The Knave 2e Adventure Jam is in full swing with over 400 creators writing new modules. Only 7 days left!
Sales
Lots of big RPG sales over at Humble Bundle, including ones for Warhammer 40k, Pathfinder 2e, Goodman Games, and The Lost Works of Gygax. Get over $1000 worth of books for $25!
A large number of early D&D modules are 25% off, such as The Keep on the Borderlands, The Lost City, In Search of the Unknown, The Palace of the Silver Princess, and Against the Cult of the Reptile God.
Reviews
Ten Foot Pole give “The Best” to four new OSR adventures: Treasures of the Necropolis, Through Ultan’s Door #2, Slug House, and Beneath the Moss Courts. From the review of Through Ultan’s Door:
It has about 31 rooms, pretty tightly packed, with a rich and evocative descriptive style in rooms that each contain a variety of interactivity, without it feeling like set pieces. Delightfully baroque and pushes the edges of what a pure text format can deliver . . . Rich language, great traps, encounters, roleplaying possabilities. Problems with no immediately visible solutions but what the party devises.
GREAT adventure.
The Playful Void reviews the new adventure The Dream Shrine by Brad Kerr.
The Dream Shrine is an exceptional 1-shot for any table that enjoys puzzle-based play. There are a few caveats though: If you’re running it as part of your regular campaign, the anachronistic, dream-state humour here may not be a great fit; on the other hand, it’s in a dream, and if you provide warning, it might just be right for an off-kilter evening.
Technical Grimoire reviews the pub-crawl adventure Barkeep on the Borderlands.
Barkeep is damn good. It’s a masterclass of setting a very specific tone and reinforcing it with each random encounter.
Grognardia reviews the new LotFP hexcrawl A True Relation of the Great Virginia Disastrum, 1633.
Disastrum is exceptionally well done. It’s the Masks of Nyarlathotep of Lamentations of the Flame Princess, in that it takes all the usual ingredients of a LotFP adventure and sharpens and heightens them to such a high degree that, after playing this long, open-ended scenario, you'll feel as if you've done LotFP.
Sly Fourish does a deep dive into Knave 2e (starts at 19:50).
At Questing Beast, I take a detailed look through Completely Unfathomable, the compendium of Operation Unfathomable and The Odious Uplands, finally released after 7 years in Kickstarter hell.
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News
Ian Yusem reports that World of Game Design is unlawfully selling his books. In a follow-up, he also states that WOGD is refusing to pay him for the books they sold.
On GGNORE, the group struggles to survive the Cloister of the Frog God.
People Make Games investigates the resurgence of real-world wargaming.
Rules, Theory, and Advice
Sam Sorensen: What Does a Work Not Need?
Goblin Punch: Lessons from Elden Ring Part 1 and Part 2
Zzarchov Kowalski: The forgotten element of adapting Dark Souls
Sam Sorensen: Ten Tangible Tips For Editing Your RPG Manuscript
Playful Void: Eight Intangible Tips for Editing Your TTRPG Manuscript
Mazirian’s Garden: Good Lore/Bad Lore
Levi Kornelsen: The Problem of Roleplaying
Rise Up Comus: How to write new abilities
Traipse: Pushing Buttons
Loot the Room: Form and Structure: The DNA of Adventure Modules
Kill it with Fire!: Old School Saving Throws as Milestone Advancement
The Alexandrian: How to Prep – The Haunting of Ypsilon-14
Zedeck Siew: GNS is not a Theory; it is a Tradition
Questing Beast: What’s the worst adventure you’ve played in?
Worldbuilding
James M. Spahn's RPG Musings: The Hobbit Alone
Tolkien naming his characters:
Castle Floor Plans from across Europe.
Dungeonfruit: Fit For A King (50 Magical Wizard Robes)
Benign Brown Beast: Two Flavors of Horror and Six Anomalous Media
The Alexandrian: Mothership: Pseudomilk Parasites
Throne of Salt: Star Wars Movies that Don't Exist and Never Will
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