The Necrotic Gnome Store opens this month! Plus, new art and merch!

Necrotic Gnome Store Opens Sept 29th!

The wait is almost over! On September 29, you'll be able to buy Old-School Essentials, Dolmenwood, and future Necrotic Gnome releases directly from our own online store.

Here’s what to expect:

• We’ll have most OSE and DW products available from launch.
• Some books are being reprinted and will be available soon.
• New products will debut first on our store before being available from other outlets.
• A super-secret surprise product is in print to make its debut on the new store! Hint: a lot of people have been asking us for it.
• As well as game products, we’ll also be selling merch and collectibles.
• The store will initially only handle orders within the US, while we consult with the sages on international sales tax, customs, and other arcane topics.

We're looking forward to welcoming you to the new store very soon!

OSE Quick-Start Cover Reveal

In our previous newsletter, we announced details of the upcoming free Old-School Essentials Quick-Start.

The OSE Quick-Start is a pack of 2 PDFs:

• Player’s Quick-Start: an introduction to the old-school play style and core rules, plus 7 pre-generated characters.
• Referee’s Quick-Start: referee guidance, a ready-to-play introductory adventure, and some background on the Plains of Fnaan campaign setting.

Now, we can also reveal the Player’s Quick-Start cover art by Jacob Fleming, inviting fledgling adventurers to descend into the unknown…

Get ready for new adventures this fall!

Now Crowdfunding: Necrotic Gnome Plushie!

For years, our grubby company mascot has watched you from book covers, mysterious and unapproachable. But what if it could take physical form? Watch over your stack of grimoires? Guard your treasure room? Coldly judge your dodgy dice rolls? Well, wonder no more...

We invite you to join a grand summoning ritual, in collaboration with Your Plush, to bring the Necrotic Gnome into the material plane and teleport him straight to your door.

All you have to do is pledge your power to this crowdfunding campaign. This mighty mascot is rumoured to grant a +2 to saving throws vs. death and disintegration to all those within 15’, which is a steal for $29.99—keep it close!

The Old-School Essentials and Dolmenwood communities continue to produce a wealth of imaginative adventures and supplements. Here are a few recent releases:

• Gary’s Appendix Issue #10, all about demons and devils–a great companion to the Demonic Grimoire and OSE Demon Month adventures, including A Ritual Most Foul and A Delving Most Dark, now all available on DTRPG!
• The Matriarch of Verzogen Vald, an PWYW OSE adventure for levels 3-6 with an enchanted wood, a green dragon and a missing prince.
• Lies at the Bell Tower, a low-level OSE dungeon crawl inspired by real-world catacombs in Napoli, Italy.
• The Curse of the Crimson Wake, a new OSE adventure by Parallel Dimension Gaming, in pre-launch crowdfunding.
• Valley of the Green Knight, a low-level OSE adventure inspired by Arthurian legend.
• The Temple of Inquinatious Evil, an upcoming crowdfunding campaign by Luke Gygax and Gooey Cube for an OSE- and 5e-compatible grimdark adventure.
• Three Brothers Blackroot, a Dolmenwood adventure set in Brackenwold’s  underworld.
• A thorough, in-depth review of Dolmenwood one-and-a-half years on, by Eldritch Exarch Press.
• Original Art by Andrew Walter, including some OSE and Dolmenwood pieces.

Interested in publishing compatible content of your own? Our third-party licences provide the tools and guidance to help you get started.

If you’d like your adventure to be featured in a future newsletter, you can submit it (with a PDF copy, if possible) to 3pp@necroticgnome.com