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• Clarshh's Sepulchre (1998)
• One Winter's Night (1998)
• Bladestar (1999)
• The Star Cairns 1 (1999)
• The Star Cairns 2 (1999)
• Invisible Stalker (2000)
• The Trouble with In-Laws (2000)
• The Star Cairns 3 (2000)
• The Star Cairns 4 (2000)
• The Doomgrinder (2001)
• Winter's Daughter (2023)
• Incandescent Grottoes (2023)
• The Barrowmaze (2023)
• The Barrowmaze (2024)

OSE House Rules and Supplementary Information

Additional rules information for Old School Essentials - Advanced Fantasy

Death
OSE as written has instant death at 0 hp. I suggest the following as a reasonable compromise, we can always switch to hard core mode if you think we are being too soft…

At 0 hp the character collapses, badly wounded and unconscious. Any damage received after this is instant death.

OSE THAC0 Level smoothing - We use this table for THAC0 advancement

Dolmenwood Slot-Based Encumbrance for OSE

OSE Equipment

OSE Expanded Equipment

CC2 Quick Equipment

CC2 Adjudicating Traps

CC2 Hiring Retainers

OSE Price of Potions


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