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What’s Up With Old Skull Publishing in 2020?


Since my last blog post a lot of things have happened with Old Skull Publishing! I should update this more often but sometimes I get carried away with producing more and more stuff and push updates to “later” forever. Sorry!

We have released a few products such as the following:

The Egyptian Situation from Outer Time
A campaign changing adventure for Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells involving time travel, ancient Egyptian gods and the mad priests surrounding it.

Old Skull Zine #1 - Under the Cover of Darkness
The first issue of our zine, focusing on our games brings a new adventure for Dark Streets & Darker Secrets; an organization to help or oppose them; a new supernatural Archetype and rules for relationships.

Old Skull Zine #2 - Beyond the Prismatic Nebula
The second issue focuses on Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells, bringing another adventure involving Space Amazons and a Void Star cult! It also presents new character options, information regarding said cult and a cult generator.

But what else is cooking? So much stuff I get dizzy sometimes!

Lost in the Fantasy World, my family friendly narrative driven RPG inspired by the old D&D cartoon, Chronicles of Narnia and Never Ending Story is basically ready to publish, but we are waiting for a more appropriate time to launch a Kickstarter to fund a nice print run and possibly donate books to public libraries and schools. This is probably the next thing to be released (I hope).

Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells - 2nd Edition is going to an editor soon (the draft text is done) and we are commissioning some art for it. But the whole project is going in slow motion due to the world’s current situation. This is going to be a big project, compiling material from both original books, updating rules, providing examples and tons of new resources to play the game. We will also Kickstarter it to fund an awesome print version, possibly with a limited edition as well!

I have written a supplement for Dark Streets & Darker Secrets called War of the Magi, inspired by Mage the Ascension, Harry Potter and Highlander, with a sharp dark twist. It will have a new Archetype, an alternate freeform magic system, and a setting toolkit with an adventure to start playing! This will go to editing after I make a final revision in the text.

I am almost finishing the writing of Mutant Animals Against Evil, a game inspired by a famous cartoon about vigilante reptiles with a hard shell on their backs. It’s also a fast paced narrative game with a toolkit to create adventures, mutants, villains and what not. I just need to finish the introductory adventure for it!

I am also writing the setting toolkit for Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells - 2nd Edition, calles Anttelius - A World of Warlocks and Barbarians. This will be a presentation of the setting I use for my games, with extensive tools to generate content, cultures for characters, special rules, city resources and more. If you’ve seen SB&CS universe section, it will be in that style but with a bit more substance!

And in the forced isolation, boredom made me look back into one of my first gaming experiences, the Fighting Fantasy books. So I am writing The Bloody Axe of X’Zara, a grim fantasy RPG inspired by Fighting Fantasy, Warhammer FRP, my own stuff and possibly other things. It will be 2d6 based, no classes, careers with skills, costly magic, simple and flexible rules and stocked with generators to make it as useful as possible! First draft is probably 75% done!

Finally, notes for Old Skull Zine #3 are being written. This will be a species catalogue with hooks and events to create adventures. It will allow players to be part of any of these cultures and provide Ovelords with cool tables to generate events related to them!

When all of this will come out is uncertain at this point, but I will try to post more updates here.

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