As you may have heard, the first issue of the official Old-School Essentials zine, Carcass Crawler, is in development. I'm very happy to announce that the writing is now complete and illustration in under way!

Free 7-Page PDF Preview

As a taster of what's coming up in the issue one, here's a 7-page preview, including the table of contents, the introduction, and the first two pages of the Character Classes article, giving an overview of the five new classes in this issue.

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When is it Going to be Published?

We don't have an exact publication date as yet, but check out our "coming soon / in development" page for up-to-date information on the status of the zine (and lots of other projects!).

Articles in Issue One

• New classes: Five new character classes! The acolyte, the gargantua, the goblin, the hephaestan, and the kineticist.
• New races: Three new character races for Advanced Fantasy games! The gargantua, the goblin, and the hephaestan.
• Advanced armoury: New types of armour and weapons inspired by the Advanced 1st Edition rules and the 1984 Companion set.
• Black powder weapons: Complete rules for introducing renaissance-style black powder firearms into your game!
• Fighter combat talents: Optional rules to give fighters a little extra mechanical perk.
• d6 thief skills: An optional alternative system for thief skills.
• Adjudicating thief skills: Optional guidelines for adjudicating the use of thief skills and attempts by other characters to perform similar tasks.