In October 2024 we presented a Quick Deal for The Dread Thingonomicon. Raging Swan Press offered, for a special promotional price, the complete 476-page The Dread Thingonomicon compendium of system-neutral lists for every overworked fantasy GM.
Overworked fantasy GM, does session prep take too long? Do you never have time to design the cool little details that bring your game to life? Turn to The Dread Thingonomicon. Crammed full of system-neutral themed lists, flavorful NPCs, and more, all compiled from Raging Swan’s seven-year 20 Things line of mini-supplements, The Dread Thingonomicon lets you, the time-crunched Gamemaster, effortlessly add color and verisimilitude to your game. Use this system-neutral material either before or during play, and bask in your players’ adulation. (Check out Raging Swan’s free 54-page Thingonomicon sample.)
If your campaign features abnormal lesser undead, alchemist’s laboratories, ancient necropoli, archives and libraries, bandits and brigands, besieged castles, black dragon lairs, blue dragon lairs, bustling marketplaces, corpses, creepy graveyards, crypts and catacombs, cultists’ lairs, curio shops and pawnbrokers, dark caverns, fairs and festivals, fallen dwarven holds, fanes of evil, fanes of good, farming villages, fecund jungles, forts on the borderland, ghostly hauntings, goblin lairs, green dragon lairs, haunted houses, henchfolk and hirelings, hill giant steadings, items most wondrous, kobold warrens, lich’s lairs, local landmarks, lunatic asylums, merchant caravans, minions of evil, necromancer’s lairs, noble’s manor houses, noisome marshes, ocean voyages, orc villages, red dragon lairs, roads, ruined castles, ruined cities, ruined monasteries, ruined wizard’s towers, seedy taverns, shadowed borderlands, slavers’ compounds, smugglers’ villages, smugglers’ lairs, snow and ice, subterranean mines, sun-scorched deserts, thievish doings, travellers’ inns, troublesome treasures, urban chases, urban events, urban landmarks, urban oddities, vampire’s castles, white dragon lairs, windswept moors, wizard’s towers and wrecked ships – and whose doesn’t? – The Dread Thingonomicon is for you! You never know when you’ll need Rooftop Chase Obstacles, Signs of Previous Campers, Things to See During a Siege, Bulky Treasures, Sights in a War-Ravaged Village, Ghostly Hauntings on a Sunken Ship, or Discarded Things in a Noisome Sewer.
Note: Raging Swan Press gives an abbreviated 180-page edition of Thingonomicon to patrons of its Patreon campaign. This Quick Deal presented the complete 476-page Dread Thingonomicon compendium (retail price $28) as a non-watermarked, DRM-free, fully bookmarked .PDF in two versions, one optimized for printing and the second for screen reading. Note that each purchase of Thingonomicon from any source, including DriveThruRPG, includes both versions and also includes all 73 chapters as separate text files.
