Old-School Essentials at ZineQuest!
It's nearly ZineQuest time again! (For those who've not come across it before: ZineQuest is a celebration of RPG zines run by Kickstarter in February of each year.)
Old-School Essentials ZineQuest Projects
There are some fantastic Old-School Essentials supplements and adventures being cooked up for ZineQuest this year. Below is a list of all projects that currently have a pre-launch page / blog post:
Brewkessel: School of Spellcraft and Sorcery: 62 years ago, Brewkessel vanished in a flash of lightning. Now it has returned, its halls full of monsters and treasure.
The Child Thieves: Rats! Sewers! Sacrifice! An Old-School Essentials adventure module from the team that brought you Octhorrorfest!
Creature Feature Quarterly Vol. 5 -for use with- OSE: A monster zine for the OSE/DnD crowd. 16 new monsters with lots of fluff to read, adventure seeds, paper miniatures and VTT tokens.
Curse: The City of One Thousand Martyrs: A systemless RPG zine for ZineQuest 3, exploring the maledicted city of Curse. Old-School Essentials stats now unlocked.
Dreaded Diseases & Amusing Afflictions: A zine made for #zinequest containing maladies both mundane and magical. For use with Old-School Essentials and similar OSRs.
Fresh from the Forge: A content package for Old-School Essentials, adding rebalanced weapons and random weapon generators!
Harrowings #03: MUSPELHELL: A heavy metal dwarven dungeon adventure to steal your soul! Powered by OSE!
The Haunted Hamlet: Four low prep modular locations to drop into your game.
Horrors of the Sepulchre: An old-school horror themed deathtrap dungeon zine adventure.
In the Shadow of Tower Silveraxe: A classic fantasy roleplaying adventure module zine for use with Old School Essentials or Basic/Expert classic fantasy rules.
Into the Wild: A supplement for wilderness exploration and domain management for OSR-style tabletop games.
The Last Valley: This secluded valley has remained hidden from the world for centuries, overtaken by a corrupt cult. What will become of it?
The Many Crypts of Lady Ingrade: A series of short, deadly adventures. Crypts created out of Lady Ingrade's hatred of tomb raiding adventurers.
Old School & Cool Volume 2: An OSR Zine for Old School Essentials.
Planar Compass: Issue 2: Traverse the astral sea discovering bizarre opportunities and dangers in the second issue of this Old-School Essentials zine!
The Soul Sword Forge: A tarot themed adventure module for Trophy Gold and Basic/Expert D&D.
Wild Blue Yonder: A fantastical travel guide designed for use with Old School Essentials or Basic/Expert classic fantasy rules.
Zine 3 Pack of Futuristic Post-Apocalypse and Fantasy: Your choice of 3 zines! For use with DCC RPG, MCC RPG, and Old-School Essentials.
Spreading the Word
Once ZineQuest launches, we'll publicise the list of OSE projects on Necrotic Gnome social media / communities.
Me Too!
If you're working on something for Old-School Essentials, please let us know about it (email summon@necroticgnome.com) and we'll add it to the list above!