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This was once a happy home a very long time ago. Whatever happened to change that has scarred this place and trapped the dead. Combine it with more MP3s to score your entire adventure. Check out our other MP3s and PDFs by simply searching Plate Mail Games. This MP3 was not part of the Kickstarter campaign.

Professional Golden Reel and Emmy nominated sound designer and editor Wes Otis brings you great background loops for your tabletop RPG. Each MP3 is 10 minutes long and loops perfectly. They are mixed to be played in the background, adding ambience to your storytelling without being a distraction. Wes has taken his 30 years of game mastering experience and 14 years of post production experience to craft each location.

Landscape: The Acrid Well is a tool containing two versions of a detailed map: one of them pre-marked and the other blank.

The first version is marked with six locations (tube, meanders, slip, shrine, chambers and shore), each given a table of six possible encounters or discoveries. The map is also marked with six access points and the page has six possible rumour seeds.

The second version has no lettering or numbering, to make it easier for you to adapt it to the circumstances in your world.

Each map can be used as it is, possibly in conjunction with 1:285 (6mm) scale miniatures, or redrawn as required in play.

The tool is compatible with various genres and systems and suitable for use in roleplaying and beyond. It can be used as all or part of an adventure site, or the basis for one, as well as to inspire events at the site, even at the table in the course of games.

The two pages are arranged for ease of use on screen or printed, the key features occupying a single page. The tool includes:

• two versions of a detailed map - one of them pre-marked, the other blank

• six marked locations - tube, meanders, slip, shrine, chambers and shore

• six tables, one per marked location, each with six encounters or discoveries

• six possible rumour seeds relating to the map, for expansion or inspiration

The tool can be used with Narrative: Abandoned Space, the map elements acting as a setting or structure for development. It can also be used in representing the kind of subterranean space suggested in World: Shale or a section of the tunnels running through the weird mountainous shore of Screeside, as featured in Abandoned Space and Events: Screeside - The Gloaming.

It is the second entry in an ongoing series which so far includes Landscape: The Lost Dig.

Both of the entries in the series are also part of the all current items bundle.

Transylvanian Adventures is a supplement for Goodman Games’ Dungeon Crawl Classics. It is quasi-historical and heavily influenced by Gothic Horror and the Hammer Films of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. The setting is a mythical version of Transylvania at the turn of the 19th century. There are no Elves, Dwarves, or Halflings.

"The Winter Home" is an introductory adventure designed for the pre-generated characters included in the back of this book, although any party of four 3rd-level Dungeon Crawl Classics characters could give it a try as well. Running this adventure will require a copy of Goodman Games’ Dungeon Crawl Classics Roleplaying Game. It is assumed the reader is familiar with DCC’s rules and conventions.

The Wildstar Class Corvette is the perfect ship for a crew of trained veterans and experienced explorers. Room for over forty supporting crew and even a few passengers; every station on board is detailed. In an emergency, the shuttles and esacpe pods cover all crew members in need of escape. With two Dual Plasma Cannons as the main armament, the Wildstar is capable in any space battle. New technology includes advanced medical and science bays, as well as a holographic survival suite. And of course there is a mess hall.

Incuded:
Basic ship statistics
Deckplan and key
Battle maps (one deck, 48" x 70" assembled)
Bonus cargo crates

A career in ruins…

Welcome to The Archaeologist's Handbook, a handy tome for all armchair adventurers who want to know more about playing characters who delve into the past and discover ancient treasures (or fascinating insights).

This book provides a firm framework for archaeology-based adventures and characters. Inside these pages you will find a trove of knowledge about the history of archaeology, field and laboratory techniques, famous sites, museums and more. Spiced with a few devious suggestions for play, this handy-sized volume will prove a boon to player and game master alike.

The Archaeologist's Handbook is written by a professional archaeologist with more than a decade of experience in both archaeology and roleplaying games.

Hell Beach

DramaScape Battlemaps Volume 03

This product is designed for use with 15mm miniatures and is a 48 inch x 30 inch Battlemap and has no overlay.

“You are about to embark upon the great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower

Hell Beach is a single large map of a French beachhead defended by Germans on the June 6, 1944 D-Day invasion done on a 15 mm scale for miniature war gaming. The German defenses include obstacles built of timber and steel to impale and sink Allied ships placed on the beach and in the water on the coastal shelf, mines hidden in the water and in the sands of the beach, two sets of barbed wire, two sandbag bunker positions for MG42s and mortars, and three pillbox casemate bunkers placed on top of a cliff looking down on the beach. 

Will the Allies again prove victorious on D-Day? Or will the German defenses defeat them this time creating an alternative history?

Beyond a war gaming reenactment, this could also be used for some interesting alternative role playing or war gaming. For example, the player characters are super soldiers for the allies (super powers or greatly improved physical and mental attributes), and are sent in during the invasion to deal with new German threats, everything from German soldiers that revive as zombies when slain but only once to German soldiers that transform into monsters to German super soldiers that could have abilities similar to their own. Their ultimate mission goal is to enter a French town and gain access to the main chateau where the experiments are being performed by a mad German scientist (or even a collaborating French scientist who derives a sadistic pleasure from turning Germans into monsters). Where the most powerful German super soldiers guard their creator (or they even turn on their creator as a twist).

A paranoid warlord, a bitter drow priestess, a power-mad archmage, a sly dwarven assassin - not all the characters in the AD&D game went the way of the heroes.

Villains (beings dedicated to committing evil) are the most dangerous of all foes, and thus the most useful of tools a Dungeon Master has to create a memorable campaign. This book presents the most complete guidelines ever offered on creating villains for role-playing games. Miss this advice at your own peril!

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Product History

DMGR6: The Complete Book of Villains (1994), by Kirk Botula, is the sixth book in the series of Dungeon Master Guide Rules (DMGR) supplements. It was published in May 1994.

Continuing with the DMGRs. Though its name suggests that The Complete Book of Villains might be a "Rogues Gallery"-type of book, nothing could be further from the truth. Villains instead is a book of GM advice, all about creating and running great villains in FRPGs. As such, it nicely complements the other "DM Advice" books in the DMGR series: DMGR1: Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide (1990) and DMGR5: Creative Campaigning (1993).

As with the entire DMGR series, Villains is a prestige-format blue leatherette book that's meant to supplement the second edition Dungeon Master's Guide (1989). Unlike the previous books in this series, there's no actual "DMGR" code on Villains, for TSR stopped using that code in 1994; nonetheless, the book is widely accepted to be DMGR6.

Widely Applicable. Villains is sold as an AD&D book and has stats for a few AD&D characters here and there. However, the advice it contains is quite generic, and thus GMs have used it widely for all sorts of fantasy roleplaying games. Despite its focus on RPGs, multiple authors have even talked about using Villains to create characters for their fantasy novels.

Producing a largely system-independent GM book wasn't a first for TSR; in fact, DMGR1: The Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide was also mostly free of mechanics. That's probably why it and Villains are two of the DMGR sourcebooks that remain both well-lauded and widely appreciated even today.

Monsters as Villains. Chapter 6 of Villains covers an interesting topic: turning "monsters" into villains. The idea of using unique and individualized monsters as villains in adventures dates all the way back to TSR's first published adventures. Thus, the stone giant Chief Nonsra and his wife, who appear on the third page of G1: "The Steading of the Hill Giant Chief" (1978) are differentiated from standard monsters by their fighting capacity: "he fights as frost giant, she as a male hill giant." Similarly, D3: "Vault of the Drow" (1978) is filled with dark elves who have either character class levels or special fighting ability. However, the most famous monster-as-villain probably appeared a few years later: When Count Strahd von Zarovich shows up in I6: "Ravenloft" (1983), he gets a full page of stats.

For all of that, support for individualized monsters evolved quite slowly in the D&D books. The first edition Dungeon Master's Guide (1979) offers just a page on the subject; it focuses on monsters as PCs and concludes, "you are virtually on your own with regard to monsters as player characters." Basic D&D provided some rules for specific races in GAZ10: "The Orcs of Thar" (1988) and the "Creature Crucible" series (1989-1992). This might have encouraged second edition AD&D to provide better guidelines, which were expanded into rules for 30 humanoid races in PHBR10: The Complete Book of Humanoids (1993).

That was pretty much the state of the art for monstrous characters in 1994, when Villains was published: rules were limited, but extant. Mind you, Villains' suggestions are still ad hoc, related more to background than to mechanics. D&D would have to wait until 3e (2000) for monstrous villains to receive full mechanics. 

About the Creators. Botula wrote a handful of books for TSR in the 90s; his others focused on the settings of Dark Sun and Jakandor.

About the Product Historian

The history of this product was researched and written by Shannon Appelcline, the author of Designers & Dragons - a history of the roleplaying industry told one company at a time. Please feel free to mail corrections, comments, and additions to shannon.appelcline@gmail.com.

Come, let us explore the art of necromancy together.

     - Arch-Necromancer Kazerabet

Necromancers like Kazerabet and their priestly counterparts have mastered many dark, forbidden secrets. This tome reveals these mysteries to the Dungeon Master, who will find new NPC kits and volumes of necromancer's minions, familiars, secret societies, poisons, magical items, enchanted tomes, and dozens of new wizard and priest spells, plus the deadly Isle of the Necromancers, a portable setting which can be placed into any existing campaign.

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Product History

DMGR7: The Complete Book of Necromancers (1995) is the seventh book in the Dungeon Master Guide Rules (DMGR) supplement series for AD&D 2e. It was published in March 1995.

Continuing the DMGRs. As with its predecessors in the DMGR series, the Book of Necromancers is a prestige-format squarebound book with a blue leatherette cover. Though it doesn't feature a "DMGR" code, it's widely accepted as being DMGR7. Unlike its predecessors, Necromancers covers a totally new topic: character classes.

Continuing the PHBRs. By the end of 1994, TSR had published thirteen PHBR books - covering all of the major classes for AD&D 2e, most of the subclasses, and most of the major races. The series would end later in 1995, following the publication on two final books on barbarians and ninjas. Each of the PHBR books tended to follow the same format, usually including background notes for the class (or race), character kits, and, where appropriate, equipment, special powers, and spells.

The Complete Book of Necromancers thus looks remarkably like a PHBR release, but rather than covering a class or a race, it details two closely related subclasses: the necromancer specialization for wizards, and those priests who worship death in some form. The discussion of these two subclasses includes background notes, character kits, new spells, and equipment.

Not for Players. Despite looking a lot like a PHBR release, Necromancers fits into the DMGR series because it's specifically not intended for players, instead offering up rules only for NPC necromancers. The introduction thus clearly states that the book is "for the Dungeon Master's eyes only."

This restriction is due to the fact that necromancers are generally evil, which would offer grave "moral" problems to players. It also suggests that the animate dead spell is a game breaker in the hands of PCs, with the result being that "half of the adventure will be reduced to the necromancer sending minions into the dungeon."

We can probably qualify these claims with the fact that TSR of the 90s was deathly afraid of the religious right and "angry mothers" criticizing D&D for being satanic. It's actually quite remarkable that Lorraine Williams' TSR was willing to produce a book about necromancers at all; it's certainly no surprise that the TSR of this era also claimed that necromancers shouldn't be played by PCs.

About NPC Classes. Over the years, there's been a genuine need for NPC classes in the D&D game, for people like sages and aristocrats are necessary to most game settings, but they generally aren't that interesting to players. However, D&D also started using "NPC character classes" for wider purposes, beginning in the late 70s.

Some of the earliest character classes published in Dragon for use with D&D were just labeled as "unofficial." That was the case with the healer and the samurai that appeared in The Dragon #3 (October 1976). However, shortly thereafter - and throughout the reign of AD&D 1e (1977-89) - new classes published in Dragon for AD&D tended to instead be labeled as "NPC classes," only usable by the GM. The first of these was the ninja, published in The Dragon #16 (July 1978).

It's most likely that this was done to maintain game balance: classes didn't have to be carefully playtested if they were just going to be used by an GM. Dragon editor Jake Jaquet explained the matter succinctly in issue #43 (November 1980), when writing about the witch NPC: "Dragon's responsibility, as we see it, is not to set forth major rule changes or additions to the already complex D&D and AD&D game." Using NPC classes also let Dragon publish bizarre classes like the timelord (1982) that simply wouldn't be appropriate in most AD&D games.

Although some of the Dragon NPC classes such as the anti-paladin (1980) and the bandit (1982) were evil, their alignment probably wasn't why they were offered for use by GMs only. Evil was much more accepted as a fun alternative for playing AD&D in the 70s and early 80s. While Gygax said in The Dragon #9 (September 1977) that "the Greyhawk Campaign is built around the precept that 'good' is the desired end sought by the majority of humanity and its allied races," he also stated, "Players can assume the role of a good or an evil character without undue difficulty" a few years later, in The Dragon #29 (August 1979). D&D started coming under media (and religious) scrutiny only in the mid- to late-80s, following the James Egbert affair, which changed TSR's stance on evil, on demons, devils, assassins, and other "undesirable" elements in AD&D 2e (1989).

Whatever the reason, Dragon's decision to publish new character classes for AD&D 1e as "NPC only" was largely a matter of convenience. All of the NPC classes came with complete level and XP tables, which are only necessary for PC classes, and the text of the articles often suggested that the authors thought that PCs might be using the classes.

That brings us to The Complete Book of Necromancers. Although NPC classes had become a rarity by 2e days, TSR was willing to roll out the old idea, probably for some or all of the reasons stated above. Meanwhile, the reaction of players to a new character class was probably no different than it would have been in the 80s - which is to say that these new necromancers surely ended up as PCs.

A History of Roleplaying Necromancers. A necromancer appears in "Shadow of a Demon," the Niall of the Far Travels short story from The Dragon #2 (August 1976). However, it took quite a bit longer for the character class to appear in D&D.

Unofficially, necromancers appeared in some early D&D knock-offs such as Beasts, Men & Gods (1980). Lewis Pulsipher wrote up a necromancer class for AD&D in White Dwarf #35 (November 1982), and shortly afterward Lenard Lakofka detailed the AD&D "death master" in Dragon #76 (August 1983) - though the latter was, again, officially an "NPC class."

Meanwhile, in official AD&D publications, some characters self-identified as necromancers, such as the famous magic-user Bigby, who is said to be a necromancer in WG5: "Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure" (1984). However, those publications didn't include any rules to back up their characters' claims of necromancy.

Official AD&D rules for necromancers didn't appear until AD&D 2e (1989). Here, necromancers were described as a mage specialization. This also marked a sea change in how necromancers were described in TSR's publications. Prior to 2e, necromancers were always referred to as "evil" or "vile"; afterward, they were just one subclass among many.

About the Creators. Steve Kurtz wrote a handful of supplements for TSR in the mid-90s. Many of them, like Necromancers, were a bit dark, including Cities of Bone (1994) and Ruined Kingdoms (1994) for Al-Qadim, and The Evil Eye (1995) for Ravenloft.

About the Product Historian

The history of this product was researched and written by Shannon Appelcline, the author of Designers & Dragons - a history of the roleplaying industry told one company at a time. Please feel free to mail corrections, comments, and additions to shannon.appelcline@gmail.com.

Verloren is a city hanging in the balance.  Either it will fall to an ancient evil or triumph based on your actions.  Enclosed are city details, maps, nine original monsters, and interesting non-player characters for encounters in and out of Verloren.  In this fantasy supplement, players will face powerful monsters and explore a decaying city to discover the secret of The Change and save the thousands of inhabitants.

• 9 Original Monsters
• Over 20 Original Illustrations
• 3 New Spells
• Lots of NPCs and Story Hooks
• 2 Maps

The Mages of House Vour live in The House With No Doors. In fact, they made it. They’re a group of mages who broke away from other houses and started their own. Lacking the imprimatur of the Emperor of Shiel put them in a bad light for awhile, but the cool stuff they construct is changing that. How about a house where the rooms come when called? How about a construct that cleans clothes? Yes, once they made nasty things, but no need to bring up the past. Now House Vour works for the betterment of mankind. You hear about those Guard Mice? Sleep the night away? Don’t even stand guard. You say there are war golems in the vault below? Don’t give them another thought. No Doors means no one can get at them anyway. Right? Oops, you say, wrong? You’re sooo correct! Put some mice in your pocket. Save #76!

Toys for the Sandbox is not a module, it is not a campaign setting, instead it is a framework for GMs to use to reinforce their own imaginations. Sometimes players zig when you expect them to zag, other times they take your plot point into a back alley and leave it penniless and bleeding. Each week we present a new location with a map and some flavor text. In addition we add 4 NPCs with a bit of history and a few simple thoughts on how to stat them for whatever game you are playing. There are also 6 plot hooks each with 3 ways to twist them. Added to that there is usually a table or two filled with rumors and encounters.

Great for use with Legends of Anglerre, Strands of Fate, Dungeon World, Risus: The Anything RPG, FUDGE, Harnworld, and easily adaptable to Dungeons, and Dragons, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Pathfinder, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, The One Ring, HERO, GURPS, BRP, and many others.

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Fallen Leaves Adventure Path

A 3.5/Pathfinder Compatible Adventure for 4 level 5 PCs

An ancient rivalry between Elven deities threatens to overtake the entire world, unless an artifact, the Menalpaur, can be recovered! There is only one clue to the hiding place of the Menalpaur, but the Elves have yet to find it. With the help of the PCs, the Elves may find it in time or the whole world may fall under the control of a deity lost to time!

• The first adventure in the Fallen Leaves Adventure Path!
• Cover and interior art by Tim Tyler!
• Maps by three-time Ennie Award winning cartographer Todd Gamble!
• The first encounter between the PCs and the Vikmordere!
• New adversary: the Edheliant!
• An adventure rich in Adventureaweek lore!
• New faction: The Grinning Rogues!

All tiles and doors for your Boardgame.

Sometimes, all you need to have fun with a class for another few months is a few new ideas to tinker around with. Class Expansions is a series of lightweight supplements for The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game that takes a base class and offers alternative class features that, handily enough, each fit on one page or less.

Following in this vein, Class Expansions: Mysteries of Madness introduces two new mysteries for the oracle base class.

The Cacophony - Elsewhere. It is there, just on the edge of hearing, a chorus of lost souls, dead gods, and spirits never given the chance to take shape in this universe. They claw at our universe, screaming out in timeless agony, crying out to regain an existence that once was or to gain one that never was at all. Some individuals are capable of tapping into Elsewhere and making bargains the forgotten vestigial remnants of these beings. Others aren't quite as lucky. Living conduits who are somehow attuned to this Elsewhere, oracles of The Cacophony spend every waking moment steeped in an incessant barrage of tortured screams and are doomed to eventually become one with the white noise of the universe.

Perfect Bacon - You have seen it in your dreams. Bacon. Not just any bacon, but a delicious shoulder cut from the most perfectly-raised free range swine ever conceived, lovingly marinated after the fact to make it even more chock full of bacon-y goodness. You desire this bacon. You downright lust for this bacon. The only problem is everyone else believes such an amazing piece of pork product is all part of your imagination. But it exists. It has to! And it has to be divine, too! How else could you start throwing conjured bacon salt at people? A bacon god is, of course, the answer! Your source of power is an enormous, and necessarily invisible, strip of bacon cut from a massive divine sow... and you're going to eat it!

Random Mutation Tables

If your game has a need for random mutation tables and procedures for creating all sorts of mutant abominations or unnatural things, whether they are corrupt demons and unique monsters or strange aliens and new superheroes, The Metamorphica is the book for you.

As a collection of biological, psychic, and supernatural mutations, all grouped into tables so results can be randomly selected using dice, this book is a system-agnostic resource for campaigns of such diverse genres as dark fantasy, four-colour comic book, post-apocalypse, modern horror, science fiction, transhumanism, and weird high fantasy.

The Metamorphica contains:

*Over 650 individual mutations, all with their own descriptions.

*Physical and mental mutations, as well as psychic and supernatural powers.

*Several different types of mutation-generating tables.

*Lengthy random creature tables.

*Procedures for using mutations in four different campaign types.

*Procedures for creating aliens, demons, and monsters.

*Procedures for creating mutant animals, humans, and plants.

I wrote this book for myself so you are more than welcome to download it for free. That said, it did take a lot of time and effort, so if you find it entertaining or useful, please consider paying a few dollars for it. And if you have already: thank you! It is very much appreciated.

The usually secretive Kroal Empire has trouble brewing deep within its fiery borders; trouble forcing it to admit that it needs outside help. Deep within the heart of this Smoking Crown is a mine under siege, a situation that has deteriorated into a hostage crisis. Thanks to the Zethyrian Adventurers Guild you have the chance to go where few outsiders have been - inside a working Forinite mine. Forinite, or 'Float Stone', is the primary economic resource used by the dwarves to fuel much of their wealth and power. This highly sought after rare material is what makes airships possible, expanding trade routes and enabling wide spread commerce. If the Vond Mines are shut down as a result of this hostage crisis, economic panic is sure to follow.

The gratitude of a kingdom is always welcome, but do you dare go where even dwarves fear to tread in order to gain that favor?

(A Mana Punk RPG Adventure Module - Designed for 3 to 8 players of beginner to expert experience level. Takes advantage of our "Easy Read Formatting" for simple and concise layout as well as adjustable difficulty.)

Maybe it was an accident, maybe it was a choice. Maybe it was destiny. For whatever reason, you were gifted with a dark power. Will you bend its strength towards good, revel in your power and bring the world to its knees, or be consumed utterly by the monster that lurks within you?

The cursed knight is a brand new base class for the Dungeon World system. The cursed knight walks a perpetual tightrope, gaining both greater power and greater risk of losing control as it unleashes its dark powers. Customize the nature and origin of your affliction, and choose whether to resist or embrace the corruption with 22 possible advanced moves!

The Cursed Knight is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

¿Qué encontrarás en Haunted House? Un sistema de creación de aventuras rápidas en varios entornos (casas encantadas, castillos, trenes, colegios y astronaves) que te permitirá tener preparada una aventura sencilla de terror, mapa incluído, en veinte minutos. Pero también es un juego completo, con reglas para jugar al rol en una ambientación de misterio, terror y crimen, con creación de personajes, enemigos, combate y magia... Además, reglas específicas para recrear las situaciones más típicas del terror: locura, huídas a ciegas, accidentes mortales, perderse en edificios laberínticos, desgracias que se veían venir desde la primera escena y motivos para no quedarte a solas en la oscuridad.

What would you find in Haunted House RPG? A rule system to create single night adventures placed in haunted houses, castles, trains, schools or spaceships, allowing you to have a horror session ready, maps included, in just twenty minutes. But it is also a complete rpg game with rules to play mystery, horror and crime stories, including character creation, enemies, combat and magic... Furthermore, specific rules to play typical horror situations as: madness, blind fleeing, deadly accidents, get lost in labyrinthine buildings, misfortunes you can foreseen from first scene and reasons not to be alone in the dark.

Two great games, for the price of your choosing! 

For a limited time, Bedroom Wall Press is releasing both of our critically acclaimed RPGs in a two-fer, as a pay-what-you-want bundle, allowing gamers to acquire both our current releases for as much or as little as they like. 

This means both the best-selling Hulks and Horrors and the 5-star reviewed Heaven's Shadow, all yours in PDF.

Hulks and Horrors is an old+school inspired science fiction roleplaying game of planetary and dungeon exploration, sending players on perilous adventures into ruined relics of a bygone age of galactic civilization left destroyed by a great plague. 

Heaven's Shadow is a Mini Six powered game of assassination and espionage, where players take on the solemn duty of Shadows, assassins of faith tasked with protecting mankind from the insidious and demonic Nephilim.

This download includes both games as watermark- and DRM-free PDFs in 6"x9" format, as well as an .EPUB version of Heaven's Shadow, enclosed in a single .ZIP archive.