Just in time for Halloween…..

Tomb of the Necromancers cover by David Michael Wright

By Paul Mitchener

“The ruins of the Unknown City stand at the edge of the Death Wind Steppe, surrounded by the foothills of the Wolf Head Mountains. They are a monument to a once mighty city. Few now know the city‘s history, and how it fell. The city‘s old name, Tetronis, now belongs to a village of simple fisherfolk standing amongst the ruins.

The force behind both the old city‘s greatness and its destruction was the god Orlusz.”

A swords and Sorcery romp for four to six characters of level 6 to 8. It takes place in the frozen north of the Continent of Terror, and sees the characters pitted against ravaging barbarians, who seek an ancient weapon for their mistress. Further exploration leads them to the forsaken temple of an evil sect of Necromancers.

Although written for Crypts and Things it is compatible with other Old School Class/Level based games.

25 pages long available now in print and pdf via DriveThruRpg.com

• Tomb of the Necromancers in pdf/print at DriveThruRpg.com

Just flicking through the Archives I noticed the first post was three years ago.

Back then it was just me wittering on about OpenQuest, old Fighting Fantasy books, my first OSR D&D games with Labyrinth Lord.  Crypts and Things was not even a gleam in my eye, but would grow out of this blog later on, and if you said I’d be doing a second edition of OpenQuest I would have told you to feck off! How quickly its all flown by 🙂

Here’s the Sorcerer himself from back in 2010 looking a lot less healthy than he currently does, courtesy of John Ossoway (art originally from The Savage North supplement for OpenQuest).

Much to my great surprise D101 Games is up for an Ennie as under the “Fans’ Favorite Publisher” section.

Please take a moment to go vote for us.

• 2013 Ennie Awards voting

Every now and then I think its healthy to have a bit of self evaluation about the whole OSR thing.

This post by UK Roleplayers columnist Baz Stevens, almost as a follow up after his review of the new Magic and Monsters game ( http://www.ukroleplayers.com/reviews/monsters-magic ), over at his RPG Treehouse blog does just that.

Warning the post is a bit provocative but knowing Baz that’s what he’s after, the real goodness should come in the comments as various people (myself included) weigh in.

Antony Brotherton over at his Roleplay-Geek blog is compiling a links list comprised of UK OSR Blogs….

Are you UK based? – Do you know what Tizer, Irn-bru, Jaffa Cakes, Kinghtmare and The Adventure Game are? This is a chance for us UK based gamers to band together and fight the good fight using our unique sense of humour, quaint accents and stif upper lips.

If you can answer YES! to both these questions and want to celebrate your unique UK centric take on the OSR, then add your blog to the list then post your URL in the comments below.

Go sign up at the post

• Do you blog blog about the OSR from the UK

My mate Peter Cakebread, co-author of Clockwork and Chivalry/Air Ship Pirates etc, gets interviewed by Liz from Nearly Enough Dice Podcast.

In case you haven’t heard of the MARVELLOUS Peter Cakebread, he has been involved in some absolutely amazing projects. He has been involved with Airship Pirates and Clockwork and Chivalry! Two systems I just love, so I might have been a bit excited to talk to him….