Driving home from an afternoon with my niece, Rach and I were discussing tonight's topic(s) for the Gamers' Health livestream. The conversation of course strayed into 1.1
It then dawned on me that I've been sitting on my proof copy (with needed corrections) of Continual Light for the past 2 months, having failed to forward any scans to Jeff Jones for the final layout.
I now realize, if I had, I'd likely have a dead-on-arrival RPG, with no way to support it.
Its 32 pages digest-sized and currently under the 1.0 OGL. I'm pretty sure I can de-SRD those pages fairly easily, while still keeping the core system intact.
No SRD. No OGL. Allow support and derivatives under CC licensing.
Damn, for once being a procrastinator might have been in my favor 😉
Note - The last Day of OSR Christmas is delayed. Current events in the world of tabletop RPGs have kept me bouncing around and answering calls and PMs. We'll wrap up soon, I hope.
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Nine Dangerous Deities for RuneQuest Role-playing!
The bad guys of Glorantha: nine cults of the cruel and unusual, destined to enliven every campaign. Cults include PRIMAL CHAOS, MALLIA, BAGOG, THED, VIVAMORT, THANATAR, THE CRIMSON BAT, KRARSHT, and NYSALOR/GBAJI. Each cult has described cult myths, history, requirements for lay, Initiate, and RuneMaster membership, subservient and associate cults, and miscellaneous notes. There are now Rune spells, battle magics, skills, five new Runes, an expanded cult compatibility chart, full rules for nets, a pronunciation guide, the adventures of Lunar Initiate Paulis Longvale, and exciting mythical and historical essays by Greg Stafford. This book is fully compatible with RuneQuest classic edition; the concepts and descriptions in it can be used for any fantasy role-playing system.
This book is a companion to Cults of Prax.
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I received the above in my email late this afternoon. If you are looking to fill holes in your 5e collection, now seems to be the time to shop at the Trolls. Supplies are limited, and it looks like they (TLG) are ditching 5e going forward. I'm guessing they won't be signing up for the 1.1 OGL...
"Our future is Castles & Crusades, so help us clear out the warehouse and load up your bookshelves!"
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Follow the continuing adventures of the Delvers as they explore the ruins of the ancient Alchemists' Guildhall. Be there when they discover the Alchemists' greatest lost secrets and meet with their wealthy and mysterious benefactor, Servius Linnus... A licensed "For Gold & Glory" supplement written by the editor of the game with over 34,000 words, this heavily illustrated guide for old school RPGs is packed with useful material for players and GMs alike to enjoy in almost any magical, medieval, fantasy game based upon the "World's Most Popular Role Playing Game". Each item entry is described with recipes, costs and specific game effects.
Note: OSR Christmas Returns January 6th, 2023
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The American "Old West" as many of us know it, is, in many ways, our equivalent of European Fantasy. It builds upon history as it was, and morphs it into a history that "may have been". Larger than life. Legends.
I've yet to find an RPG that I felt had a manageable game system along with a setting that felt rooted in the fiction, mostly TV and "Spaghetti Westerns". I'm hoping the Cepheus Engine, which is built off the Mongoose Traveller OGL, will fit the bill with Rider.
Until tomorrow morning, Rider is marked down in PDF from 19.99 to 6 bucks. Clocking in at 356 pages, I have high hopes :)
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On December 31st, 2022, the Far West RPG was OFFICIALLY 11 years late. 11 years of lies and broken promises.
Of course, now Gareth is passing the blame for the - yet again - missed release date on his partner, Eric Trautmann.
I must say, when you can make Ken "Whit" Whitman look like an honest businessman, you've leveled up to unheard-of levels. Well done, Gareth. Well done!
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This time of year I'm usually excited to get back to work/school so I can do a little gaming "show & tell" with my fellow nerds. Since I'm 51 and the only gamer in my family, the only "nerds" I know are of the sports type I work with. They don't know what a d20 is to save their life, but can tell you who was the coach for any given professional football team in 2005.
As an allegedly grown-ass man I don't get to give my family lists of the shit I want so I generally get money if I get any gifts at all. That isn't an *actual* complaint, mind you....I'm more than fine with not getting gifts at all and money is nothing to sneeze ever since I learned that people will exchange money for stuff I want!
Last year I gave my gaming group some Lulu-printed game books that cover much of our weekly game, albeit with a custom cover I tweaked from the Rick & Morty D&D comics. There were...issues with everyone getting the books and I think it was June or July before everyone got their stuff. This year I didn't do anything....yet. If it's going to be June before people get things then I might as well make it Christmas at NTRPG when I see almost everyone....at least that's the plan.
EDIT:I just found out now (1930 on January 1st, 2023) that two of the players got their 2021 gifts last weekend!
I do have something for one buddy, but since I haven't mailed it off yet, I'm not going to mention it here lest I spoil the surprise. I could wait until June for that one too, but I won't.
Now, that's kind of a lot on what didn't happen this Christmas season, so I'll try to focus on the one dumb thing I did actually do, well kind of two things I did, but one is just random that happened while out and about in December.
Now I've managed to go to NTRPG for the last five years (not quite, but close enough for this blog) and during the year I try to support the con where I can, predominately by hunting for booze to be featured at a future Whiskey Tasting (it's becoming a thing), but also by bidding in the various Facebook auctions the con has (North Texas RPG Con Auctions). I've probably paid too much for a few items, but it helps the cons and usually it's something I really want anyway, so availability is worth the premium. I will also admit that I'll bid on stuff if it hasn't gotten much action and I don't really figure out what items are allegedly worth to begin with......
I also, evidently, do not always remember what I bid on or purchase. This last summer (?) I won a bid of an item and when it arrived I just set the package aside and promptly forgot about it. I'm not even sure how many months passed by before I realized that this was now a mystery package. When I was wrapping up my Christmas gifts, I just threw it in the stack and gave it to myself to unwrap at the family Christmas. I thought it was funny, but my family thought it was a little weird.....but let's be honest, because I game they already think that.
What did I buy, forget, and then gift myself?
Just a cover artist signed copy of Dragon Magazine #206. I have have a cover artist signed #200 already (got it signed in person at an event), and I'm rather pleased with myself. I still do not remember buying this...at all, so it was really a surprise.
The other thing was something I discovered at Half-Price Books in early December. These days it isn't easy to find gaming materials at this chain since "everybody" knows about the place, but occasionally a surprise can be found. I've been looking for some rather obscure reference materials for a family member (so not gaming related) and if I have time I'll stop in to look at the "old" book section as that's where it'd be. I had time to kill before a flight and stopped in this one HPB that has never had much for me, but it was on my way to the airport. I was surprised to find a boxed copy of the FASA Star Trek RPG from 1982. It was marked as "missing pieces" and not that expensive.....BUT it also had a sticker on it indicating that the rulebook had been signed by James "Scotty" Doohan. From what I gather the signature alone goes for 4x what the asking price for the boxed set was!
I was allowed to open it up and while I didn't do a complete inventory, the cards were unpunched and it looked like only one d20 was missing! It appears that whoever got this set only used it for the dice, which is funny to me because I remember, around that time, buying multiple sets of Basic D&D at Waldenbooks on clearance because it was cheaper and easier to get the set for the dice than it was to acquire rpg dice on their own.
So I think I had a decent RPR haul this Christmas......how did you fare?
It's the most, wonderful time of the year - it's time for OSR Christmas! I just verified, and this is officially the 10th Year for OSR Christmas. Holy Santa, but that's a lot of gift-giving!
Now, this is Day 11 of OSR Christmas (and the assigning of gifts for OSR Christmas Day 10). Sure, Christmas was last weekend, but I usually run this through Three Kings Day ;)
The following are the gift receivers from Day 10 of OSR Christmas. If you see your name below, you are being gifted. Email me at tenkarsDOTtavern at that gmail thing with "OSR Christmas" in the subject. Digital gifts need an email, and physical gifts need a mailing address.
$10 DTRPG Gift Certificate, donated by The Tavern - Worldwide - Brian S
OSR Refrigerator Magnet, donated by Thadeus Moore - Worldwide - Jax7778
Shadowdark PDFs, full set, donated by James Mishler Games - Worldwide - Rob Banks!
Arduin Map - Physical, donated by Emperors' Choice Games- Worldwide - Mike Bauer
Endless Encounters PDF (choice of B/X or 5e), donated by Pacesetter Games - Worldwide - Kevin N
The Haunted Ruins - Physical, donated by Wizard Tower Games - US Only - GMJasonGURPS
To be in the mix to be potentially gifted one of the following gifts, you need to comment below. One random gift receiver will be picked for each gift sometime on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023. So you have 3 days to get your comment in. Note: if you are outside the United States, I need you to indicate such. Some gifts are cost-prohibitive to ship outside the US. Blame the USPS, not us.
So, without further delay, the gifts in today's OSR Christmas Day 11 mix are:
$10 DTRPG Gift Certificate, donated by The Tavern - Worldwide
OSR Refrigerator Magnet, donated by Thadeus Moore - Worldwide
Shadowdark PDFs, full set, donated by James Mishler Games - Worldwide
Arduin Map - Physical, donated by Emperors' Choice Games- Worldwide
Endless Encounters PDF (choice of B/X or 5e), donated by Pacesetter Games - Worldwide
The Haunted Ruins - Physical, donated by Wizard Tower Games - US Only
Shadowdark Quickstart & Cursed Scroll (Bundle) – Print Copies – Donated by The Arcane Library – US Only - (Note: This is a different Shadowdark than above)
Tuesday or Wednesday will kick off the last day of OSR Christmas, and if you remember the initial list, we've been holding some awesome stuff for the end ;)
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I've been hearing a lot of good things said about Vaesen & Forbidden Lands in various forums and from friends. I rarely have enough time to read the gaming material I buy on a regular basis, so I've yet to plunk my hard-earned dollars for either.
Until tonight :)
18 bucks get you two solid RPGs and their support material.
Explore dual realms of tabletop role-playing
Journey into folklore and far-flung fantasy in this bundle of tabletop role-playing books from Free League!
Discover realms of Nordic horror in Vaesen, the grim RPG based on the myths of Scandinavia, plus a book of bone-chilling cases and the Mythic Britain & Ireland expansion.
Make your mark on the cursed world of Forbidden Lands, the open-world survival fantasy RPG, along with a campaign book, adventures, and more resources to enhance your party’s experience.
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Essential Enemies 1: Things From Beyond is a third party monster manual for use with Old-School Essentials and other old school fantasy role-playing games.
This zine contains the following monsters:
Astral Paladin: A mounted knight from a far-away world, summoned here to do a noble’s bidding.
Building Blocks: Cubic workers brought here to mine a magically poisonous metal.
The Crystal Kingdom: The domain of the crystal men spreads across the face of this world, consuming all before it.
The Firehorse: The spirit of living fire, trapped in a blind body of flesh.
The Iridescents: Floating spheres that poison the earth and lead to desperate cannibal behaviour.
The Light Collector: It started a cult to get its greedy tentacles on new sources of light.
The Mung Mung: Transdimensional merchants of oddities and other creatures.
Tentacle Men: They might look like men, but they are mostly tentacles.
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Yep, 2022 is wrapping up. Overall, it's been a very good year for all things Tavern. The blog is still going strong, the video channel has surpassed 1850 subscribers, and we added a Substack to highlight the video channels of our various cohosts and friends of The Tavern.
OSR Christmas has been a great success and there are still 2 days left for the gifting of gifts.
2023 will be a challenging year. I plan to get back behind the DM screen in the early part of the year, and I am tempted to participate in Dungeon23, but on my own terms. For those that don't know, Dungeon23 is a challenge to write one room of a megadungeon for every day for the next year. I'd like to change that, for my purposes, to one piece of gaming content a day for the next year. Dungeons, creatures, magic items, random events, locations, encounters - things that would be useful in an ongoing campaign, not simple time fillers.
Let's see what the next year brings...
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For some reason, whenever I type out Shadow of the Demon Lord, I was to spell "demon" as "daemon". Maybe it is because I can feel the Warhammer influences to the game.
Hero! Through unholy rites we've resurrected (for a third time!) our May 2017 Shadow of the Demon Lord Bundle featuring Shadow of the Demon Lord, Robert J. Schwalb's tabletop fantasy roleplaying game of grim heroism against a cosmic destroyer. In this fast-playing, low-prep RPG, desperate heroes battle strange magic, unhinged cultists, and roaming mobs of undead while humanity's last great empire slides toward oblivion. If you love Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, the Ravenloft and Midnight settings, Joe Abercrombie's The First Law novels, or heavy metal music, get this revived collection of DRM-free .PDF ebooks and confront the Void That Hungers – or, as star designer Kenneth Hite describes it, "Pure Spikey Caustic Red-Hot Squirming Deliquescing Rugose Gonna-Bite-Your-Fingers-Off Horned Fetid Monstrous EVIL."
For just US$9.95 you get all five titles in this revived offer's Starter Collection (retail value $42) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete 278-page Shadow of the Demon Lord corebook, the Demon Lord's Companion, the Uncertain Faith sourcebook of divine magic, and the fine introductory adventure Dark Deeds in Last Hope – and the Demon Lord Screen gives you all the charts you need.
Exquisite Agony supplement for Shadow of the Demon LordAnd if you pay more than the threshold price of $20.82, you'll level up and also get this revival's entire Bonus Collection with six more delicious gobbets of evil worth an additional $55. What's in these sourcebooks? The titles speak for themselves: Hunger in the Void, Tombs of the Desolation, A Glorious Death, Terrible Beauty, and Exquisite Agony. Plus, Tales of the Demon Lord is a collection of 11 low-prep adventures across the Northern Reach.
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It's the most, wonderful time of the year - it's time for OSR Christmas! I just verified, and this is officially the 10th Year for OSR Christmas. Holy Santa, but that's a lot of gift-giving!
Now, this is Day 10 of OSR Christmas (and the assigning of gifts for OSR Christmas Day 8). Some may ask: "where was OSR Christmas Day 7?" Day 7 was on the Tavern's Youtube Channel on the Wednesday Night Livestream and Day 9 was Friday, 8 PM, again on the Youtube Channel Livestream. Day 5 was awarded to subscribers of the Tenkar's Tavern Substack.
The following are the gift receivers from Day 8 of OSR Christmas. If you see your name below, you are being gifted. Email me at tenkarsDOTtavern at that gmail thing with "OSR Christmas" in the subject. Digital gifts need an email, and physical gifts need a mailing address.
$10 DTRPG Gift Certificate, donated by The Tavern - Worldwide - Ryan
OSR Refrigerator Magnet, donated by Thadeus Moore - Worldwide - RhinoDino1973
Shadowdark PDFs, full set, donated by James Mishler Games - Worldwide - Kelroy Was Here
Arduin Map - Physical, donated by Emperors' Choice Games- Worldwide - Jonathan
Endless Encounters PDF (choice of B/X or 5e), donated by Pacesetter Games - Worldwide - Jason Jensen
Dice Tower and Tray – Set – Archania Workshop - Note: US ONLY - Allen Hammack
To be in the mix to be potentially gifted one of the following gifts, you need to comment below. One random gift receiver will be picked for each gift sometime on Wednesday, December 28th. So you have 2 days to get your comment in. Note: if you are outside the United States, I need you to indicate such. Some gifts are cost-prohibitive to ship outside the US. Blame the USPS, not us.
So, without further delay, the gifts in today's OSR Christmas Day 10 mix are:
$10 DTRPG Gift Certificate, donated by The Tavern - Worldwide
OSR Refrigerator Magnet, donated by Thadeus Moore - Worldwide
Shadowdark PDFs, full set, donated by James Mishler Games - Worldwide
Arduin Map - Physical, donated by Emperors' Choice Games- Worldwide
Endless Encounters PDF (choice of B/X or 5e), donated by Pacesetter Games - Worldwide
The Haunted Ruins - Physical, donated by Wizard Tower Games - US Only
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Why are you here reading this?! Do you know it's Chrismahanukwanzika?
Erik and I (I'm comfortable speaking for him on this one)....and I assume Rach...want to wish you & yours a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Cool Yule....whatever it is you celebrate....even Festivus.
If you're still reading this I'm going to assume it's because you're bored, which is unfortunate....but here's some appropriate time-wasters:
I made the Christmahanukwanzika GIF above, feel free to use if you'd like to....
I answered, forwarded, and read all outstanding OSR Christmas related emails this morning. I am all caught up as far as I can tell, but there are still unclaimed gifts. If you have a gift pending and you haven't emailed me to claim it, please do. If you haven't heard from me, and you have emailed me, comment below. I dug through my spam folder and there were no OSR Christmas-related emails in it.
There WILL be a Gamers' Health Livestream tonight but at 10 PM Eastern instead of the usual 8 PM. We want to ensure we have time to spend with family AND our community.
OSR Christmas gifts will likely be awarded Monday, Dec 26th. OSR Christmas still has a few days left ;)
The DCC RPG is the only RPG I've run that had the same magic to me as running AD&D 1e. Sadly, it was short-lived, as my group didn't enjoy the rules as much as they enjoyed the adventures. Now, I convert the DCC RPG adventures I like to Swords & Wizardry on the fly.
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It's the most, wonderful time of the year - it's time for OSR Christmas! I just verified, and this is officially the 10th Year for OSR Christmas. Holy Santa, but that's a lot of gift-giving!
Now, this is Day 8 of OSR Christmas (and the assigning of gifts for OSR Christmas Day 6). Some may ask: "where was OSR Christmas Day 7?" Day 7 was on the Tavern's Youtube Channel on the Wednesday Night Livestream and Day 9 will be Friday, 8 PM, again on the Youtube Channel Livestream. Day 5 was awarded to subscribers of the Tenkar's Tavern Substack.
The following are the gift receivers from Day 6 of OSR Christmas. If you see your name below, you are being gifted. Email me at tenkarsDOTtavern at that gmail thing with "OSR Christmas" in the subject. Digital gifts need an email, and physical gifts need a mailing address.
$10 DTRPG Gift Certificate, donated by The Tavern - Worldwide - MGSherm
OSR Refrigerator Magnet, donated by Thadeus Moore - Worldwide - davrion
Shadowdark PDFs, full set, donated by James Mishler Games - Worldwide - Matt
Arduin Map - Physical, donated by Emperors' Choice Games- Worldwide - Tim Baker
Endless Encounters PDF (choice of B/X or 5e), donated by Pacesetter Games - Worldwide -
Fire in the Mohle! in PDF for MCC, donated by Silver Bulette - US ONLY - Narmer
Frog God Gift Pack - Either Splinters of Faith for 5e or an Assortment of Soft Cover Modules - Print - US Only - Trainer
To be in the mix to be potentially gifted one of the following gifts, you need to comment below. One random gift receiver will be picked for each gift sometime on Saturday, December 24th. So you have 2 days to get your comment in. Note: if you are outside the United States, I need you to indicate such. Some gifts are cost-prohibitive to ship outside the US. Blame the USPS, not us.
So, without further delay, the gifts in today's OSR Christmas Day 8 mix are:
$10 DTRPG Gift Certificate, donated by The Tavern - Worldwide
OSR Refrigerator Magnet, donated by Thadeus Moore - Worldwide
Shadowdark PDFs, full set, donated by James Mishler Games - Worldwide
Arduin Map - Physical, donated by Emperors' Choice Games- Worldwide
Endless Encounters PDF (choice of B/X or 5e), donated by Pacesetter Games - Worldwide
Dice Tower and Tray – Set – Archania Workshop - Note: US ONLY
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Bundle of Holding has been hitting it out of the park recently. Their latest bundle, 13th Age MEGA, is an amazing value for a truly well-spoken system. I have had the core book on my shelves for a number of years, and with this bundle, I think I'll complete my collection in PDF format.
Especially suited for new 13A players, this bargain-priced Megabundle gives you everything you need to run your own 13th Age campaign in the Dragon Empire. (Even if you bought our December 2015 13th Age Bundle and its December 2019 companion offer 13th Age Adventures, the six recent titles here might still entice you.)
For just US$24.95 you get all nine titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $158) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete 13th Age Core Book (plus the Free RPG Day adventure Make Your Own Luck), the 13 True Ways rules expansion, the Bestiary and Bestiary 2, The Book of Loot and Loot Harder, The Book of Ages, the introductory adventure Crown of Axis, and the Game Master's Screen and Resource Book.
And if you pay more than the threshold price of $40.66, you'll level up and also get our entire Bonus Collection with ten more titles worth an additional $172, including the supplements The Book of Demons and Book of the Underworld; the adventures Shards of the Broken Sky, Elven Towers, Eyes of the Stone Thief (plus the conversion for D&D 5E), and Shadows of Eldolan; three sets of iconic Battle Scenes (with their accompanying Map Folios) – High Magic & Low Cunning, The Crown Commands, and Fire & Faith; and the 171-page adventure Diamonds and Shadows, a collection of seven modules from the 13th Age Organized Play program available exclusively in this offer and nowhere else.
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It's the most, wonderful time of the year - it's time for OSR Christmas! I just verified, and this is officially the 10th Year for OSR Christmas. Holy Santa, but that's a lot of gift-giving!
Now, this is Day 6 of OSR Christmas (and the assigning of gifts for OSR Christmas Day 4). Some may ask: "where was OSR Christmas Day 1?" Day 1 was on the Tavern's Youtube Channel on the Wednesday Night Livestream and Day 3 was last night, Friday, again on the Youtube Channel Livestream. Day 5 was awarded to subscribers of the Tenkar's Tavern Substack.
The following are the gift receivers from Day 4 of OSR Christmas. If you see your name below, you are being gifted. Email me at tenkarsDOTtavern at that gmail thing with "OSR Christmas" in the subject. Digital gifts need an email, and physical gifts need a mailing address.
$10 DTRPG Gift Certificate, donated by The Tavern - Worldwide - Helen
OSR Refrigerator Magnet, donated by Thadeus Moore - Worldwide - The Malum
Shadowdark PDFs, full set, donated by James Mishler Games - Worldwide ShadowStalker
Endless Encounters PDF (choice of B/X or 5e), donated by Pacesetter Games - Worldwide - Lasgunpacker
Fire in the Mohle! in Print for MCC, donated by Silver Bulette - US ONLY - goeticgeek
To be in the mix to be potentially gifted one of the following gifts, you need to comment below. One random gift receiver will be picked for each gift sometime on Thursday, December 22nd. So you have 2 days to get your comment in. Note: if you are outside the United States, I need you to indicate such. Some gifts are cost-prohibitive to ship outside the US. Blame the USPS, not us.
So, without further delay, the gifts in today's OSR Christmas Day 6 mix are:
$10 DTRPG Gift Certificate, donated by The Tavern - Worldwide
OSR Refrigerator Magnet, donated by Thadeus Moore - Worldwide
Shadowdark PDFs, full set, donated by James Mishler Games - Worldwide
Arduin Map - Physical, donated by Emperors' Choice Games- Worldwide
Endless Encounters PDF (choice of B/X or 5e), donated by Pacesetter Games - Worldwide
Fire in the Mohle! in PDF for MCC, donated by Silver Bulette - US ONLY
Frog God Gift Pack - Either Splinters of Faith for 5e or an Assortment of Soft Cover Modules - Print - US Only
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The Fantasy Trip Bundle presents The Fantasy Trip, the tabletop roleplaying game designed by Steve Jackson in its 2018 Legacy Edition from Steve Jackson Games.
The Fantasy Trip is one of the few early RPGs I didn't encounter in my early days in the hobby. I was lucky enough to get an early copy of the Kickstarter Boxed Set directly from Phil Reed of Steve Jackson Games a few months before I got my Kickstarter copy. It was an impressive box. Reading The Fantasy Trip, you can see the roots of GURPS in its design.
This all-new TFT Bundle brings you a Cidri-sized lineup for an unbeatable bargain price. For just US$14.95 you get all four titles in our Core Collection (retail value $47) as DRM-free ebooks. The star attraction is the mammoth The Fantasy Trip Legacy Edition that includes Melee, Wizard, In the Labyrinth, both Death Test solo adventures, the dungeon crawl Tollenkar's Lair, and tons of extras. You also get the solo adventure Red Crypt and two play aids: the Labyrinth Planner and Deluxe Character Journal.
The Fantasy Trip CompanionAnd if you pay more than the threshold price of $25.58, you'll level up and also get our entire Bonus Collection with four supplements worth an additional $57, including The Fantasy Trip Companion, TFT Adventures Volume 1, The Book of Unlife, and the first issue of the Fantasy Trip magazine, Hexagram.
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B4: The Lost City (1982) - second copy
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From the cover:
Lost in the desert! The only hope for survival lies in a ruined city rising
out of the sands. Food, water, and wealth await heroic advent...
Up Your Game with Rubber Stamps
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This isn't a Free GM Resource, but a product, well company really, that I
think is a useful resource for the prep...
Halflings (ODD Race)
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I discovered a handful of recent stripped down D&D hacks online this last
week. One immediately jumped out at me, probably because of the old school
aesthe...
#RPGaDay2025 Day 27 Tactic
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*Witchcraft Wednesday Edition*
Dungeons & Dragons, at its roots, is a game of *tactics*.
It grew out of wargaming. Miniatures on a battlefield. Movement ...
On Bounty, Sadness
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Does it strike anyone else as odd, that we have small altars containing
stacks of rune etched stone, powered by trapped lightning, while we look at
a w...
Old John Stuart’s Mill
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Archie Fields III, Matthew C. FunkWitch Pleas Publishing5eLevel 1 Set in
the richly detailed settlement of Greenspires, a town nestled among the
elven ruin...
Stirrings
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A few years ago, in 2021, I bought a set of PoD reprints of the core AD&D2e
books from DriveThruRPG.
Many, many years ago, when it first came out, I bo...
Mythic Rivers
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Not *The *River, of course.
A typical *Mythic Bastionland* realm, following the procedure in the book,
has a navigable river. It’s an extremely fast way t...
[Fanzine Focus XL] The Travellers’ Digest #7
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On the tail of the Old School Renaissance has come another movement—the
rise of the fanzine. Although the fanzine—a nonprofessional and nonofficial
publica...
Tomb of the Blind and Deaf Dead
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So the cat is out of the bag thanks to Tobias Schulte-Krumpen, who posted
the above image to the Lamentations of the Flame Princess facebook group. I
...
Spider-Verse x Street Fighter Art
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I've shared some of Monster_Wolf's anime/Spider-Verse crossover art. Check
out this awesome Street Fighter/Spider-Verse art.
Spoonfuls of Sugar
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Maximillian asks,
"Why do you insist on saying that you play D&D when the evidence clearly
shows that D&D is about bizarre stadium shows and infantile, non...
Eyes of Idola, Part 2
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This is Part 2. Here is Part 1.
*Concept 1: Entering the Dungeon*
Descending the stairs into B1, the party reach rooms that are dark,
crowded, flooded, a...
Card Game Update
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The long awaited publication of my card game is nearing the final stretch!
I have contracted with the artist Michael Perrotta for card art that is
more in ...
The 'I Want' PC
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Readers who do not live in the dank earth beneath rocks with only woodlice
and earthworms for company will no doubt have heard of something called *K-Pop
D...
More Star Wars/Traveller ship scale
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Today’s contribution to I Made It So I Might As Well Share It. Might be
interesting or useful to someone else as well. A selection of some of the
most icon...
[BLOG] News on the March! Episode X.
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This post continues the series of brief play reports I have been posting on
Discord. This does not cover every single session (sometimes, recon and
setup...
A New Epoch: Stone and Spell...
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Why does fantasy have to be medieval? It doesn't, and our hobby provides
numerous examples (Call of Cthulhu comes immediately to mind). Great stuff;
but ...
GM Companion for Shadowdark
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Let's talk about Mr. Chubby Funster. Greg. If you go on RPG DriveThru and
check out the Shadowdark section you'll see he had three books in the top
ten....
July ‘25 In Review
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Only one month of summer to go, but I'm so ready for fall. We've had
multiple sets of near 100 degrees days, and I'm over it. Even with my cool
basement ...
Rulings, Not Rules: A Foundation, Not an Oversight
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There's been a lot of discussion over the years about how Original Dungeons
& Dragons handled (or didn't handle) the common situations you'd expect in
a ...
How I Run OD&D Combat
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Link to discussion
Over the years I’ve settled on a way to run 0e/OD&D/White Box combat that
keeps the action moving and is pretty simple, while covering...
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...
Pulp: Adventure Location: Trindade & Martim Vaz
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History is fractally interesting. Start examine any event, or following any
citation, and interesting facts emerge. But some places, for whatever
reason,...
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 ...
Blogs on Tape season 6 has begun!
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Hi everybody! Its been a minute. How are you? Everything is awful all the
time? Horrors never cease? You’re being driven mad by the weight of the
unfathoma...
Articulations
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Creating house rules, custom rules specific to a local group or campaign,
has been common throughout the history of D&D. What makes an effective
house rule...
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 ...
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...
And Now the News Draft Download on Patreon
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It's self-styled Throwback Thursday and *having just released the 34-page
draft booklet of Hill Cantons news to my Patreon backers* I am going to
indulge m...
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 ...
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