Link Dump: Oct 9, 2013

News
Bundle of Holding: Stars Without Number
Intrigue at the Court of Chaos, a new level 1 adventure for DCC available for pre-order.

Resources
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque: The Clockwork Crackdown in Halloweentown, a spooky setting sketch that draws inspiration from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman.

New Releases
The Metamorph, a new playbook/character class for Dungeon World.
Arnhack, a complete medieval horror-fantasy game.

Crowdfunding
Josiender, a fantasy tabletop RPG featuring multilayer puzzles, rich ecosystems, ever-progressing timelines, and the Discipline System.

Link Dump: Oct. 8, 2013

News

• Bundle of Holding: Unknown Armies Bundle of Holding Ends at 8:00 PM today.
• OSR Compatible Site Launched: The goal of this site is to promote an open, flexible standard for Old School Renaissance publishers. OSR Compatible is a quick and easy way to indicate that a product will work with all the games, classic and modern, that OSR gamers enjoy. 

Resources

• RPGnet: Best Setting Blogs
• Monster Manual Sewn from Pants: Crazy tables, including instructions on making Pandemonium Fracking Coffee.
• Tenkar’s Tavern: Compiling a List of Good Low-Level Adventures by Goodman Games.
• Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque: The Hand-Maiden, an excellently creepy OSR-compatible monster.

New Releases

• Ravenloft for AD&D 1e now on dndclassics.com.
• Cyber-Fate, a cyberpunk setting for FATE

Crowdfunding

• Lamentations of the Flame Princess Referee Book: Tower of the Stargazer reprint is the next streach goal.
• Unwritten: A FATE-powered tabletop RPG based on the video game series Myst.

Ravenloft is Now Available on DnD Classics

If you're looking for something to run this Halloween season, you can't go wrong with the classic Gothic-horror AD&D 1E module Ravenloft. You can grab it from dndclassics.com now for only $4.99.

Design a Game in November

Those familiar with National Novel Writing Month know that every November thousands of people attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in only 30 days. I have participated several times and have completed at least three terrible short novels. NaNoWriMo is frustrating but incredibly fun. Although it is unlikely that anyone participating in the event will produce a novel even close to readable, it's still a worthwhile creative exercise.

One option of NaNoWriMo is to produce something other than a novel during November. The organizers of National Game Design Month (NaGaDeMon for short) have decided that designing a complete game in 30 days can be just as fun. Participants can write their own RPG or design a board game and are encouraged to publicly discuss the creation of the game.

I am seriously considering participating this year since I have been kicking around an idea for an RPG for some time now and probably should just put pen to paper at this point. I did have a sort of five year plan for this game with designing an original system being the final step, but I've always found a close deadline to be extremely motivating.

Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque, vol. 3 Released

In time to make October extra spooky, Jack Shear has released his third volume of resources for running a Gothic-themed RPG and it makes me wish I were not committed to running a cyberpunk campaign. Once again Jack delivers the goods in the form of excellent random tables and setting details that will set your imagination sprinting. He's also thrown in a great deal of inspirational resources.

For shit's sake, he gives a option for bonuses based on phrenology! These are the options you didn't know your game needed but desperately does.

Download the free PDF or buy a hardcopy for the table.

Unknown Armies is the new Bundle of Holding

The newest Bundle of Holding showcases the Unknown Armies RPG. I don't know too much about this game, other than it has been described as the closest thing we have to an Illuminatus! Trilogy game. That description alone has made me very interested in this game.

Pay what to get the core rules. Beat the average to get a bunch of supplements. Currently the average is just under $11.

For more info on the game, check out the page on Atlas Game's website.

Cyberpunk Name Generation

The recent release of a Hacker Name Generator PDF has brought to my attention that there is a need out there for filling cyberpunk settings with appropriate named characters and places.

Before you spend any money, check out the cyberpunk name generator at donjon. It provides male and female names for American, Chinese, Japanese and Russian characters, along with netrunner handles. It also provides corporation and location names. Each click results in ten entries, so you shouldn't have any problems quickly fleshing out your notes and character sheets.

The handles, locations and corporation names are especially good and really capture the classic cyberpunk feel. The Shiki Datavault in Paris sounds like an awesome place for an adventure.