Dolmenwood Wins Big at the ENNIES!

We'd like to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who voted for Dolmenwood in this year's ENNIE Awards. Your support means an enormous amount to us, and we're delighted to share the results.

This year, Necrotic Gnome received three Gold ENNIE Awards, one Silver ENNIE Award, and was recognised as one of the Top 10 Fan Favourite Publishers.

Gold Best Setting — Dolmenwood Campaign Book

Gold Best Cartography — Dolmenwood Maps Book

Gold Best RPG-Related Product — Beyond the Witching Ring soundtrack LP

Silver Best Monster / Adversary — Dolmenwood Monster Book

Top 10 Fan Favourite Publisher — Necrotic Gnome

These awards are a wonderful recognition of the passion, talent, and dedication that went into creating Dolmenwood since its humble beginnings at Gavin’s living room table. We’d like to thank all our collaborating writers, artists, cartographers, editors, and musicians, who have helped bring the setting to life, as well as all the players and community creators who are making it a living, breathing game every day.

We're honoured by your support, and we're more excited than ever to continue expanding the strange, fairy-haunted world of Dolmenwood.

Haven’t tried Dolmenwood yet? You can download a ready-to-run Quick-Start set for free right now!

Coming Soon: Wormskin 1

As previously teased in this newsletter, we are relaunching Wormskin, a zine dedicated to all things Dolmenwood. Similar to the Carcass Crawler series for Old-School Essentials, each issue will expand different aspects of the core game with optional content. Here’s what’s coming in Issue #1:

• If the Shoe Fits — A Dolmenwood fairy-tale
• Saints’ Days — Festivals and folklore
• New Holy Spells — The miracles of St Wynne and St Therese
• Mossling Brews — Curious beverages found in mossling settlements
• Hourly Journeying — An alternative system for tracking short journeys
• Weird Fogs — Tables for generating perplexing mists
• Barghest and Spore Corpse — New undead monsters
• The Stinking Mausoleum — A foul-smelling crypt crawl for Level 4–6 characters
  

New Dolmenwood Printing

We’ll be kicking off a second printing of the Dolmenwood core books shortly. Please let us know (summon@necroticgnome.com) if you’ve spotted any errors that we can fix. 

Dolmenwood on Roll20!

We're delighted to announce that Dolmenwood is now available on Roll20! You can now step beneath the eaves of the weird and wonderful forest and adventure with full support on the popular virtual tabletop. If you've been waiting for the perfect time to start your online game, it's right now.

You can find Dolmenwood on our Roll20 marketplace, including:

The campaign core set (ahem, ENNIE-award-winning) Campaign Book and Monster Book, plus the Player's Book.

The Quick-Start, which features the complete player rules, six flavourful pre-generated characters, and The Weaver & The Redcaps introductory adventure.

All four full-length Dolmenwood adventures:

• Winter’s Daughter
• Emelda’s Song
• The Ruined Abbey of St. Clewyd
• The Fungus That Came to Blackeswell

Old-School Essentials: Deluxe Referee's Screen and Adventure Anthology

Dolmenwood is certainly having its day in the sun, but we also have exciting news for Old-School Essentials.

First, the Deluxe Referee Screen, featuring all-new art by Benjamin Marra, is now available! You can get this sumptuous screen now from our partners at Exalted Funeral.

We’re also happy to announce that Adventure Anthology I and Adventure Anthology II are back in stock at Exalted Funeral! Get these official compilations of short adventures by seminal OSR writers and artists in solid, comforting, life-affirming physical form.

Finally, an update on Quick Delve 4: Shadows and Flesh. This low-prep, short adventure by Noah Green is scheduled for publication in late August.

Spice up your beach reading and beat the back-to-school blues with a romp through a gnoll-infested wizard's tower!

The newest supplements, videos, and other creations from the Old-School Essentials and Dolmenwood third-party communities:

• He Who Claimed the Sun, an OSE dungeon for character levels 5-8 (or a level 0 funnel), rated ‘The Best’ over at tenfootpole.org.
• Undercrawl, a Kickstarter for OSE-compatible mythic underworld travel rules.
• d12 Monthly Issue 58, with alternative rules for OSE classes.
• 3D6 Down the Line actual play video of Quick Delve #3: Against the Horselord at Between Two Cons.
• Shaggy Sage Express, a Dolmenwood scenario with garment-grabbing crookhorns and a missing mossling oracle.
• Barrow of the Five Kings, an undead-themed Dolmenwood adventure for 3rd-4th level characters.
• Under the Dolmens, Delve #3, a one-shot Dolmenwood dungeon for levels 4-5.
• Referee’s Character Add-On Pack, a collection of fleshed-out NPCs for Dolmenwood, complete with fantastic illustrations.

Creating something of your own? Our third-party licenses include everything you need to publish compatible content.

If you’d like your project highlighted in a future newsletter, send us an email (and a copy, if possible) at 3pp@necroticgnome.com