monsters
• A detailed description of the religious organization known as the Church of Law and Order including church history and doctrine, major NPCs, and new magic items
• A detailed description of the Dolmvay Adventurer's Guild including training facilities, dungeons, and major NPCs
• A detailed description of the city's magical sewer system including dozens of unique encounters and several sample sewer geomorph maps
• Guidelines for NPC generation including common names, professions, dozens of quirks and traits, and rules for creating unique and interesting 0-level NPCs
• Guidelines for random treasure determination including pick pocket tables and random tables for determining household treasures

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