Day 5 of OSR Christmas is here. The gifts are below. To be considered for a gift, you must comment on this page before 6 PM, Monday, Dec 30th, after which gifts will be gifted.
Note - emails for outstanding gifts for OSR Christmas through Day 4 will be responded to tomorrow (Sunday, Dec 29th)
Gift 1 - Dragonlock Lost Caverns: Master Set FDG0410 ($50.00)
Gift 4 - 1 Barrowmaze Patch (ships anywhere in the world) and issues 1-4 of Wizard Funk Zine in PDF - Dicebro
Gift 5 - $10 DTRPG Gift Certificate - From Your Bartender
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Here are the Day 4 gifts being given away. If you see your name/screenname below, email me at tenkarsDOTtavern at that Gmail thing with "OSR Christmas Day 4" in the subject. In the body, tell me your screen name and the gift you are claiming. It may take a few days to catch up to all, but I'll be delving into the backlog tomorrow (Saturday, Dec 28). Gifts unclaimed within 7 days will be put back in the mix for others.
Gift 1 - FDG0351 DRAGON TILES: Caverns Core Set ($25.00) Fat Dragon Games - Jeff Bernstein
Gift 4 - 1 Barrowmaze Patch (ships anywhere in the world) and issues 1-4 of Wizard Funk Zine in PDF - Dicebro
Antonio Baena (include your mailing address with your email)
Gift 5 - $10 DTRPG Gift Certificate - From Your Bartender
ch\/\/olfgang
Gift 6 - $125 worth of Hyperborea PDFs via DTRPG - You Pick! North Wind Adventures
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I am a massive fan of the TinyD6 system for those not in the know. It is simple yet covers all the nooks and crannies you need for the various genres without going overboard. Simple and elegant.
Yep, it is OSR Christmas Day 4 (Christmas Day itself!), and we have EVEN more goodies goodness for all to partake in. I want to thank the generosity of this year's sponsors and remind folks to keep them in mind when you are seeking to spend some post-holiday gift money ;)
Note: Short turnaround on this one - to be considered for a gift, comments must be made below by 6 PM, Friday, December 27th, and the below gifts will be awarded later that night. Day 5 gifts will be posted on Dec 28th.
Gift 1 - FDG0351 DRAGON TILES: Caverns Core Set ($25.00) Fat Dragon Games
Gift 4 - 1 Barrowmaze Patch (ships anywhere in the world) and issues 1-4 of Wizard Funk Zine in PDF - Dicebro
Gift 5 - $10 DTRPG Gift Certificate - From Your Bartender
Gift 6 - $125 worth of Hyperborea PDFs via DTRPG - You Pick! North Wind Adventures
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If your name is listed below, email tenkarsDOTtavern at that gmail thing with the subject "OSR Christmas Day 3" - Then tell me who you are and what gift you are claiming. Tenkar
Gift 1 - Dragonlock Lost City of the Dwarves: Master Set FDG0411 ($25.00)
Gift 4 - 1 Barrowmaze Patch (ships anywhere in the world) and issues 1-4 of Wizard Funk Zine in PDF
Mike Bauer
Gift 5 - $10 DTRPG Gift Certificate
Haplotype
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If you are an OSR gamer, Pathfinder, or even 5e GM, there are bucketloads of goodness in FIFTY Dungeons Goodman Games Bundle. These are from the era when DCC, AKA Dungeon Crawl Classics, was a line of incredible adventures and NOT the name of an RPG.
I own much of what's included in this bundle in print and/or PDF, and it ranges from Good to GEMS! The Adventure Begins & The Adventure Continues are two of my favorite adventure compendium ever. You can't go wrong with either bundle, IMHO.
We've resurrected our May 2022 Fifty-Dungeon Megabundle with nearly five dozen tabletop fantasy roleplaying adventures in the original d20 System Dungeon Crawl Classics line from Goodman Games. From 2003 to 2007 Dungeon Crawl Classics captured the Old School Revival spirit in dozens of scenarios published for Dungeons & Dragons 3.x and its successors under the Open Game License. (In 2012, Goodman published a free-standing DCC RPG, which has a separate product line that is not part of this offer.)
This revived May 2022 offer once again presents a ton of .PDF ebooks of DCC scenarios from the entire d20 System line, arranged to ramp smoothly from 1st to 21st level. Each adventure stands alone, is world-neutral, and works great with D&D 3.5, Pathfinder, and their descendants. Written by popular designers like Monte Cook (Numenera, Ptolus) and Robert J. Schwalb (Shadow of the Demon Lord), these DCC adventures are 100% dungeon crawls, with bloody combat, intriguing mazes, and no NPCs who aren't meant to be killed. The monsters you fear, the traps you dread, and the secret doors you know must be there somewhere – they're all here, all of them, plus the Castle Whiterock campaign, the Gazeteer of the Known Realms setting books, and play aids – an incredible US$572.50 retail value for a spectacular bargain price.
For just US$19.95 you get all twenty-nine titles in this revived offer's Low-Level Collection (retail value $254.50) as DRM-free ebooks, including – wow, let's see – the two 20-adventure compilations The Adventure Begins and The Adventure Continues, plus ten scenarios for 1st-level player characters, thirteen adventures for levels 3-6, and four play aids (Dungeon Geomorphs, Interludes, the DM Screen, and Treasure Maps). These alone can occupy the busiest group of players for years.
And if you pay more than the threshold price of $40.34, you'll level up and also get this revival's entire High-Level Collection with twenty-nine more titles worth an additional $318, including the six-scenario Saga of the Dragon Cult, eight adventures for levels 7-9, eleven high-level epics for levels 10 through 21, the Gazetteer of the Known Realms setting, and the complete 700-page Castle Whiterock campaign supplement.
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Yep, it is OSR Christmas Day 3, and we have some more goodies goodness for all to partake in. I want to thank the generosity of this year's sponsors and remind folks to keep them in mind when you are seeking to spend some post-holiday gift money ;)
Note: Short turnaround on this one - to be considered for a gift, comments must be made below by 6 PM, Tuesday December 24th - Christmas Eve. Gifts will be awarded later on Christmas Eve, and Day 4 gifts will be posted on Dec 25th.
Gift 1 - Dragonlock Lost City of the Dwarves: Master Set FDG0411 ($25.00)
Gift 4 - 1 Barrowmaze Patch (ships anywhere in the world) and issues 1-4 of Wizard Funk Zine in PDF
Gift 5 - $10 DTRPG Gift Certificate
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