In July 2022 we revived the March 2019 Castle Oldskull Bundle featuring Castle Oldskull, a system-neutral line of FRPG supplements published by designer and novelist Kent David Kelly. Kelly’s voluminous ebooks use a nuts-and-bolts, idea- and table-oriented approach that exemplifies the do-it-yourself ideals of the Old School Revival. As inspiration he cites TSR-era stalwarts as well as many fantasy authors familiar from Appendix N.

In 2014-2018 Kelly published dozens of large supplements, often adapting material from his own long-running campaigns. In particular, his three-book, 1,200-page Classic Dungeon Design Guide has proven popular for its thoroughly systematic process of megadungeon generation. This revival once again presented all three Dungeon Design Guides and nearly two dozen further supplements on many topics of sandbox campaign design — more than 6,300 pages for a bargain price.

There were eleven titles in this revived offer’s Starter Collection (retail value $45) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks:

Those who paid more than the threshold (average) price also got this revival’s entire Bonus Collection with fifteen more titles worth an additional $46:

Ten percent of each payment (after gateway fees) for this Castle Oldskull revival went to the charity chosen by Castle Oldskull designer Kent David Kelly, the Arapahoe Rescue Patrol of Arapahoe County, Colorado. On the 4th of July, illegal fireworks caused a brushfire that endangered Kent’s home in southeast Aurora, Colorado. “There was some smoke damage to our property, but it is not visible,” says Kent. “Fortunately the fires were stopped before they got to the houses, but if the multi-brigade response had been a minute later, or if the rains hadn’t started during the fire, or if the wind shifted any more, I would be writing a very different entreaty.”

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