[Shadowdark] The Shadowdark RPG Kickstarter is Live!

The Kickstarter for the Shadowdark RPG by The Arcane Library is now live!

Click here to go to the Shadowdark Kickstarter.

This is the best new RPG since Moldvay/Cook Basic/Expert Dungeons & Dragons.

It is the perfect expression of Old School feel with Modern RPG system design.

Check out those simple stat blocks!

Check out the AMAZING stuff you can get out of the gate with the Kickstarter!

There is already a bunch of support for Shadowdark by Third Party Publishers, and the Shadowdark 3PP License is simple, easy, royalty-free, and IRREVOCABLE.

I've already published three supplements and an adventure for Shadowdark... click here to check them out!

Advanced Labyrinth Lord Kickstarter!

Goblinoid Games has finally launched the Advanced Labyrinth Lord Kickstarter!

 

From the Kickstarter:

 

Advanced Labyrinth Lord

 

Labyrinth Lord was first published in 2007, and for over 10 years has been one of the premier old-school "retro-clone" games. Its wildly popular supplement, the Advanced Edition Companion, adds all of the "advanced" first edition options for Labyrinth Lord, all while keeping compatibility with the B/X basic fantasy game.

 

For the first time, Labyrinth Lord and the Advanced Edition Companion will be seamlessly combined into one volume! Fans have been asking for this for several years, and it is my pleasure to make it happen! All of the basic and advanced options, magic items, and monsters will be brought together under one cover for easy reference.

 

Here are some facts about the combined book:

• This is not a new game.
• This is simply a combined book.
• You will still be able to separate "basic" from "advanced" game options.
• Much interior art will carry over from the original books, but new interior art will be featured in addition.
• This combined book does not replace the current separate books. Those books will remain in print.

Cover Options and Realms of Crawling Chaos

There are 4 cover options available to backers. The first two will be available after this Kickstarter campaign is over, but the other two are limited and available in this Kickstarter only! These last two covers hearken back to earlier cover versions of Labyrinth Lord.

 

In addition, for the first time ever and only available now, Realms of Crawling Chaos is presented in hard cover format as a backer add-on!

Click here to go to the Advanced Labyrinth Lord Kickstarter!

[Kickstarter] Goblinoid Games "Burial Plots" for Cryptworld!

Goblinoid Games has started a Kickstarter for a new supplement for Cryptworld: Burial Plots, a collection of five adventures written by Tim Snider of The Savage AfterWorld! Several levels to pledge enable you to not only pick up Burial Plots, but also pick up one or more of the Pacesetter games and/or supplements: Cryptworld,  Majus, Rotworld, Timemaster, or Monsters Macabre (NB, I contributed to Monsters Macabre, but I am not financially involved in any way with this Kickstarter or the Pacesetter games).

 

COVER ART: Jethro Lentle

 

INTERIOR ART: Brian Thomas

 

BURIAL PLOTS includes five adventures for the CRYPTWORLD Horror Role-Playing game. They are also for use with the original Pacesetter edition of the horror role-playing game CHILL.*

 

The adventures are:

 

Condition Critical

Dr. Howard Eastman has called a press conference at his remote research facility to announce a medical breakthrough that will “eradicate human illness and suffering forever.” But what if the cure proves to be worse than the disease?

 

Unquenchable

Three days ago, a group of hunters failed to return from their annual deer hunt near Akron, Ohio. Your team of expert trackers and investigators has been brought in to assist in the search. But there seems to be an undercurrent of unease amongst the police who whisper of a disturbing discovery they’ve made. Is there something sinister lurking in the forest?

 

Death in the Dust

In 1888, the silver-mining boomtown of Weaver, Arizona, was abandoned after a series of unexplained disasters, and the town was left to crumble in the desert sands. Today, the former ghost town has been revitalized as a historical attraction. Is history about to repeat itself?

 

Forget-Me-Not

Horrific axe murders recently committed in Oregon's Tillamook State Forest are identical to those committed by the legendary "Paul Bunyon Butcher" 40 years ago. However, the original killer – now elderly and feeble – remains behind bars. Has a copycat killer surfaced, or is this the work of something even more sinister?

 

It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

The Christmas season is typically a time of peace on Earth and goodwill toward men. But one THING has decided to make this year's Yuletide visit to relatives a horrific holiday from Hell.

 

CLICK HERE FOR THE KICKSTARTER

[C&C] Return to the Haunted Highlands Kickstarter

The Troll Lords have a new Kickstarter up, this time for Casey W Christofferson's Return to the Haunted Highlands. It is a complete campaign setting designed for use with Castles & Crusades. Casey does some great work, and this builds upon a long series of excellent adventures placed in the Haunted Highlands. You should definitely check this out if you like Castles & Crusades or classic fantasy campaign settings! 

Here are the details:

The Castles & Crusades Return to the Haunted Highlands includes everything you need to start a game in the Haunted Highlands. Return to the Haunted Highlands Kickstarter includes two books (and possibly more) and a Map.

The Castle Keeper's Guide to the Highlands, 200+ pages: Includes all relevant setting material, adventures (DB1-DB6 expanded and updated), new monsters and more.

A Players Guide to the Highlands, 76+:  includes racial variants, class specializations, new spells, magic and more (also includes expanded and updated material from the Black Libram).

Maps: 12 x 18 full color Map of the Haunted Highlands.

The Haunted Highlands

Upon the bloody northern marches lies a curious Roadhouse. Here are gathered the flotsam of the world: miscreants, mercenaries, soldiers of fortune, adventurers. Dirty Bowbe's Roadhouse they call it, and it's as rough and safe a sanctuary as any will find in those dark and bloody grounds!

Once, long ago, a Kingdom thrived here and the wealth of its coffers flowed across the lands as honey from a jar. From the deep, blue waters of Lake Veyona to the broken crags that overlook the Northern Steppes the King ruled a realm, both prosperous and contented.

But all things must end. And the wages of war and plague overwhelmed the King and his people and ground all to ruin. And the days of the Highland Kingdom are long past so that now nothing but memories remain . . . memories and their shadows.

Or so such tales are spun by the hearth fire at Dirty Bowbe's Roadhouse to any and all who pass through, for that legendary tavern lies at the center of the world.

To the northeast of Dirty Bowbe's lie the ruins of Bortenski and the hazardous wastes known as the Witch Moor. Beyond that, the village of the Ugashtan and further still lay the broken crags of the Mythnoc Cairns where the proud barbarian people once buried their cherished dead. More, there are the trees of the Grove of the Green Man, the Crater of Umeshti, the Fey Wood and Troll Downs, the Free City of Eskadia, land ripe with the forgotten or lost treasures of a realm long passed.

These are the Haunted Highlands

Industry nominated, award winning author Casey Christofferson has long been a part of the Castles & Crusades experience. With over 30 RPG books to his credit he knows the genre and craft well. Crusaders have enjoyed the Haunted Highlands for years, wanting only for more. Now with Return to the Haunted Highlands, Casey delivers that with a punch.

Click here to check out Return to the Haunted Highlands