Deal of the Day - GM Companion for ShadowDark

Today's Deal of the Day is the GM Companion for ShadowDark from Chubby Funster Games. The Chubby Funster is Greg Christopher, whom I've known for well over a decade and consider a close friend.

The GM Companion for ShadowDark is on sale for $5 until tomorrow morning (usually 10 bucks in PDF). Note, it's a Platinum Best Seller on DTRPG.

Add a more expansive portfolio of options to ShadowDark Core. 

Upgrade your Overland Hex Crawl Experience:

• d20 Point of Interest table for all 9 terrain types.
• 2d6 intersecting Hazard tables for all 9 terrain types.
• New district types + all new Point of Interest options when creating settlements.
• d20 Shop generation lists featuring all new options for Poor, Standard, and Wealthy Shops.
• d20 tables with new Tavern names, new Menu items, and new Drink types. 
• A new dice game to gamble with in the tavern after an adventure.
• Acts of Devotion: a religious alternative to carousing where you can construct temples and attract adherents to support your deity.
• Combat Training: a warrior's alternative to carousing where you can hold tournaments and possibly gain a noble title.
• Magical Study: a wizard's alternative to carousing where they can study old tomes for magical insight and possibly found a university or library to house their books.

Upgrade your Dungeon Experience:

• Define the dungeon entrance and create multi-level dungeons using the dice-drop system developed in ShadowDark Core.
• d20 Room Type table + d10 tables for each Room Type, adding even more variety of dungeon design.
• 2d6 intersecting Hazard tables for all 4 dungeon types.
• d20 trap tables for Crushing / Gaseous / Sonic traps, Magical traps, and Wounding / Weapon-like traps. 
• Expanded NPC tables, including a new d20 Qualities table and a d20 Professions table.
• Expanded Rival Crawler tables, including a new d20 Party Name table, new d6 Signature Tactics table, and a new d12 Party Secret table. Rival Crawlers can now include monster types like Hobgoblins or Beastmen.
• 45 new monsters (including 6 new elemental types).
• Monster tables for levels 0-9 to randomly determine what monsters are in the dynamically built dungeon you are creating.

Upgrade your Treasure Game:

• d100 Dungeon Dressing
• d100 Treasure 0-3
• d100 Treasure 4-6
• d100 Treasure 7-9
• d100 Treasure 10+
• Boons - d20 Oaths, d20 Secrets, d20 Blessings
• Potions - d20 Features, d20 Benefits, d20 Curses
• Magic Armor - d20 Features, d20 Benefits, d20 Curses
• Magic Weapon - d20 Features, d20 Benefits, d20 Curses
• Magic Utility Item - d100 types, d20 Features, d20 Benefits, d20 Curses
• 86 Known Magic Items (non-random)

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Christmas in July Sale - Kids on Bikes: Second Edition Core Rulebook

There aren't any OSR or Old School RPGs in the deep discount Christmas in July Doorbusters this year, but there certainly IS a title that I find intriguing - Kids on Bikes.

Kids on Bikes is essentially Stranger Things RPG (remember the first season and how big their bikes played a role). 

I'm not saying that the Kids on Bikes: Second Edition Core Rulebook will be fully, or even partially, within my wheelhouse, but with it priced at $2.50 (instead of $9.99), I'll take the plunge, and I suggest many of you do so also.

The Adventures of Kids on Bikes take place in small towns at any point in history before: 

• everyone had a camera phone that could catch video of a ghost
• use GPS to track a homicidal maniac roaming around town
• research an old creaky house in seconds using the internet

Kids on Bikes takes place in a more mysterious time, where anything and everything could happen.

Kids on Bikes is a 138-page, rules-light, fast-paced storytelling game in the spirit of games like Dread, Perseverant, Monsterhearts, and other great indie titles. Kids on Bikes is perfect for game nights in which you want to get a game in RIGHT NOW. 

Using stats like GRIT, CHARM, FIGHT, FLIGHT, BRAINS and BRAWN, you’ll jump into the action. Each skill is represented by a polyhedral die based on your character’s competence. More sides = better chance of success.

That being said, even low stats always have a chance of success, as any max result EXPLODES leading to an additional re-roll contributing to the results. Lower sided dice mean bigger chances of explosions!

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Free OSR - ROGUELAND

I like short and light OSR rulesets. Remember, I'm the guy behind Swords & Wizardry Light & Continual Light. ROGUELAND looks awesome, and even if I don't ever run it, I may steal, er - borrow from it liberally.

ROGUELAND is available for free in PDF. Simply add it to your DTRPG cart and add it to your digital collection.

ROGUELAND is a 36 page rules-light, tabletop role-playing game. It is based on Ben Milton's Knave with modifications that focus on:

• - defining characters by the items they carry rather than specific abilities or class features
• - interpreting and casting free-form magic
• - monster, trap, and treasure generation
• - exploration procedures
• - and more

This game uses player-facing, roll-high, d20 mechanics, and is broadly compatible with other OSR games and source materials.

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Free Old School RPG - The Curse on God's Acre – A Free Dragon Warriors Solo Adventure (Dragon Warriors is also PWYW)

I remember seeing the ads for Dragon Warriors in Dragon Magazine back in the 80s. Damn, but the game looked so damn cool. Now, Dragon Warriors is priced at PWYW - both PDF and Print versions. And The Curse on God's Acre – A Dragon Warriors Solo Adventure clocks in at over 250 pages and is ALSO PWYW! Ah, to be young again!

What do you get with The Curse on God's Acre?

Deep in the fertile countryside of Chaubrette, you find yourself in God's Acre, an isolated valley containing the villages of Pernay, Lancome, and Monques. Here the sturdy locals grow wine and keep sheep — but all is not as it seems. A pernicious evil haunts the lanes and narrow fields of God's Acre.

Revealed at first in scraps of children's songs, in the blank stares of straw dolls, in the animals masks lurking in the shadows, in the tangled entrails of a murdered woman ... a witch cult has the valley in its grasp and is squeezing tighter.

Can you break The Curse on God's Acre?

A Dragon Warriors adventure for any profession, 3rd or 4th Rank. 508 entries.

Dragon Warriors'  40th anniversary won't pass unnoticed as long as Red Ruin Publishing have anything to say about it. They've just released the seventeenth book in their series of DW adventures, and it's one of the best. "The Curse on God's Acre is a memorable solo scenario that deserves a place in every Dragon Warriors player's collection." Dave Morris, Creator of Dragon Warriors

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Deal of the Day - Sandbox Generator (Systen Agnostic)

I own the Sandbox Generator in print, and I love it. I should use it on the YouTube channel so folks can see it in action. Very well done and approachable.

Until tomorrow morning, the Sandbox Generator is on sale for $6 in PDF - usually 12 bucks.

The Sandbox Generator is a simple but powerful tool for DMs. It allows you to easily create a world from scratch when you prepare your next campaign. It will provide you with all the necessary information about your world: from the biomes map, to a lord’s coat of arms and the menu of the local tavern! It is also convenient for solo players and DMs who want to generate their world during the game session.

This book aims to create a pseudo-feudal fantasy world and is meant to be used with your favorite OSR ruleset and bestiary.

New worlds await: they are only a few rolls away…

• This product includes procedures, generators, tables and examples for:
• Hex maps (biomes, features, content, factions, encounters),
• Landmarks (natural, artificial and magical),
• Settlements (names, hamlets, villages, cities, castles, towers and abbeys),
• Monsters lairs,
• Dungeons and megadungeons,
• Coats of arms,
• Criminal organizations,
• Dragons,
• Guilds,
• Houses,
• NPCs,
• Taverns (including menus and signs),
• Wizards,
• Sea adventures.

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