Through Monday, August 11 we revive the January 2023 Advanced Adventures Megabundle featuring 43 Old School dungeon crawls from Expeditious Retreat Press. These short scenarios – dungeon crawls inspired by the earliest versions of Dungeons & Dragons – show off the Old School Revival 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 “Old School Reference & Index Compilation,” a free retroclone of First Edition AD&D), these Advanced Adventures modules adapt easily to any Old School fantasy RPG such as Old-School Essentials or Shadowdark, and they fit smoothly in your ongoing campaign. Let your player characters ramp from level-1 zeroes to level-10 heroes.
Pay just US$9.95 to get all eleven titles in this revived January 2023 Advanced Adventures offer’s Starter Collection (retail value $70) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks. Each link in this list leads to the individual module’s DriveThruRPG page with more information:
- #01: The Pod-Caverns of the Sinister Shroom
- #02: The Red Mausoleum
- #03: The Curse of the Witch Head
- #04: Prison of Meneptah
- #05: The Flaming Footprints of Jilanth
- #06: The Chasm of the Damned
- #07: The Sarcophagus Legion
- #08: The Seven Shrines of Nav’k-Qar
- #09: The Lost Pyramid of Imhotep
- #10: The Lost Keys of Solitude
- We also include the 2008 monster manual Malevolent & Benign I and, as a courtesy to customers, the free OSRIC rulebook.
And if you pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $34.95 to start, you’ll level up and also get this revival’s entire Bonus Collection with thirty-four more titles worth an additional $210 that hit many highlights of the AA line:
- #11: The Conqueror Worm
- #12: The Barrow Mound of Gravemoor
- #13: White Dragon Run
- #14: The Verdant Vault of Malakum
- #15: Stonesky Delve
- #16: Under Shattered Mountain
- #17: The Frozen Wave Satsuma
- #18: The Forsaken Sepulcher
- #19: The Secret of the Callair Hills
- #20: The Riddle of Anadi
- #21: The Obsidian Sands of Syncrates
- #22: Stonepick Crossing
- #23: Down the Shadowvein
- #24: The Mouth of the Shadowvein
- #25: Beneath the Heart of Empire
- #26: The Witch Mounds
- #27: The Bitterroot Briar
- #28: Redtooth Ridge
- #29: The Doom of Red Rauthim
- #30: To End the Rising
- #31: The Lost Lair of Drecallis
- #32: The Palace Beyond
- #33: The Halls of Lidless Shabbath
- #34: The Crocodile’s Tear
- #35: The Desert Shrine of the Sightless Sisters
- #36: Aerie of the Cloud Giant Strategos
- #37: Under Ruined Onm
- #38: White Dragon Run II
- #39: The Dark Tower of Arcma
- #40: The Horror of Merehurst
- #41: The Forgotten Grottoes of the Sea Lords
- #42: Dead in the Water
- #43 The Warrens of Zagash
- The 2018 bestiary Malevolent & Benign II
Get this revived January 2023 Advanced Adventures Megabundle before it vanishes into Castle Nephothantos, home of the cloud giant Strategos, Monday, August 11.