Exalted Funeral Press will be offering Necrotic Gnome’s Old-School Essentials Classic Game Set and Old-School Essentials Advanced Expansion Set into the trade.
Harkening back to the early 1980s “Basic” and “Advanced” ruleset, Old-School Essentials is designed to offer the same playing style with a more modern presentation. The books were written by Gavin Norman (Dolmenwood, Wormskin).
The Classic Game Set is a boxed set of five hardcover digest-sized books with new cover artwork by Erol Otus. This set includes the core system presented in five volumes: Characters, Magic, Adventures, Monsters, and Treasures. Altogether, this offers seven character classes, over 100 spells, 150 magic items, and 200 monsters, plus rules for exploring dungeons and wilderness areas and guidelines for creating adventures. MSRP is $70.00.
The companion boxed set, Old-School Essentials Advanced Expansion Set comes with four books with additional material: Characters, with nine new classes and six new races, Magic, with more than 100 new spells, Monsters, with 120 creatures, and Treasures with another 150 magical items. MSRP is $70.00. This box set sports cover art by Peter Mullen.
Funding for production was raised through a Kickstarter campaign in March 2022 that attracted $772,956 in pledges from 6,367 backers (an average of $121.40 per backer).
Exalted Funeral Press recently launched the system-agnostic Herbalist’s Primer (see “Exalted Funeral Will Release ‘Herbalist’s Primer’”).
Source: ICV2
