The Manor, Issue 8

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Issue 8 of The Manor is available in print via Lulu (for $2.50) and for free at RPGNow in pdf-format.

In this issue you get an old school grappling system ideal for tavern brawls, a sneak peek into Trey Causey's Strange Stars, some tips for making hirelings more interesting & useful, as well as a set of eight magical torches, and some stuff for Torchbearer.

Denis from over at Northport has a couple of nice hireling illustrations in this issue.

That's a lot of good stuff packed into just 26 pages.

Great Stuff!

While you're clicking over to get your copy of The Manor be sure to check out Tim short's mini-classic The Flayed King, also available for free at RPGNow. It's a great little adventure and well worth checking it out.

Bonus Maps for The Horrid Caves from The Manor Issue 7

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Issue 7 of Tim Short's RPG-Zine The Manor is available via his online store Gothridge Manor Games or at RPGNow, where the pdf is currently discounted to $2.50. A print copy will set you back $4.00 ($4.50 in Canda, $5.00 elsewhere).

Tim managed to pack a lot into just 24 pages. There's a traveling potion-peddler, the Skinwalker as a playable class option, a set of gonzo Arduin-esque magic mirrors, a nifty mini-adventure involving a fire demon, a mind-bending Mind Flayer Haiku, and The Horrid Caves, which is one of our adventures, this time involving a series of caves where a powerful prehuman warlord held court long, long ago. If you haven't checked out The Manor yet, click over to Tim's Gothridge Manor blog and take a look at the various posts tagged The Manor, or better still, just pick an issue at random and download it from RPGNow while they're all discounted to $2.50. We both really enjoyed Issue 6 quite a bit.

We're offering a free set of bonus maps for The Horrid Caves. There is one numbered and one unnumbered map in each of three versions, so you can provide a player's version of the map or re-key the thing, or use the map for another site, as you like.

Review: The Manor (Issue 6)

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The Manor is Tim Short's old school RPG zine. Issue 6 features The Brothel of Wargumn by Matt Jackson, The Guard (an NPC class for beefing up those guys who the player characters are always running into), a D20 table for Random Guard Greetings, Getting from Point A to Point B by Ken Harrison, and Witches of the Dark Moon, a low-level one-shot adventure that features a new monstrous spiders, new spells, and a werespider witch who could easily sneak off to become a recurring NPC antagonist for a party of low-level characters. The Dark Moon scenario was inspired by Tim Brannon's incredible RPG-Tome The Witch and Dylan Hartwell's Big Book of Spiders. Both scenarios are excellent and are accompanied by maps by Matt Jackson, with art from Jason Sholtis and Dylan Hartwell. The Brothel scenario by Matt Jackson is one of the most highly entertaining scenarios you're likely to read any time soon--it manages to be both distinctively gritty and memorably oddball in equal measure. All in all this is a great zine that manages to pack quite a punch in only 28 pages. Highly recommended!

PDF version is available at RPGNow or Lulu for $2.50, which is a bargain.
Print version is available from Gothridge Manor Games for $4.00 ($4.50 to Canada, $5.00 to the Rest of the World).