The Glatisant: Issue #69
Deep Black Friday discounts on RPGs and boardgames!
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Black Friday RPG Sales
All of the print copies of my RPGs (including the Premium Edition of Knave 2e) are 30% off until Monday (PDFs are included)! Physical copies don’t usually go on sale, so grab them while it lasts.
Jacob Hurst’s edition of Jack Vance’s novel Wyst: Alastor 1716 is also 50% off.
Exalted Funeral also has some crazy steep discounts on physical OSR RPGs. Make sure to use the coupon code QUESTINGBEAST at checkout to get an additional 10% off of any books that they publish, on top of the Black Friday sale. Standouts include the Ultraviolet Grasslands bundle, The Land of Eem Combo bundle, the OSE Advanced Referee’s Book and the Dolmenwood Core Books! (There seems to be a glitch on their website where it sometimes adds 2 copies of a book to your cart, so watch out for that).
ALL of Patrick Stuart’s print books are 50% off, just use the discount code HOHOHO. Useable once per email address, expires Christmas day.
Humble Bundle is selling 25 Dungeon Crawl Classics books for $12.
Amazon has a big selection of boardgames and RPGs on sale, some up to 45% off. I’ve been stocking up! I especially recommend Heat, Splendor, and Mysterium.
DriveThruRPG has a ton of PDFs on sale (including some of my games). Here’s the whole sale, and here’s just the OSR books.
This Month at Questing Beast
MAZE KNIGHTS, the evolution of my Maze Rats RPG, is getting revived. Questing Beast supporters will get updates as it develops!
On the channel, I reviewed WotC’s new setting guide Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerun. I don’t normally review official 5e material, but I was curious to take a look at the current state of adventure design in 5e. Despite some layout improvements, I was not impressed. This one sparked a lot of debate on the RPG and DnDnext subreddits. Jorphdan even posted a rebuttal video!
I also reviewed the 2nd edition of the landmark OSR setting Yoon-Suin, the spaceship-building book An Infinity of Ships, and a collection of new dungeon adventure zines.
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Reviews
TenFootPole gives “The Best” to Manic at the Monastery.
Professor Dungeon Master at Dungeon Craft reviews Chris McDowall’s Mythic Bastionland.
Ram at Save vs. Total Party Kill reviews Trench Crusade, Space Gits, and MAC Attack. It’s great to see him wring long-form reviews again.
Playful Void reviews the Oubliette megadungeon zine.
News and Gaming Culture
Early Wyrm pricing is still available for Green Dragon Fest, the convention where you can play in games run by your favorite YouTuber gamemasters like Baron De Ropp, Professor Dungeon Master, Bob World Builder, and Kelsey Dionne! I’m planning on attending the next one as well. The price goes up on January 1, so reserve your spot now.
Among Cats and Books has put together an enormous interactive map of the TTRPG blogosphere. You can see how different blogs group together, and even how the network has evolved year by year. A really incredible feat.
Mothership’s text-based MMORPG Over/Under has concluded, and the stories emerging from it are wild. Onslaught Six explains one event, The Chokespawn Incursion. Valeria Loves explains How to Replicate Over/Under.
Chris McDowall has fired up his podcast again, discussing obscure tabletop games with guests like Luke Stratton (Pirate Borg), Amanda Lee Frank, and Cole Wehrle. I’ve been having a great time with these.
Weird Place looks at the history of play-by-mail games.
Legend of the Five Rings has started a series looking back at 30 years of the game. So far Part 1 and Part 2 have been released.
In 1994, a player videotaped his experience at a Magic: The Gathering tournament.
Zedeck Siew released a free RPG where you play a Chapter Serf, a lowly servant of a Space Marine chapter doing the menial work of keeping all those candles lit.
Seth Skorkowsky breaks down all three waves of RPG Moral Panic.
Theory and Advice
Mindstorm: Pocket-sized Powder Kegs
Dododecahedron: The OSR Onion
All Dead Generations: Dungeon Design Note: Obstacles Support Exploration
Prismatic Wasteland: I’d Rather Be a Mouse Than an Elf
Rise Up Comus: Stepladder Tables
Widdershins Wanderings: Play Style Preferences: The Hand You Are Dealt
Matt Colville: Community
goblin.zone: Making Hacking an OSR-style problem
Sage’s Sanctum: Expand the Possibility Space and My Hole Theory of Interesting Combat
Subjunctive Moods: Unfair Initiative
The Alexandrian: D&D: Designing Backwards
Rotten Pulp: Mythic Dungeons
Bastionland: Ludum ex Ludo
Dice Goblin: You’ve Met Me At A Very Flux Time: More Flux Dungeon Thoughts
Mythic Mountains Folk Gaming Blog: An epic Classic Traveller campaign of 17 players all at once?
SPGD: Meaningful Player Choice
Worldbuilding
Spiceomancy: 24 Sun Gods
Beneath Foreign Planets: d20 dungeon critters you can just snatch up and gulp down
Rise Up Comus: d10 Special Doors
False Machine: Currencies of the Dark
Throne of Sale: The Polyps
I Cast Light: LAW, ORDER, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Gameable Suggestions from English Medieval Law
The Greatest Poster in the World: 1d10 martial arts manuals found in the Stygian Library
Wifies: Searching for a World that Doesn’t Exist
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Can’t wait to hear more about maze knights!
Really like the link map.
Peter Bebergal has an Appendix N anthology out. Mini review here.
https://randallhayes.substack.com/p/appendix-n