The Underdark Gazette is Closing on January 2, 2012!: OSR News from the Underdark Gazette

I Wanna be a Cowboy, Baby!

Weird West by Stuart Robertson. Robertson Games. Available in PDF for $1.00. 8 pages.

The streamlined and fast playing adventure roleplaying game for weird western worlds of cowboys, kung-fu, magic and otherworldly malevolence.

The Weird West Basic Rulebook has been designed to make reading, creating characters, and starting a game as fast as possible: the fastest RPG in the west! We've cut out the 'what is an rpg', game fiction, and other 'fluff' to keep the rulebook as lean as possible while still having enough detail to make it fun.

This purchase includes both a PDF version suitable for reading on your computer, iPad or iPhone (with bookmarks) and a special 'PocketMod' PDF version for printing. The PocketMod version lets you create your own 4.25" x 2.75" sized game books from a single sheet of paper. Take a copy to read on the go, and print one to give to each of your players.

Stuart was recently interviewed by the Flagons and Dragons Podcast. And Weird West is already a Popular Copper Pick! Cool! And Congrats, Stuart!

Goblinoid Games Acquires Timemaster

Timemaster from Goblinoid Games. Available in PDF for $4.99. Several Supplements are also available.

Goblinoid Games has always taken inspiration from the spirit of the 70s and 80s, publishing retro games such as Starships & Spacemen, Labyrinth Lord, and Mutant Future. Now we are pleased to announce that Goblinoid Games has been recruited into the Time Corps and is traveling back in time to bring a new classic title into the family.

Goblinoid Games has purchased the rights to TIMEMASTER: Adventures in the 4th Dimension! Originally published by Pacesetter in 1984, TIMEMASTER was an innovative RPG for its time (pun intended), presenting one of the earliest percentile “chart-based” game systems and a heavily supported and playable game of time travel; a feat few have been able to repeat. TIMEMASTER never suffered from the commonly perceived problems of time travel games, as it set out a very playable premise based on a number of “laws” of time travel, and infinite universes. A referee can run highly accurate historical games if desired, or fudge the details since it is in the distant past of the setting or even in an alternate timeline.

Lurching into action, your battered chronoscooter crosses the void of time and space. Another lurch, and the vertigo fades. The countryside comes into view. Knights in armor battle, clanging sword against shield, and then someone blasts at your neck with a laser beam. Once again, all of Time is a mess, and as an agent of the Time Corps, you must set this world straight or die trying! Adventure to any place, any time, in this universe and beyond! The TimeMaster Roleplaying Game makes you master of the "Fourth Dimension", guiding you to the ultimate adventure in history, legend, and science fiction. fight cunning aliens and savage renegades who twist Time to their own purposes. Only skill and wit stand between the world you know and absolute chaos!

The current time in the game is in the 72nd Century, leaving a wide swath of time between (our) today and the future for the referee to design. History in your campaign could have taken various paths over such a vast time period. For example, characters could go back to the beginnings of interstellar travel, or the post-apocalyptic period following the blights and radioactive fallout of the third world war, if you envision your milieu following that timeline. The possibilities are quite literally endless.
Join the ranks of the Time Corps, and you can be the Master of Time!

The TIMEMASTER product line is currently available in electronic format, and in the coming months the line will be released via print on demand. Note: the electronic files currently available are identical to what has been offered previously. As the books become ready for POD the electronic files will be updated as well, and will be much higher quality. Anyone who purchases the currently version will be able to download the upgrades later free of charge!

For people unfamiliar with this game or who just need to fill gaps in the product line, the entire electronic product line is being offered at 60% off of the regular PDF price for a limited time! The product line currently includes the original rule set that included a rule book, sample adventure, and campaign guide in addition to 12 modules and an indispensable expansion book.

Over the next year we plan to support the TIMEMASTER product line in several ways, so watch for future announcements!

The Latest from John Stater

Nod #8 by John Stater. Available in Print for $10.00 and in PDF for $3.50. 104 pages.

Enter the land of the Dragon Chans! This issue presents a sandbox hex crawl inspired by the folklore and literature of Asia, as well as a new class, the wushen, options for warriors, many new monsters and a pantheon based on Lord Dunsany's Gods of Pegana. 104 pages.

A Free Release for Humanspace Empires

Spaceswords & Glory: Technical Manual V1.01 by The Drune (I think.) 13 page pdf.

The recently published Spaceswords & Glory Technical Manualmight be of broad interest as it contains numerous Imperial Navy NPC characters, various robots and androids, and semi-statted play test starship and vehicles.

And check out the Humanspace Empires Resource Page.

This Gets Better with Every Post

Zak of Playing D&D With Porn Stars continues remaking the Fiend Folio. I have reason to suspect that the Adult Filter on Zak's blog may be interfering with my link to his label. If so, here's a link straight to the blog front page.

Free Stuff from Expeditious Retreat Press!

Joseph Browning is giving away Advanced Adventures #10: The Lost Keys of Solitude, until Monday. I'm not sure if that means today is the last day, or tomorrow.

And While I'm Visiting Mr. Browning

He's put out a call for OSRIC module manuscripts.

Something from Alexis

The Alchemists of Klausenburg.

Roll the Bones Sample

Kesher of Sandbox Empire has a link to his story from Roll the Bones: Sight for Sore Eyes.

Col. Pladoh Speaks

Paul of Blog of Holding has compiled all the Gary Gygax enworld posts into one page.

Contests!

Cygnus of Servitor Ludi has a free pdf you might find useful: Contests of Skill.

A Dungeon

J.B. of The Forbidden Mazes of Jennerak posted his The Maze of Nuromen.

Gods In Spaaace

GH Comic #36: Literate Orcs?

Free Religion Reference Sheet

From Austrodavicus of There's Dungeons Down Under.

Adventures Dark and Deep

The Players Manual v 1.1 is now available. The highlights, from Joseph:

The next iteration of the Adventures Dark and Deep Players Manual is now available!

Version 1.1, which incorporates many dozens of errata, improvements, clarifications, and additions, is the first revised version to be presented since the inauguration of the open playtest earlier this year.

A complete enumeration of the changes would be impossible, but highlights include:

The Assassin, an optional class

Firearms, an optional system

Jester spells

Formatting changes throughout (especially tables!)

Cleaning up of spells; some new, some updated

Updates to the new character classes

Mage school specialization

And much more!

Time to Check in with Dyson Logos

From goblinoidgames.com:

This Week at A Character From Every Game

This has been the week of the Vertical Geomorph (with obvious blame aimed at Jeff Rients)

Vertical Morphology is a page that collects the current vertical gemorphs from the blogosphere in one place, including my own contributions to date.

Elven Warder Class - Labyrinth Lord class for elves who have dedicated themselves to the wilderness, becoming warriors of the woodlands and plains, backing up their potent skills with specialized magics from their kin.

Elven Warder Magics - six new spells for the elven warder class.

Cartography Carnival Wrap-Up - hundred or so articles and blog posts of maps and cartography from the April RPG Blog Carnival. Some amazing maps and great reading for mappers in here!

Cthulhu Fhtagn!

Kelvin Green of Brighton Roleplayers recently posted an update of his Call of Cthulhu scenario Dinner
with Susan.

Michael Curtis Won the Interwebs This Week

Cauldron Spirits, from The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope.

SoCal Minicon 4

Visit Cyclopeatron for info on this years con.

OSRCon

Visit Carter Soles of The Lands of Ara for info!

From the Alexandrian

Check out this series: The Ruined Temple of Illhan.

Silhouette's

From Telecanter.

Ghoul Monkeys

Courtesy of ze bulette from Dungeons and Digressions.

Basic Fantasy Updates

Divine Champions supplement.

One Grognards Opinion: Reviews From Around the Blogoverse

James Maliszewski of Grognardia reviews Vornheim. He's also up to Part IV on his Gamma World Cover to Cover.

Mike Monaco of Swords & Dorkery has part 1 of his review of the LotFP WFRP Grindhouse Edition.

MisterGuignol has a review thread on RPG.Net of the LotFP WFRP Grindhouse Edition.

Billiam Babble of Adventures and Shopping has some words about Weird West.

Tenkar has a mini-review of The Wizard's Test.

bubbavader has a review of Mythmere's Adventure Design Deskbook Vol. One.

Ryan of Save Vs. Poison plays some Stars Without Number.

tetsubo57 has a video review of The Sanctuary Ruin.

Maptime!

Geomorphs from Stonewerks.

John L of The Tales of Kaelaross posted his Map of Godsblood Straits.

Thomas Denmark of Original Edition Fantasy has some Geomorph work.

Alexey at The Lost Continent posted his Under Pentastadion map.

More Awesome, Awesome geomorphs from John Laviolette of The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms.

Il Male of The Yaqqothl Grimoire posted Level 1A.

Beedo of Dreams in the Lich House posted The City and Transit Tunnels from The Black City.

Some maps from Simon at ...and the sky full of dust. Baron's Keep and Inhabited Keep.

What I'm Pimping This Week

Barbarians of Lemuria (Legendary Edition) by Simon Washbourne. Beyond Belief Games. Available in Print for $18.99 (Amazon) and in PDF for $7.50.

"It is a savage age of sorcery and bloodshed, where strong men and beautiful women, warlords, priests, magicians and gladiators battle to carve a bloody path leading to the Throne of Lemuria. It is an age of heroic legends and valiant sagas too. And this is one of them..."

Barbarians of Lemuria; swords & sorcery roleplaying, inspired by Thongor,
Conan, Brak, Elric and other epic heroes. Barbarians of Lemuria has been acclaimed by many as one of the best roleplaying games of this genre. In this "Legendary Edition", there are a few changes and some extra goodies to give you much more sword & sorcery role playing goodness.

The original, free edition can be found, here.

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