Select Necromancer Games and Frog God Games are on sale for 50% off. Most of the titles are for collectors, since they are older d20 publications.

On the other hand, if you are new to Necromancer Games, and don't mind converting from 3e, then I suggest the following three bundles:

• Necromancer World Collection (Bard's Gate, Rappan Athuk, Tomb of Abysthor, Demons and Devils, Crucible of Freya)
• DM's Library Package (Tome of Horrors, Tome of Horrors II, Tome of Horrors III, Tome of Horrors Revised, Mother of All Treasure Tables, Mother of All Encounter Tables, The Wurst of Grimtooth's Traps, Eldritch Sorcery)
• Necromancer Kenzer & Co. Adventure Bundle (Family Affair, Coils of Set, Doom of Listonshire, Elemental Moon, Tower of Jhedofar, The Six Spheres of Zaihhess, Shades of Grey, The Diamond Fortress)

The sale runs until November 4th.

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The creators of Castles & Crusaders are discounting their whole catalogue until end of this week. Although I don't run their system, I use some of the adventures as well as system neutral aids.

Adventures

• Goblins of Mount Shadow A messy module with plenty to pull out of. Fey focused. Bryce's review.
• A2 Slag Heap. Villages & factions. Bryce's review.
• A9 The Helm of Night. Besiege a fortress of evil. Bryce's review.
• S4 A Lion in the Ropes. Slow horror. Bryce's review.
• Lost City of Gaxmoor (digital and isometric maps). A city that was gone for a thousand years reappears. Of course it's full of shit that wants to kill nosy adventurers. Plane of chaos breach the reality from time to time.
• The Long Valley. Valley surrounding Gaxmoor.
• Chaos Touched. Additional random encounters for chaos breaches. Intended to be used with Gaxmoor, but can be adapted for any area.
• Undercaverns of Gaxmoor (maps). This one progresses timeline quite a bit, returning Gaxmoor into the hands of good. I just used it to steal what is underneath.
• Bluffside City on the Edge (maps). I like cities. A bit dense, but full of stuff to use. Eight districts & undercity.
• Bluffside: Right Under our Noses. A free adventure set in Bluffside.

Supplements

• Engineering Dungeons. A nice small supplement for randomly generating dungeons.
• Engineering Castles. Another brief, but useful supplement. It does not generate the internal floor plans, but rather the type of castle, inhabitants, and environs.
• Towers of Adventure Master. 15 empty towers.
• Arms and Armor. One can never have enough armaments.
• Book of Names. Not as good as Judges Guild Treasury of Archaic Names, but I still found some I liked.
• Storyteller's Dictionary. Since I'm not a native speaker, I appreciate having fantasy-focused dictionary.
• Storyteller's Thesaurus. Same as above.

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25% on many titles. Here are few I'm happy to recommend to all OSR Judges, sorted by publisher. Most of the books bellow are settings and procedures, which makes it easy to take out elements you find interesting and use them in your game.

Arduin

Dave Hargrave was a mad man. A very creative mad man. You might never play Arduin as written, which just like Palladium Fantasy was a bunch of AD&D 1E house rules, but you will walk away inspired like never before.

• Arduin Trilogy. Compiles Arduin Grimoire Vol 1, 2, and 3. I still use special ability charts presented herein.
• Arduin II. A first attempt to make a functional, stand-alone game after TSR and Gary turned on anyone who dared hack it.

Palladium Books

Palladium Books is a troubled publisher, but I still have a soft spot for their early fantasy work. Black and white illustrations galore!

Palladium Fantasy RPG 1E

• The Palladium Fantasy® Role-Playing Game Revised Edition. This was basically a bunch of house rules for AD&D 1E. I'd never play it as-is, but love reading it for inspiration. Many cool ideas, from occupations to different take on alignment, and so on.
• Palladium RPG Book II: Old Ones. My favourite of the lot. Plenty of fully fleshed out settlements with lovely maps.
• Palladium RPG Book III: Adventures on the High Seas.
• Palladium RPG Book IV: Adventures in the Northern Wilderness.
• Palladium RPG Book V: “Further” Adventures in the Northern Wilderness.
• Palladium RPG Book VI: Island at the Edge of the World.
• Palladium RPG Book VII: Yin-Sloth Jungles. My second favourite. Monstrous cities!

Weapons, Armours and Castles

These are illustrated guides to various weapons, armours, and yes, castles, one might use in their fantasy game. I love thumbing through them for inspiration.

• The Compendium of Weapons, Armour & Castles. If you are getting only one, get this.
• The Palladium Book of Weapons & Armor.
• The Palladium Book of Weapons & Castles.
• Weapons & Castles of the Orient.
• Weapons & Assassins.
• The Palladium Book of Exotic Weapons.
• The Palladium Book of European Castles.

Chaosium

A well known publisher of Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, and Pendragon. Although I'm not interested in their rules, I've always been fascinated by Glorantha.

Glorantha

These are all modules from the first edition era. Just how I like them.

• Apple Lane. Memorable “beginner” setting.
• RuneQuest Old School Source Pack.
• Pavis. A fully fleshed city.
• Big Rubble.
• Griffin Mountain.
• Cults of Prax. One of the best takes on religion in fantasy.
• Cults of Terror.
• Trollpak. Very interesting take on Trolls.
• Borderlands.

Goodman Games

Goodman Games might be best know for their Dungeon Crawl Classic system, but I love their system neutral supplements, as well as opulent re-releases of cherished classics. I like most of the stuff written by Michael Curtis, whom also authored the amazing Stonehell megadungeon.

Modules & Settings

• Dungeon Crawl Classics Lankhmar Boxed Set. The classic done right.
• Castle Whiterock. If you ever decide to limit yourself to only one adventure book in your life...
• Points of Light. Sandbox in the Wilderlands style. Written by Robert Conley, a Wilderlands veteran.
• Points of Light 2: The Sunrise Sea. Sandbox in the Wilderlands style. Written by Robert Conley, a Wilderlands veteran.

Supplements

• The Dungeon Alphabet. Spice up your dungeons!
• The Monster Alphabet. Spice up your monsters!
• Random Esoteric Creature Generator for Classic Fantasy Role-Playing Games and their Modern Simulacra. Spice up your monsters 2!
• The Adventurers Almanac. Spice up your campaign!
• Grimtooth's Ultimate Traps Collection. Spice up your traps!
• How to Write Adventure Modules That Don't Suck. Spice up your writing!

Hack & Slash Publishing

• On Downtime and Demesnes. Bunch of downtime procedures.
• Artifices, Deceptions, & Dilemmas. Illustrated environments-
• Bestial Ecosystems Created by Monstrous Inhabitation. Expanded bestiary.

Columbia Games

Columbia Games publications don't go on sale so often.

Harn has beautiful, well thought out materials that are usable with many fantasy systems. The maps are gorgeous and personalities are fleshed out just enough to drop them into any world without too much fuss.

Below are select brief supplements I found useful:

• Heraldry.
• Cities & Towns.
• Law.
• Guilds.
• Lia-Kavair (Thieves Guild).
• Inns of Harn.
• Herblore.
• Potions.
• Tomes and Scrolls.

Two crunchier, but amazing resources are:

• HarnManor. Detailed procedures and guidance on creating and managing a manor.
• Pilots' Almanac: Maritime & Piloting Rules.

Campion & Clitherow

Weather? Weather! Never worry again. Never.

• SEVEN YEARS OF FANTASY WEATHER Volume 1: Medieval England.
• SEVEN YEARS OF FANTASY WEATHER Volume 2: The Iceland of the Sagas.
• SEVEN YEARS OF FANTASY WEATHER Volume 3: Indea.
• THE ALMANAC OF FANTASY WEATHER Volume One: SWORDS & SORCERY.
• THE ALMANAC OF FANTASY WEATHER Volume Two: EUROPE.

True Mask Games

Factions? Factions! Never worry again. Never.

• Invisible Hands – The Book of Factions.
• Pawns in a Greater Game – The 2nd Book of Factions.
• Unseen Strings – the 3rd Book of Factions.

Geoffrey McKinney

Seriously, for less than $10 you can get material that will last you a lifetime whenever your players decide to go somewhere you haven't prepared for. As a bonus, below supercharges B1 and B2.

• Mike's Dungeons.
• Mike's Dungeons: The Deep Levels.
• Mike's World: The Forsaken Wilderness Beyond.

Simon Forster

What, you want more variety than in Mike's dungeon. “Production qualities?” Well then you are in luck, because Simon Forster has written splendid digest-sized books of lairs:

• Book of Lairs.
• The Book of Lairs: Urban Encounters.
• Vale of the Iron God: the Third Book of Lairs.
• Book of Lairs: Abandoned Places.
• Book of Lairs: People & Places.
• Book of Lairs 6: Desolation.
• Book of Lairs: Dungeons.

Autarch

Autarch is the publisher of Adventurer Conqueror King System, marvellous system built on B/X chassis. It offers superior take on domain management, race-as-class, functional and tightly integrated economy, and plethora of play-tested options for ambitious Judges and adventurous Players.

Rules

• Adventurer Conqueror King System.
• ACKS Player's Companion. Includes the best class-building instructions.
• Heroic Fantasy Handbook. If you want to play as Aragorn, Gandalf, Tarzan, Conan—you name it—then this is the book to get.
• Barbarian Conquerors of Kanahu. Barbarians, insects, and robots.
• Axioms Compendium 1-8. Rules variants and options compatible with TSR and OSR systems.
• Lairs & Encounters. Every monster gets a write-up. Some get a map as well. Includes tables on monster parts, because every game has at least one player that wants to butcher a hydra.
• ACKS Domains at War: The Complete Set. Mass warfare rules that work.

Adventures

All adventures, except Dwimmermount, are set in Auran Empire, which is an ACKS setting. I've found all the adventures superb and easy to adjust (and steal from). AX3 has some great tables for urban dwellings.

• AX1 The Sinister Stone of Sakkara.
• AX2 Secrets of the Nethercity.
• AX3 Capital of the Borderlands.
• AX4 Ruined City of Cyfandir.
• AX5 Eyrie of the Dread Eye.
• AX6 Sepulcher of the Sorceress-Queen.
• Dwimmermount (Labyrinth Lord version) (dungeon tracker, map book, and illustration book). A masterclass in megadungeon information. I've only read it, and plan to place it in my campaign.

Expeditious Retreat Press

The first publisher of OSRIC material. A lot of good stuff, but I picked few of more generic offerings I often use.

• Malevolent and Benign. Monsters.
• Malevolent & Benign II. More monsters.
• A Magical Society Aggressive Ecology: The Slaver Fungus. Ecology as a monster.
• A Magical Society Aggressive Ecology: The Undead Leviathan. More ecology-as-a-monster.
• The Halls of Arden Vul Complete. The best megadungeon to date. And the best item to finish this list.

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Goodman Games has put up their whole 3E catalogue for sale. Most of these, and especially The Complete Guides, are almost system neutral.

Yes, they have the 3E statblocks, but core of the texts focus on the flavour, descriptions, and similar, rather than purely mechanics. I found them rather easy to steal from.

With that being said, here are some of my favourites:

• Underdark Adventure Guide. Guidance and ideas to get inspired with when making Underdark work. Includes few random tables, and several locations as well.
• Complete Guide to Beholders. Who could say no to more Beholder fluff? Plus, they make for great additions to any underdark.
• Complete Guide to Liches. Interesting Lich variants. Doesn't read like a poor copy of DMGR7 or REF5.
• Complete Guide to Doppelgangers. I always appreciate more ideas for these underutilised adversaries.
• Dungeon Crawl Classics Presents: Blackdirge's Dungeon Denizens. What can I say except that I'm a sucker for discounted bestiaries.
• Lethal Legacies: Traps of the World Before. Sixty non-gimmicky non-instant-TPK traps.
• Aerial Adventure Guide: Sky Captain's Handbook. Itching to run a sky-based campaign? Then this one will help you.
• Dungeon Crawl Classics #51: Castle Whiterock. A mega-dungeon and mega-campaign, all rolled in one 800-page tome.
• DM Campaign Tracker. Even if you don't use the forms as-is, they might inspire you to create your own.
• How to Write Adventure Modules That Don't Suck. Want to publish an adventure and free online advice isn't enough? Well, here is some paid advice then!

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Lamentations of the Flame Princess books are on sale until Tuesday May 16th. Some of my recommendations are:

• Veins of the Earth
• Carcosa
• Isle of the Unknown and Dungeon of the Unknown
• Broodmother Skyfortress
• Adventure Anthology
• The God that Crawls
• The Monolith beyond Space and Time
• Random Esoteric Creature Generator for Classic Fantasy Role-Playing Games and Their Modern
• Staffortonshire Trading Company
• Rulebooks (pick the free ones as well)

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The first publisher of OSRIC adventures and supplements is having a 60% sale to celebrate their 20th anniversary. Plenty of good stuff to wade through. Here are some of my favourites.

World-building supplements

• A Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe Third Edition. Everything you need to build a believable medieval setting.
• A Magical Society: Ecology and Culture. Make your fantasy even more believable.
• A Magical Society: Beast Builder. Atlhough for d20 system, this isn't some “roll X dice randomly, get a monster.” Like other books in the series, it offers a detailed take on how to create beliavable, exciting, and dangerous monsters that fit into your fantasy world.
• A Magical Society: Silk Road. Itching to run a Silk Road styled campaign? This is your answer.

Megadungeon

• The Halls of Arden Vul Complete. The best megadungeon to date.

Monsters

• A Magical Society Aggressive Ecology: The Slaver Fungus. Ecology as a monster.
• A Magical Society Aggressive Ecology: The Undead Leviathan. More ecology-as-a-monster.
• Malevolent and Benign. 150 new monsters.
• Malevolent and Benign II. 150 more new monsters.

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The creators of Castles & Crusaders are discounting their whole catalogue until end of the year. Although I don't run their system, I use some of the adventures as well as system neutral aids.

Adventures

• Goblins of Mount Shadow A messy module with plenty to pull out of. Fey focused. Bryce's review.
• A2 Slag Heap. Villages & factions. Bryce's review.
• A9 The Helm of Night. Besiege a fortress of evil. Bryce's review.
• S4 A Lion in the Ropes. Slow horror. Bryce's review.
• Lost City of Gaxmoor (digital and isometric maps). A city that was gone for a thousand years reappears. Of course it's full of shit that wants to kill nosy adventurers. Plane of chaos breach the reality from time to time.
• The Long Valley. Valley surrounding Gaxmoor.
• Chaos Touched. Additional random encounters for chaos breaches. Intended to be used with Gaxmoor, but can be adapted for any area.
• Undercaverns of Gaxmoor (maps). This one progresses timeline quite a bit, returning Gaxmoor into the hands of good. I just used it to steal what is underneath.
• Bluffside City on the Edge (maps). I like cities. A bit dense, but full of stuff to use. Eight districts & undercity.
• Bluffside: Right Under our Noses. A free adventure set in Bluffside.

Supplements

• Engineering Dungeons. A nice small supplement for randomly generating dungeons.
• Engineering Castles. Another brief, but useful supplement. It does not generate the internal floor plans, but rather the type of castle, inhabitants, and environs.
• Towers of Adventure Master. 15 empty towers.
• Arms and Armor. One can never have enough armaments.
• Book of Names. Same as above. Not as good as Judges Guild Treasury of Archaic Names, but I still found some I liked.
• Storyteller's Dictionary. Since I'm not a native speaker, I appreciate having fantasy-focused dictionary.
• Storyteller's Thesaurus. Same as above.

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I've just seen that Frog God Games is running another sale with discounts up to 70%. As before, most of my suggestion below are for the Swords & Wizardry system, a retroclone of Original D&D.

In no specific order, I can recommend the following:

• Monstrosities (Swords and Wizardry). Nearly 500 monsters. Each monster comes with an example encounter/nano-adventure. Includes tables with monsters by challenge level, guidance on creating new monsters, tables of monsters by terrain, and tables of random encounters (3d6, so bell curve).
• The Northlands Saga Complete (Swords and Wizardry). A compilation of ten adventures set in stereotypical cold north. Probably enough for several years of gaming. My favourite activity is stealing from this book and including parts of it in my own game. Tenfootpole has reviewed first four adventures back in the day (NS1, NS2, NS3, NS4). $18 is a steal for this.
• The Lost City of Barakus (Swords and Wizardry) (local and regional maps). Perhaps my favourite Necromancer Games mega-dungeon—because it is so much more! You get a starting city (with seven adventures), a wilderness area (with 26 keyed encounters and mini adventures), and a mega-dungeon with interesting factions and cool big-bad. Suitable for low-level parties.
• Bard's Gate (Swords and Wizardry) (player's guide). A massive city packed with urban encounters and adventures (8 included, from levels 1 to 10+). Very dense book. Some say this is FGG's finest product. The truth is that this is another Necromancer Games revival. And that's why it's great. :)
• The Book of Taverns (volumes one, two, and three). Had enough of generic taverns and inns, but short on prep time? Steal one from here. Again, these are revivals of old Necromancer Games books. They are good.

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OK, the final list for this year's Black Friday. I promise.

Goodman Games might be best know for their Dungeon Crawl Classic system, but I love their system neutral supplements, as well as opulent re-releases of cherished classics.

I like most of the stuff written by Michael Curtis, whom also authored the amazing Stonehell megadungeon.

Modules & Settings

• Dungeon Crawl Classics Lankhmar Boxed Set. The classic done right.
• Castle Whiterock. If you ever decide to limit yourself to only one adventure book in your life...
• Points of Light. Sandbox in the Wilderlands style. Written by Robert Conley, a Wilderlands veteran.
• Points of Light 2: The Sunrise Sea. Sandbox in the Wilderlands style. Written by Robert Conley, a Wilderlands veteran.

Supplements

• The Dungeon Alphabet. Spice up your dungeons!
• The Monster Alphabet. Spice up your monsters!
• Random Esoteric Creature Generator for Classic Fantasy Role-Playing Games and their Modern Simulacra. Spice up your monsters 2!
• The Adventurers Almanac. Spice up your campaign!
• Grimtooth's Ultimate Traps Collection. Spice up your traps!
• How to Write Adventure Modules That Don't Suck. Spice up your writing!
• GM Gems. A collection of advice for Judges.
• PC Pearls. A collection of advice for Players.

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In the previous posts I've focused on the specific publishers:

• Chaosium
• Palladium Books
• Troll Lord Games
• Frog God Games
• Goodman Games
• Autarch

In this, probably last post (gotta keep my own wallet safe), I list my recommendations for materials compatible with TSR and OSR games. Most of the books bellow are settings and procedures, which makes it easy to take out elements you find interesting and use them in your game.

Arduin

Dave Hargrave was a mad man. A very creative mad man. You might never play Arduin as written, which just like Palladium Fantasy was a bunch of AD&D 1E house rules, but you will walk away inspired like never before.

• Arduin Trilogy. Compiles Arduin Grimoire Vol 1, 2, and 3. I still use special ability charts presented herein.
• Arduin II. A first attempt to make a functional, stand-alone game after TSR and Gary turned on anyone who dared hack it.

Hack & Slash Publishing

• On Downtime and Demesnes. Bunch of downtime procedures.
• Artifices, Deceptions, & Dilemmas. Illustrated environments-
• Bestial Ecosystems Created by Monstrous Inhabitation. Expanded bestiary.

Campion & Clitherow

Weather? Weather! Never worry again. Never.

• SEVEN YEARS OF FANTASY WEATHER Volume 1: Medieval England.
• SEVEN YEARS OF FANTASY WEATHER Volume 2: The Iceland of the Sagas.
• SEVEN YEARS OF FANTASY WEATHER Volume 3: Indea.
• THE ALMANAC OF FANTASY WEATHER Volume One: SWORDS & SORCERY.
• THE ALMANAC OF FANTASY WEATHER Volume Two: EUROPE.

True Mask Games

Factions? Factions! Never worry again. Never.

• Invisible Hands – The Book of Factions.
• Pawns in a Greater Game – The 2nd Book of Factions.
• Unseen Strings – the 3rd Book of Factions.

Green Ronin Publishing

They used to make good setting books during 3E era. Here are a few I enjoyed.

• Book of the Righteous. Gods.
• Eternal Rome. Romans.
• Skull & Bones. Pirates.

Geoffrey McKinney

Seriously, for less than $10 you can get material that will last you a lifetime whenever your players decide to go somewhere you haven't prepared for. As a bonus, below supercharges B1 and B2.

• Mike's Dungeons.
• Mike's Dungeons: The Deep Levels.
• Mike's World: The Forsaken Wilderness Beyond.

Simon Forster

What, you want more variety than in Mike's dungeon. “Production qualities?” Well then you are in luck, because Simon Forster has written splendid digest-sized books of lairs:

• Book of Lairs.
• The Book of Lairs: Urban Encounters.
• Vale of the Iron God: the Third Book of Lairs.
• Book of Lairs: Abandoned Places.
• Book of Lairs: People & Places.
• Book of Lairs 6: Desolation.
• Book of Lairs: Dungeons.

Expeditious Retreat Press

The first publisher of OSRIC material. A lot of good stuff, but I picked few of more generic offerings I often use.

• Malevolent and Benign. Monsters.
• Malevolent & Benign II. More monsters.
• A Magical Society Aggressive Ecology: The Slaver Fungus. Ecology as a monster.
• A Magical Society Aggressive Ecology: The Undead Leviathan. More ecology-as-a-monster.
• The Halls of Arden Vul Complete. The best megadungeon to date. And the best item to finish this list.

Your favourites?

Do let me know your favourite OSR supplements. Just because my wishlist is big, doesn't mean it can't get bigger.

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