Some So-Called Art

Here's a couple things I drew for The Storm's Impending Rage. I'm no artist, and if I could pay a real artist to do drawings for these works, I'd give them these and say, "Here, make something like this, only good." But I do these to help visualize some of the things that I think are hard to "see" with only a description.

Mule's Corner

Two of the Eight Faces of Creation

Wall of Vines

Verdant Portal

Upon the Face of the Deep Campaign New Offering

 While not the first adventure in the Upon the Face of the Deep Campaign, we just published the 100 page sandbox adventure that is intended to be the kickoff of the Campaign:

The Storm's Impending Rage

The title, by the way, is a line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Dura Novis

The PDF is available at Drivethrurpg and the print version is in pre-media, waiting for approval and then a proof will be ordered. The last proof I ordered (Bonepicker's Tower) just shipped but the warning is that media mail could take over a month to get here... sigh

Three New Offerings at Rosethrone Publishing!

Last week we published two adventures and a little sourcebook introduction to one of the Clans of the Rosewood Highlands.

The Sandbox Adventure: A Shadow Over the Greatwood for levels 5-7 - 100 pages! (Ironically, the working title of this was "Quick Adventure")

A quick drop-in adventure for levels 3-5 - 16 pages.

The Clan Gallien Region Sourcebook

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New Adventure

The Mud King of Stoney Creek is now available at Drivethru

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Publishing Update

Everything Published so far:

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The Free Hex Crawl:

The Free Bestiary:

The Adventures:

Review O Rama!

Dang, things have really picked up regarding reviews for Rosethrone Publishing products.

Bryce Lynch at Ten Foot Pole has been particularly gracious, reviewing three products over the past year...

Last May he reviewed a very early offering, The Shrine of the Fallen Angels.  His review was generally positive, with a number of justified criticisms. He said it was interesting but might not be usable at the table,,,

In July, he reviewed Blackfalls Hall, a longer and somewhat convoluted adventure.  The primary criticisms he pointed out were utility at the table (way too wordy - which I am...) and sometimes the lead of the encounter gets buried (put the most important/first seen stuff first in the description...). This review generated a few helpful comments, too.

A couple days ago he reviewed The Keep of the Broken Saint and gave it a very favorable review, it even made his list of "The Best!" That was pretty gratifying and I am very thankful for Bryce's reviews.

A couple weeks ago, the Blog OSR News and Reviews gave a fairly comprehensive and very favorable review of The Sepulcher of the Burning King. OSR News has noted the release of other Rosethrone products and we have really appreciated that as well. Great resource for new release announcements.

Dreams of Mythic Fantasy (a little NSFW) has announced the last few releases, always glad to read the blog and another great resource for new release announcements.

I know I've already mentioned this, but the first review I discovered was via a random search, a review of the Northern Tier Hexcrawl, way back in 2017!

I'm certain that I've missed a few, and sorry for that! 

Thanks!!!

Upcoming Projects Update

I had so much trouble trying to get the cover right for POD on THE GHOST DOWNS that I gave up.  I will try again - but frustration is a powerful influence...  

THE RUSTED TOMB needs a final rewrite and some formatting changes, but it is essentially complete.

THE PILE AND FALLER VILLAGE is about 80% written.  It needs a couple editing passes once the rest of the writing is complete, then layout and art - maybe by September?  I'm pretty excited about this.  Generally I have been writing adventure locations - without much thought to the framework of "plot" or whatever - I guess kind of in the vein of B2 "Keep on the Borderlands." And I've written this as a location - but there's an optional (and maybe kind of involved) adventure outline that can be used herein.  Some new creatures and unique magic items.  I hope it will be fun.

THE ROSEWOOD HIGHLANDS gazeteer is in process, but is a long way off. The BESTIARY will be incomplete for some time as well, though I hope to update it soon with new creatures from both RUSTED TOMB and THE PILE.

I had a request for the rules SWORDS & WIZARDS IN THE HIGHLANDS - it's still just piles of scattered notes and probably will be for the foreseeable future.  With the exception of a few monster details (like all undead temporarily drain ability scores), the stuff set in the Highlands can be run with any version of D&D/AD&D, retroclone, neoclone, etc...