Cover Reveal: Quick Delve #2 + New OSE Sheets, Solo Gamebooks, & More!

Quick Delve #2: The Grotesques’ Grotto Cover Reveal

When an earthquake unseals the long-buried temple of the wild god Iakos, whispers of visions and ancient treasure draw witch hunters and adventurers alike. Four royal witch hunters entered and never returned. Now the way lies open. Dare characters brave the delirium-haunted ruin, discover the witch hunters’ fate, and claim what lies within?

Our second Quick Delve is slated for release at PAX Unplugged / Black Friday. Check out the fantastic cover by Simon Underwood for a visual tease of what lies within:

Written by Amelia Luke, The Grotesques' Grotto is a fast (1–2 sessions) crawl through sinister temple ruins for 2nd–4th level characters. Designed to be easy to drop into an existing campaign and run with minimal prep. Get ready for grotesquery this autumn!

Character Sheet Update

We’ve made a few small updates to our downloadable character sheet for Old-school Essentials for your convenience.

Changelog:

• Single sheet design supports Ascending and Descending AC.
• Added space for character race.
• Added spaces for foraging and hunting adventuring skills.

Happy camping to adventurers of all races!

Carcass Crawler 5 Review

Still haven’t got the latest issue of Carcass Crawler? Using last season’s uncustomised generic magic sword? All the cool changelings are casting cantrips and brewing poisons by the river without you!

Perhaps this savvy pipe-smoking chap can convince you with a comprehensive video review. (Small spoiler: It’s a “must have”). 

Carcass Crawler 1 on Foundry VTT

Virtual adventurers, rejoice! Following its debut on Fantasy Grounds, the first issue of Carcass Crawler is now available on Foundry VTT.

Enjoy new classes, races, and expanded rules for fighters and thieves on the virtual tabletop of your choice!

OSE Gamebooks!

A treat for solo players, classic paragraph-hopping gamebooks are making a comeback! Here’s a couple of recent releases that leverage the OSE rules for gripping page-turning adventures where YOU can be the hero.

Hearts of Steel by Andrea Tupac Mollica places you on the path of vengeance as a young knight betrayed by his brother. With 68 pages containing 132 entries, this gamebook promises tough, meaningful choices in a Nordic fantasy setting.

Island of Fury by Paul Partington is a hefty 268-page tome (with 510 sections) that takes your character (or a choice of pre-gens) through an adventure inspired by Celtic myth as a simple courier job leads to sinister plots, faerie realms, and a cursed island defended by giants and hags.

The lone wolf is eating good with these latest adventures, but if you’re hungry for more, don’t forget that Gaming Ballistic previously released four solo OSE gamebooks, available in print + PDF!

New adventures, Kickstarters, and supplements for OSE and Dolmenwood:

• Mushmen Adventure Double Feature, with two very different adventures highlighting dragons as well as dungeons!
• Inn to the Deep, a boxed set of four adventures, complete with battle maps.
• Magic Compendium Companion, a free OSE expansion with classic magics (inc. high-level spells) inspired by the first edition of fantasy roleplaying’s heyday.
• Relics and Ruins, an old-school dungeon crawl now in print.
• The Mountain of Power, a pamphlet adventure featuring an electric lich.
• Dungeon Style Character Sheet, a fresh record layout for your hapless explorers.
• The Barrowbogey’s Lair, an introductory adventure to Dolmenwood.
• 3D6 Down the Line return to Dolmenwood with a free introductory video—more coming for Patreon subscribers!

Have you been brewing up your own OSE or Dolmenwood material for publication? Send it to 3pp@necroticgnome.com!