The OSRIC 3.0 Backerkit is getting close to completion. Sounds like next month is when the physical books will be mailed out. PDFs for the Players and GMs book are already available on DTRPG and the adventures that we're part of the Backerkit have already had the initial PDF versions mailed out. I believe sometime in March is when non-backers can just purchase the adventures on their own.
Among them are the insane talents of Hawk and Chomy, both adventures at the top of the heap in terms of quality and badassness.
Hawks adventure, I had not only the ability to play a session DM'd by EOTB (and made some new friends along the way), but also got to read it early. Hawk is great and the Fortress Tomb of the Ice Lich theme delivers on a deep gaming level as well as atmosphere.
Gabor Csomos, one of the best of our time, delivers in the Whispers of the Death God. The map design, the branching opportunities for play, the scale of the combat are incredible. The magnitude and sheer cool factor of this module goes on the short list of just a few modules that come out a year that I'd love to run.
My own adventure, Cult of the Crooked Tower, was cribbed from my own campaign, was the adventure I offered for the project as a complete, tested, low level adventure. I had originally planned for this to be part of the content I aim to release and did my own maps and artwork for it.
My maps are in the Mythmere published version, however the art is entirely done by the excellent Brett Barkley and Del Teigeler.
Originally slated to be an addition to my normal campaign world, this was play-tested a few times, through a few different iterations. I should have added this to the manuscript that was submitted, but I didn't. A huge chunk of it appeared in my Spire Campaign as two different low level areas. This was also tested two more times, once with my real life friends.
- Venio, C1 bled to death by Stirges in the Crooked Tower
- TPK, after and unfortunate chains of cleaver hits from the Mongrel Men and misses from the party.
- Ghor, D1 exploded by Deviling deaths.
- Georl, F2 and Olaf, C2, eaten by ghouls.
- Snog T3, Grog F2, and Sven C2 to the Necrophidius.
- Elias, F2/M2 burned to death by a Pyrozombie
- TPK to deceitful Huecuvas.
There was some art not used, which I'll use somewhere else. Spoilers ahead for the art below:
Keep your eyes out for the wider public release sometime in March, I think.
No Face wanders Finsburg as a violent and lost soul. The undead former constable rings an old hand bell, his face melted over his waxy skull, underneath the cowl of his storm cloak. When he arrives, it is always accompanied by the tolling of his hand bell, a relic from when he paced the town as constable.
Rope hanging over the (well) surface tied to a skeletal hand like a grappling hook clutching the well. Moving the rope alerts a necrophidius lurking in the well's depths.
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