And yet another bundle - Old School Essentials Treasures

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Just received as I was heading to bed, another RPG bundle, this time add-ons for one of the most successful rules sets of the "old school revival":

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/OSETreasures

This Old-School Essentials Treasures offer presents third-party supplements and scenarios for Old-School Essentials, a landmark of the Old School Revival. Published by designer Gavin Norman through his company, Necrotic Gnome, Old-School Essentials is a standout B/X retro-clone that emphasizes clarity, layout, and ease of use at your table. Gavin funded the original version in an April 2019 Kickstarter campaign, and Exalted Funeral's follow-up February 2022 campaign for boxed sets scored US$772K from 6,367 backers.

In early 2020 Gavin released an Old-School Essentials System Reference Document and a royalty-free Third-Party License. Now DriveThruRPG's count of first- and third-party Essentials titles stands at 286 and rising. This new Old-School Essentials Treasures gathers top-line scenarios from Swordlords Publishing and Singing Flame, zines from Planar Compass and The Tabletop Engineer, and the "World-Building Bundle" supplements from Third Kingdom Games.

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 some of these files are inobtrusively watermarked.)

Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to this Old-School Essentials offer's pandemic-related charity, Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.

The total retail value of the titles in this offer is US$115. Customers who pay just US$9.95 get all six titles in our Rules Collection (retail value $44) as DRM-free ebooks, including Necrotic Gnome's complete Old-School Essentials Rules Tome (retail price $20) and Referee's Screen (retail $6) -- both previously in the February 2020 Necrotic Gnome Bundle -- as well as three World-Building supplements from Todd Leback at Third Kingdom Games: Into the Wild (retail price $13), Filling in the Blanks (retail $11), and A Guide to Thieves' Guilds (retail $6).

Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $19.95 to start, also get our entire Adventure Collection with six more titles worth an additional $54:

• Two adventures by Brad Kerr at Swordlords Publishing: Hideous Daylight and Temple of 1000 Swords (retail $6 apiece)
• Two adventures by Vasili Kaliman at Singing Flame: Night Land and Xanadu (retail $6 apiece)
• Two installments of the Planar Compass series of Astral Sea sandbox adventures, funded in successive years of Kickstarter's "Zine Quest" event: Planar Compass 1 (retail $7) and Planar Compass 2 (retail $8)
• The first two issues of Delver magazine: Delver issue 1 and Delver 2 (retail $10 apiece)

I don't think I'm the audience this is aimed at - I'm not a big fan of the "old school" style of play, and not very interested in running fantasy adventures of this type. But it looks like you get a fair amount for your money, and if you like this sort of thing it could be well worth a look. But for me right now the only thing I want to look at is bed, so I'm just going to pass this on without comment, I'm too tired to delve into it...