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Goodman Games publishes a stellar series of entertaining and inspirational system-neutral supplements that have become key works of the Old School Revival. Foremost of these is the venerable Dungeon Alphabet, an alphabetic compendium now in its fourth edition, funded in a November 2017 Kickstarter campaign. The Dungeon Alphabet, its companions Monster Alphabet and Cthulhu Alphabet, and other Goodman titles help OSR gamemasters rethink their games at a fundamental level. This revived August 2019 Goodman Gems Bundle once again gathers much-loved supplements that present new character backgrounds, locations, setting elements, monsters, random tables, a yearlong calendar, and two -- no! now three! -- marvelous trips through the alphabet.
We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices. (By publisher request, the DriveThruRPG versions of these files are inobtrusively watermarked.)
Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) of this revived Goodman Gems Bundle offer goes to the charity designated by Joseph Goodman, the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank. For more than 30 years the SF-Marin Food Bank has worked to end hunger in the San Francisco Bay Area, where one in four neighbors is at risk of hunger.
The total retail value of the titles in this revived offer is US$94. Customers who pay just US$9.95 get all four titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $37) as DRM-free ebooks, including The Adventurer's Almanac (retail price $13), a yearlong calendar to organize your campaign around seasonal events; a handy DM Campaign Tracker (retail $5); and the character supplements PC Pearls (retail $7) and GM Gems (retail $12).
Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $24.95 to start, also get this revival's entire Bonus Collection with five more titles worth an additional $57:
- The Dungeon Alphabet (retail $8) and The Monster Alphabet (retail $12), invaluable sourcebooks that make dungeon crawling and monster bashing as easy as A-B-C
- NEW in this revival: The Cthulhu Alphabet (retail $12), a similar abecedarian compendium of Lovecraftian story elements and inspiration
- Also NEWLY ADDED: 50 Fantastic Functions for the D50 (retail $10), an entertaining compendium of tables and mechanics inspired by the Gamescience 50-sided die
- The well-regarded treatise How to Write Adventure Modules That Don't Suck
All previous purchasers of this Goodman Gems offer during its original August 2019 run also receive the two newly added titles on their Wizard's Cabinet download page on the Bundle site and in their linked DriveThruRPG Library. When you buy a Bundle of Holding early, you never miss titles added later -- even much later.
Last time I said: Basically, these are collections of random encounter tables, adventure seeds, and similar material that should be adaptable to most fantasy RPGs. I can't help wonder why any GM would need so much random material, half the fun of running a game is making this sort of stuff up, but it could be useful if you wanted some ideas in a hurry. Since I don't run this sort of game it's no use to me, and to be honest I feel it's a little on the expensive side if you go for the bonus material. But tastes differ, and if you want this sort of thing you're getting a fair amount for the money. As usual your mileage may vary.
