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Monday, July 7, 2025

New Release - Carcass Crawler: Issue Five


I own the first four issues of Carcass Crawler in print (and PDF), and I've thoroughly enjoyed them. Although written for OSE, the vast majority of the content is usable with the OSR system of your choice.

Carcass Crawler: Issue Five is 7.50 in PDF at DTRPG.

The fifth issue of Carcass Crawler — the official Old-School Essentials zine! Each issue is packed with new material for your games, including new character classes and races, new spells and magic items, new monsters, optional and expanded rules, referee advice, previews of in-development products, short adventures, and more!

In This Issue

  • New classes and races: Two new character classes and races. The changeling and the ratling.
  • Expanded poisons: Additional descriptive details around the 9 standard poison types, plus 11 new poison types.
  • Weapon materials: Rules for weapons of enhanced or weaker materials (e.g. silver, bone, bronze).
  • Magic swords: Tables and minor magical quirks to add flavour to the bog-standard sword +1.
  • Cantrips: Minor magicks practiced by apprentice arcane spell casters.
  • Level 0 characters: Rules for rolling up level 0 "normal human" characters, either for NPC retainers or for use in funnel adventures. Complete with tables of backgrounds and names.
  • Lake and river monsters: 8 new monsters that lurk in freshwater rivers and lakes.
  • Up Chaos River: A short adventure where PCs must travel up a chaos-infested river to save the local village. Suitable for use as a funnel adventure for a group of level 0 characters.


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Sunday, July 6, 2025

Free League Sale on DTRPG


There are several Free League titles on sale at DTRPG right now.

DragonBane* is marked down 40% - to 14.99 in PDF.

Mork Morg is marked down 40% in PDF - to 11.99

ALIEN RPG Core Rulebook is marked down 40% - to 14.99

Forbidden Lands is marked down 40% - to 14.99 in PDF

The Lord of the Rings RPG (5E) - marked down to 14.99 in PDF

Symbaroum* - marked down 40% to 14.99 in PDF (or spend a penny more and get 18 other RPGs like Power Rangers, RuneQuest, Dr Who, and more)

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Friday, July 4, 2025

Bundle of Holding - His Majesty the Worm



I see His Majesty the Worm Bundle as an aspirational purchase. I doubt I'll play it as is, but I hope to find parts that I can use with other OSR rule sets and future campaigns. For those purposes, 14.95 is a bargain.

Adventurer! This His Majesty the Worm Bundle presents His Majesty the Worm, a megadungeon-crawling fantasy roleplaying game from Josh McCrowell at Rise Up Comus. The Underworld blasphemes the earth under the City at the center of the world. You and your guild-mates have personal quests that compel them to step through the gate into those lightless depths. If you fulfill your quests, you can finally retire. Until then – in the cycle of descent, exploration, return, restock, rest – all that protects you is your Bonds of loyalty, rivalry, mentorship, and even love. Play them to the hilt, and you might survive

His Majesty the Worm page 26Eight years in the making, His Majesty the Worm reimagines the traditional dungeon crawl in a highly playable structure that spotlights the necessities of Underworld exploration: food, light, time, and the allies who keep you alive. Use tarot cards to generate the City, Underworld, characters, and monsters, and to run an action-packed Challenge system that ensures all players have interesting choices throughout every round of combat. With this .PDF rulebook you'll see why the Exalted Funeral His Majesty the Worm hardcover sold out in three hours.

Pay just US$14.95 for our Worm Collection (retail value $58) with DRM-free .PDF ebooks of the complete 411-page His Majesty the Worm rulebook, along with the cozy halfling-village game Under Hill, By Water and its travel expansion Walking Holiday.


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