OSR Christmas Day 11 (and giving gifts for Day 10)

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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Humble Bundle - Vaesen & Forbidden Lands from Free League

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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Deal of the Day - EE1: Things From Beyond (Essential Enemies #1)

I like zines. I also like Old School Essentials. A Zine for Old School Essentials is right up my alley.

EE1: Things From Beyond (Essential Enemies #1) is just that, and until tomorrow morning it is marked down from its usual 10 bucks in PDF to 4 bucks. Print plus PDF is 17.

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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End of the Year Wrap Up for 2022, Tavern Plans for 2023, and what is this Dungeon23 Thing?

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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Bundle of Holding - Shadow of the Demon Lord

 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.

In any case, Shadow of the Demon Lord is one hell of a dark fantasy RPG. The core rulebook reads well, and it's a damn shame I've yet to get to play a session of it. For 9.95, the SotDL Starter Collection is a steal!

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.

The Tavern is supported by readers like you. The easiest way to support The Tavern is to shop via our affiliate links. 

DTRPG, Amazon, and Humble Bundle are affiliate programs that support The Tavern.  You can catch the daily Tavern Chat cast on Anchor, YouTube,  or wherever you listen to your podcast collection. - Tenkar  

OSR Christmas Day 10 (and giving gifts for Day 8)

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

The Tavern is supported by readers like you. The easiest way to support The Tavern is to shop via our affiliate links. 

DTRPG, Amazon, and Humble Bundle are affiliate programs that support The Tavern.  You can catch the daily Tavern Chat cast on Anchor, YouTube,  or wherever you listen to your podcast collection. - Tenkar  

Happy Chrismahanukwanzika

 

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....