Friend of The Gaming Gang, Glynn Seal and his MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing have a new adventure release up for crowdfunding. Designed for Old-School Essentials and other OSR retroclones, Ryecroft: A Dangerous Cemetery Crawl takes players to a dark locale where the enemies at hand aren’t the undead. The Kickstarter project is already funded and you can reserve a copy of the main book, maps, booklets, and their associated PDFs for a pledge of approximately $58.00 or grab just the PDFs alone for a pledge of approximately $20.00 through April 25. Expected delivery is this October.
About the project:
A Dangerous Cemetery* Crawl Location for Old School Games
Ever since the plague and consequent razing of the abbey over one hundred and eighty years ago, Ryecroft has been left to its fate.
An overgrown and unearthly place, most that have heard of it, do their best to avoid it. Some say that the dead roam its memorial strewn grounds, but the knowledgeable believe otherwise…
Before her savage death, the old abbess swore that the dead would never rise within its boundaries, and she was mostly right.
It is not the dead that trespassers should fear. It is the things below…
*No, there’s not a load of Undead!
Ryecroft is a cemetery crawl location written for Old School Essentials and other B/X retroclones. The location can be set in any fantasy setting, and those familiar with The Midderlands setting will see occasional homages to the setting, making it easy to locate there.
The Main Book includes:
- A timeline of events.
- The detailed village of Woodchurch Eaton from which your PCs can make forays into the cemetery and recuperate. Adventure hooks table.
- Handling movement around the overgrown cemetery and random wandering monsters.
- Desecration and atonement rules for disturbing burials. Collectable items: Blueglass shards, Bones of the Saint, and Tombs of the Lost Crescent items.
- Factions within the cemetery: Woodlings, maggotkin, wormkin, the old abbess, and the golems.
- Notes on Gamemastering the cemetery. 34 specific above ground locations. 133 specific below ground locations. 27 brand new bestiary creatures. 5 new magic items and 1 new spell.
- 3 bestial playable race-classes: Grubkin, Protector Lice, and Wormancers.
- 12 tables for generating memorials.
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