Category Archives: Reviews

The Castle of the Mad Archmage

Posted on October 25, 2025 by Bryce Lynch

By Joseph BlochBRW Games1eLevels 1-12 But a few scant leagues from the walls of the bustling town of Greyheim lay the crumbling ruins known as the Castle of the Mad Archmage, Jophob Schlech, long shunned by the local townsfolk. Decades … Continue reading →

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Stygina: The Land of Ice and Plunder

Posted on October 18, 2025 by Bryce Lynch

By Christopher WilsonSelf PublishedOSELevels 9-12 During the War of the Heavens, it is said that an acrchangel of Janu deseneded from the skies like a great meteor, striking the known world with a sacred war hammer, laying the devils and … Continue reading →

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The Shrike

Posted on October 11, 2025 by Bryce Lynch

By Leo HuntPublished by Joel HinesOSELevel 1? The Shrike is a world of decay – rusted iron, crumbling stone, saltwater, blood, and fog – surrounded by a roiling ocean, a lifeless archipelago, pewter-hued clouds, seabirds, and pitiless stars. In this … Continue reading →

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Doomsong: Lord Have Mercy Upon Us

Posted on October 4, 2025 by Bryce Lynch

By Morgan Finley, Jack Cæsar, Chris CæsarCaesar InkDoomsong. THE FIRST SEAL IS BROKEN AND PESTILENCE SPILLS FORTH. THE KINGDOM OF LETHE FALLS BEFORE ITS FOETID LORD, … but the Gravediggers’ Guild does not kneel to heretic gods. Half a lifetime … Continue reading →

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The Painted Wastelands

Posted on September 27, 2025 by Bryce Lynch

By Christopher WillettAgamemnon PressOSELevel 1? Prepare your trembling synapses to enter the Painted Wastelands, the ENnie award winning tabletop roleplaying adventure designed for Old School Essentials. Dive headfirst into a strange hexcrawl set in a bizarre world teeming with desert … Continue reading →

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They Devour

Posted on September 20, 2025 by Bryce Lynch

By Andy Castillo JrCelestial Skunkworks1e/2e/OSRICLevels 5-8 An ancient evil and its zombie horde attacks the city of Genepa. Hundreds fall and the survivors retreat behind her walls. In their distress, the city council summon the heroes and charges them with … Continue reading →

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First Steps – Descent into Madness

Posted on September 13, 2025 by Bryce Lynch

By Nickolas Z BrownFive CataclysmsOSRLevels: “Low to Mid” Deep within the Sunken Fort is a stairway. This stairway leads into an unknowable and chaotic underworld: the Descent into Madness. Alien creatures, chaotic magic, formless order and untold treasures await the … Continue reading →

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King for a Day (Revised)

Posted on September 6, 2025 by Bryce Lynch

By Jim PintoPort World GamesGeneric/UniversalLevel- Ha! The Valley of Brycshire has been infested with a foreign and strange problem for a quarter of a century. This alone is not unique to fantasy gaming. Most adventures start with, “There’s something rotten … Continue reading →

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Brink of Calamity

Posted on August 30, 2025 by Bryce Lynch

By Trent SmithStorm Fetish Productions1eLevels 1-6 The town of Warnell, straddling a trade route that crosses two great forests, seems at first like any other backwater on the borderland of civilization, but menace and mystery lurk beneath the surface: a … Continue reading →

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Old John Stuart’s Mill

Posted on August 27, 2025 by Bryce Lynch

Archie Fields III, Matthew C. FunkWitch Pleas Publishing5eLevel 1 Set in the richly detailed settlement of Greenspires, a town nestled among the elven ruins of the Hinterwoods of Witch Pleas’ Legends of Lohre setting, this tale begins at the cozy … Continue reading →

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