Advanced Adventures Bundle of Holding - Only Three Days Left!

Only three days left! All 43 Advanced Adventures -adventure modules for the OSRIC gaming system, a 1e retro-clone- are in the bundle of holding for an extremely modest price of $37. These modules are made in the Old School Renaissance style: tools, not plotlines; rulings, not rules; a gamemaster who doesn't railroad players onto a prearranged script but lets them sink or swim through their own actions. Encounters aren't necessarily "balanced," and outcomes are seldom scripted. Characters who don't use their heads usually wind up losing them.

Designed for the open-license OSRIC system, the Advanced Adventures modules adapt easily to any Old School fantasy RPG such as Old-School Essentials, and they fit smoothly in your ongoing campaign to let your player characters ramp from level-1 zeroes to level-10 heroes. If they live, of course!

As an additional bonus, both Malevolent and Benign and Malevolent and Benign II are included in the bundle. That's two 100+ page 1e monster books so you can populate your own modules in your own campaign with new creatures to challenge your experienced players.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/AAMega

The Return of Advanced Adventures!

After a 3.5 year hiatus, I'm returning to the Advanced Adventures line. Yesterday I picked up where I've left off on The Heart of the Titan (Advanced Adventures #50) and when I first pulled out my dice to roll for monster hit points (I always roll fair-n-square) I felt the old joy of creating rpg material return.

It had been gone for a while: finishing Arden Vul took a lot out of me and I've turned to fiction to follow my joy, which was part of the bargain I made with myself when I decided to be self-employed 25 years ago. I was only going to do what brought me joy (because the pay was never going to be worth doing otherwise).

But now it's back, baby! and I'm excited to get the next Advanced Adventures out. I have manuscripts for number 44-49 (which require editing, cartogarphy, lay-out, art, etc..) and am writing #50, so we'll get the Advanced Adventures line to the half century mark.

It will probably not be til the end of the year that the next one comes out, but they're on the road. I just have to figure out how to balance my fiction work with my rpg work.

Advanced Adventures Compendium Sale!

Heya folks, I've put all four of the Advanced Adventures Compendiums on sale this month at Lulu for 25% off. Each volume compiles 10 Advanced Adventures into a single hardback. Don't forget to apply whatever coupon code Lulu currently has running (right now it's ONEFIVE for an additional 15% off).

Advanced Adventures Compendium One
Advanced Adventures Compendium Two
Advanced Adventures Compendium Three
Advanced Adventures Compendium Four

25% off Advanced Adventures at Lulu for all of September!

I've decided to put all of the Lulu print versions of the Advanced Adventures line on sale for 25% off at Lulu for the whole month. So now's the time to grab 'em, folks! Here's just a smattering of covers - there are now 43 in the entire line of 1e/OSRIC goodness!

Discount Code: ONEFIVE gives you 15% more off.

The Clamavore!

CLAMAVORE

SIZE: Large (8-10 ft. wide)
MOVE: 180 ft., swimming 180 ft.
ARMOR CLASS: 0
HIT DICE: 8
ATTACKS: 2
DAMAGE: 2-12 + 6
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Spit pearls
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Half damage from fire
MAGIC RESISTANCE: None
RARITY: Very rare
NO. ENCOUNTERED: 1-4
LAIR PROBABILITY: 80%
TREASURE: None
INTELLIGENCE: Animal
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
LEVEL/X.P.: 6 / 1,100 + 10/hp

General information: Clamavores are an abomination from the Elemental Plane of Water. None know what purpose brings these horrors to the Prime Material Plane, but one thing is certain: when on the Prime Material Plane they seek to destroy all mundane life.  A Clamavore will always attack whichever opponent which has done the most damage to it previously. It attacks with the 2 claws. Should a claw strike an opponent, rearward facing spikes will embed itself in the target. In subsequent rounds, the Clamavore will work the claws back and forth in a saw-like fashion, automatically doing damage to the ensnared victim. Should an unfortunate individual be struck by both claws, the Clamavore will attempt to bite with its shell for an additional 2-12 +6 damage.

Additionally, the Clamavore can spit one pearl per round up to 120 ft. Upon a hit, the pearls do 2-12 damage, destroy any metal it contacts (magic items saves versus acid), and drains one point of Wisdom from the victim (save to negate). If the opponent is in the grasp of both claws, the Clamavore can forgo the bite attack and spit a pearl at +4 to hit. A Clamavore will have 3-6 pearls available for spitting, which are replaced at a rate of 1 per week.

Physical description: At rest, Clamavores appear to be enormous clams (8-10 feet across). They have peculiar markings all over the shell consisting of a circle with two lines radiating outward forming a V shape, terminating in smaller circles. When the Clamavore takes notice of a mundane lifeform, the true, horrifying nature of the creature becomes apparent. The shell opens, the hinge at the base separates, and 6 limbs sprout forth, 4 clawed, chiton encrusted legs, and two likewise encrusted arms, each terminating in terrible, snapping claws.

Three New Advanced Adventures for Sale

Yo! They're here! They're only $14 and you can use the code LULU15 for an extra 15% off!

The Forgotten Grottoes of the Sea Lords is an OSRIC(tm) module designed for 6-10 adventurers of Levels 6-8. More than a century ago, the evil Sea Lords ruled this region. They were cruel men, devil-worshippers who practiced vile rites and were the terror of folk across the seas. But, like most tyrants, they were at last thrown down, their strong places sacked and destroyed. Now, they are little more than a name of fear and loathing. Little of them remains, but sometimes an isolated hold or other location is discovered, most filled with plunder from decades of their reign of terror. Your party has acquired a treasure map purporting to show the location of one of the Sea Lords old holds. While most were sacked and plundered long ago, this one seems to have been missed. With luck, perhaps some of their vast treasure remains for the taking!

Dead In The Water is an OSRIC(tm) module designed for 6-8 adventurers of levels 3-5 You crack your eyes open, surprised to be alive after the sudden storm. What was it that woke you? The hot sun? The stillness ringing in your ears? Bruised, you disentangle yourself from rope and debris on the deck and pull yourself up on the rail. You peer out across a sailor’s nightmare—a sea of glass. Not a ripple in the water as far as the eye can see. Not a whisper of wind touches the sails. You’ve heard stories of ships becalmed for weeks, throwing horses overboard to lighten the load and conserve water. You remember stories of starvation and cannibalism. You see other ships in the distance listing, torn and low in the water. Old. Dead. And you are too...dead, in the water.

The Warrens of Zagash is an OSRIC(tm) module designed for 6-10 adventurers of Levels 6-8. The dwarves of these mountains are a good and trustworthy folk, friends to both men and elves dwelling in the region. But their ancient homeland hides many secrets that they might otherwise wish forgotten. Recent rumors have surfaced that a long lost dwarven hall has been discovered. There are whispers that the place was once the center of an evil dwarven cult, though the dwarven authorities will say nothing of it. A recently acquired treasure map points to an ancient dwarven tunnel complex. Could this be the place? Are these the dangerous halls that were once the home for a dwarven cult worshipping an entity they called the Earth Dragon?

Three new Advanced Adventures Covers

Hoping to have these out by the end of next month....

OSR sale at DriveThrurpg.com

DriveThrurpg.com is having a big sale of OSR products for the next week. All my Advanced Adventures, along with Malevolent and Benign are included.

Enjoy!

The Majesty of Arden Vul (map o-rama!)

See the maps? This place is amazing.

But wait, that's just the Levels. What about the Sub-levels? Here's most of them....

Arden Vul, people. Arden Vul.

Nearly 50% off our Compendiums at Lulu

As a reminder, I've put all our compendium products up for sale at Lulu for 30% off. That includes all four of the Advanced Adventures compendiums for old-scholl/OSRIC/1e modules as well as the two Pathfinder One-on-One Adventures for one player and one GM.

Advanced Adventures Compendium One
Advanced Adventures Compendium Two
Advanced Adventures Compendium Three
Advanced Adventures Compendium Four
One On One Adventures Compendium One
One On One Adventures Compendium Two

Enjoy!

(Oh, Lulu also has a coupon for 25% off right now BLACKFRIDAY25, so you can get more knocked off the price - it ends up being just a hair less than 50% off the normal cover price.)

30% of Compendium Sale at Lulu!

I've put all our compendium products up for sale at Lulu for 30% off. That includes all four of the Advanced Adventures compendiums for old-scholl/OSRIC/1e modules as well as the two Pathfinder One-on-One Adventures for one player and one GM.

Advanced Adventures Compendium One
Advanced Adventures Compendium Two
Advanced Adventures Compendium Three
Advanced Adventures Compendium Four
One On One Adventures Compendium One
One On One Adventures Compendium Two

Enjoy!

(Oh, Lulu also has a coupon for 25% off right now BLACKFRIDAY25, so you can get a little be more knocked off the price.

Advanced Adventures Bundle 4!

Pleased to announce the Advanced Adventures Bundle 4! Ten Advanced Adventures (#31-40) for only $35. Not a bad deal, if I say so myself. :)

Advanced Adventures on Kindle

I've finally figured out how to put the Advanced Adventures line into Kindle file format so now I'm uploading them to Amazon. So far I've got 1-4 up and will be slowly adding the remainder.

The Pod-Caverns of the Sinister Shroom
The Red Mausoleum
The Curse of the Witch Head
The Prison of Meneptah

25% off of Malevolent & Benign II and Advanced Adventures Compendium 4!

I've put up a 25% off sale at Lulu for our two latest products, Malevolent & Benign II and Advanced Adventures Compendium 4! Both are the hardback versions. You can couple that with the current 15% off Lulu coupon code FIFTEEN, and get a total discount of almost 40%.