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Sunday, March 30, 2025

Kickstarter - Ryecroft: A Dangerous Cemetery Crawl for OSE and B/X TTRPGs (Midderlands)

I've said this before, and I'll say it again - Gylnn Seal (AKA Monkeyblood) is one of the most skilled RPG professional creators in the business. Writing, artwork, mapping, layout, you name it - he's one of the best.

Ryecroft: A Dangerous Cemetery Crawl is Glynn's latest Kickstarter. While not explicitly set in the Midderlands, it will fit right in (or likely fit most any old-school setting.)

Print plus PDF is about $52 US plus shipping.


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Saturday, March 29, 2025

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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Friday, March 28, 2025

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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