Castle Oldskull Module 9: Dungeon Delver Enhancer

Hello everyone, Castle Oldskull is a well-regarded RPG supplement series, designed to sync with Gygaxian, old school, and Wizardly tabletop role-playing games. If you play tabletop, you’ll sync in quickly. If you’re a retro videogamer, you might see influences from Archon, The Bard’s Tale, Dragon’s Lair, Gauntlet, Mail Order Monsters, Phantasie, Telengard, Temple of Apshai, Tunnels of Doom, Ultima, Wasteland, Wizardry, and Zork. If you’re a game designer, writer, or programmer, you’ll find lots of creative material that can fuel your own projects, with inspirations for dark fantasy characters, encounters, monsters, plots, settings, spells, treasures, and random generation. I’m keeping prices dirt cheap here for those who find me, please enjoy and spread the word!

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A decades-long labor of love:

The ultimate old school character book.

Your game, filled to the brim with every

Pulp Swords and Sorcery detail imaginable,

Will never be the same.

Do your player characters ever seem less like heroes, and more like cardboard cutouts?  Do your campaign’s nefarious arch-villains fail to inspire fear, or even interest?  Do you need help with your next story hook or adventure campaign, creating compelling protagonists and enemies that your players or readers will never forget?  Look no further.

The DUNGEON DELVER ENHANCER is specifically designed to enrich every aspect of character design, turning stereotypes into unique and engaging personas.  You can design thousands or even millions of characters with this system, and no two will ever be alike.  Best of all, with repeated use you can create fully detailed individuals ready for role-playing or story-telling in just 15 to 30 minutes.  Picking out a detail to work on — a name, a description, a character theme, likes and dislikes — will take your 2 minutes or less.

The elaborate systems in this book are both isolated and interlocked, which means that you can use all of them without creating internal conflicts.  Or, you can pick and choose the systems that help you the most, turning your least favorite aspects of character creation into the most enjoyable ones.

The vast array of character customization systems featured in this book includes:  given names; family names; nicknames and epithets; sub-class themes and alternate level titles; alternate names for multi-class combinations; attribute descriptors; initial spell repertoires; spell caster themes; racial lore for demi-humans; Useful Secondary Skills; handedness determination; bardic sub-themes; specialized thieving talents; fighting styles and weapon preferences; known languages; background themes; racial clan ancestry; famous ancestors; blazons and coats of arms; Social Standing; starting wealth; druidic clan backgrounds and spirit companions; enchanted familiars; and barbarian and orcish tribal themes.

This book also includes full systems for determination of appearance, eye color, hair color, skin color, unusual physical traits, and hundreds of different personality quirks and behaviors.  A bonus system even allows you to create tens of thousands of names for parties, fellowships and mercenary companies, with just two quick die rolls.

The DUNGEON DELVER ENHANCER is brought to you by Kent David Kelly of Wonderland Imprints, a role-player and Game Master with over 35 years of play experience.  Best of all, if there are any other materials you would like to see relating to world or dungeon design, feel free to contact the author.  I create the supplements that Game Masters want.  Many more CASTLE OLDSKULL supplements are being prepared specifically to support the players, initiates and Game Masters of the Old School Revival (OSR).  This book is your gateway to the realms of sword and sorcery.  Join us for the adventure!

(A complete reference work designed to supplement existing pen-and-paper Fantasy Role-Playing Games.  One of the most elaborate RPG character design books ever devised, with over 200 section topics, nearly 200 tables, 92,700 words, over 570 pages.  Just one of the proud creations available now from Wonderland Imprints — Only the Finest Works of Fantasy.)