OSR News From The Underdark Gazette - Saturday, September 25, 2010

Fight On! #9 Is On Sale!

$4.00 for the PDF, so if you haven't tried one of the finest things to come out of the OSR, now's a good time.

"When you're down to your last hit point, your last spell, the last charge on your laser pistol - what now? Fight On! Issue #9 is here, stampeding out of the gate with adventures big and small, a city-state, races, classes, monsters, spells, tricks, traps, tables, rules options, random encounters, NPCs, and a motherlode of mighty miscellaneous mysteries to give your game a boost! Dedicated to Paul Jaquays, this issue features contributions from Jeff Rients, Sang Lee, Tavis Allison, Kelvin Green, Geoffrey McKinney, Patrick Farley, Zak S., Erik Battle, James Quigley, Mark Allen, Jennifer Weigel, Gabor Lux, Peter Schmidt Jensen, Ed Heil, Paul Fini, Raven Daegmorgan, Eric Minton, Allen Varney, Baz Blatt, Geoffrey O. Dale, Jerry Stratton, Chris Robert, Calithena, Jeff Talanian, and many, many more! Don't get caught without the old school's newest resources - order your copy today!"

In the interests of tooting my own horn full disclosure,  my first article for FO! appears in this issue as well.

New Releases

Creatures Below the Shattered Moon - Volume 2 by Joseph Browning from Expeditious Retreat Press. Art by David Esbri, Joan Guardiet and Rick Hershey. Available in PDF for $3.00. 5 pages.

"After the cracking of the moon and before the rise of Atlantis the world was a place strange to the thoughts of honest men. The death throes of science amid the birth of magic sculpted new generations of conquerors who strode the lands forging civilizations of steel, sinew, and sorcery from the decrepit hulks of the ones that fell before. Tyrannical wizards, amoral super-scientists, charismatic catalysts, and multifarious mutants battled for wealth, power, and honor. It was ten thousand years of barbarity; ten thousand years spent in the shadowy shells of past glories, hiding from horrible creatures that scratched and skittered for blood; ten thousand years of tyranny and injustice, ten thousand years of Sorcery & Super Science!

"This short PDF provides a harried GM with 16 new creatures, suitable for various power levels and certain to bring additional life to the world under the shattered moon.

"Don't forget to pick up the Sorcery & Super Science! Core Rules as well as download The House of Blue Men, a free adventure featuring quickstart rules. Also don't forget about Creatures Below the Shattered Moon - Volume 1 and Objects Below the Shattered Moon - Volume 1. Finally, drop by our Sorcery & Super Science Blog for additional Sorcery & Super Science goodness!"

If you haven't picked up the Sorcery & Super Science! Core Rules yet, it's also available in Print.

Free Downloads

Missed this last week. Jay from the Exonauts! blog has a pdf compilation of his Random Space Finds for your downloading, space-gaming pleasure!

Greg Gillespie of Discourse and Dragons has a one-page dungeon for you, The Reclusive Redoubt of the Bullywugs!

Timeshadows from the Grand Tapestry has made some of her Tunnels & Trolls material available - Guild Houses of Blood.  

Jim Pacek of Carjacked Seraphim has some Astrological NPC's, you can check out.

What's happening back in town, while the party is off adventuring in the dungeon? Michael Curtiss of The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope has generated the answer!

Shane Mangus of Swords Against the Outer Dark has moved his downloads to Google Docs. If you missed his awesome Advanced Labyrinth Lord Screen and his other goodies, head over for the new links. 

Media Releases

Echoes from the Geekcave - Episode 7: Keep on the Borderlands.

I Hit It With My Axe: Episode 28: It Was All Over In Two Rounds.

Reviews From Around the Blogoverse

Pookie at Reviews from R'lyeh has a review up of Insidious from Die Cast Games.

Orion Cooper from The Moldy Vale has a review of LotFP: Weird Fantasy Role-playing.

Tim Shorts from Gothridge Manor has a review of Kingdom Builder. A new generator from Chaotic Shiny Productions.

A Paladin in Citadel has a review up of The Wilderness Alphabet.

In Other News

Following up on his blogger rankings work, Cyclopeatron has made a page dedicated to Old School RPG blogs. And if you live near Southern California, you might want to check out this post on the local Gaming Conventions.

John Stater of The Land of Nod now has a Cafe Press store. Oh, and check out his progress on the Mystery Men! patronage project, while you're there!

Noble Knight Games is offering a Pied Piper Super Pack for sale. More info at Lord of the Green Dragons. 

Vigilance Press is offering a PDF Bundle of their four World of Arkara products, for $6.00.

What I'm Pimping This Week

Death Frost Doom by James Edward Raggi IV. LotFP Publishing. Available in Print from the Publisher for 8,00€ in Europe, 9,00€ outside of Europe. (blogger won't link the euro symbol.) In stock at Noble Knight Games for $9.95. Available in PDF for $5.00. 

"Up on a mountain sits a house by a cemetery, haunted by the memories of atrocities past. People remember that horrible things happened up on that mountain, but not exactly what those things were. Still, they stay well away, and live long and prosperous lives for their wisdom.

"But rumors of abandoned treasure and magic always bring those wishing to recover it. Brave, skilled men need not fear that which terrifies the common folk.

"The cult on the mountain is long gone, yet the music of weirdling death carries on the wind.

"The mountain is cold. So very cold.

"And the greedy and the foolish will march bravely up the mountain for gold and glory.

"Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Their Souls?

"Death Frost Doom is an adventure for character levels 1 – 6, and includes a revised version of The Tower, originally published in Fight On! #4."

Death Frost Doom is back in Print! As we started the news with a recommendation to try something which you've heard of, but have yet to experience, we'll end it the same way. Death Frost Doom is bloody awesome!

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