New OSE Adventures, VTT Updates, and OSE at the ENNIES!

New OSE Adventures, VTT Updates, and OSE at the ENNIES!

Necrotic Gnome

Quick Delves Coming Soon!

We’re delighted to announce a brand-new ongoing product line for Old-School Essentials: Quick Delves!

What’s a Quick Delve?

  • Short adventures designed for just 1–2 sessions of play
  • Perfect for side quests, one-shots, and convention games
  • Easy to slot into any existing campaign
  • Minimal prep required—one page of background, adventure hooks, NPCs, and factions gets you straight into the action
  • Clear, easy-to-read area descriptions
  • Staple-bound zine format, around 16–20 pages, with maps printed on the inside covers

We aim to publish several Quick Delve adventures each year. Once enough are out in the wild, we’ll collect them into beautiful hardcover compilations similar to Adventure Anthology 1 and 2.

Quick Delve #1: Milk

Our first Quick Delve is Milk, penned by Vasili Kaliman with illustrations by DC Stow.

In a vast lake of milk beneath a distant mountain, merfolk confectioners have long crafted the world’s finest chocolate truffles. Suddenly, their operations mysteriously cease as shady merchants flood the markets with cheap imitations. Can brave adventurers uncover the truth behind these sinister sweets?

Designed for 2nd–4th level characters, Milk is heading to print very soon! Keep an eye out for updates in this newsletter.

Old-School Essentials Updated for Foundry VTT v13

Good news for virtual adventurers: Old-School Essentials has been updated to support Foundry VTT version 13! A new maintainer is expertly handling the OSE system and premium modules, fixing long-standing errors, and preparing exciting updates. 

Premium content is moving to the Foundry Marketplace for easier access, and future plans include ongoing support for the current and previous Foundry VTT versions, monster tokens with classic OSE art, new Carcass Crawler modules, and more adventures.

Find out more about our plans for OSE on Foundry in this blog post.

Get OSE for Foundry VTT

Adventure Anthology 2 on Fantasy Grounds

Oops! In our last newsletter, we prematurely announced the release of Adventure Anthology 2 on Fantasy Grounds VTT. Unfortunately, it wasn’t quite ready last week. We apologise to anyone who eagerly clicked the link.

However, now we can confirm that this fantastic collection of adventures is live on Fantasy Grounds! FG users can enjoy:

  • Barrow of the Bone Blaggards (Lv 1–3) – Encounter skeleton bandits and buried secrets in an ancient barrow.
  • Shrine of the Oozing Serpent (Lv 1–3) – Slay a grease dragon lurking in a ruined gnomish forge-temple.
  • Cathedral of the Crimson Death (Lv 4–6) – Infiltrate a plague-ridden church turned tyrannical in search of treasure—or justice.
  • The Ravener’s Ghat (Lv 6–8) – Brave a cursed jungle ruin where a rakshasa overlord’s presence still lurks.

Get Adventure Anthology 2 on Fantasy Grounds

OSE Nominees at the ENNIES!

It’s that time of year again, and once more, OSE is making a strong showing among the ENNIE nominees!

Voting for the 2025 ENNIE Awards is now open. Naturally, we’d be thrilled if you would nominate Necrotic Gnome for Best Publisher! Don’t forget to support some fantastic third‑party OSE titles up for awards too:

How to vote: Head to the ENNIE site from 11–20 July to cast your vote! Let’s come together and help give these brilliant OSE titles the recognition they deserve.

Vote!

Check out fresh adventures and supplements crafted by the vibrant OSE community:

Working on something exciting? Send it our way to be featured in a future newsletter: 3pp@necroticgnome.com
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