IN DEVELOPMENT: Old-School Essentials Quick-Start

Coming November 2026 in free PDF! (Print to be released at a later date.)

An adventure-packed set of two 44-page PDFs introducing players to Old-School Essentials. Available as a free download.

Player's Quick-Start

• 7 ready-to-play characters, each with gorgeous portrait art.
• An introduction to the old-school play style.
• The basic Old-School Essentials rules, including dungeon exploration, encounters, combat, and magic.
• Fully illustrated adventuring gear, weapons, and armour.
• Useful appendices, including a glossary, tips for successful adventuring, common mapping symbols, and a guide to old-school RPGs for players coming from newer games.

Referee's Quick-Start

• Advice on setting up a gaming group, organising games, and running adventures.
• A complete introductory dungeon adventure, The Mud Shrines of Lorgg.
• Tons of advice on making rulings and handling common adventuring situations.
• An introduction to the Plains of Gnaron campaign region that thousands of players have glimpsed in the classic OSE adventures The Hole in the Oak and The Incandescent Grottoes.
• A beautiful full-colour map of the Plains of Gnaron.
• Suggested additional OSE adventures to run an ongoing campaign in the Plains of Gnaron.

Learn more about Old-School Essentials here.