The Glatisant: Issue #77

The Tabletop Gaming newsletter from Questing Beast

Ben Milton

Jul 28, 2026

Sales

Luka Rejec’s new setting book, the Vastlands Guidebook, is free.
The Lancer RPG is 42% off in print.
So You Want to be a Game Master is 42% off.
Basic Roleplaying has a 14 PDF books for $18 at Humble Bundle.
The Pirate Borg Core Rulebook PDF is 75% off.
All of the Dolmenwood PDFs are 30% off.
Most of my books like Knave 2e are 30% off in PDF.

This Month at Questing Beast

I will be at GenCon this year! If you want to say hi, I’ll be at the Deathbringer Liveplay event on Friday at 10am.
At Questing Beast I reviewed the excellent (but frequently overlooked) card game Gudnak, comparing it to the similar game Summoner Wars.
I looked at Dungeon Inc, where you play monsters working in a megadungeon.
I tested out the Three-Round Combat rules hack, invented by Jason Tocci at Pretendo Games.
I also reviewed Jacob Hurst’s latest setting book, Shipwrecked in the Swordfish Islands, which features the new island of Marlo’s Mire. Right now if you buy a copy it on the Swordfish Islands webstore together with a Questing Beast book like Knave 2e, you get a discount on both of them plus a free Knave 2e patch!

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Reviews

Ten Foot Pole ranked five DnD adventures as “The Best” this month! Is that a record? From the review of The Lions of Tell Arn:

Dense. Complex. Thrilling. Full of awe and wonder and horror the way an exploration adventure should be. You are a FOOL if you don’t check this out. For all the crap being published, today and every year, there is always someone out there with a singular vision who drives it to completion. This is the OSR.

The Kind GM reviews my adventure collection Summer’s End.

Summer’s End and Other One Page Adventures is honestly an amazing supplement for its size, with an immense “fun density” let’s call it. Even if you don’t want to run an OSR/Knave game, it’s trivial to use it in D&D as well.

Justin Alexander continues to review Mothership’s many many trifold pamphlets. Which ones are actually worth running?
False Machine reviews the the 3e setting guide to the Forgotten Realms’ Underdark, as well as the 4e version.
Playful Void reviews Outcast Unseelie and the Ooze Between as well as Drought Dragon Desolation.

Honestly, this might be the best Shadowdark module I’ve reviewed. I like the puzzle elements, there are varied characters and interesting, the layout is clean and easy to understand. It uses the Shadowdark system well. I don’t honestly have many criticism to give. If you’re looking for something to run in Shadowdark and your players like feeling smart, Outcast Unseelie and the Ooze Between is a great next 3 or 4 sessions of fun and shenanigans.