The Glatisant: Issue #66
Hundreds of new free adventures, and the secrets of WotC revealed!
It’s time for the monthly link roundup! I’ve been sick for the past week, so there was no new Questing Beast video. I’m feeling a bit better now, so hopefully things will be back to normal next week or the week after that. If you want to support the channel, consider becoming a premium subscriber here or a supporter on Patreon.
Sales
DriveThruRPG has a sale on Horror RPGs that’s ending very soon, check it out before it’s gone!
The West Marches Campaign Playstyle Guidebook is on sale.
Crypt of the Devil Lich (DCC) is 40% off.
Humble Bundle has a sale on the The Witcher RPG: $15 for $170 worth of books.
Reviews
Bryce at Ten Foot Pole declares two adventures to be The Best this month: Turn It Off and Mana Meltdown. From the the Turn it Off review:
This sixteen page adventure describes a lighthouse with seven rooms. It has TOP NOTCH atmosphere, providing a foreboding and eerie environment. There is a level two and level three baddie to face, the former keepers, and then the world ends. So, you know, maybe some pacing issues in what is quite the atmospheric adventure.
Playful Void reviews A Perfect Wife by Zedeck Siew.
If you are a fan of Siew’s writing, this is amongst his best work. The only modern-set module I’ve read of his, it brings an immediacy and precision that makes this feel more imminently runnable and understandable from a thematic and geographic perspective. I am very, very keen to get this to the table, even though I don’t typically enjoy playing in modern settings.
Rise Up Comus examines how Moria is presented in three different Middle Earth RPGs.
Jorphdan’s Jocular Junction reviews the Ballads of Oræd setting for OSE.
Weird Place explains how to play Break!!
The Dungeon Dive looks at a number of Old-School games that received deluxe editions, including my game Knave.
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Game News and Culture
Knave 2e (Premium Edition) has been reprinted and is now available on the Swordfish Islands webstore! Only 500 copies of the new silver-foiled cover have been printed.
The Appendix N Jam is over, and now there’s 226 new adventures based on pulp fiction titles for you to peruse!
Goblin Punch has released a new (free!) dungeon: The Mouth of Mormo.
Someone sent me this incredible time capsule of pre-5e D&D: a documentary about what game mastering was like in the 4e era.
The best awards are awards put out by one guy with good taste, so here’s the Ramanan Sivaranjan Awards for Excellence in Gaming 2025.
Zzarchov Kowolski explains how Lovecraft’s fiction is a perfect fit for RPGs.
Speaking of which, Grognardia interviews Mike Mearls on his work adapting the Cthulhu mythos for 5e, and interviews Sean McCoy on the Lovecraftian inspirations behind Mothership.
Ben Riggs recorded an excellent talk he gave at GenCon that explains what’s been happening behind the scenes at WotC, based on extensive interviews he’s conducted with ex-employees. Essential viewing.
Theory and Advice
Among Cats and Books: Running Mythic Bastionland
cryptickeyway: More Monster Metamorphoses, Please and Should Party Pace Be a Player-Facing Mechanic In More Games?
Murkmail: Hyperclusters
Grognardia: Story Isn't the Enemy
Dice Goblin: Why The **** Am I Reading RPG PDFs On My Computer?
Joseph R. Lewis: Writing RPG Adventures: Interactivity
Dungeon Merlin: A Pattern Language for (OSR) Adventure Design
Blog of Forlorn Encystment: Dealing with NPCs Should Be Expensive and Irritating
Goblin Punch: A Dungeon of Your Own (Part 1) (Part 2)
Viridian Void Productions: Minimum Viable Person
Idraluna Archives: The Mapping Game
Cats Have No Lord: The Onegeon Manifesto
Worldbuilding
Mindstorm: Sicko Worldbuilding
Revivify Games: The Overachiever’s Guide to Lazy Hexcrawl Building
I Cast Light: DOWNTIME DEMANDS OF SENTIENT WEAPONS: Or The Care & Feeding of Excalibur
Sam Sorensen: 1d20 Diegetic Rules, 1d20 Hypo-Diegetic Rules
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