Carcass Crawler 5 In Development!
We hope you’ve finished all your holiday leftovers because here’s a fresh feast of fantasy fodder for your gaming table!
The next installment of Carcass Crawler is cooking as we speak! Sprinkled with delectable game content across 32 pages, the next official zine for Old-School Essentials is planned to feature:
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New character classes and races: Including the changeling and the ratling.
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Expanded poisons: Detailed descriptions for the nine standard poison types, plus new varieties to ingest, inject, insinuate, and more!
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Weapon materials: Craft weapons of silver, bone, or bronze, with unique properties.
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Magic sword traits: Add flavour to the classic sword +1 with minor magical quirks and customisation tables.
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Cantrips: Minor magicks for apprentice spellcasters, perfect for low-level adventurers.
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Level 0 characters: Create "normal human" characters for NPC retainers or funnel adventures, complete with backgrounds and name tables.
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Freshwater monsters: Eight terrifying creatures that lurk in rivers and lakes, ready to challenge your party.
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Up Chaos River: A thrilling short adventure where level 0 characters travel up a chaos-infested river to save their village.
Written by Gavin Norman, Chance Dudinack, and Brad Kerr, with cover art by Jacob Fleming, Carcass Crawler Issue 5 is set to surface in mid-2025. Watch this space for sneak previews and pre-release tidbits!
Hungry for more official OSE content? Order previous issues from Exalted Funeral and DriveThruRPG! A second print run of Issue 4 is in progress and will be available by the end of January.
Third-Party Spotlight: Essential Enemies Bundle of Holding
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For just $17.95, you’ll get all nine DRM-free titles in the Enemies Collection (a $95 value), plus Dungeon Robbers From Outer Space—a standalone RPG. Don’t miss this deal!
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