Friday, December 10, 2021

Appendix N Entertainment: Open Submissions For Modules

Appendix N Entertainment is currently accepting submissions from authors and hopeful authors of adventure modules written for Old-School Essentials Retro Adventure Game. Contracts will vary by individual but will generally follow these guidlines:

1. Pay and contract to be negotiable dependent upon word/page count, ownership of material, and rights for reprinting. 

2. Payment made in USD by check, PayPal or Payoneer.

3. Manuscripts length may vary from the original submission due to layout needs and will be discussed with the author.

4. Manuscripts should include all needed maps or illustrative devices and rough handouts. These can be rough drawings maps and will be reproduced by a professional illustrator or cartographer. If the author wishes to produce their own professional quality maps/handouts/illustrations these will have their own contracts drawn separate from the writing contract.

5. If you don't have a manuscript written, please send a short summary, contact info below.

6. Please look at one of our published adventures to understand the Gateway To Adventure line. We don't use boxed text or text that is designed for the referee to read aloud. 

7. Formatting of monsters stat blocks, spells etc. to follow OSE standards. Guidlines can be found right here.

8. Our mission statement of inclusivity in old-school gaming will be discussed upon contact.

9. The rights of unaccepted, rejected or otherwise unused manuscripts will be maintained by the original author.

You can contact us and submit to appendixnentertainment@gmail.com. Please title the submission "Gateway To Adventure Submission".


We look forward to your submissions!




Friday, November 12, 2021

Solar Sanctuary of the Cannibal Corpse: REMASTERED!

 Hello all! This is just a brief post to let everyone know that we are are currently remastering Solar Sanctuary of the Cannibal Corpse. This will be done in our current format, as we have recently done with The Child Thieves and the remasters of Octhorrorfest! and Hidden Hand of the Horla. Solar Sanctuary will be re-written and feature a new layout for ease of use a the table, along with some additional material and new cover art! 

You can back the Kickstarter here: Solar Sanctuary of the Cannibal Corpse: Remastered Kickstarter


New cover with new art from Clayton Williams!




Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Octhorrorfest Film Challenge

This year I am challenging myself to watch one horror/supernatural/spooky season film or documentary for each day in October. Some of these that I have watched many times may be "background noise" as bag and fulfill Kickstarter rewards.I will keep track here as the month goes on. Dates will be listed for movies that share a title with another or have/are remakes.

Ongoing watching series: 

1. Midnight Mass

2. Creepshow

3. Witching Season

Movies:

1. Dracula - 1931

2. Frankenstein - 1931

3. Sleepwalkers

4. Woman In Black - 2012

5. Horns

6. The Terror - 1963

7. The Wind

8. Spiral - 2019

9. Psycho - 1960

10. Halloween - 1978

11. Tomb of Ligeia

12. Lamb

13. Children of the Corn - 1984

14. Hellraiser

15. Hellbound: Hellraiser II

16. Halloween - 2018

17. Pet Semetary

18. Tales of Halloween

19. Ginger Snaps

20. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 1974

21. The Exorcist

22. The Real Story of Halloween (documentary)

23. The Mortuary Collection

24. Night of the Living Dead

25. Halloween Kills

26. Friday the 13th - 1980

27. Friday the 13th Part 2

28. Friday the 13ths Part 3

29. Scream

30. Prom Night

31. The Wolf of Snow Hollow

32. Carmilla - 2020

33. Fall of the House of Usher

34. Videodrome

35. Dracula - 1979

36. The Evil


Friday, August 27, 2021

U-Con 2021 - Event Submission Open Until September 17th!

It's event submission time for U-Con!




As the OSR Track and Tekumel Track event coordinator I am looking for Referees, Judges and Dungeon Masters to come run old school games and Tekumel games! U-Con will be held November 19-21, 2021 at the Marriott Ann Arbor Ypsilanti at Eagle Crest.

DEADLINES: IF YOU WANT YOUR EVENT AVAILABLE DURING PRE-REGISTRATION THE DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 7th!! THE ULTIMATE DEADLINE WILL BE LATE SEPTEMBER TO EARLY OCTOBER.


Did you also know that U-Con has a Tekumel Track? If you are a fan of Tekumel and want a platform to run at, U-Con is the place! Our Tekumel Track allows for any game system so long as you are running a Tekumel game! Submit your Tekumel events today!

What qualifies as an OSR event this year?


Official D&D:
All TSR Era D&D qualifies,
OD&D
AD&D
B/X
BECMI
AD&D 2nd Edition
Rules Cyclopedia

Other TSR Era Stuff:
Gamma World (TSR editions)
Boot Hill
Metamorphosis Alpha
Star Frontiers
Gangbusters
Top Secret
Alternity etc.

Other Early Era RPGs/Supplements:
Arduin
Early Chaosium products (RuneQuest 2nd Edition, Elfquest, Sandy Petersen era Call of Cthulhu etc)
Tunnels & Trolls (all editions)
Dragonquest (all editions)
Traveller (early editions)
Chivalry & Sorcery
Pacesetter System Games (Chill, Time Master, Crypt World etc.)
Middle Earth Role Playing (I.C.E.)
Rolemaster
Spacemaster
The Complete Warlock
Cyborg Commando (Did he really just say Cyborg Commando?)
WEG D6 Star Wars
WEG D6 Ghostbusters
007

If I missed your favorite, contact me and make sure, but it will likely be fine to run.

Retro-Clones:
Old School Essentials
OSRIC
Cryptworld
Labyrinth Lord
Mutant Future
Dark Dungeons
Delving Deeper
Blueholme
For Gold & Glory
Spellcraft & Swordplay etc.

Near Clones:
Dungeon Crawl Classics
Mutant Crawl Classics
Dark Trails
Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea
Castles & Crusades
Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells
Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells
Dark Streets & Darker Secrets
The Hero's Journey
The Black Hack (and all of the hacks spawned by it) etc.

As always, this list is hardly exhaustive regarding all of the great Old School RPGs in the world. If you have one you want to run and it isn't here, just let me know. Let's make this thing huge. I want to give your favorite Old School game a place to live and breathe.  When you register and OSR game, be sure to note that it is an OSR game in the comment so that we get it registered properly!

What Qualifies for the Tekumel Track?


The Tekumel Track can accommodate ANY game system you choose to run in the Tekumel setting! If you register a Tekumel game, make sure you state it is a Tekumel game in the comments section, to assure it is tagged properly!



CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT GAMES AND GM AT U-CON 2021!






Thursday, August 12, 2021

2nd Printing of Octhorrorfest, 3rd Printing of Hidden Hand of the Horla - Now on Kickstarter

Appendix N Entertainment has launched our 5th Kickstarter! The purpose of the Kickstarter is to put to of our best selling Old-School Essentials/B/X supplements back into print! We are completely out of the 1st printing of Octhorrorfest and both the 2nd and 3rd printings of Hidden Hand of the Horla! If you're playing OSE and looking for a starter adventure, more spells, more classes and new BX compatible rules, this is the place to be! If you are playing OSE and haven't been able to get these in print again, here they are, better than ever before.



This time around we want to get a more professional printing done, for both. Both will be offered in professionally printed full color covers (seen below.)  Both will be printed in A5 format to match the size of the official Old-School Essentials product line. If we can hit our $3500 stretch goal Octhorrorfest will be printed in an A5 hardcover to sit proudly next to your OSE rulebooks! 

Also, if you missed out on our Zinequest 3 Kickstarter for "The Child Thieves," it is being made available as an add on!

At the time of this posting we are $36 shy of funding. We have 92 followers of the Kickstarter right now that have not backed! If every one of these backed for the $23 level to get both Octhorrorfest and Hidden Hand of the Horla in print, we would not only fund, but hit that stretch goal of getting Octhorrorfest on your shelves as a hardcover! There's plenty of time to do it folks, we have 24 days left, but there's no reason to wait around! 

What's more? Since everything for this KS is ready to go to print, rewards will be sent out in October. That's right, rewards will be out the month after the Kickstarter ends!


You can BACK IT HERE!





Wednesday, March 17, 2021

St. Patrick's Day Release - The Leprechaun


I would like to take a moment to direct you to special St. Patrick's Day release, and latest release in the Gateway To Adventure line! Today we release "The Leprechaun" for Old-School Essentials and B/X D&D! In this little booklet you get a new Advanced Race, new class and a new magic item, all for $2.00! If there is interest, I will do a small print run of these.

"The enigmatic leprechaun has long been a staple of folklore and fairy stories, yet they are hardly represented fantasy role playing games. This work corrects that oversight! Here we present a leprechaun class and Advanced race for use with Old-School Essentials, Labyrinth Lord and B/X!"


 

Monday, February 22, 2021

Our Latest Kickstarter - The Child Thieves For Old-School Essentials

Good afternoon, all!

As I write this we are one week away from the ending of our 4th Kickstarter for the Old-School Adventures Retro Adventure Game! This is, again, apart of Zine Quest! To date we have published 2 adventures focused on Basic level play, 1st - 3rd level. This year we are upping the ante a bit and going with an Expert level sewer and dungeon crawl. At the time of this posting we are just shy of hitting a stretch goal of our first color cover. You can see a list of stretch goals  below. 

About the Module:
In the poorest of districts of the city a plague of rats has come from the sewer every year at the same time for many years. During a more recent occurrence a wandering piper happened along, claiming to have the magical ability to control and lead the rats away. The people gladly paid his small fee. During subsequent years the piper has arrived in the city close to the time that the rats swarm, but his price had gradually escalated. This year, the people could not pay him what he wanted for his services and he swore vengeance for their parsimoniousness. One night while the district slept, the children were taken. Not one or two, but every child in the district. In the morning claw marks were found on windowsills and in the wooden floorboards of children's bedrooms, like those of a rat, but much larger. Some prints of similar claws were found at a grated sewer entrance. What's more, a crude pendant was found in one child's room, its chain broken. The symbol on the pendant was the sigil of the Demon Prince, Arimaniux patron of sewers and plague. Now the people fear the worst. They have beseeched the city leaders to find and hire help to descend into the sewers and take their children back from the suspected cult before it is too late.


Stretch Goals:

$1200 - More art (funding level only gives up the cover and 2 more pieces of new art for the project this will fund 3-4 more illustrations.)

$1500 - Cover image will be colorized!

$1700 - More interior art!

$2000 - The new Demon Prince Arimaniux will get a full write up and art in the appendices of the adventure!

$2200 - Even more interior art!

$2500 - Wererat class and advanced genre racial stats added to the appendices!

$3000 - New cleric spells and rituals added to the adventure and the appendices!

$5000 -  A complete second zine! Will will complete writing and print The Book of Sorcery featuring our upcoming Sorcerer class, new spells, new rituals (as presented in Octhorrorfest,) and new magic rules for Blood Magic. All individual backers will get a copy in digital. All individual backers getting physical rewards will also get a physical copy of this zine. Retail/Distribution backers will have the opportunity to buy copies at the same discount they are receiving at their tier. Note, if you back for 2 copies of The Child Thieves you will receive only one copy of The Book of Sorcery, additional copies will be extra.

500 Backers - If we reach 500 backers. Appendix N Entertainment will print a new edition of The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning with the original Kate Greenaway illustrations. This will  be printed as a limited edition Kickstarter exclusive for individual backers of this project, similar to our printing of The Horla that was an exclusive with last year's Kickstarter for Hidden Hand of the Horla. You will only receive one copy of this Kickstarter exclusive, even if you have backed for 2 copies of The Child Thieves. Additional copies will not be printed.

Personally, I would love to hit at least $3000 and get new cleric spells and rituals in the appendices! 

You can back "The Child Thieves" right here!