Rob Conley / Bat in the Attic Games Announces Impending End of Their Judges Guild License

You can read Rob's full articles at his Bat in the Attic Blog, where he breaks everything down. https://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2022/08/concerning-judges-guild-to-all-things.html

Long story short, if you have an interest in Rob's amazing Wilderlands maps and remakes or his Majestic Wilderlands setting, you have about 2 weeks to pick them up. I strongly recommend you do so.

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Kickstarter - Old-School Solo Adventures by Gaming Ballistic (OSE)

First things first. I've known Douglas Cole for at least 9 years now. He was one of my regular players in The Tavern's "B-Team" about 7 years back, and we've remained good friends ever since. Doug is one of the most organized Kickstarter project managers I know, and I know a ton of folks that run Kickstarters. Aside from that, each Kickstarter Doug has run has been excellent to amazing in turnaround and quality of the product. The "due diligence" has been done with Doug, and he passes with flying colors.

Old-School Solo Adventures for OSE are four solo adventures for level 2nd through level 9 using the OSE rules. Yes, you can likely use the OSR ruleset of your choice without breaking anything. Additionally, if you want more OSE goodness, you can check out the Essential Classic Fantasy RPG Collection Humble Bundle for much more OSE-related titles, including the core boos in PDF.

I know the quality of Doug's work, and I don't think there is a Gaming Ballistic Kickstarter I haven't backed, regardless of the RPG system. Quality is consistent across systems. I'm in for Print plus PDF myself, and the Old-School Solo Adventures for OSE Kickstarter funded in an hour. I couldn't be more pleased.

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Humble Bundle - Essential Classic Fantasy RPG Collection

Wow.

Quite simply Wow.

I own probably half the titles in this collection in print or PDF, but for 25 bucks I'm in for those that I DON'T already own.

Highlights for me are the Lost Lands Setting from Frog God Games(awesome AND open for other publishers), Highfell (Greg Gillespie at his finest), the OSE Core Books, StoneHeart Valley (also offered in print for a grand total of $45), and a crapton of other adventures.

The Essential Classic Fantasy RPG Collection from Humble Bundle is likely a lifetime of OSR gaming for you and your group for a mere 25 bucks. Sure, you can snag it for less (or more) but 25 bucks is a sweetspot you WILL NOT BEAT. Seriously.

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Far West Kickstarter - Is This an Actual Update from Gareth?

On Twitter, of course. The real question is, will it release under 11 years late? 

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Humble Bundle - Sounds of Adventure - Doctor Who Audio Dramas

I need to confess that my Doctor Who knowledge is from the earlier series of Doctor Who when they were on PBS in my teen years and early 20s. I seem to remember lots of funny-looking (and even funnier sounding) enemy robots, but the Doctor always found a way to succeed in the end.

I've become addicted to audiobooks and radio dramas in my later years, as I find them more engaging than the written word, while still giving my imagination full range to fill in the blanks with traditional books.

So, it looks like the current Humble Bundle for Doctor Who Audio Dramas is going to be my next pick-up.

18 bucks get you 17 titles. That's nearly a buck per drama. I can dig that :)

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Kickstarter - Unleashed Arcana RPG Dice & DCC Sets along with D18s & D22s (Impact! Miniatures)

Dice. Fucking dice! They are my kryptonite. I can go weeks, even months, without looking for new ones, and then BAMN! I find cool dice that I want.

Note, I don't NEED any more dice. Shit, if I had any sort of self-control I wouldn't WANT any more dice. But I want them. They are my... precious.

Tonight I searched Kickstarter for ZineQuest. I quickly realized there were many more zines waiting to launch. So then I did a search for dice, and the first to catch my eyes was the Unleashed Arcana RPG Dice & DCC Sets along with D18s & D22s Kickstarter by Impact! Miniatures.

Again, I don't need more dice but I will be getting more dice.

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Not Really a Missed Opportunity to Grab a Book I Wanted....

I know this is late in the day and truth be told it's a bit later than I would like it to be, but I had to do a bit of travelling and some of the logistics took longer than expected.

Today started out with a bunch of promise and I was really hoping to be able to post pics of one of a new acquisition for my RPG collection: a 1st Printing of Deities & Demigods. Someone in my gaming group gave me a head's up that there was a decent copy in Denton, TX and although I had to wait a painful week before I'd be driving by Denton, today was the day.

The good news is that they had three copies of the Deities & Demigods book, but they were from the 2nd/3rd printing. Now I am not 100% sure if this checks out (I'm sure someone here will set me straight if I'm wrong), but it has been explained to me that the 1st printing had the Cthulhu mythos in it, with no "Thanks Chaosium" statement in it. The 2nd printing did have a thanks statement and the 3rd just removed the Cthulhu mythos altogether. 

I think that's well documented enough, but what I heard, and could be 110% bullshit, is that the 2nd and 3rd printings are really the same print run. Somewhere along the line of the second printing they basically stopped the presses and inserted (however that happens) the new whatever-it-was-they used (plates?) and started the presses up again. It was all one print run, just broken up what was actually printed and shipped.

Anyway, this store had two of the 2nd edition(?) and one 3rd. One looked pretty good, but they actually penciled in the price on the front leaf page. WTF, who does that? I get it in some rinky-dink mom & pop booth at an antique mall, but a bookstore with a no-shit "rare book" section that's not only locked but you need a fricken escort? The other one had a huge ugly ownership label badly glued to the inside cover. The real problem was that they wanted $170 each for what was at best a Very Fine (and I doubt they'd actually make that grade) copy.

That was way overpriced for what they had, enough that I wasn't even willing to bother to see if they'd come down. IIRC that value was more than a Near Mint copy.

I did end up finding a Endless Quest D&D book I didn't have and a couple Blu-Ray/4K movies, but the hunt for a 1st printing Deities & Demigods continues on for another day.....