Teratic Tome
Ford’s Faeries
Rifts World Book 1 - Vampire Kingdom - Original Printing as it has the stuff for Circus and Traveling Shows
The Original Ultimate Toolbox for GM by Ibach, Ibach, and Pinto
Cites by Midkemia Press
Tome of Adventure Design Revised
The Arduin Trilogy
Hex Flower Cookbook
Kellri’s City Block https://kellri.blogspot.com/
Kellri’s CDD1-4 https://kellri.blogspot.com/
Justin’s House Rules https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/7842/roleplaying-games/justins-house-rules-for-odd
Gary Gygax’s House Rules https://cyclopeatron.blogspot.com/2010/03/gary-gygaxs-whitebox-od-house-rules.html
Malevolent and Benign by Expedious Retreat Press
Petty Gods Revised
Jason Vey’s Conan for OD&D 0 Free Game https://www.grey-elf.com/
Fantastic Medieval Campaigns by Marcia B
Varlets and Vermin
Zenopus’s One Hit Monsters List https://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2013/02/one-hit-point-monsters_23.html
The Alternate Wandering Monsters List https://beyondtheblackgate.blogspot.com/2012/08/alternate-bx-s-wandering-monster-tables.html
The Majestic Wilderlands by Robert S Conley
Supplement X Philotomy’s Musings
The Black Sword Hack Ultimate Edition by The Merry Mushmen
Worlds Without Number - Sine Nomine Publishing
Lavender Hack by Ziapelta Games
For Gold & Glory by God Emperor Games
OSRIC by Stuart Marshall
Swords & Wizardry by Finch - see new revised edition
Supplement v Carcosa by Geoffrey Mckinney
The Perrin Convention - get the pdf of All the World’s Monsters II it is inside
of course Chainmail 3rd Edition and it’s first 5 supplements - Men & Magic, Monsters & Treasure, The Underworld & Wilderness Adventures, Greyhawk, and Blackmoor
Please Post Up Your List
The Knock zines for sure.
I have a few of the originals and Knock Zine #1 https://www.lulu.com/shop/matthew-finch/knockspell-magazine-1/ebook/product-1nvjkngw.html?q=&page=1&pageSize=4
Man that’s quite the list and more than a few of them are enigmas to me! I’m riding the train but I’ll try to think up my list later!
Downtime and Demesnes is a great book The Noctournal Table needs to be available POD
The good news is that The Nocturnal Table isn’t actually very long as far as page count, so it’s pretty easy to just print the PDF as a booklet and just staple or sew the pages together. That’s all the official print version is, really.
This list is awesome, and a number of the things on it are also things I keep in my collection. I’ll just list the ones that I didn’t see here that I use often. The comparison to “official” D&D books is just to state how I typically use them
- PHB: Whitehack (4e just came out but it looks largely the same as 3e with a few changes to, I think, excise the OGL)
- MM: Bestial Ecosystems Created By Monster Inhabitation
- DMG: Maze Rats (it’s a whole game, but it’s also the best low profile Dungeon Master’s Guide that exists.
Splat books would include:
- Basically anything Lost Pages has put out (Magic supplements)
- The Nocturnal Table (DMG but for city adventures)
- Vermis I (Setting Guide/Mood Board)
- On Downtime and Demesnes (Another DMG supplement)
I don’t use them all for every game, but I love having them all on my shelf for anything I might need during prep.
Also, a shoutout to the OSE Classic Fantasy Rules Tome. It’s so nice, and even if I’m not playing it, there’s a great selection of magic items and other random stuff for the DM, and like…it’s a really nice looking book.
I’ve been eyeing some of the Lost Pages books for a while, looks like I need to add The Nocturnal Table to my wishlist - I struggle with city adventures
I’d add the following:
The Black Hack
The Metamorphica - a fun book of tables of mutants, chaos stuff, and weird technology
Going to add 4 More
Sandbox Generator
Table Fables I & II
Fight On! - The definative OSR Magazine https://www.lulu.com/shop/ignatius-umlaut/fight-on-compiled-compilation-4/paperback/product-1k8g2q56.html?q=fight+on&page=1&pageSize=4
Gardens of Ynn created a new way to dungeon crawl - don’t believe me try it out for free https://quirky-kirch-a6f314.netlify.app/
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Swords & Wizardry, Complete (English and Herman versions) and White Box
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Time of Adventure Design
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Knock! 1-3
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I tend to focus on products which go against certain “maxims” of play; having alternatives to some of the more strict rules inherited from Gygax offers insight into the philosophy behind certain rules and whether such rules are actually fun at the table.
The Black Hack is my go-to book for this purpose: distances are relative, consumables are abstracted to the usage die, experience is based on stories told and not treasure dragged back to town, and all of the dice rolling can be made by players if the GM so chooses. Such a free system allows for easier hacking; You don’t need to compare relative power of classes when determining how much XP your homebrew needs in order to level up.
For supplements and splatbooks, I particularly like Wonder & Wickedness and Marvels & Malisons as magic supplements. It’s easy as hell to slap together a sorcerer class from these two books and staple it onto the Black Hack. My favourite setting books are Ultraviolet Grasslands and Hot Springs Island; both offer perfect sandbox adventures for the Black Hack. Both offer some manner of departure from the traditional tropes of TSR adventures. I have had to modify some aspects of the latter, such as the
spoiler
miscarriage statuette, which I revised as a fertility amulet.; if worn one way up you’re guaranteed fertility, the other way you’re guaranteed not to fall pregnant.
There are a stupid number of blogs and zines that I could namedrop, but the one I find myself agreeing with the most is The Alexandrian.
Adding 1 more!
Don’t know how I forgot this Zenopus 20 Backgrounds for OD&D https://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2014/08/20-backgrounds-for-od.html
Add a Few More from the Grim Dark World
Small but Vicous Dog https://vaultsofnagoh.blogspot.com/2011/07/small-but-vicious-dog-steals-hearts.html
Warlock https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/312204/Warlock
In The Dark Zine https://feral-indie-studios.itch.io/vast-in-the-dark
The Free 2011 LotFP Referee Book - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/148012/LotFP-Referee-Book-old-Grindhouse-Edition
The Best of White Dwarf Scenarios I,II, & III are must owns
