Free (Technically PWYW) GM Resource: Editing for TTRPGs

I do not consider myself an editor, even though I have some editing credits for RPG stuff and I've been our in-house editor at work on our student workbooks, which we update every year or so. Because I have some experience editing I have enough experience to step-up in a group of folks with absolutely no experience, but not enough to give any original advice.

So this week's free (or PWYW) GM Resource is some editing advice from someone with "close to twenty years I have freelanced as an editor for both speculative fiction and tabletop role-playing games."

If this advice helps even a little bit.......

Final Few Hours in FDG's Kickstarter- With BONUS STUFF!

If you were thinking of joining the 3D printing world I personally recommend stuff (ok, .STL files) from Fat Dragon Games. They're in the final few hours of their latest Kickstarter and today Tom Tullis (FDG's Main Man) sent out this newsletter...

.....oh, BTW you want some freebies, make sure you head over to the FDG website and sign up for the newsletter and you'll get some freebies every month or so (I say "so" 'cause I haven't bothered to track if he's been on or off schedule on those freebies....)

Realm of the Goblin King Kickstarter ENDS IN 24 HOURS THURSDAY at 4pm EST!

Don’t miss out on the free stretch and bonus rewards, FINAL CHANCE! ***SPECIAL BONUS*** As a thank you for supporting us, core pledges will also receive a special coupon from us in March to purchase our upcoming FDG 18th Anniversary terrain set with over 200 models (retail price $50.00) for only $0.99! We appreciate you backing us and helping us support our families, so it’s only fair we support you in return with several special backer-only specials and gifts this year. So I'm thinking that while not free......$0.99 for an actual terrain set is as close to a best next thing as you can get. Yes, you have to spend some dough to get that $0.99 special, BUT you get a lot there and if you averaged it all out....still a great price....and you can do the add-ons or wait for a FDG sale on DTRPG. Still you should check this out if you haven't already!

Free GM Resource: Pathfinder Nexus

Now this isn't for me, but if you wanted to take a quick look under the hood of Pathfinder 2e, and specifically the upcoming digital toolset, head on over to Pathfinder Nexus, make an account, and start tooling around.

There's a closed Alpha you can sign up for, which I don't get....if you can sign up for it, would it really be "closed". I suspect that they just mean it's not publicly available.

I did some looking myself and what I see feels a little D&D 3.5ish, but didn't look it.  While on some levels I'm not interested in playing, I'm going to pick up Pathfinder 2e if I get a decent chance.

Edit: Just found out about a current Humble Bundle containing a metric butt-load of Pathfinder 2E material.....and I went ahead and bought in.

Free GM Resource: d12 Monthly

 

I'm a big fan of zines and when I was informed of this freebie my 1st thought was to share d12 Monthly with everyone here, but my 1st action was to get my copy of issues 0 to 19.

Click here to get yours....

Free GM Resource: The Crypt of Praetor Isebella Cena from Zack Edwardson

A short and sweet freebie OSR (Swords & Wizardry specifically) adventure from Zack Edwardson, that he's shared with the Swords & Wizardry Official Facebook group. The name of the adventure is "The Crypt of Praetor Isebella Cena" and it's a rather short tomb location.

I know a lot of GMs might turn up their nose at such a small offering, but really I suggest any GM keep a small supply of these things off to the side for use when you need to add a little something-something to pad out a day of playing, or when you don't have a lot of time (but need to have a game), or even just as a piece of breathing room for when the players go "left" when you were only prepared for them going "right".

Free Stuff from Throneofsalt!

This week's Free Gm Resource is a bit of a small freebie depository, but I'm really focusing on one particular resource 'cause I think it's awesome, but I'll stick in a pin in this and go over the lot from Throneofsalt's itch page:

Break Their Pride By A Woman's Hand -OSR small adventure in phamplet form.

Lighthouse on the Spur - A creepy location for your campaign...surprise! It's a lighthouse.

Dungeon Hobos: Some cool "flavor text" you can add to your dungeons, complete with vectorized graphics for you to steal lovingly borrow.

Dog God Deluxe - a zine

I love, love, LOVE the ides of the murder dungeon hobos marking things up in the dungeon. I am so going to be using this as a GM and maybe even as a player! The idea is rooted in American history and one of those common-sense yet brilliant things.

Free GM Resource: The Gygax 75 Challenge

This is a cool, Old-School 5 Week "Program" for building your own game world by Ray Otus. It's 40 pages and available to download as a full page and as a pre-formed booklet. It is also available for free, which of course we're all about with a Free GM Resource and has a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.

About the Project/Program: "This workbook is based on an article written by Gary Gygax in 1975, less than 12 months after D&D was released. It encapsulates his thinking at the time about how to get your own D&D campaign world started. I have taken his general advice and parsed it out into achievable, bite-sized prompts & goals for a week-by-week program."

The Gygax 75 Challenge is available from Ray Otus' website and you can find it here or by clicking on the lead-in graphic.

Free GM Resource: B2 Keep on the Borderlands Supplement

Today's Free GM Resource is a customized add-on/partial replacement for the venerable B2 Keep on the Borderlands. This 32 page supplement is available for the great low price of FREE on the D&D B/X Facebook group.

Created by Drew Day Williams, the whole idea comes from B2 itself: "This is a customized B2 Keep on the Borderlands, that I expanded into a full localized campaign. The instructions in the module indicate this is what one should do with B2, and so I did."