Deal of the Day - Winter's Daughter (OSE)

If it's written for OSE, it will fit with pretty much any OSR system. In this case, Winter's Daughter comes in two flavors - OSE and Dolmenwood - and comes with two files.

Today's Deal of the Day is Winter's Daughter for OSE/Dolmenwood for $5 in PDF (usually $10). It's a low-level adventure coming in at 24 AND 32 pages - both ruleset flavors are included.

The tomb of an ancient hero, lost in the tangled depths of the woods. A ring of standing stones, warded by the sinister Drune cult. A fairy princess who watches with timeless patience from beyond the veil of the mortal. A forgotten treasure that holds the key to her heart.

Winter’s Daughter is a romantic fairy tale adventure designed for characters of Level 1–3. Presented in a quick-reference format, the adventure is easy to run with minimal prep.

Rules Editions of Winter's Daughter:

This product includes two versions of the adventure:

For the Dolmenwood RPG. 32 pages long, with additional art.

For Old-School Essentials. An older version of the adventure, 24 pages long.

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Kickstarter - Witch-Lords of Skull Mountain #2: Malkova Wilds (OSR - Various Flavors)

I think I've known Paul Wolf since my first NTRPG Con in 2014. My, how time flies!

In any case, Witch-Lords of Skull Mountain #2: Malkova Wilds is a hexcrawl zine that comes in various OSR flavors: OSE, ShadowDark, DCC,  & OSRIC. With that many choices, finding a system that comes closest to your actual game at your table is a breeze.

Witch-Lords of Skull Mountain #2: Malkova Wilds is $9 in PDF and $14 in Print, plus PDF (shipping for me was $ 3, and yes, you can add issue #1 when checking out).

Witch-Lords of Skull Mountain #2: The Malkova Wilds is a continuing hex-crawl campaign simultaneously published for the Shadowdark RPG, DCC RPG, Old School Essentials / Basic-Expert RPGs, and OSRIC 3 RPG. 

It's a planned 40 to 56-page book packed with adventures, a city crawl system, encounter tables, monsters, magic items and more. It will (hopefully) include a detached color cover that features a beautiful full-color hex map of the Malkova Wilds! 

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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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Bundle of Holding - OSE Treasures 2

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 setting The 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.

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Bundle of Holding - OSE Advanced Fantasy

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.

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Deal of the Day - The Hole in the Oak (OSE Adventure)

Today's Deal of the Day is A Hole in the Oak for OSE. Usually priced at 7.50 in PDF, this 40-page adventure A Hole in the Oak is marked down to 3.75 until tomorrow morning.

A hole in an old oak tree leads characters down to a maze of twisting, root-riddled passageways, the chambers of an ancient wizard-complex, and the banks of an underground river where once a reptile cult built their temples.

A classic expedition into the Mythic Underworld for characters of 1st to 2nd level.

60 keyed areas, rumour table, loot summary, dungeon background info, suggestions for expanding the dungeon.

Keyed in a quick-reference, bullet point format.

Statted for Old-School Essentials (B/X), usable with any vintage adventure game.

Unlabelled map included for VTT use.

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Kickstarter - Ryecroft: A Dangerous Cemetery Crawl for OSE and B/X TTRPGs (Midderlands)

I've said this before, and I'll say it again - Gylnn Seal (AKA Monkeyblood) is one of the most skilled RPG professional creators in the business. Writing, artwork, mapping, layout, you name it - he's one of the best.

Ryecroft: A Dangerous Cemetery Crawl is Glynn's latest Kickstarter. While not explicitly set in the Midderlands, it will fit right in (or likely fit most any old-school setting.)

Print plus PDF is about $52 US plus shipping.

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Deal of the Day - The Shrike (OSE Sandbox)

If I have to choose between reading an adventure and setting material, I'll almost always choose setting material. An adventure is essentially "one and done," whereas setting material can be part of a campaign to be used session after session. It's where the author's imagination truly shines through.

Today's Deal of the Day is The Shrike for OSE. It is billed as "A huge modular sandbox adventure setting in an abandoned fragment of Hell." If that isn't one hell of an elevator pitch, I don't know what is!

Usually, it is $29 in PDF, but until tomorrow morning, The Shrike is on sale for $8.70. 

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.

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Deal of the Day - Modern Necessities: Professional Edition (OSE)

Looking to add some modern weaponry to your fantasy OSE (or likely ANY OSR game)? You may want to run some modern-day campaigns, with or without magic and fantasy elements. Maybe GURPS just isn't up your alley ;)

If any of the above rings true, Today's Deal of the Day -  Modern Necessities: Professional Edition for OSE is the book you need for your OSR toolbox!

Normally, Modern Necessities: Professional Edition for OSE is 14.99 in PDF, but until tomorrow morning, it is priced at 8.99. Note that Modern Necessities is also available in print versions.

Modern Necessities: Professional Edition is a 3rd party supplement for Old-School Essentials that adds rules, classes, equipment and more to run your campaigns in any modern setting, including those that mix the contempary with magic and monsters. 

The book includes the following across 169 pages

• 20 modern themed classes, from soldiers and hitmen to detectives and hackers.
• Rules for giving modern traits to a small selection of fantasy races
• 60+ modern weapons, from pistols to rocket launchers and airstrikes
• Numerous firearm attachments, ammunition types, and even modifiers based on the firearm design philosophies of different fantasy cultures. 
• 15+ modern themed types of armor.
• Assorted equipment, from flashlights to aerial drones.
• Specific, named magic weapons, armor and equipment.
• Vehicle rules, including 19+ sample vehicles.
• 48+ Technomancy spells.
• 20 Psionic powers.
• Multiple modern themed enemies to do battle against.
• Rules for hiring modern themed mercenaries.
• Optional rules such as weapon jamming, weapon conditions and armor damage.
• Sample plot hooks, providing quick and simple ideas for one shots or even entire campaigns.
• Assault on Blackfang Tower: A short intro adventure set in a world hit by a magical apocalypse. Defeat the dark wizard and his armed Goblin minions controlling a small, ruined town.

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Kickstarter - Arden's Adventures/Arden's Notebook: An OSE 'Zine Series (Necromancer Games)

Quick note! Skeeter Green and Zach Glazar are the Special Guests on Talking Crit Live! Wednesday, June 5th @ 8PM ET - Skeeter worked on the Arden's series of zines for Necromancer Games, and Zach is an executive of Necromancer Games / Frog God Games. Link to the stream here.

Another note! I know Skeeter and Zach not just on a professional level but also on a personal level. Both are close friends and skilled and talented creators of old-school gaming material. 'Nuff Said! Tenkar

I'm a big fan of RPG zines. They are the perfect size for my consumption of gaming goodness and are convenient for both on-the-go reading AND when one HAS to go. Heh :)

Four zines in one Kickstarter for Old School Essentials from Frog God Games / Necromancer Games. Could I ask for more? Probably not.

I'm backing Arden's Adventures/Arden's Notebook Kickstarter at the $40 backer level - all 4 zines in print and PDF. International backers CAN opt for POD, which would make for cheaper shipping.

Arden's Adventures is a full-color zine that brings back the feel of classic adventures, where the characters are as likely to die in the second room as they are to find vast and unimaginable treasures and high adventure!

Arden's Notebook is a serialized supplement inspired by Arden's Adventures. The Notebook delivers useful information for the adventure, ideas to make your own, and regular columns such as Helman’s Haberdashery, Role Call!, Igbat's Incantarium, Zoo-Illogical, and more. And Tropes, our original comic strip, illustrated by the wonderful Chet Minton, is pretty darn cool!

All four zines are 28 to 32 pages, A5-sized, and saddle-stitched. To be precise, the page counts are as follows:

• Arden's Adventures Volume 1 is 32 pages.
• Arden's Notebook Volume 1 is 28 pages.
• Arden's Adventures Volume 2 is 32 pages.
• Arden's Notebook Volume 2 is 32 pages.

 

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Deal of the Day - Carcass Crawler: Issue Two (OSE)

Zines. Zines & dice. These are two of my favorite things. My collection always has room for more dice, and zines can fit on any shelf, physical or digital. Zines generally have far more "bang for the buck" than other gaming purchases, and they often fit into the "impulse buy" category. I really like zines :)

Today's Deal of the Day is Carrion Crawler: Issue Two for OSE. Typically, it is 7.50 in PDF, but until tomorrow morning, Carrion Crawler: Issue Two is on sale for 3.75

Issue 2 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, news, previews of in-development products, short adventures, and more!

In This Issue

• New classes and races: Two new elf variants. The phase elf and the wood elf.
• Item-based encumbrance system: A simple system for tracking characters' loads and movement rates, based on the number of items carried. (No more need to add up coins and weights.)
• Town services: Guidelines and prices for inns, jewellers, money changers, and traders, including a simple optional rule for haggling.
• Hiring retainers: Tables and extra guidelines for locating and hiring retainers.
• Quick equipment: A set of tables for expediting character creation by randomly selecting starting gear.
• Energy weapons: Complete rules for introducing high-tech energy blades and guns into your game, either as alien relics found in long lost treasure hoards or to accompany the sci-fi inspired classes in Carcass Crawler issue 1 (the hephaestan and kineticist).
• Snake cult monsters: 8 brand new monsters: creepy undead, guardian constructs, and devious serpents.
• The Tomb of Aum-Pharath: A mini-adventure in the trap-filled ruins of a snake cult temple.
• Adjudicating traps: Advice and optional guidelines for making traps a fun and engaging part of the game.

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Deal of the Day - BX Advanced Bestiary, Vol 1

I really enjoyed the "Ecology of..." series in the classic era of Dragon Magazine. It made common - or even rare - creatures more than just a set of stats to kill or be killed by.

Today's Deal of the Day, BX Advanced Bestiary, Vol 1, appears to do that and more for a selection of creatures from the Old School Essentials Basic Book. I liked what I saw in the free preview and picked up a copy. Peek at the preview and see if the BX Advanced Bestiary, Vol 1, would fit your campaign.

Volume 1 of the BX Advanced Bestiary takes the monster entries A-D from the OSE Basic book and expands them with options, added details, use for monster parts, additional monsters, and playable classes based upon the same theme. A sample preview of the book can be foundhere. Each entry is illustrated. 

It includes rules for monster and animal training, several new race-as-class options (advanced cave locust, changeling, cyclopskin, dragonborn, and genasi), as well tables showing the monsters organized by HD, terrain, and type.

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Free OSR - The Sepulchre of Seven (OSE Adventure for Levels 5-7)

The Sepulchre of Seven is a highly rated adventure for OSE, which makes it suitable for any OSR ruleset with little if any, work. The price is right at FREE ;)

Long ago a half-elf, half deer-centaur named Jayne led a small guerilla band against the armies of an evil fae witch.

They prevailed at terrible cost.

Over centuries, the Church erased all memory of Jayne’s fae nature.

Monsters moved into her hideout-turned-sepulchre, still haunted by Jayne’s enemies and companions, and a ghost longing to complete his vengeance..

In this 39-room dungeon, adventurers will discover the fates and true faces of Jayne and her unremembered companions.

Will they get out with forgotten riches, or become the latest victims of a centuries-old tragedy?

The product includes: a fully-linked interactive PDF + player-friendly VTT maps.

*** Rated "THE BEST" by Bryce Lynch at tenfootpole.org ***

 

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Deal of the Day - Weird Stone & Sorcery Adventures for Old-School Essentials (OSR)

Today's Deal of the Day is Weird Stone & Sorcery Adventures for Old-School Essentials. Want to play primitive man? Here's your opportunity. Usually 12.99 in PDF, Weird Stone & Sorcery Adventures is on sale until tomorrow morning for 5.20 - 60% off!

The elders have spoken… The world is changing. Are you ready?

Fire & Fangs is a supplement for Old-School Essentials that introduces new rules, character options, setting information, and an introductory adventure taking you and your friends on epic adventures in a mythical stone age that never was.

With Fire & Fangs, you will be able to create adventurers of an ancient primordial world. Your characters will face ravenous dinosaurs, enigmatic alien beings, incrustable elder beings, and diverse cultures and peoples in a fantastic prehistoric world inspired by pulp literature, pop media, and more!

Referees will find information about the game world, random tables to spark their imaginations, and a full introductory adventure to start gaming right away!

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Humble Bundle - Lost Works of Gygax (D20, 5e, OSE, C&C, CoC, S&W, 1e, SN)

There's a little bit of everything in the Lost Works of Gygax Bundle at Humble Bundle, and I mean everything. 

From Gary Gygax himself, there's Castle Zagyg: Yrggsburgh, Castle Zagyg, East Mark Gazetteer, Necropolis, Hall of Many Planes, Gord, The Canting Crew, World Building, and Living Fantasy.

From Luke and Ernie Gygax, we have The Lost City of Gaxmoor.

From Ernie Gygax, we have The Marmoreal Tomb.

From Luke Gygax, there are Tales from Okkorim (1-8), The Blighted Lands (1-3), The Chentofi Series (1-3), The Dread from Lake Geneva (for CoC 1+2), The Trouble at Loch Jineeva, Undercaverns of Gaxmoor, and Weapons of Gaxmoor.

Oh, and 28 other titles from various creators. Phew!

Gather up your party for an endless adventure with the Lost Works of Gygax Bundle compatible with a myriad of systems! This TTRPG explorer’s kit contains rulebooks, sourcebooks, and campaign resources for Marmoreal Tomb, Gary Gygax's Necropolis, and more. Get everything you need to embark on an epic journey with your friends, and help support the Navy Marine Corps Relief Society with your purchase!

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Indiegogo - Forest of Spores (OSE, C&C, & 5e)

The hamlet of Jensenville woke to a forest of mushrooms that sprang up overnight right outside their village. What's worse, the mushrooms are expanding, absorbing homes and building into their midst. The villagers need help before they are overrun. And that won't be long given how fast new mushrooms keep sprouting up.

What terror awaits in the fungus forest? Heroes are needed to venture inside...but will they return?

Forest of Spores is Rachel Marsh's first work for Frog God Games. It's funded on Indigogo and then some, and Frog God Games has a solid history of publishing its projects on time.

Forest of Spores is 12 bucks in PDF and 25 in POD and PDF.

Here's hoping your heroes are just what the residents of Jensenville need! 

Will they push into the forest's depths where fungi grow wild? Where other creatures wait to stop their mission? And how will they react to the mushroom-people making a new home in the dark nooks of the forest, completely unaware of the villagers' plight?

And worse still, something else waits in the forest, a threat to humans and mushroom-people alike. It's already killed a number of the mushroom-people, and it is more than happy to welcome the adventurers (aka fresh meat) into its killing ground.

Forest of Spores can be played as a standalone adventure, or it can serve as a lead-in to further investigations into the mysterious and dangerous Under Realms.

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Deal of the Day - Modus Operandi (OSR Espionage Ruleset)

I remember playing Top Secret during the weekly Physics lab in my senior year of High School. Those cheap as d10s quickly cracked being rolled on those granite lab tables. I've always had a soft spot for espionage rulesets.

Modus Operandi is today's Deal of the Day, an espionage ruleset built from the OSE SRD. Normally, it is 9.99 in PDF, but until tomorrow it is on sale for 5.99.

Modus Operandi is a roleplaying game of super spies and secret agents set against the backdrop of the Cold War of the 1980s.

Go back to basics and become an expert.

Modus Operandi is an espionage role-playing game in which you play an agent employed by a secret organisation working to stop those who would destroy or dominate the world. The default setting for Modus Operandi is the 1980s but your games can be set in any decade.

Modus Operandi is inspired by old school espionage games but, using the Old School Essentials SRD as its core, brings a fresh take to the genre. Included in Modus Operandi are all new character classes (called specialities), weapons, equipment, communications gear, gadgets and rules for contacts.

 

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Kickstarter - Creature Feature Quarterly Vol. 13 -for use with- OSE+LotFP

16 monsters for use with Old School Essentials. Lots of lore+Adventure seeds. Paper minis. VTT tokens. #LotFP #OSE #OSR #B/XDnD

I'm a fan of zines in general and have always enjoyed JH Illos various works and illustrations. At some point, I failed to realize that Creature Feature Quarterly had reached Volume 13.

You can grab the Creature Feature Quarterly Volume 13 Kickstarter in PDF for 5 bucks, which is likely a steal, especially if you play or GM via one of the various VTTs. 30 bucks gives you all 13 volumes in PDF. I'll need to see which ones I'm missing, and if its cheaper to grab all 13 or grab single issues on DTRPG.

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Kickstarter - Tome of Essential Horrors 2 (OSE)

Frog God Games and Necromancer Games are back with a new book for Old-School Essentials containing over 100 new monsters.

Before The Year That Shall Not Be Named, I often worked at the Frog God Games table at various conventions. Frog God also published my Swords & Wizardry Light Rules. There was a period when The Tenkar's Tavern Discord hosted Frog God Games' Official Discord presence. I'm also friends with many of the owners at Frog God. So yes, there are some connections ;)

Tome of Essential Horrors 2 for OSE is Frog God Games/Necromancer Games' latest Kickstarter. Tome of Essential Horrors 2 is 15 bucks in PDF and 48 bucks in print plus PDF (POD for International Backers or Standard Hardcover: Offset printed A5 hardcover version that will be printed on an offset printer overseas, meaning it is traditionally printed). Both of these come with PDF stretch goals. Shipping is not included with the print versions. If you want the stretch goals in print, you need to back for the foil cover Deluxe Edition. Damn, very tempting...

Tome of Essential Horrors 2 is a 150-plus-page hardcover book containing monsters (most in gorgeous black-and-white art) with fully designed stat blocks for you to pluck out and use in your own OSE game. Each entry is designed with Advanced Fantasy Old-School Essentials in mind, but totally compatible with both Classic Fantasy and Advanced Fantasy OSE, plus any and all classic “BX” versions of the world’s most popular roleplaying game.

 

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