Deal of the Day - The Dread Laironomicon (System Neutral)

I love Raging Swan Press. Full stop!

I own The Dread Laironomicon in print, and I use it and love it. Period.

The Dread Laironomicon, System Neutral Edition, is today's Deal of the Day. Until tomorrow morning, it is 50% off - $10.73 in PDF. I heartily recommend!

Are you a busy GM? Does session prep take too long? Do you never have time to work on the cool little details that bring your adventures, dungeons and campaign to life? 

Fear not.

This dread compilation gives you, the time-crunched GM, the tools to effortlessly add verisimilitude and detail to 100 different types of monstrous lairs. Use the material herein either before or during play and bask in your players' adulation.

You can use the lists herein before or during your game to help breathe life into a monster’s lair. Adding depth and verisimilitude to your game helps the players’ (hopefully willing) suspension of disbelief and leads to a better game.

Use the system-neutral material herein either before or during play and bask in your players’ adulation.

This product is a Dual Format PDF and comprises two versions, one optimised for printing and use on a normal computer and one optimised for use on a mobile device such as an iPad. The download for this book now includes individual text files complete with markdown formatting for each of the Monstrous Lairs instalments presented within.

This book is compatible with every edition of the world's most popular role-playing game!

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Bundle of Holding - Dungeon Dressing (Raging Swan Press)

I am a HUGE fan of Raging Swan Press. If you are an improv-style GM, their releases should be in your toolkit. Raging Swan's Dressing Collection for 14.95 is an amazing deal! Grab it now!

Overworked gamemaster, does prep for your tabletop fantasy roleplaying game sessions take too long? Do you never have time to design the cool little details that bring your game to life? Turn to the Dungeon Dressing system-neutral gamemastering resources from Raging Swan Press. "Dungeon dressing" is the art of adding small, evocative details and minor points of interest to your dungeons, cities, and wilderness encounters. These details help you breathe life into your creation – to set the scene and tell a story. Dungeon dressing helps your players suspend their disbelief and immerse themselves in your game. No matter what fantasy game you're playing, add color to every scene with the themed lists, flavorful characters, names, items, and riddles in this all-new Dungeon Dressing Bundle of fully bookmarked .PDF ebooks compiled from Raging Swan's Dungeon Dressing series.

For just US$14.95 you get all four complete compendia in our Dressing Collection (retail value $63.50) as DRM-free ebooks, including GM's Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing, Wilderness Dressing, and both Urban Dressing I and Urban Dressing II.

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Deal of the Day - The Dread Thingonomicon (System Neutral Tome of Random Tables)

I am a HUGE fan of The Dread Thingnomicon from Raging Swan Press. I went ahead and ordered The Dread Thingnomicon in hardcover, after snagging the PDF on sale, it is that good in my opinion. The Dread Thingnomicon is over 475 pages in length, and the first 50 pages are available for free to preview on the sales page (20 of which literally are the Table of Contents). Yes, The Dread Thingnomicon is simply huge ;)

The Dread Thingnomicon is normally 27.95 in PDF, but until tomorrow morning it is marked down to 16.77. Yes, this is not a cheap offering by any stretch of the imagination, but you get what you pay for and The Dread Thingnomicon is the rare beast that I feel comfortable paying that price for a PDF.

Are you a busy GM? Does session prep take too long? Do you never have time to design the cool little details that bring your game to life? Fear not! That’s where the Dread Thingonomicon comes in.

Crammed full of system-neutral themed lists, flavourful NPCs and more, the Dread Thingonomicon is designed to give you—the time-crunched GM—the tools to effortlessly add flavoursome verisimilitude to your game.

If your campaign features abnormal lesser undead, alchemist’s laboratories, ancient necropolises, archives & libraries, bandits & brigands, besieged castles, black dragon lairs, blue dragon lairs, bustling marketplaces, corpses, creepy graveyards, crypts & catacombs, cultists’ lairs, curio shops & pawnbrokers, dark caverns, fairs & festivals, fallen dwarven holds, fanes of evil, fanes of good, farming villages, fecund jungles, forts on the borderland, ghostly hauntings, goblin lairs, green dragon lairs, haunted houses, henchfolk & hirelings, hill giant steadings, items most wondrous, kobold warrens, lich’s lairs, local landmarks, lunatic asylums, merchant caravans, minions of evil, necromancer’s lairs, noble’s manor houses, noisome marshes, noisome sewers, ocean voyages, orc villages, red dragon lairs, roads, ruined castles, ruined cities, ruined monasteries, ruined wizard’s towers, seedy taverns, shadowed borderlands, slavers’ compounds, smugglers’ villages, smugglers’ lairs, snow and ice, subterranean mines, sun-scorched deserts, sunken ships, thievish doings, torture chambers, travellers’ inns, troublesome treasures, urban chases, urban events, urban landmarks, urban oddities, vampire’s castles, war-ravaged lands, white dragon lairs, wilderness camps, windswept moors, wizard’s towers and wrecked ships (and whose doesn’t?) the Dread Thingonomicon is for you!

Comprising the entire 20 Things line, the Dread Thingonomicon weighs in at 476 pages of content and is the culmination of seven years of design.

Use the system-neutral material herein either before or during play and bask in your players’ adulation.

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Deal of the Day - GM's Miscellany: Urban Dressing II (System Neutral Edition)

What can I say about Raging Swan's GM's Miscellany Series that hasn't been heard before? It is, quite simply, an amazing resource, both for game prep and for use in game, when your party zigs and you had planned for a zag.

Until tomorrow morning at 11 AM Eastern, GM's Miscellany: Urban Dressing II (System Neutral Edition) is available for 7 bucks in PDF, half off its usual 13.99 pricetag.

Tired of your towns and cities being boring, bland places in which your PCs show little or no interest? Want to bring them alive with cool, interesting minor features of note? Then Urban Dressing is for you! Each instalment in the line focuses on a different kind of town and gives harried GMs the tools to bring such locales to life with interesting and noteworthy features.

This compilation presents loads of great features, NPCs and minor encounters to add to the towns in your campaign. Designed to be used both during preparation or actual play, GM’s Miscellany: Urban Dressing II is an invaluable addition to any GM's armoury!

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Deal of the Day - GM's Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing (System Neutral Edition)

I've stated it before and I'll say it again, I'm a huge fan of Raging Swan's system-neutral series of releases to assist GM's with game prep and in-session improv. I'd snap GM's Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing (System Neutral Edition) up in a second at this price if I didn't already own it ;)

Until tomorrow morning at 11 AM Eastern, GM's Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing (System Neutral Edition) is on sale in PDF for 6.99, 50% off its usual price of 13.99.

A System Neutral Edition GM's Resource by Ben Armitage, Alexander Augunas, Aaron Bailey, John Bennett, Creighton Broadhurst, Jeff Erwin, James Graham, Brian Gregory, Eric Hindley, Ben Kent, Thomas King, Greg Marks, Andrew J. Martin, Jacob W. Michaels, Julian Neale, Chad Perrin,  David Posener, Brian Ratcliff, Pierre van Rooden, Liz Smith, Josh Vogt and Mike Welham.

Tired of dungeons lacking in verisimilitude? Want to add cool little features of interest to your creations but don't have the time to come up with nonessential details? Want to make your dungeons feel more realistic?

Then GM’s Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing (System Neutral Edition) is for you! This gigantic compilations comprises all 34 instalments in the line as well as scores of riddles, new material and design essays by Creighton.  GM’s Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing (System Neutral Edition) presents loads of great features to add to your dungeon. Designed to be used both during preparation or actual play, GM’s Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing (System Neutral Edition)  is an invaluable addition to any GM's armoury!

GM’s Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing (System Neutral Edition) presents the material originally appearing in:

• Dungeon Dressing: Altars
• Dungeon Dressing: Archways
• Dungeon Dressing: Bridges
• Dungeon Dressing: Captives
• Dungeon Dressing: Ceilings
• Dungeon Dressing: Chests
• Dungeon Dressing: Corpses
• Dungeon Dressing: Doom Paintings
• Dungeon Dressing: Doors
• Dungeon Dressing: Double Doors
• Dungeon Dressing: Dungeon Entrances
• Dungeon Dressing: Dungeon Names
• Dungeon Dressing: Floors
• Dungeon Dressing: Fountains
• Dungeon Dressing: Gates & Portals
• Dungeon Dressing: Goblin’s Pockets
• Dungeon Dressing: Legends
• Dungeon Dressing: Legends II
• Dungeon Dressing: Mundane Chest Contents
• Dungeon Dressing: Pits
• Dungeon Dressing: Pools
• Dungeon Dressing: Portcullises
• Dungeon Dressing: Sarcophagi
• Dungeon Dressing: Secret Doors
• Dungeon Dressing: Simple Magic Traps
• Dungeon Dressing: Stairs
• Dungeon Dressing: Statues
• Dungeon Dressing: Tapestries
• Dungeon Dressing: Thrones
• Dungeon Dressing: Trapdoors
• Dungeon Dressing: Walls
• Dungeon Dressing: Wells
• So What’s The Riddle Like, Anyway?
• So What’s The Riddle Like, Anyway? II
• So What’s The Riddle Like, Anyway? III

New Material: New material focusing on concealed doors, strange growths, illumination, graffiti and loads of miscellaneous dungeon features; also includes nine dungeon design essays by Creighton.

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Deal of the Day - GM's Miscellany: Village Backdrops III (5e)

The entire GM Miscellany series of releases are top-notch. Whether you grab the system neutral version or the 5e version, they are both easily used with the OSR ruleset of your choice.

Today's Deal of the Deal of the Day is GM's Miscellany: Village Backdrops III (5e). Normally 13.99 in PDF, until tomorrow morning it is on sale for 5.60.

A 5e Compatible GM’s Resource supplement by loads of talented designers

Village Backdrops are short, richly detailed supplements that each present a single village ready to insert into almost any home campaign. Perfect for use as a waystop on the road to adventure, as an adventure site themselves or as a PC’s home, Village Backdrop present the details so the busy GM can focus on crafting exciting, compelling adventures.

This GM’s Miscellany collects together twelve Village Backdrops together in one place. GM’s Miscellany: Village Backdrops is the work of many talented designers and features the following villages:

• Blackhill Gaol 
• Bossin
• Echo Harbour
• Gulls’ Roost
• Lady Cross
• Laewas
• Lanthorn
• Masquerade
• Oakhurst
• Hosford
• Ravens’ Cradle
• Underdell
• Victory Elm

 

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Deal of the Day - GM's Miscellany: Eventures (5e)

Some of the best GM resources are offered by Raging Swan Press. Today's Deal of the Day is GM's Miscellany: Eventures for 5e. Seven adventures that focus on roleplay and social skills, so even if you are an OSR gamer, it shouldn't be hard to convert these to the system of your choice. Normally 9.95, GM's Miscellany: Eventures (5e) is 3.98 until tomorrow morning.

This GM’s Miscellany presents seven eventures ready for your campaign! Use them as a change of pace from the same old dungeon crawls and wilderness expeditions or as an opportunity for role-playing and urban exploration.

Eventure are akin to a normal adventure, but do not (normally) feature violence or physical challenges. Instead, an eventure focuses on the use of social skills and role-play to resolve the challenges, or events, therein. Eventures are an excellent change of pace and can be used as filler between adventures or as situations in which characters who have invested in social skills can shine. They are also perfect for players who enjoy role-playing.

GM's Miscellany: Eventures comprises the following eventure

A Day Out at the Circus

A Day Out at the Executions

Five Night at the Scythe

Four Nights at the Orc's Head

Night of the Masks

Raisa's Auction Most Wondrous

Where There's a Will

The eventures in GM's Miscellany: Eventures are suitable for any level characters and can be used with any size group. While they are designed for the Ashlar campaign setting they are easily adapted to virtually any GM’s campaign.

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Deal of the Day - GM's Miscellany: Village Backdrops I (5e)

The GM's Miscellany series of releases from Raging Swan Press are simply priceless. Ignore the system indicated - even their 5e books work just as well with the OSR and other rulesets as do their system-neutral titles.

Today's Deal of the Day is GM's Miscellany: Village Backdrops I (5e). Normally 12 bucks, its on sale until tomorrow morning for 4.80.

Village Backdrops are short, richly detailed supplements that each present a single village ready to insert into almost any home campaign. Perfect for use as a waystop on the road to adventure, as an adventure site themselves or as a PC’s home, Village Backdrop present the details so the busy GM can focus on crafting exciting, compelling adventures. 

This GM’s Miscellany collects together twelve Village Backdrops, along with bonus, never seen before material, together in one place. 

GM’s Miscellany: Village Backdrops is the work of many talented designers and features the following villages: 

• Creighton Broadhurst: Ashford, Coldwater, Kingsfell, Lanthorn, Longbridge, Thornhill, Wellswood
• Jeff Gomez: Bleakflat, Suurin
• Richard Green: Black Wyvern
• Marc Radle: White Moon Cove
• Mike Welham: Shroudhaven

This product is a Dual Format PDF. The downloadable ZIP file contains two versions, one optimised for printing and use on a normal computer and one optimised for use on a mobile device such as an iPad.

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Raging Swan Press Annual Christmas Megabundle

I literally love Raging Swan's catalog. If you are a DM that likes to be freewheeling, let your players follow hooks and clues that you didn't even put out there and like improvising by the edge of your seat, Raging Swan is for you.

Sure, Raging Swan's Annual Christmas Megabundle is for D&D 5e (there is some hope we may get the same bundle in System Neutral at some point), but converting from 5e to the OSR is fairly easy (the reverse isn't as true).

There are many campaigns worth of material in this bundle - locations, adventures, and treasures - oh my! 50 titles for 20 bucks.

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Free - GM's Monthly Miscellany: August 2017 (Raging Swan Press)

GM's Monthly Miscellany: August 2017 - Nominally for Pathfinder, most of this release fits perfectly in any OSR campaign as much is system neutral.

Featuring material from some of Raging Swan Press’s newest products as well as classic releases of yesteryear, advice articles and material from Creighton’s on-going design of the megadungeon Gloamhold, the GM’s Monthly Miscellany series is a terrific free resource for the busy, time-crunched GM. 

This month’s issue features: 

10 Ogres with Personality (System Neutral)
Needlebriar At A Glance (from Village Backdrop: Needlebriar) (Mostly System Neutral)
Oleander’s Sanctuary at a Glance (from Places of Power: Oleander’s Sanctuary) (Mostly System Neutral)
Goblin Crunch (from 100% Crunch: Goblins) (Skip)
3 Things Not to Include in Your Dungeon Design (System Neutral)

The price is right - FREE!

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Deal of the Day - Gloamhold Campaign Guide (System Neutral)

Today's Deal of the Day is the Gloamhold Campaign Guide from Raging Swan Press.

Its a setting. Its a mega dungeon. Its a mega dungeon setting.

Sixty pages. Normally $5.95 in PDF, Gloamhold is currently on sale for $1.66 in PDF. Its worth $1.66 for inspiration alone.

Glowering amid dark rumours and terrible stories of desperate adventure, death, betrayal and glimmering treasures squat the unutterably ancient halls of Gloamhold. This crumbling, benighted, haunted dungeon complex of unknown, but undeniably vast, extent is buried deep within the grim and brooding spray-drenched headland of the Mottled Spire. It is a place of legends, madness and death. Within this towering, wave-lashed shard of limestone lies the labyrinthine passageways and chambers of Gloamhold’s outer reaches and, beyond them, the benighted precincts and canals of the legend-shrouded Twilight City.

I love the idea that it was written with Old School Gaming in mind (its system neutral)

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Deal of the Day - GM's Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing

I can't say enough good stuff about the GM's Miscellany series of releases. GM's Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing might actually make the top of the list.

Although technically released for Pathfinder, it is 95% plus system neutral and an excellent resource if you want to make your dungeons come alive.

While I previously owned Dungeon Dressing in PDF (which you can grab for $9.97 today instead of the regular $19.95), Raging Swan has also put the Print plus PDF version on sale for $16 in softcover. Considering that the softcover is normally $24 on its own, $16 is a steal. Yes, they got my $16 today...

What's inside:

Tired of dungeons lacking in verisimilitude? Want to add cool little features of interest to your creations but don't have the time to come up with nonessential details? Want to make your dungeons feel more realistic?

Then GM’s Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing is for you! This gigantic compilations comprises all 34 installments in the line as well as scores of riddles, new material and design essays by Creighton.  GM’s Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing presents loads of great features to add to your dungeon. Designed to be used both during preparation or actual play, GM’s Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing is an invaluable addition to any GM's armoury!

GM’s Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing presents the material originally appearing in:

Dungeon Dressing: Altars
Dungeon Dressing: Archways
Dungeon Dressing: Bridges
Dungeon Dressing: Captives
Dungeon Dressing: Ceilings
Dungeon Dressing: Chests
Dungeon Dressing: Corpses
Dungeon Dressing: Doom Paintings
Dungeon Dressing: Doors
Dungeon Dressing: Double Doors
Dungeon Dressing: Dungeon Entrances
Dungeon Dressing: Dungeon Names
Dungeon Dressing: Fiendish Traps I
Dungeon Dressing: Fiendish Traps II
Dungeon Dressing: Floors
Dungeon Dressing: Fountains
Dungeon Dressing: Gates & Portals
Dungeon Dressing: Goblin’s Pockets
Dungeon Dressing: Legends
Dungeon Dressing: Legends II
Dungeon Dressing: Mundane Chest Contents
Dungeon Dressing: Pits
Dungeon Dressing: Pools
Dungeon Dressing: Portcullises
Dungeon Dressing: Sarcophagi
Dungeon Dressing: Secret Doors
Dungeon Dressing: Simple Magic Traps
Dungeon Dressing: Stairs
Dungeon Dressing: Statues
Dungeon Dressing: Tapestries
Dungeon Dressing: Thrones
Dungeon Dressing: Trapdoors
Dungeon Dressing: Walls
Dungeon Dressing: Wells
So What’s The Riddle Like, Anyway?
So What’s The Riddle Like, Anyway? II
So What’s The Riddle Like, Anyway? III
New Material: Three new fiendish traps as well as material focusing on concealed doors, strange growths, illumination, graffiti and loads of miscellaneous dungeon features; also includes nine dungeon design essays by Creighton.
All That Glimmer: Also includes as a free special bonus are treasures hoards 1-20 from All That Glimmers - after all, what’s a dungeon without treasure!

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Raging Swan Christmas MegaBundle - $650 plus for less than $30

First things first - this is a Pathfinder bundle.

Secondly, the various "Dressing" releases - Wilderness, Dungeon, Urban, as well as the Village Backdrop series are pretty much system neutral and worth the price of admission on their own.

Third. Raging Swan produces good stuff.

Impossible to list everything in this Raging Swan Christmas MegaBundle, so not gonna try. Follow the link to see the listing.

a small selection of what is included

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Free RPG Product - GM’s Monthly Miscellany: April 2016

Now that I have the time, I'm going to try and highlight free items that are useful and well worth your time to download and read.

I've been remiss when it comes to Raging Swan Press. Although primarily a Pathfinder publisher, they also publish "system neutral" versions of many of their products, and even the Pathfinder products are easy enough to use with any OSR game with minimal work. When it comes to Raging Swan, you are looking for inspiration, not stats, and their products are high on the inspiration scale.

Case in point, today's free RPG product - GM’s Monthly Miscellany: April 2016. While nominally a Pathfinder product there is much of value in here for the OSR GM.

- Four Things Modern Dungeons Lack - This might as well have been written by an OSR old-timer. Main points? Nothing changes, no wandering monsters, no empty space and level inappropriate encounters. Really, it's pretty much "how to make your dungeons more old school".

- Silver Bluff - A village complete with history,demographics, notable folk, notable locations, village lore, rumors and professionally drawn map. This is pretty much read and drop where needed.

- Looting the Cleric's Body: Pouch Contents - Pretty much what it says on the tin. d100 table to add flavor to the bloody mess your party made of that evil cleric.

- Marsh Town: Sights & Sounds - Another d100 table, this time for sights and sounds in a marsh town. Shit, there are publishers that charge 99 cents for a table like this.

- Marsh Town: Businesses - Yep, another d100 table for exactly what it says on the tin.

- What's the Point (In Gaming)? - Short editorial / article.

Just how much is the GM’s Monthly Miscellany: April 2016? Free.