Pre-order Carcass Crawler 5 + sneak preview inside!

Pre-Order Carcass Crawler 5 Now!

The latest issue of Carcass Crawler, the official Old-School Essentials zine, is almost here—and you can pre-order it now! Even better: you’ll receive the full PDF immediately, so you can start exploring the new content before the physical release.

Inside, you’ll find:

• New Classes & Races – Including the shape-shifting changeling and the tunnel-dwelling ratling.
• Expanded Poisons – Detailed rules for nine classic poison types plus eleven new varieties to inject, ingest, or apply in devious ways.
• Weapon Materials – Forge weapons from silver, bone, or bronze, each with unique properties.
• Magic Sword Traits – Customise basic +1 swords with magical quirks and flavourful traits.
• Cantrips – Minor magicks perfect for apprentice spellcasters and low-level adventurers.
• Level 0 Characters – Create "normal humans" for funnel adventures or NPC retainers, complete with name and background tables.
• Freshwater Monsters – Eight fearsome river and lake creatures.
• Up Chaos River – A thrilling level 0 funnel adventure where villagers brave a chaos-tainted river to save their home.

Written by Gavin Norman, Chance Dudinack, and Brad Kerr, with striking cover art by Jacob Fleming, CC5 is at the printers (in the US) and on schedule to hit retail in June.

Pre-order from Exalted Funeral to get the PDF instantly and be ready when the physical release ships!

NB: Missed out on previous Carcass Crawler issues? Carcass Crawler 3 is being reprinted, so sign up for alerts on the Exalted Funeral site to be notified when it’s available!

Carcass Crawler 5 Monster Preview

What horrors lurk in the depths of ancient lakes, noxious swamps, and raging rivers?

Feast your eyes on the Grindylow and the Weretoad, two of the freshwater fiends featured in Carcass Crawler 5:

Would you like to see more? Watch YouTuber bobothemagicone’s flip-through review of a home-printed PDF.

Adventure Anthology 1 & Carcass Crawler 4 on Fantasy Grounds

Two more Old-School Essentials titles—Adventure Anthology 1 and Carcass Crawler 4—are now available on Fantasy Grounds! Expand your digital tabletop game with these tight, thrilling dungeon crawls and new rules for OSE.

OSR Advanced Player Options

Looking to bring new depth and customisation to your OSE campaigns? OSR Advanced Player Options compiles years of content from Third Kingdom Games (of Populated Hexes Monthly fame) in a single volume packed with new character options, mechanics, and world-building tools.

Discover:

• Prestige classes with an old-school twist
• New class options (including monks, necromancers, and parrot-folk!)
• Ritual spells
• Magic item crafting
• Rules for founding temples and harnessing divine power
• Guidance for running play-by-post games.

Explore new adventures, supplements, and live crowdfunding campaigns from third-party Old-School Essentials creators.

Check out:

• Savage Scavengers, a resource for alchemy derived from monster parts.
• Tales Forlorn, a collection of new rules and adventures, including a solo scenario.
• Arden’s Adventures, a scenario against a fearsome froggy foe.
• Arden’s Notebook, new rules supplements to use with Arden’s Adventures.
• Old School Epic’s actual play video through Shrine of the Oozing Serpent.
• Indestructoboy’s video on adventures featuring dragons, including fan-favourite OSE scenarios by Gavin Norman, Chance Dudinack, & Brad Kerr.

Have something in the works? Share it with us for a chance to be featured in an upcoming newsletter: 3pp@necroticgnome.com

Arms and armour to enter and entertain.

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Warhammer +1, Knocker

Single-handed but hefty, it imparts a sense of curiosity and excitement.

• Knock, knock: The wielder can use Knocker to open stuck or locked doors or containers. On the first use each day, the target is opened silently. On subsequent uses, the target is opened with a loud noise, alerting nearby creatures. Knocker does not disarm traps.

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Gladiator’s Harness

Deceptively revealing light armour set complete with spiked gauntlet. Forged to honour an ancient area champion, still infused with their prowess.

• Are you not entertained? Usable only by classes capable of wearing metal armour. Protects as +1 chainmail (AC 4 [15]). If not bearing a shield, wearer can make an additional attack each round with the spiked gauntlet (as +1 dagger).
• We who are about to die: Once per day, when wearer would be brought to 0hp or fewer, they are instead restored to 1d4+1 hp.

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