Necrotic Gnome and Exalted Funeral have been working on something wondrous. You may have heard rumours that something big is brewing. You may have seen various teasers I've posted. You may even have seen tasty-looking renders of mysteriously nameless products. All will now be revealed!
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Coming to Kickstarter soon: Old-School Essentials: Advanced Fantasy!
Advanced Fantasy
As part of the Old-School Essentials Kickstarter in 2019, we produced the first two books in the Advanced Fantasy line (Advanced Fantasy: Genre Rules and Advanced Fantasy: Druid and Illusionist Spells). These two books build on the content of the core Old-School Essentials game, adding new spells and character options inspired by AD&D, all carefully adapted to the power and complexity levels of the Basic/Expert game which OSE is based on.
We're now ready to complete the set, with the addition of a horde of 120 AD&D-inspired monsters and a hoard of 140 AD&D-inspired magic items.
Tomes and Modular Books
All of the Advanced Fantasy content will be available in two forms:
- Modular books: Like a set of slim books to pass around at the table? This is the option for you. The complete set of Advanced Fantasy books consists of the following, building on top of the core Old-School Essentials books in the Black Box: Advanced Fantasy: Genre Rules, Advanced Fantasy: Druid and Illusionist Spells, Advanced Fantasy: Monsters, Advanced Fantasy: Treasures.
- Chunky tomes: Like everything compiled? This is the option for you. The complete Old-School Essentials Advanced Fantasy game compiled into two massive tomes — one for players and one for referees. Together, these tomes form a complete game, compiling the core Old-School Essentials game with the new Advanced Fantasy material.
(Some people are probably asking at this point "why two tomes? why not put everything in one tome?". The reason is simple: if we compiled all of the player's and referee's content into a single book, it'd be over 2 inches thick. With a digest sized book, this is just unusable.)
So How Many New Books is That?
This will be a monster project! Check out what we're going to produce:
- Advanced Fantasy: Monsters: A 56 page book containing 120 AD&D-inspired monsters statted for Old-School Essentials.
- Advanced Fantasy: Treasures: A 56 page book containing 140 AD&D-inspired magic items statted for Old-School Essentials.
- Advanced Fantasy: Player's Tome: A 240 page tome containing the core rules of the game, 13 character classes, 10 character races (with rules for race-classes and separate race and class), 200+ spells (cleric, druid, illusionist, and magic-user), full lists of equipment, vessels, mounts, and hirelings, and rules for stronghold construction.
- Advanced Fantasy: Referee's Tome: A 250+ page tome (page count not yet finalised) containing 300+ monsters and nearly 300 magic items, along with guidelines for refereeing and adventure design.
What's more, the tomes will be available in two editions: a standard edition and a collector's leatherette / foil-stamped edition.
And That's Not All!
We're also going to produce a set of brand new adventure scenarios for Old-School Essentials! We're engaging a crack team of renowned authors to each write an adventure for OSE. If you've been waiting for more official OSE adventures, the wait will soon be over!
There will also (of course!) be a tantalising selection of stretch goals, add-ons, and extras!
Alright Just Show Me the Pictures!
Ok, here we go. Product mockups!
Standard edition tomes, with art by Peter Mullen.
Collector's edition leatherette tomes, with foil stamp art by Andrew Walter.
Modular books, with art by Stefan Poag. (The cover art for Advanced Fantasy: Treasures isn't quite finished yet, so no mockup of that one.)
When, Where, What, How???
I imagine there may be a lot of questions racing through people's minds right now. We'll be releasing more details over the coming weeks. We don't quite have the launch date for the Kickstarter lined up yet, but it'll be some time in August*. Rest assured, we will blast out updates on this project from the highest towers in all social media platforms!
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- Old-School Essentials Facebook group
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- Necrotic Gnome Facebook
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(* we're waiting for the big shipment of Necrotic Gnome stock to arrive with Exalted Funeral in the US before we launch into this next project.)
36 comments
Good time of the day, Gavin. Each of your books, without exception, causes me attacks of admiration. And in honor of this news, I have a question about the content of the book. In the two-book version of the complete collection of classic and advanced fantasy, will the gorgeous art from the previous books be used, or will absolutely all the illustrations be new? Thanks in advance for your reply. I apologize if there are mistakes in my question – I do not know English at the proper level.
>I wish there was. The first box has space for the two first module books. Where should I put the last two ones? :D
There’s going to be a lot more OSE books in the future! They won’t all fit in the box ;)
> No there are currently no plans for further boxed sets beyond the core Black Box.
I wish there was. The first box has space for the two first module books. Where should I put the last two ones? :D
>will there be a new box with box art to put these new books in for storage like the first kiskstarter?
No there are currently no plans for further boxed sets beyond the core Black Box.
will there be a new box with box art to put these new books in for storage like the first kiskstarter?