Just got the latest issue of Aegeon: Science Fiction Illustrated and it features a full page display of When Winter Came to Skedemosse.

Looking forward to reading it!

Visited Öland this weekend for a wedding and it so happened to be located within the Skedemosse hex in When Winter Came To Skedemosse.

Here are some photos I snapped at Skedemosse Museum that can be used as loot inspiration for your adventure. Some of these objects are already mentioned in the adventure!

Here is the ring fort Ismanstorps borg. I believe this ring fort to be slightly smaller than Sörby borg featured in the adventure, but it serves to give you a scale of size of these places.

I also posted a video on X

Lord Matteus just put out a charming review of When winter came to Skedemosse.

All in all, I think this is a really good module. Its layout will make it easy to run with little prep. It provides additional background information for campaigns inspired by Scandinavian Viking culture. I’m looking forward to incorporating it into my upcoming Mystara: The Northern Reaches campaign.

Read the review in full

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A video where I talk about the thief skills in OSR games and why I think Lamentations of the Flame Princess does it best.

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Edit on Mars 5: Got some good feedback after this video. My favorite is: Use monster listen checks, when a normal classed character (or a thief that fail their move silently roll) move the monsters get a listen check. If a thief succeed with their move silently check i.e move silently then do not allow a roll.

I will be implementing this in my home game.

Folk DnD.

Folk: as in folk art.

DnD: as in the popular game that became synonymous with tabletop roleplaying.

I really like this expression that I picked up from Questing Beast. You can see the man himself explain it in the video below.

It expresses the joy of the game that has long since diverged from any one brand, rule system or otherwise. It underlines that what is important is how it is played at home around the thousand kitchen tables, discord servers and basements where it is played. Not what some public megacorp thinks you should buy or play!

The culture and memories that are created there. Those homebrew rules blooming out of years and years of gaming experience and the joy of experimentation. The unprofessional folk art created by friends for their own sake documenting some epic event, or commemorating a fallen comrade. Art created just for a few people who were there, not intended for wider audience, for profit or anything else. Art created for five friends. Just for the utterly human urge to create art. It is about those retold stories of the grand battles, taking risk and having a merry old time.

I can still recall battles of old we fought as kids more than twenty years ago in a boy’s room somewhere in southern Sweden. Remembering the comradery, the bravery and the excitement. I still play with some of the people I did back then. Boys then, men now.

Pour a libation to your fallen player characters and to Folk DnD.

Just a quick update on my Scandinavian Iron-age adventure When Winter Came To Skedemosse for Old School Essentials and other retro roleplaying games:

There is now the option of buying a soft-cover print version of the adventure!

Find it on DriveThruRPG

Previews

Magic item in Dolmenwood: The bag of bleats

Appearance: A bagpipe made from the torso of a long-horn goatman noble. Dark grey fur covers it with the head and horns prominently displayed on the back of the instrument.

• The eyes sometimes open staring pleadingly at anyone near by
• Mushrooms grow in the fur
• Makes horrible bleating sounds when played (eeirly similar to a cry for help in Gaffe)
• Smells like old cheese and it gets even worse when it is played

Effects:

• Goatmen must make morale check or flee
• Proficient players (such as a bard or minstrel) can with a 1-in-6 play a horrid note that breaks glass within 30’ radius

Our community have several library boxes where people can trade books with each other.

Seeing that our old favorite White Box was so fairly priced we ordered a bunch of them and some dice sets to put out in our local boxes. Hopefully it allow someone to discover the joy of tabletop roleplaying!

Making mini White Box kits for the neighborhood Little Free Library pic.twitter.com/RyOsJpiB7e

— Christopher (@ttrpgdad) February 16, 2022

My own Old School Adventure set in the Scandinavian Vendel period!

Design to be run with Old School Essentials but should work fine with whatever classic B/X clone you like!

Get the PDF on my Itch.io page or print on DriveThruRPG

This has been brewing for a long while and I am finally happy to share it with you.

Collecting some of my favorite Dolmenwood resources I use in my Eaves of Dolmenwood campaign:

• The must have offical material Everything Dolmenwood Print + PDF (primarilly all Wormskin zines)

  • Winter’s Daughter adventure
  • All material from the new Dolmenwood Patreon

• This index of the Wormskin Zines

• Goatmans’s Goblet has a lot of useful content

  • Names for goatmen
  • Dolmenwood specific stronghold ideas
  • Convert Hole in The Oak to Dolmenwood

• Some Lamentation of the Flame Princess modules I have used (or am about to use)

  • No Rest For The Wicked
  • Fermentvm Nigrvm Dei Sepvlti
  • Forgive Us