Carcass Crawler—the official Old-School Essentials zine! Each issue of Carcass Crawler is packed with new material for your games, including new character classes and races, new spells and magic items, new monsters, optional and expanded rules, referee advice, previews of in-development products, short adventures, and more.

Issue 4 Includes: 

• New classes: Three new character classes. The arcane bard, the halfling hearthsinger, and the halfling reeve.
• Deities of Law, Neutrality, and Chaos: Four example religions, including new spells available to adherents.
  
• Terrors of the dark: 8 new monsters of the deep places of the earth.
• Grimoires: A selection of arcane grimoires and new spells.
• Strange brews: Additional details on brewing, purchasing, sampling, and describing potions.
• Adventure: A short adventure set in the lair of a shadowmancer.

Issue 3 Includes: 

• New classes: Five new character classes. The beast master, the dragonborn, the mutoid, the mycelian, and the tiefling.
  
• New races: Four new character races for Advanced Fantasy games. The dragonborn, the mutoid, the mycelian, and the tiefling.
• Expanded adventuring gear: 40 new adventuring gear items to increase adventuring options and character customisation.
  
• Expanded armour and weapons: 7 new weapons and 5 new types of armour, inspired by types available in the 1970s Advanced 1st Edition rules and the 1984 Companion rules.
• Woodland monsters: 8 brand new monsters that lurk in the deep, shadowed glades and sacred groves of ancient forests beyond civilized lands.
• Monster creation guidelines: Referee guidelines for creating new monsters for Old-School Essentials games. Keep the game fresh (and players on their toes) by devising your own new horrors and foes.

Cover artist: Jacob Fleming

 

Issue 2 Includes: 

Issue 1 includes:

• New classes: Six new character classes. The acolyte, the gargantua, the goblin, the hephaestan, the kineticist, and the mage.
• New races: Three new character races for Advanced Fantasy games. The gargantua, the goblin, and the hephaestan.
• Black powder weapons: Complete rules for introducing renaissance-style black powder firearms into your game.
  
• Fighter combat talents: Optional rules to give fighters a little extra mechanical perk.
• d6 thief skills: An optional alternative system for thief skills.
• Adjudicating thief skills: Optional guidelines for adjudicating the use of thief skills and attempts by other characters to perform similar tasks.

*Note: This Issue contains all new content, not duplicated in the Kickstarter Exclusive Inaugural Issue, with the exception of the Mage Class. 

Authors: Gavin Norman, James Maliszewski, Donn Stroud

32 pages, full color, A5, saddle-stitched zine. PDF included.