The Glatisant: Issue #70
Knave 2e adventures, the Bloggies, and Too Many Borgs
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Sales
Paizo is selling 34 Pathfinder books for $30.
Andrew Kolb’s setting books Neverland, OZ, and Wonderland are all deeply discounted right now in print. Wonderland is under $15 for the hardback!
Jon Peterson’s magisterial Playing at the World 2e, Part 1 is 25% off.
Free League’s CY_BORG is 20% off.
Justin Alexander’s So You Want To Be A Gamemaster is 36% off.
The Troika! RPG is 72% off.
All of the Dungeon Crawl Classics Lankhmar books are 50% off, like the Boxed Set, Tome of Adventure, The House of Jade and Sorrow, and The Greatest Thieves in Lankhmar.
Almost everything at Frog God Games is 50% to 75% off, including the megadungeon Rappan Athuk.
This Month at Questing Beast
On the channel, I reviewed The Dark Crystal, a complete RPG/Setting that followed up the Labyrinth RPG that I worked on. Turns out it’s really good! Unfortunately it sold out and is unlikely to be reprinted, but physical copies might still be found at places like eBay and the PDF is still available.
I also reviewed the Dolmenwood Core Books and all of the new adventures for the setting!
Sorry for the lack of bonus posts recently, I’ve been working on a new dungeon in the background! More info coming soon…
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Reviews
Justin Alexander reviews a ton of Mothership zines over two posts. A common theme seems to be adventures with cool high concepts, but which simply aren’t developed into something playable.
Valeria Loves reviews The Menagerie of Unbearable Things, a monster book by the author of Crown of Salt.
Playful Void reviews Turn it Off, a module for Knave 2e!
I think Turn It Off slaps. This is precisely what I’m looking for in a one-shot. I do think it might do better with pre-generated characters, particularly given the hopeless outcomes associated with the devil’s bargains your characters are forced to make. If you’re looking for a one-shot and your table is one that takes delight in hard decision making, then I wouldn’t hesitate to pick Turn It Off up.
Wyloch’s Armory reviews Shadowdark!
Professor Dungeon Master reviews his top picks for the best TTRPGs of 2025.
News and Gaming Culture
Dave Thaumavore interviews Sam Sorensen, the creator of the Over/Under megagame experiment that took the RPG world by storm.
Primastic Wasteland has a free dungeon: The Keep on the North Pole.
The Bloggies, the yearly celebration of excellence in RPG blogging, is coming back! Submissions open on January 1.
But prior to the Bloggies we have the Gloggies! These are awards for blog posts from within the sub-sub…sub community that focuses on Goblin Punch’s The Goblin Laws of Gaming. Confused? Don’t worry, it’s still fun to read all the nominations, as they point you towards lots of great posts.
Weird Place has the game show I’ve always wanted: “Is This a Borg?”
Theory and Advice
Grinning Rat: Just tell them what they need!
Puzzle Dungeon: Mastering the Puzzle Dungeon Through Challenges and Lessons
The Dododecahedron: The OSR Onion and Crossing the Dungeon Rubicon
Murkmail: The only 12 NPCs you need
Blog of Forlorn Encystment: B1 and Toyetic Dungeon Rooms
Skeleton Code Machine: Everything is pointcrawl!
Explorer’s Design: The Jackian Magic System
Sam Sorensen: Sam’s Three-Question Taxonomy and Ten Intangible Tips for Development Editing Your RPG Manuscript
cryptickeyway: Dungeon Rooms are Nouns, Dungeon Corridors are Verbs
Was It Likely?: the most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen
Save vs Total Party Kill: Advice for Running a Hexcrawl, A Decade Too Late
Kill it With Fire!: Level Titles as Quests
Worldbuilding
cryptickeyway: An Even Closer Look at the Medusa: Seven More Variant Gorgons
Murkmail: Let’s burn down Dolmenwood
Daniel Sell: Relics of the Saints
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