Deal of the Day - GM's Miscellany: Wilderness Dressing (5e) (Essentially System Neutral)

The GM Miscellany series of releases is one of the best resources for any GM running a campaign, OSR or otherwise. They exemplify the ideal resource for the improved GM, and little comes close in quality.

If any GM Miscellany resource indicates a rules system, especially if it is on sale, you can easily ignore it and regard it as system-neutral.

Today's Deal of the Day is GM's Miscellany: Wilderness Dressing (5e). Usually 21.95 in PDF, it is on sale for 10.98. (until March 30th @ 11AM ET)

Tired of glossing over the details of your PCs’ overland journey (except for the inevitable, violent random encounters)? Want to add in minor features of interest to their journeys? Want to make their journeys seem more “real”? Then GM’s Miscellany: Wilderness Dressing is for you! A compilation of the Wilderness Dressing line, each instalment focuses on a different type of wilderness or a feature therein and gives the harried GM the tools to bring such features to life with interesting and cool noteworthy features.

GM’s Miscellany: Wilderness Dressing presents loads of great features and details to enliven your PCs’ travel both overland and by sea. Designed to be used both during preparation or actual play, GM’s Miscellany: Wilderness Dressing is an invaluable addition to any GM's armoury! 

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

• Wilderness Dressing: Badlands
• Wilderness Dressing: Bandits
• Wilderness Dressing: Castles
• Wilderness Dressing: Caves & Caverns
• Wilderness Dressing: Deserts
• Wilderness Dressing: Extreme Weather
• Wilderness Dressing: Hills
• Wilderness Dressing: Isles & Islands
• Wilderness Dressing: Jungles
• Wilderness Dressing: Ruins
• Wilderness Dressing: Moorland
• Wilderness Dressing: Mountains
• Wilderness Dressing: Ocean Voyages
• Wilderness Dressing: Plains
• Wilderness Dressing: Primal Forest
• Wilderness Dressing: Savannah
• Wilderness Dressing: Snow & Ice
• Wilderness Dressing: Steppes
• Wilderness Dressing: Swamps
• Wilderness Dressing: Travellers
• Wilderness Dressing: Tundra
• Wilderness Dressing: Woodlands
• Wilderness Dressing: Underwater

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Kickstarter - Emberland: the Zine of an Evolving 5e TTRPG Sandbox

 I know it says "5e" in the very title, but apparently, it is also for the OSR:

"Seven zine issues, each adding new territory, NPCs, creatures, and adventures to the evolving 5e/OSR TTRPG setting of Emberland."

So, OSR, quirk maps, and only 20 bucks? The Emberland Kickstarter is a no-brainer for me!

Built with both 5e and OSR in mind, inspired by Lovecraftian Horror, Oz & Wonderland, and a bit of The Muppets... it's Emberland.

Incorporating both a points-of-interest-hexcrawl and story-filled campaign hooks, the Emberland sandbox is designed to provide GMs with an open world that will grow and respond to player choices, and also be a setting where specific storylines (if the PCs are inclined to follow the hooks) can lead to detailed adventures. Built around a hex-crawl "points-of-interest" format, the Emberland zines will build out a world full of random encounter tables (changing with each zine to reflect the different terrains and level advancement of the characters) add specific adventures (including a Mega-Dungeon: The Work Pit), and introduce a growing number of NPCs and factions that will be at odds with the PCs.

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Deal of the Day - The Shrike (OSE Sandbox)

If I have to choose between reading an adventure and setting material, I'll almost always choose setting material. An adventure is essentially "one and done," whereas setting material can be part of a campaign to be used session after session. It's where the author's imagination truly shines through.

Today's Deal of the Day is The Shrike for OSE. It is billed as "A huge modular sandbox adventure setting in an abandoned fragment of Hell." If that isn't one hell of an elevator pitch, I don't know what is!

Usually, it is $29 in PDF, but until tomorrow morning, The Shrike is on sale for $8.70. 

What's Inside?

• 46 unique pointcrawl locations across the Shores of the Shrike, its fiery Guts, jagged snow capped Exterior, and procedurally generated depth-crawl in the surreal shifting interior of the it's heaven-harrowing Barb. 
• 3 detailed and keyed dungeons including the waterlogged Cove of Iron Coffins, the derelict Gamigin's Starforge, and an endless masquerade ball in The Palace of the Heart, ranging from low to high level.
• 5 scheming factions of the diabolic Courts and mountains of detailed NPC's
• 3 new classes. From the shapeshifting Imp, to the Forged and Rampant Partials; made from the God's blood animating detritus and abandoned objects- molded into demon designed bodies or left to grow wild and feral.
• 40+ new monsters from the eyegouger finch to the auric homunculus.
• 37 brand new peculiar magic items 
• 1 Nameless God impaled upon the Shrike's heaven-harrowing thorn, writhing and seeking escape.

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Bundle of Holding - Stillfleet (Sci-Fi RP

I'm not a huge sci-fi gamer (but I definitely play them more than Supers) but I'm far more interested in sci-fi RPGs for the fluff. The crunch is almost irrelevant. The fluff for the Stillfeet Bundle looks damn good.

Voidminer! This all-new Stillfleet Bundle presents Stillfleet, the far-future science fiction tabletop roleplaying game from the Stillfleet Studio about exploring ruined spacecraft ("hulks") and habitable Earthlike planets cut off from contact with Terra for decades or centuries. Players are voidminers, explorers working for the Worshipful Company of Stillfleeters, known simply as "the Co." Their base is the mysterious alien space station nicknamed Spindle – a kilometers-long sea slug made of undulating black stone. The Spindle is shot through with timespace gates that lead to habitable worlds. Using the flexible Grit System, you can play any sapient species from a (post)human to a giant bug, a mobile xeno-cactus, or an AI that projects an invulnerable hologram. No matter what type of voidminer you create, you'll have to contend with a venal Co. that sends you out on dangerous ventures at short notice for confounding reasons. The cosmos of Stillfleet is hilarious and horrifying – the struggles, all too real.

For just US$9.95 you get both titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $34) as DRM-free ebooks: the complete Stillfleet Core Rulebook and the nanotech-based character expansion Subtle Fluid.

And if you pay more than the threshold price of $20.29, you'll level up and also get our entire Bonus Collection with three more titles worth an additional $44, including the espionage-focused regional gazetteer Qadida, the eight-scenario anthology Peregrinations Volume 1, and the full-length introductory venture The Sleeper in the Sky.

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Kickstarter - Sickest Witch (Old-School RPG)

I got to spend some time with Justin at PAGE 2, and I will say this flat out - the quality of his books - the art, the layout, and the paper itself- is second to none. I easily spent 100 on his Mork Borg material and have yet to run a session of Mork Borg. 

Needless to say, I put $99 into the Sickest Witch Kickstarter, as that level is, by far, the sweetest spot. What do you get for 99 bucks?

Sketch Edition + Original Art from Book

Sketch Cover Limited Edition Sickest Witch Core Rulebook +PDF. Each cover will have an original art ink sketch by Justin Sirois. No two books will be the same. Only 100 will be printed and sketched on. You also get a random original piece of inked art from the book. On top of that, you get the standard edition of the book as well and all physical and digital stretch goals.

Additionally:

Pledge within the first 72 hours (before Friday March 28 at 11am EST), and all physical backers get a free Blood Property adventure zine +PDF with exclusive cover and an exclusive Sickest Witch wood mini. 

Justin had a goal of $3k - he was at over $15k when I posted this, so this is funded at then some.

Curious about Sickest Witch? Maybe you like really dark games or maybe you love witches—or both. You might just like the name. Sickest Witch is a dar, low-fantasy system and series of adventures. There are no dragons or fairies. Demonology is prevalent among the poor common folk who populate the towns. Black magic, plague, and famine are routine. But this is folk horror with a twist. 

Nostalgia is not what Sickest Witch is going for. There are many old school systems that do that great. Even though this system borrows heavily from the past, it is not looking to recreate it.

This is what sets the Severed System apart from others. Firstly, Witches have to harvest body parts to cast magic. Piece by piece, you become more powerful as you hack up your enemies. Additionally, nearly all magic points are shared in a pool named the Cauldron. This makes for somewhat tense moments as your Coven discusses what to do next. 

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Free OSR - DragonsFoot.org

Most of you know about DragonsFoot. In the days of forums and bulletin boards, before the coming and waning of blogs, places like DragonsFoot were the place to be. Say what you will about forums, but Facebook, and Discord, and X don't hold a candle to what forums often offer - a static location to upload and download files.

Are you looking for adventures for your OSR campaign and have a tight budget? Let your fingers do their scrolling at DragonsFoot, and you may be amazed at what you find, freely given to the public.

Yes, even I need to remind myself to visit Dragonsfoot on an irregular basis...

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Deal of the Day - Modern Necessities: Professional Edition (OSE)

Looking to add some modern weaponry to your fantasy OSE (or likely ANY OSR game)? You may want to run some modern-day campaigns, with or without magic and fantasy elements. Maybe GURPS just isn't up your alley ;)

If any of the above rings true, Today's Deal of the Day -  Modern Necessities: Professional Edition for OSE is the book you need for your OSR toolbox!

Normally, Modern Necessities: Professional Edition for OSE is 14.99 in PDF, but until tomorrow morning, it is priced at 8.99. Note that Modern Necessities is also available in print versions.

Modern Necessities: Professional Edition is a 3rd party supplement for Old-School Essentials that adds rules, classes, equipment and more to run your campaigns in any modern setting, including those that mix the contempary with magic and monsters. 

The book includes the following across 169 pages

• 20 modern themed classes, from soldiers and hitmen to detectives and hackers.
• Rules for giving modern traits to a small selection of fantasy races
• 60+ modern weapons, from pistols to rocket launchers and airstrikes
• Numerous firearm attachments, ammunition types, and even modifiers based on the firearm design philosophies of different fantasy cultures. 
• 15+ modern themed types of armor.
• Assorted equipment, from flashlights to aerial drones.
• Specific, named magic weapons, armor and equipment.
• Vehicle rules, including 19+ sample vehicles.
• 48+ Technomancy spells.
• 20 Psionic powers.
• Multiple modern themed enemies to do battle against.
• Rules for hiring modern themed mercenaries.
• Optional rules such as weapon jamming, weapon conditions and armor damage.
• Sample plot hooks, providing quick and simple ideas for one shots or even entire campaigns.
• Assault on Blackfang Tower: A short intro adventure set in a world hit by a magical apocalypse. Defeat the dark wizard and his armed Goblin minions controlling a small, ruined town.

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