In March 2019 we were doin’ it old-sku– er, old-school with the Castle Oldskull Bundle featuring old-school fantasy RPG supplements from Wonderland Imprints. Castle Oldskull is a system-neutral line published by designer and novelist Kent David Kelly. Kelly’s comprehensive ebooks take 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 such as Gygax and Arneson, Tekumel, Judges Guild, and Wormy illustrator David Trampier, as well as Dunsany and many other fantasy authors familiar from Appendix N.
In the past few years Kelly has 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 thorough and systematic process of megadungeon generation. This offer presented all three Dungeon Design Guides and nearly two dozen further supplements on many topics of sandbox campaign design — over 6,300 pages for a bargain price.
There were eleven titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $45) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks:
- Three Classic Dungeon Design Guides: The bestselling manuals that, across nearly 1,200 pages, take you, with precise steps, through the entire process of creating a gigantic megadungeon, complete in every detail.
- Three Oldskull generators: The Adventure, Monster, and D100 NPC Generators: 1,100 pages of systems and tables that spawn an infinite variety of plots, characters, and adversaries.
- Four Oldskull dungeon books: Dungeon Delver Enhancer (a 572-page character creator), Book of Dungeon Traps (800 of them), and 1,000 Rooms of Chaos I and II (quick ideas for room concepts).
- The Pegana Mythos: Ornament your Old School game with the gods and heroes from The Gods of Pegana (1905) by Anglo-Irish fantasist Lord Dunsany. (And download the free Gods of Pegana ebook from Project Gutenberg.)
Those who paid more than the threshold (average) price also got our entire Bonus Collection with no less than fourteen more titles worth an additional $46:
- Game World Generator – Deluxe Edition (2018): Create your campaign world step-by-step with this expanded 434-page guide to setting design. Includes the Tyrrhenia Map Pack with 18 full-color hex maps of Tyrrhenia, a mythic version of medieval Italy.
- Three dungeon design enhancers: Treasure Trove, The Deck of Strangest Things, and the Chaotic Descriptor Table.
- Four campaign guides: City State Encounters, 333 Realms of Entropy, Plague Doctors, and The Order of the Scarlet Tabard (a gallery of literal “redshirt” henchmen).
- Five monstrous supplements: Monsters & Treasures Level 1, Dungeon Bestiary, Dungeon Encounters Book I, Dragons, and Half-Ogres.
Ten percent of each payment (after gateway fees) went to the charity designated by Castle Oldskull designer Kent David Kelly in memory of his mother, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
