Best OSR Cartographers

A video about some my favorite cartographers in the game. This is not an exhaustive list, but the ones I go to the most and ones that have influenced my style of maps. 

If there is someone who needs to be on this list please add their name in the comments. 

Enjoy! 

Indexing Adventures

June 11th, 2014 I started my Patreon. 1While I haven't been active during the past half year or so I've accumulated 110 micro-adventures, 37 micro-locations, 43 NPC cards  and 2 collections of Shadowdark magic items. Through those years I've written for different systems starting with Swords & Wizardry Complete, Swords & Wizardry Continual Light, Old School Essentials and most recently, Shadowdark.

Nearly all have a place within my home campaign of the Komor Forest. Joe the Lawyer has been on my ass about combining them all. 

While I am no place to do a setting compilation I am cataloging everything I have created on Patreon and my other products over the years. What I am creating an index. I go through each one and detail the place type of the adventure (i.e. crypt, forest ruins ect...) enemies, any new thing I introduce such as gods, items and magic items, relics, spell reagents, disease, groups and places of note. 

It's been interesting returning to the old adventures. I've forgotten a lot. It'll be good to have them organized so I can finally have a definitive guide to the Komor Forest. This will allow me to generate more content that will relate to other pieces I've written and allow me to funnel down into my world mythology.

If your interested in checking out my work, my world please join me at https://www.patreon.com/gothridge. I'm going to tell you secret. To get access to my content. All of it, you don't even have to join. Don't tell anyone. All my PDFs are free to grab, but if you'd like physical copies check out the pledge levels. 

Hope you'll join and partake in some fun nonsense. 

GM's Day Sale Picks

It's March. That means RPG Drivethru is having its GM Day Sale! I've got a couple, a few, a whole lot of good picks for you. Here are four that jumped up and bit me. All the links included in this post affiliate links. 

Here are my Shadowdark selections.

Here's and interesting entry from Rune & Relic Press, Formoria. Formoria is a setting that was developed through actual play. It's an interesting look at 4th century Europe and integrating the historical aspect into a setting. If you like to run pseudo-historical setting Formoria is a great place to get inspiration.

Another kick ass offering from Chubby Funster, his GM Companion for Shadowdark. This book is packed with GM tools to elevate your game. Tools for hex crawl. Generate shops. Tavern and drinks. Lots of dungeon options. It'll enhance your game on all levels.

 

Fantastic GM Tools!

Sandbox Generator is a book I use a lot. A lot, a lot. You can make short of developing a hex crawl for your party. I've written all through my book adding and changing, tweaking it to fit my campaign. It is a fantastic book.

A Kevin Crawford offering, Worlds Without Numbers. Kevin sets the standard for quality gaming products and I think Worlds Without Numbers is the best. I run fantasy games and this one suits what I do. Tons of random tables to generate a ton of content. Its a lot of fun to grab your dice and start creating.