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Saturday, November 12, 2022

Kickstarter - Outcast Silver Raiders (OSR)

A blood-drenched occult medieval tabletop RPG. Includes three books and a fully mapped, OSR-compatible campaign setting.

Someone asked on last night's Livestream, just how many OSR systems do we need? The discussion was lively and the answer is somewhere between "None" and "More" I guess ;)

Outcast Silver Riders line squarely up with "More".

Outcast Silver Raiders is a blood-drenched occult medieval roleplaying game in the OSR tradition.

Outcast Silver Raiders is a work of singular vision from the creative team of:

  • Professional designer Isaac VanDuyn 
  • Acclaimed heavy metal illustrator Kim Diaz Holm 
  • Fantasy cartographer and calligrapher Lex Rocket 

Kim created all the illustrations. Lex created all the maps and hand-wrote all of the page titles in classic blackletter calligraphy. Isaac did all the writing and graphic design. This small team has created a work of dark focus.

Outcast Silver Raiders is what the televangelists, the hack investigative journalists, and the grasping Hollywood producers imagined when they caused a satanic panic around RPGs in the eighties. Daemons. Darkness. Sacrifice. Blood spilling over cracked altars in desecrated chapels.

Players portray brutal warriors, clever rogues, and conniving sorcerers who reject the barbaric theocracy of medieval society to seek fortune and glory as outcasts beyond the reach of lords or God.

Outcast Silver Raiders is 85 bucks plus shipping for the Print Plus PDF. That is for 3 books and a map. 39 for just the PDFs, which I feel is a steep price for digital only.

In any case, certainly, a Kickstarter to watch.

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Friday, November 11, 2022

Swords & Wizardry Complete Box Set and Supplement Pack 29.99 Plus Shipping

Announcement:

Frog God Games continues its course of sales that are running throughout 2022. For this week’s sale (through November 13), we feature BOTH the Swords and Wizardry Complete Box Set AND Swords and Wizardry Accessory Pack TOGETHER for just $29.99 (+ shipping)!!! (Regularly, these two products are $94.98 combined, making these savings over $60!) Click here to add both to your cart and save!

Swords & Wizardry is more than a re-statement of the original rules that gave rise to 5e. It is fast-playing, easy to start, and easy to learn by anyone. Swords & Wizardry is a snapshot of the rules as they existed in 1978 right before “first edition” was released. The fifth edition game currently played, watched and beloved by millions is great fun, but the structure of the rules has changed over the course of editions, and there’s a unique feel to the earlier versions of the game which you may not have encountered before. The box set contains the following booklets: Player Book, Spells & Magic, Monsters, and Referee’s Book

Included in this sale is the Swords & Wizardry Accessory Pack. This supplement pack contains a Deluxe Referee Screen, Swords & Wizardry Supplement 1: MOAR Monsters, and the adventure, Baron’s Gambit. All three of these supplements fit into the Swords & Wizardry Complete Box Set.

Simply add both products to your cart and enter the code Swords-Wizardry-Turkey-2022 in the coupon code field. Then click the “Apply Coupon” button before checking out.

Alternatively, you can simply click here to automatically add the books and coupon to your cart to receive the discounted price.

ACT NOW BECAUSE ONCE THESE ARE GONE, THEY ARE GONE!

Get both the Swords & Wizardry Complete Box Set and Supplement Pack today!

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Thursday, November 10, 2022

It's Official - Troll Lord Games and Frog God Games are Teaming Up!

I heard about this a few days ago, but it wasn't for me to break the news. I received this email late this afternoon from Troll Lord Games:

Troll Lord Games and Frog God Games are pleased to announce that they have reached an agreement to officially support the Castles & Crusades role-playing game via Frog God Games products.

Troll Lord Games has published the C&C RPG since its first printing was released in 2005.

Frog God Games will support the C&C game with supplements such as adventures, bestiaries, modules, and the like. Their first venture into publishing C&C products happened this autumn with their IndieGoGo campaign, “Halloween Double Feature.” The IGG campaign promoted the release of two adventures for the C&C game — Fungus God from Outer Space and Heresy of Rot. Fungus God from Outer Space is authored by Casey W. Christofferson, who is well known to C&C fans due to his many supplements written for C&C and 5e under TLG’s banner, especially Mythical Companions, Free City of Eskadia, and his Haunted Highlands series of adventures. Heresy of Rot is co-authored by Levi Combs and John Maguire, two more established names in the Old School Renaissance (OSR) of which C&C is a progenitor. Both products are now available on DriveThruRPG.com in PDF format with Print-on-Demand versions to follow soon.

Steve Chenault (CEO of Troll Lord Games) said, “Bill and I have been friends for over two decades. We have collaborated on countless projects and spent many an hour discussing projects, industry, and news at conventions from Vegas to Indianapolis. He is one of my closest friends in the industry and I trust him implicitly.

Frog God Games (and Necromancer Games), with Bill at the helm, has created some of the most dynamic, fun-filled, action-packed adventures for the RPG community (Vampires and Liches for the win!), so the idea of seeing them converted and produced for Castles & Crusades, our flagship product, is beyond exciting. Everyone here at TLG is pumped about this, as these adventures will fill some long-neglected holes in our adventuring ranks. I cannot wait to see these hit the shelves and tables! And personally, it will be great to work with Bill and his crew again!”

Fans of both companies should be on the lookout for more products from Frog God Games that will support their favorite RPG. Chatter regarding the venture was made public in September 2022 via Troll Lord Games’ Twitch channel, where they played gracious host to a trio of members of Frog God Games.

 

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Wednesday, November 9, 2022

New Release - Castigant: Gothic Roleplaying in a Time of Inquisition (OSR)

Horrors of the night plague humanity... Can you find the faith to defeat them? 

Right. What can I say about James Spahn that I haven't already said, here or elsewhere? Amazing writer, true friend, and blood brother, and I was his sponsor when he was confirmed in the Catholic faith.

I may be a bit biased, but at least I am honest about that potential when it may be there ;)

I read a part of an early version of Castigant: Gothic Roleplaying in a Time of Inquisition over the summer if my memory serves me right as far as timing, and it was compelling. Gothic horror with real-world trappings and an OSR engine. I'm looking forward to snagging my copy of the final version.

BTW, Castigo means "punishment" in Spanish...

Castigant is a roleplaying game set in a world of gothic horror. Based on the adventure gaming rules found in James M. Spahn's The Hero's Journey: Second Edition, Castigant takes a dark, yet hopeful turn as the night begins to set and sorrow clashes with faith.

Five unique classes, rules for Sorrows, Faith, Intercessions, Relics and more all feature, along with a detailed bestiary of foes and copious of optional rules to help tweak and adjust the game to your preferences. 

Castigant features themes of faith, the nature of humanity, and the role of monsters in our myths and world, and tries to ask difficult questions without easy answers. Horror imagery, art, and descriptions all feature throughout the game. Featuring art from the public domain, and layout by Alan Bahr, Castigant is Spahn's most personal work to date. 

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Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Bundle of Holding - Mongoose Traveller Explorations

The original Traveller was my first "hard science" RPG. I started with the Traveller Starter Boxed Set, which was really the 3 LBBs repackaged into a single book. I ran a handful of adventures but spent many an hour turning character generation into a game of its own.

Mongoose Traveller Explorations is currently up at Bundle of Holding. It uses the rules for Mongoose Traveller 2e (currently updated in 2022) and is as current as you can get.

For just US$12.95 you get all four titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $97) as DRM-free ebooks, including Mongoose's complete Traveller Core Rulebook (in its current 2022 Update version) and the sector sourcebooks Behind the Claw (covering Deneb and that much-Travelled playground, the Spinward Marches) and Sword Worlds

And if you pay more than the threshold price of $35.02, you'll level up and also get our entire Bonus Collection with eight more sourcebooks and adventures worth an additional $147, including Aliens of Charted Space Volume 1 and V2; the Sword Worlds campaign Skandersvik; two Spinward subsector sourcebooks, The Bowman Arm and The Lunion Shield Worlds; two Marches Adventures, 1: High and Dry and 2: Mission to Mithril; and Deneb Adventure 1: The Lost Duke.


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Monday, November 7, 2022

Kickstarter - The Complete Dungeons at World's End (OSR & 5e)


1E & 5E gaming mechanic swords & sorcery dungeon series done in classic orange spine hardcover style.

When Art of the Genre publishes its "Orange Spine" releases, they look perfect on my bookshelf next to my later AD&D 1e releases. The orange may be a little off, but I think that is more likely due to 40-some-odd years of discoloring of the originals than anything to do with Scott's current releases ;)

Welcome to the newest 'orange spine' adventure book from Art of the Genre, The Complete Dungeons at World's End!  This book compiles two adventure sets, as well as includes new and never before released content that helps expand the sets.  The adventures revolve around explorations into the unknown, one into the wild magic highlands of a distant island and the other mounts and an expedition into the ruins of an empire in the arctic north.  All adventures inside the book are laid out with incredible maps and in both classic AD&D and new 5th Edition D&D mechanics.  This book, and the adventures within, have been years in the making, and I look forward to seeing this collection help DMs take both high and low-level characters through the challenges of settings on the edge of the known world.

What is within these pages? This book will contain two complete adventure campaigns with incredible maps, new monsters, deadly  NPCs, and all manner of dungeon-crawling wickedness.  The first adventure set is for higher level characters, levels 10+, and the second is for new characters, and both are rendered mechanically in both 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons and classic Advanced Dungeons & Dragons formats.

Who’s it for? ALL gamers, both new gamers and old-school gamers as it is easily expandable or playable as is. Each trilogy introduces the characters to new 'micro-settings' adaptable to most sandbox worlds and gives the characters good opportunities to explore and dungeon delve. The base mechanic will be for AD&D with 5th Edition stat blocks in grey.

If you haven't been grabbing The Folio as it releases, this is a great way to catch up, as well as simply being a great-looking addition to your gaming collection.

The Complete Dungeons at World's End is 15 bucks in PDF and 45 bucks in print plus PDF. There are further options with the addition of prior releases you can back for. All of the "Orange Spine" books are 128 pages.


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Sunday, November 6, 2022

Is There Such a Thing as a Bum Die (or Dice)?

Is There Such a Thing as a Bum Die (or Dice)?
I was just off on a business trip to wonderful Fayetteville North Carolina, home of the 82nd Airborne and the US Army Special Operations command. During my eight years in the Air Force (working with the Army) I got to work with essentially all types of Army units....as long as they didn't jump out of aircraft (fixed or rotary wing). Because of that I never had a reason, or even opportunity, to visit Ft Bragg.

My current job brings me here a couple times a year and I look forward to it for several personal and professional reasons. 

Hobbit Hobbies in Fayetteville, NC

A big plus on the personal side is that Fayetteville is also the home of Hobbit Hobbies, an odd game store that I just have to visit when I'm in town. Well, have to visit and pick up something. My general rule is if I step into a game store I would count as a Favorite Local Game Store (FLGS), I'm going to buy some stuff. Hobbit Hobbies is a relatively small store and fully half of that is models. The other half is spread out across wargaming, CCGs, minis, RPGs, model supplies, and even some comics and books. This place is packed floor-to-ceiling with stuff and I have totally lucked out on some awesome finds in the past.

...in the past. This time I didn't score anything huge, a couple minis and a Kaplow d30.

Kaplow d30

Now I love Hobbit Hobbies, but I think they sold me a bum die. I don't think I can return it, not that I would anyway, but...well.....totally my own damned fault. I should have insisted on the store removing the price sticker they put on it and giving her a few test rolls.  My first three rolls were 1, 2, 1....and it took a good dozen rolls to get above a 15.

Totally a bum die and I'm trying to figure out what to do about it. Since I'm already a bit of a dice snob, which I haven't been shy about in the past, one might wonder why I even bothered getting this new d30. I already have enough dice, including d30's, and I even bought a bunch of dice that my buddies at Monday Knight Adventures had made. 

Technically I do not need any more d30's but it's a d30! Can I really have enough? Truth be told I got distracted by a pretty yellow & black d30 because my main d30 is a really old (like early 80's Gamescience old) and this bum die called out to me, and I thought maybe....maybe I could (now I'm almost embarrassed to type this)...replace my cherished d30 for these business road trips.

After my last trip my little Pelican 1020 Micro Case I use for a dice carrier went missing. I assumed I had left it in my hotel room in Ft Hood, or in my room up in Dallas, when I took a side trip in the middle of the business trip. I was a little distraught at the idea of my main game dice going missing. One set of my Gamescience dice were a birthday gift from Barbara Blackburn (of KenzerCo fame) and I cherish them as much as the last two Gamescience d30's that Lou Zocchi had.

One of the Live Dungeons they have at the big cons tried to buy out all of Lou's remaining d30's, and he (Lou) thought he had done so when I showed up right after to get my hands on some. We chatted a bit and later during the convention when he was packing up he found two loose d30's in the bottom of one of his boxes. One was definitely old as he hadn't made that style in decades. Cool thing, for me, was that he actually tracked me down to give me the dice. So these dice are extra special to me....

...oh and I found the lost dice eventually. Evidently I had a whole tote of stuff I had bought while on that trip (a couple of visits to Ikea will do that) that I conveniently set aside and promptly forgot about. Of course this means I don't need this d30 and while it's a bum die, I'm not sure if I should try to jump through some hoops to cleanse and re-balance this die. It's a thing I've done and it worked then....but for one die, maybe better to just find this one a new home and let it be someone else's problem (assuming it is).

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