If you haven't yet snagged one or more of Kevin Crawford's "Without Number" rulesets, do yourself a favor and do so. Kevin is very generous with the free rulesets he gives to the community.
For just US$12.95 you get all three titles in our Numberless Worlds Collection (retail value $55) as DRM-free ebooks in both .PDF and ePub formats, including the complete 400-page Worlds Without Number Deluxe Edition corebook (previously in our November 2023 Sine Nomine Corebooks offer) along with two supplements new to the Bundle of Holding: the 223-page gazetteer Atlas of the Latter Earth and the introductory campaign setting Diocesi of Montfroid.
Even if you don't run it "as is", the tools included will help ANY DM looking to run a sandbox campaign.
Open source Cthulhu material, compatible with CoC but released under the OGL? Say it isn't so—but it is! Check out The Cthulhu Reborn Bundle.
Investigator! This Cthulhu Reborn Bundle presents nearly two dozen Mythos investigations in many eras from the open-license Cthulhu Eternal tabletop roleplaying game line produced by Cthulhu Reborn. Compatible with your favorite Lovecraftian percentile-based systems, the Eternal open rules set, based on Mongoose Legend and the Delta Green RPG, is free under the Open Game License. More than a dozen System Reference Documents adapt the Eternal rules for Mythos adventures across history, from ancient Rome and the High Middle Ages to the Cold War and the future. Run your favorite published scenarios using these lightweight, fast-playing rules – and publish your own scenarios using the Eternal rules, without threat of Sanity-shattering licensing issues.
(The Eternal system also powers Cthulhu Reborn's newly released standalone Convicts & Cthulhu RPG. Check it out!)
This new Cthulhu Reborn Bundle gives you everything you need to snap the minds of courageous Protagonists with Lovecraftian public-domain horrors across many eras of history – because there must have been some point when the stars were right. For just US$9.95 you get all nine titles in our Jazz Age Collection (retail value $43.50) as DRM-free ebooks, including the invaluable resource HP Lovecraft's Book of Yog-Sothothery and eight Jazz Age investigations: Bitter Jungle, Bottoms Up!, Help Wanted, Second Coming, Smoke Green, Spoiled Milk, Thunder God's Curse, and To Touch the Untouchable. As a convenience to players (and designers!), the Jazz Age Collection also includes The Open Cthulhu Mythos SRD and 11 free Cthulhu Eternal SRDs that support Mythos investigations in many eras.
And if you pay more than the threshold price of $21.35, you'll level up and also get our entire Eternal Collection with eleven more titles worth an additional $43.50:
Seven Investigations set in different eras from the High Middle Ages to the Cold War: Dead Flowers, Fathoms Below, Known Unknowns, Lord of Nombrecht, Physiology of Acquired Taste, Red in Tooth & Claw, and Starlight on the Gutter
Two modern-day scenarios: Thou Didst Let Fall and The Usurpers
Two "Lost Masterpieces" volumes by acclaimed Call of Cthulhu scenario designer Kevin A. Ross: Dark Visitations and House on the Promontor
Gamemaster! If you lack time to create the cool details that enliven your tabletop roleplaying game adventures and dungeons, the Dread Laironomicon system-neutral sourcebook from Raging Swan Press lets you easily add depth and color to your game's monstrous hideouts. This 217-page compilation of Raging Swan's Monstrous Lairs series presents 100 lair entries in two succinct pages apiece, from Aboleth's Sunken Lair to Wyvern's Nest. Each entry has seven tables that determine the lair's unique features, surroundings, and treasure. Use these lists before or during your game to breathe life into your descriptions and help your players immerse themselves in the world.
Pay just US$7.95 for the complete Dread Laironomicon sourcebook (retail price $21.50), along with the free Dread Companion.
Adventurer! This all-new Fragged Empire 2E Bundle presents the 2024 revised edition of Fragged Empire, Wade Dyer's post-post apocalyptic tabletop roleplaying game from Design Ministries of fractured space and divided species. Fifteen thousand years in the future, humanity has gone extinct, but eight engineered species rule the wonders that remain. A century after the Nephilim and their X'ion master successfully defeated the Archons and their servile nations, your ragtag band of misfits rides the Ley Lines (ruptures in space that power both jump drives and psionic powers) to rebuild a galaxy devastated by factional politics, ancient grudges, and slumbering evils.
Funded in a spectacular March 2022 Kickstarter campaign, this Second Edition of Fragged Empire adds pre-war history, more systems to explore, and deeper dives into the setting's unique species and cultures. Slimmed-down mechanics and intuitive rules open the game to new players and gamemasters. The sprawling Fragged setting inspires adventures out of Cowboy Bebop, Firefly, and Farscape, with themes of cultural tension and transhumanism seen in modern space opera writers like Ann Leckie, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and Arkady Martine.
This new Fragged 2E Bundle gives you everything you need to build new nations and a better future – a really far future. For just US$19.95 you get all seven titles in our Fragged Collection (retail value $90) as DRM-free ebooks, including all three Fragged Empire Second Edition corebooks: Rules, the Setting Guide, and the Location Guide (plus the Archetypes supplement); two adventures – Eat Cake and Magician's Choice; and a rules-light high-action variant, RAG-TAG.
I've enjoyed reading through Mothership, and now I want to check out Hostile!
Adventurer! Name notwithstanding, this Hostile Bundle, resurrected (for a second time!) from April 2022, is a friendly offer of the tabletop science-fiction roleplaying game of deep-space alien horror, Hostile from Zozer Games. Based on the Cepheus Engine rules (closely modeled on Classic Traveller), Hostile is a gritty retro-future setting inspired by movies like Outland, Blade Runner, and Alien – a universe of harsh planets and toxic atmospheres – claustrophobic space freighters and brutal industrial colonies – ancient horrors entombed on icy moons – killer ETs, perfectly evolved to survive at any cost. Whether you're a combat-weary veteran or a miner on a grungy corporate star tug deep in the Extraction Zones, Hostile pits you against deadly hazards in an unforgiving void where no one can hear you scream.
This revived April 2022 offer gives you a new chance to get much of the Hostile line for an unbeatable bargain price – an obviously generous and well-meaning gesture. For just US$9.95 you get all five titles in this revived offer's Starter Collection (retail value $48) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete standalone Hostile Rules and Setting core books, the Gunlocker weapons guide (it'll come in handy, trust us), the Cepheus Handouts, and the Referee's Screen.
And if you pay more than the threshold price of $20.36, you'll level up and also get this revival's entire Bonus Collection with eight more titles worth an additional $56 that let you build out your pitiless universe:
Three guides to survival on bad worlds that don't want you: Explorers, Dirtside, and Colony Builder
Two bestiaries about entities that really, really do want you: Alien Breeds and Synthetics
Two hardware and vehicle guides: Gunboats & Shuttles and Marine Corps Handbook 2215
A campaign framework well described by its title: Crew Expendable
I really enjoy the Tiny D6 system. I think I'll be picking up this TinyZine Bundle.
Adventurer! This new TinyZine Bundle gathers PDF ebooks of the complete four-year run of TinyZine, the tabletop roleplaying magazine from Gallant Knight Games that supports the streamlined minimalist TinyD6 rules system. Collected in four Compendium volumes, these 44 digital issues present more than 800 pages of new heritages, adventures, and optional rules for TinyD6 games like Tiny Dungeon, Frontiers, Wastelands, Pirates, Living Dead, and more – the games we're presenting right now (what a coincidence!) in our revived April 2023 Tiny Dungeon Megabundle in progress.
For just $12.95, you get all four complete compilations in our TinyZine Collection (retail value $70) as DRM-free ebooks, including TinyZine Compendium 2018 (previously in our September 2020 TinyD6 Worlds), 2019, 2020, and 2021.
I really like the Tiny D6 series of rulesets. They are deep enough to run exciting sessions, yet simple enough to grasp easily and quickly. Another game that is great for conventions.
With the Tiny Dungeon MEGA Bundle, for $19.95, you get Tiny Dungeon (love this ruleset), Tiny Wastelands (post-apoc), Tiny Frontiers (sci-fi), Tiny Pirates (as it says on the tin), and Tiny Gunslingers. If you up the price to about $35, you also get Advanced Tiny Dungeon, Tiny Taverns + A La Carte, Mecha & Monsters: Evolved, Tiny Cthulhu (own - pretty cool take on Mythos), Tiny Spies, and Tiny Living Dead.
I'm a fan of The Witcher. Enjoyed the CRPG, had fun with the Netflix series (especially the first season), love the comic adaptations, and simply enjoy reading the lore. Will I ever play The Witcher RPG? Likely not, as I don't see my regular group going for it, but I'm game to play as a player :)
Evil is evil—and great games are great games. Pay what you want to explore The Continent like never before. Will you fight with strength and valor like Geralt of Rivia? Or forge your own path as an elf, dwarf, gnome, werebbubb, or vran, and set off on unknown adventures with your party. Get the The Witcher Tabletop RPG core rulebook, the The Witcher: Tome of Chaos campaign, and more for a price you choose. Spare a coin and help support the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals with your purchase.
Disregard the fact that Green Ronin has been running a GoFundMe to pay for a lawyer in the Diamond Distributors Bankruptcy case (hint - it ain't going to help). The fact is, the AGE System, introduced with the Dragon Age RPG, is a decent system. Additionally, The Expanse is a setting full of gaming. Literally a Win-Win.
Adventurer! We've resurrected (for a third time!) our December 2020 Modern AGE and Expanse RPG Bundlefeaturing The Expanse Roleplaying Game based on James S. A. Corey's mega-popular science fiction novels of diplomacy, danger, and discovery in the future Solar System. This bargain-priced revival also includes Modern AGE, which adapts the same rules for high-power action from the Industrial Revolution onward. Both these tabletop roleplaying games use the easy and fast-playing Adventure Game Engine (AGE) from Green Ronin Publishing. You have a new chance to get everything you need for your own campaign of modern adventure or high-flying hard sf.
For just US$17.95 you get all six titles in this revived offer's Modern Collection (retail value $85) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Modern AGE Basic Rulebook and the Modern AGE Companion; the cross-dimensional campaign setting Threefold; Enemies & Allies for Threefold and other Modern AGE games; the adventure Missions: Warflower; and the Modern AGE Game Master's Kit.
And if you pay more than the threshold price of $33.19, you'll level up and also get this revival's entire Expanse Collection with five more titles worth an additional $80, including the complete standalone The Expanse Roleplaying Game core rulebook, The Expanse Game Master's Kit, the scenarios Abzu's Bounty and Salvage Op, and – newly added in this revival! – Ships of the Expanse, the 144-page guide to every kind of spacefaring vehicle in the Solar System. And if you purchased this offer during any of its three previous runs, you get the newly added Ships of the Expanse automatically on your Wizard's Cabinet download page and in your linked DriveThruRPG Library. When you buy a Bundle of Holding early, you never worry about missing a title added later – even much later.
I always liked GURPS, even if the rest of my gaming group wasn't as enthralled. Before the internet, GURPS supplements were some of the best-researched gaming material (or otherwise) available.
Adventurer! We've extended this revival of our June 2022 GURPS 4E Essentials Bundle featuring GURPS, the Generic Universal RolePlaying System from Steve Jackson Games. With the GURPS tabletop roleplaying rules you can be anyone you want: an elf fighting for the forces of good, a spy on a deep-cover mission, a futuristic swashbuckler carving up foes with a force sword, or literally anything else. For more than three decades GURPS has been supported with hundreds of supplements and sourcebooks. This second revival gives you a new chance to get .PDF ebooks of all the important rules and supplements you need to get started with the Fourth Edition (2004) of one of the longest-lasting and best-supported universal systems in the hobby.
For just US$19.95 you get all six titles in this revived June 2022 offer's 4E Core Collection (retail value $95) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete two-volume GURPS 4E Basic Set – Characters and Campaigns – plus Template Toolkit 1 - Characters, Adaptations, How to Be a GURPS GM, and the GURPS GM's Screen.
And if you pay more than this revival's threshold price of $40.09, you'll also get this offer's entire 4E Essentials Bonus with five more supplements worth an additional $109, including High-Tech (plus its High-Tech Weapon Tables), Ultra-Tech (plus its Ultra-Tech Weapon Tables), Bio-Tech, Low-Tech, and Mass Combat.
The current Advanced Adventures MEGA Bundle on Bundle of Holding is a solid choice for OSR gamers and DMs. I'd jump on it myself, but I own it all in compiled print editions. That being said, there's a TON of adventuring for about a buck and adventure or less.
Adventurer! We've resurrected our January 2023 Advanced Adventures Megabundle featuring .PDF ebooks of nearly four dozen short, ready-to-play tabletop fantasy roleplaying adventure modules in the long-running Advanced Adventures line from Expeditious Retreat Press. These 43 short scenarios – dungeon crawls inspired by the earliest versions of Dungeons & Dragons – show off the Old School Revival style: tools, not plotlines; rulings, not rules; a gamemaster who doesn't railroad players onto a prearranged script but lets them sink or swim through their own actions. Encounters aren't necessarily "balanced," and outcomes are seldom scripted. Characters who don't use their heads usually wind up losing them.
Designed for the open-license OSRIC system (the "Old School Reference & Index Compilation," a free retroclone of First Edition AD&D), these Advanced Adventures modules adapt easily to any Old School fantasy RPG such as Old-School Essentials or Shadowdark, and they fit smoothly in your ongoing campaign to let your player characters ramp from level-1 zeroes to level-10 heroes.
For just US$9.95 you get all twelve titles in this revived offer's Starter Collection (retail value $70) as DRM-free ebooks, including the first ten AA modules – from #01: The Pod-Caverns of the Sinister Shroom through #10: The Lost Keys of Solitude – and we add the 2009 bestiary Malevolent and Benign I and the free OSRIC rulebook. For a list of all the modules with links to their sales pages on DriveThruRPG, see the first book entry below, "Advanced Adventures #01-10."
And if you pay more than the threshold price of $35.13, you'll level up and also get this revival's entire Bonus Collection with thirty-four more titles worth an additional $210: 33 more Advanced Adventures modules from #11: The Conqueror Worm through #43 The Warrens of Zagash, and hitting many highlights of the AA line including #15: Stonesky Delve, #23: Down the Shadowvein and #24: The Mouth of the Shadowvein, and both White Dragon Run scenarios. (For the list and the DTRPG links, see the fourth book entry below, "Advanced Adventures #11-43.") We also include the 2018 Malevolent and Benign II monster manual.
I was a fan of the early print version of Pyramid and later subscribed to the digital version for several years. It was more than just a Steve Jackson Games house organ, but was an excellent resource for other RPGs with its systemless articles.
Adventurer! This Pyramid Bundle 1 is the first of two offers (the second is the new companion offer, Pyramid Bundle 2) featuring Volume 3 (Nov 2008 - Dec 2018) of Pyramid, the Steve Jackson Games magazine for tabletop roleplaying gamers. Each issue of Pyramid magazine focuses on a specific theme, like fantasy world-building or epic magic – the whole range of prehistory, historical and modern exploration, steampunk, cyberpunk, aliens and spaceships – martial arts, action adventures, and gunplay – weird science, urban fantasy, psionics and thaumatology – and it wouldn't be a Steve Jackson Games magazine (fnord) without a roster of conspiracies. Each issue is about 39-40 pages, so the 60 issues in this offer bring you nearly 2,400 pages of varied gaming articles for a bargain price. Most of Pyramid's articles are either generic, suitable for your game system of choice, or designed for GURPS, SJG's Generic Universal Roleplaying System. (New to GURPS? Check our revived June 2022 GURPS 4E Essentials offer in progress.)
Pyramid magazine Volume Three Issue 59 ConspiraciesFor just US$49.95 you get all sixty-two titles in our Pyramid V3 - First Collection (retail value $556) as DRM-free ebooks. The complete list of Pyramid issues in this offer – the first 60 issues of Volume 3 (Nov 2008 - Oct 2013), with links to their sales pages on DriveThruRPG – appears in the book entry below. (On DriveThruRPG, Steve Jackson Games has posted a free 282-page compilation previewing the covers and contents of all 60 Pyramid issues in this offer.) We also include SJG's two collections of star designer Kenneth Hite's acclaimed Pyramid column of history, alt-history, occult conspiracy, fringe pseudoscience, and High Weirdness, Suppressed Transmission (both previously in our November 2020 Worldbuilder's Toolkit 7).
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.
The first time I saw the system that became Fantasy Age was the adaptation of Dragon Age from console RPG to TTRPG, and I was impressed with what I saw and read. A very playable, not too crunchy, classic-feeling fantasy RPG.
I haven't checked out Fantasy Age 2e yet, but I am tempted to after I return from Central NY Con early next week...
Adventurer! This all-new Fantasy AGE 2E Bundle presents the 2023 Second Edition of Fantasy AGE, the tabletop fantasy roleplaying game based on the Adventure Game Engine from Green Ronin Publishing. With the easy-to-learn, flexible Fantasy AGE system you can create a character in minutes, pull off heroic stunts, cast worldshaking spells from 19 mix-and-match arcana, and fine-tune your campaign with optional Peril, Daring, Fortune, and Horror rules. And if you know other AGE system RPGs like The Expanse, Dragon Age, Cthulhu Awakens, Blue Rose, and Modern AGE, you already know how to play Fantasy AGE – all the basic systems are the same.
Techno-Fantasy supplement for Fantasy Age Second EditionFor just US$19.95 you get all seven titles in our Fantasy AGE 2E Collection (retail value $88) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete full-color 290-page Fantasy AGE 2E Core Rulebook, plus the Second Edition Game Master's Toolkit, the VTT Token Pack, and the free Quickstart; Technofantasy; and three 2E adventures: Lair of the Horned Giant, Menace of the Grave Warrens, and Return to the Valley of the Whispering Titans.
I missed yesterday's blog post, what with traveling to Dallas for NTRPG Con and the fiasco that was last night's livestream. Ah well. I'll see if I can keep current going forward.
Today, we are highlighting OSE Treasures 2 at Bundle of Holding. This bundle includes the recently Kickstarted dark fantasy settingThe Shrike (currently $29 on DTRPG). Hey! Buy The Shrike at a discount and get more stuff included in the $84 valued bundle :)
A huge modular sandbox adventure setting in an abandoned fragment of Hell- a colossal blade dedicated to punishing a nameless God. The Shrike, is a heaven-harrowing thorn, a black iron mountain with serrated spires of rock and rust, that pierces the heart of the God, causing divine blood to flow and nourish life within the corroded iron and stone megastructure. The Shrike is written by Leo Hunt (the author of Vaults of Vaarn and mounds of excellent gaming material) for Old School Essentials RPG but works well for your other d20 based fantasy systems of choice.
The Shrike is a world of decay - rusted iron, crumbling stone, saltwater, blood, and fog - surrounded by a roiling ocean, a lifeless archipelago, pewter-hued clouds, seabirds, and pitiless stars. In this infernal Galapagos, players will encounter masked Devils, blood which gives life to things which should not have it, stones which give life to people who do not want it, terrible and stranded monsters, perilous locations, and wonderous treasures from across the planes.
What's Inside?
46 unique pointcrawl locations across the Shores of the Shrike, its fiery Guts, jagged snow capped Exterior, and procedurally generated depth-crawl in the surreal shifting interior of the it's heaven-harrowing Barb.
3 detailed and keyed dungeons including the waterlogged Cove of Iron Coffins, the derelict Gamigin's Starforge, and an endless masquerade ball in The Palace of the Heart, ranging from low to high level.
5 scheming factions of the diabolic Courts and mountains of detailed NPC's
3 new classes. From the shapeshifting Imp, to the Forged and Rampant Partials; made from the God's blood animating detritus and abandoned objects- molded into demon designed bodies or left to grow wild and feral.
40+ new monsters from the eyegouger finch to the auric homunculus.
37 brand new peculiar magic items
1 Nameless God impaled upon the Shrike's heaven-harrowing thorn, writhing and seeking escape.
I did a quick check of the titles in this RPG GameMaster Book Series Bundle, and the prices range from $9.99 to $16.99 in PDF format over at DTRPG. One title in the bundle is a preview, and one is a map pack.
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I am a HUGE fan of Kevin Crawford's works. When I look at the titles in this collection, I own all of them - in Print AND PDF. It is simply great stuff, and the quality speaks for itself.
Sine Nomine Coorebooks is currently available as a bundle onBundle of Holding. The Starter Collection @ 12.95includes Stars Without Number Revised Deluxe (Sci Fi), Other Dust (Post Apoc), Spears of the Dawn (African Fantasy), and Cities Without Number: Free (Cyberpunk and freely available outside this bundle)
For about 26 bucks total, you get to add in Worlds Without Number Deluxe Edition (Fantasy), Wolves of God: Adventures in Dark Ages England, the one-on-one FRPG toolkit Scarlet Heroes (Fantasy), and the horror RPG Silent Legions.
Adventurer! We've resurrected our November 2023 Sine Nomine Corebooks Bundle featuring the complete Deluxe Editions of Worlds Without Number and Stars Without Number, along with Wolves of God, Silent Legions, and other standalone tabletop roleplaying game rulebooks by acclaimed designer Kevin Crawford of Sine Nomine Publishing.
From many past offers (mostly 2013-2017) we've assembled seven complete standalone rulebooks with a huge array of system-independent sandbox gaming tools. Easily generate kingdoms and AIs, planets and pantheons, cults and factions, monsters and mechs, dungeons and starships, and tons more. These tools make creation easier for even the most experienced GM – and they make a great gift for a roleplayer new to Sine Nomine games. (To give a Bundle of Holding as a gift, log out of your current browser session, then purchase the offer using the recipient's email address.)
For just US$12.95 you get all three titles in this revived offer's Starter Collection (retail value $50) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Stars Without Number: Revised Edition Deluxe, the post-apocalypse SWN spinoff Other Dust (plus the free supplements Grandfather's Rain, Cult of the Still Lady, and Cult of the Wraith), and the African fantasy Spears of the Dawn. As a convenience, we also include the free version of Kevin's cyberpunk game Cities Without Number.
And if you pay more than the threshold price of $25.41, you'll level up and also get this revival's entire Bonus Collection with four more titles worth an additional $75, including the complete Worlds Without Number Deluxe Edition, Wolves of God: Adventures in Dark Ages England, the one-on-one FRPG toolkit Scarlet Heroes, and the horror RPG Silent Legions.
OSE is probably "Thee" OSR Ruleset, having unseated Labyrinth Lord (or rather, LL simply fled the field of play). I have everything in the OSE Advanced Fantasy Bundle. If you don't, grab this bundle now!
Adventurer! This Old-School Essentials Advanced Fantasy Bundle presents Old-School Essentials Advanced Fantasy, the complete and definitive version of the Old-School Essentials tabletop roleplaying rules set from Necrotic Gnome. Old-School Essentials Advanced Fantasy is a complete "best of" retelling – it's the Basic/Expert Dungeons & Dragons rules, streamlined and expanded with reams of new character options, monsters, and magic inspired by Advanced Dungeons & Dragons First Edition (1978): assassins, poisons, drow, half-orcs, mimics, xorns, vorpal swords, ioun stones, and even the dreaded tarrasque. Presented in the clear and elegant Old-School Essentials style, and 100% compatible with the Basic/Expert rules, these voluminous digital tomes are perfect for anyone new to Old-School Essentials. And if you already love OSE, check the twelve complete adventures in this lineup, designed by old-school luminaries like Brad Kerr, Diogo Nogueira, Luka Rejec, and many more.
For just US$7.95 you get all three complete rulebooks in this offer's Starter Collection (retail value $37.50) as DRM-free ebooks, including the Old-School Essentials Advanced Fantasy Player's Tome, Referee's Tome, and Advanced Fantasy Reference Booklet, along with several free play aids.
And if you pay more than the threshold price of $19.98, you'll level up and also get this offer's entire Bonus Collection with six more titles worth an additional $65, including Old-School Essentials Adventure Anthology 1 and Anthology 2 plus four full-length adventures: Halls of the Blood King, Holy Mountain Shaker, Incandescent Grottoes, and Isle of the Plangent Mage.
Tales of Jackson, IL: Winnie the Witch
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By Gordy HiggensSelf PublishedOSELevels 4-6 The ‘Toymaker’ has gone missing
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Much like the Jonstown Compendium for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha
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I am slowly grinding my way through the re-writes for Veins of the Earth.
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This post continues the series of brief play reports I have been posting on
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Card Game Update
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I received a set of rules clarifications from a Kickstarter Backer. Here’s
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I did a little blog maintenance today.
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Doors for Dungeons
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These 3d printed doors are some that I found on some site some time in the
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The Living World Sandbox Campaign
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So for a couple of years, I've been slowly putting together an explanation
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Young Washington and 1753
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I saw Young Washington last weekend and absolutely loved it. If you know
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Galloway vs. Gaming Gonzo...
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Minimalist Magic Item table
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The Old School (Hyperborean) Renaissance
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Are these poorly-masked adventure hooks? Yes, yes they are.
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Moldvay Basic D&D now Available in Print
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Just a quick note that (finally) Moldvay Basic D&D is available in POD from
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I think the aspect of *My Liege,* that could potentially put off the most
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Consolidated AD&D Weapon Characteristics List
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Having spent the last few days down a research rabbit hole, I ended up
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Referee Sabotage
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It is an old saw that players are bad at executing their plans. Imagine
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The March 1636 Lantern is Published
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Okay, The March Lantern is available. Those fast on the draw may have
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On a Happy New Year
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Mutants and Wizards
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Heya folks, long time no see.
I've just started working on something new called Mutants and Wizards. It's
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Rob Kuntz at Lucca Comics & Games 2025
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If you are planning a trip to Europe (like right now) and wish to catch up
with me in person, make sure to book a detour via *Lucca Comics & Games*,
...
How do you do piracy… in SPACE!?
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Interstellar space travel in Iridium Moons was always going to be a form of
hyperspace jump like in Star Wars or Traveller. Simply because it’s the one
for...
A long overdue hobby update!
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Welcome back to the Vault everyone! 2025 is going by in a blur; I last
posted in February, almost started a post in March and now it's the end of
May. W...
Playing at the World 2E V2 Arrives
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With the release of its second volume, the second edition of *Playing at
the World *is finally complete. The two books combined total well over
1,000 ...
Writing playlists for all occasions
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Hello again! Going off the idea of inspiration elaborated on by the prior
post, I also have music playing while I write my various games and fiction
pieces...
The Tarot of Pips
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Somewhere in your dice collection is a die like this one, the humblest of
dice. Although you don't know it, this small white die carries with it a
secr...
Pirates and Necromancers, a Play Report
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Over the Thanksgiving weekend we did a lot of gaming ranging from
“off-table” domain level stuff to some solo adventures to spell and magic
item rese...
It's been a bit
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Hey everyone, I hope you are doing well! I've had a lot going on and
haven't had much time to blog lately. Heres a recap of gaming events and
other st...
*'s in SpaaaaaAaaaace
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A lot of SF (including a certain 2D6 RPG grandaddy) deal with ancient
aliens taking humans from Earth and dropping them, fleas and all, on one or
more w...
Last move - to self-hosting!
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As my vote regarding Substack in the “marketplace of ideas”, I’m moving to
self-hosting.
I’m now at (and hopefully staying for a long time at)
Blog: ht...
Clean Your Room
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Looking back at my little blog here. That last post… wow, I was having fun
playing WOW Classic! That was August of 1999 and I was having a blast… it
was ...
The Worm Ouroboros
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The Worm Ouroboros is a proto-fantasy (the in the genre sense) novel by E.
R. Eddison, originally published in 1922. It is an amalgam of mythological
tradi...
Steve Jackson Interview
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James Maliszewski recently did an interview with Steve Jackson over on his
Grognardia blog. Steve chats about the beginnings of The Fantasy Trip and
upcomi...
ToAD Monster of the Week: Crocoman
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Now that I'm back doing the blog thing I thought I would use Tome of
Adventure Design to create monsters for The Black Hack.
Using the monster tables in th...
Strange, Dangerous, and Inhuman: The Fey and Fairie
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When I was a boy I loved fairy tales. Jack and the Beanstalk, Puss in
Boots, Rumpelstiltskin - I devoured all of it. My fascination that there
was a strang...
Dungeons & Dragonmead Fall Schedule
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*As you know, I run public classic Dungeons & Dragons games at **The Loaded
Die**/Metro Detroit Game Night's Board Game Nigh at **Dragonmead**, in
Warren...
Fiction in Airhde
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On a whim this weekend, I picked up some fiction off the TLG store. *A
Houseless God & Other Tales* and *The Mirrored Soul & Other Tales*, both by
the T...
Ravensburg Reboot: Streamlined City Map
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I mentioned in my last post how I was tweaking and reworking parts of my
Ravensburg setting. Today I streamlined the city map. The old map had lots
of redu...
The Withered Crag available now
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I just enabled the sale of the PDF version of The Withered Crag at
DriveThruRPG a few minutes ago, and the custom print version will be
available startin...
Annihilation Rising Goes live
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The latest in Fail Squad Games’ Quick Kick projects has gone live and needs
your support!! This project is only running 11 days and ends on 5/28/2019!
...
James's Celebration of Life
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We could not have asked for a prettier day for James's service. It was a
bit chilly and windy but gorgeous. A heartfelt thank you to all that joined
us tod...
Trap Tuesday: A step back
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I will get back to Tomb of Horrors soon. I found a topic that was
interesting enough to take a break. While interacting in a 5E group on
Facebook I talked ...
Let's Talk About Pacing!
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The idea, I think, is that the RPG is ultimately about the long game. Even
rolling back to the early days of Basic & Expert, the goal of the player
was...
Profane and Profound Prep Part 2
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This is part 2 of my work to edit my magic items for a DMsGuild release,
along with adding cursed items along the way. Here is part 1. Bone of a
Saint 8000...
Please, I don't do paid advertisements - don't ask.
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A little note since people have asked me about this. My video channel's
*not* an advertising platform, so I'm not available for hire if you want to
promote...
New website!
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Slowly but surely, all the content here will make its way — in updated
form! — to my new website: timbannock.com. For fairly obvious reasons, that
site wil...
Please Update Your Link!
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If you're seeing this, it means your link to the Greyhawk Grognard blog is
out of date.
Please update your link to www.greyhawkgrognard.com (RSS feed is
h...
Total Sales for WB:FMAG
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Hi Folks,
It's been a long time since I provided an update for the sales of White
Box: Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game.
*LULU*
Print: 396
PDF: 433
*OBS*...
How can We Destroy this Campaign World?
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d12
1. You must trick a bard into strumming the *Chords of Fate* on the *Lute
of Annihilation*
2. Legends tell of thermonuclear weapons beneath megadunge...
Mord Mar - Session 5
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We had another successful delve into the dungeon yesterday. The delvers:
Moira, the Magic-User
Radovan - Human Cleric (of Odin?)
Khazgar Stonehand - Dwarf ...
Bundle of Fantasy Age
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Bundle of Holding: Dragon Age/Fantasy Age: Available until March 12. PA
Presents: Fantasy AGE Freeport live play Green Ronin in 2018 The Fantasy
Age RPG ma...
New Free PDF Module: The Hyqueous Vaults
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A new dungeon module—written in celebration of OSRIC's 10th Birthday—by
Rebecca Dettmann, Allan T. Grohe, Jr., Jimm Johnson, Matthew Riedel, Alex
Zisch, a...
Swords & Wizardry Light: Session # 6
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Two months after our last session (thanks to things like 8th grade finals,
a 4 year-old's birthday and party, Father's Day, etc.), we finally had our
next ...
