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Dare Your Characters Explore the Nightmare Lodge?

I love the Dungeon Backdrop line. The idea for Dungeon Backdrops came out of a conversation I had with a GM friend years ago, and I’m forever grateful for his insights. I’ve used several Dungeon Backdrops in my own campaigns, and while I haven’t used the Nightmare Lodge yet, I like knowing I have it in my “back pocket”. I’ve designed the lodge so that you should be able to insert it into any wilderland woodland setting in your own campaigns. You’ll probably have to tweak the bac...

Want to Buy a Magic Sword?

This week, we have a free and exclusive mini-eventure for you. If your players need to visit a skilled weaponsmith, you can use Shopping at Fisfelond’s Smithy to add depth and flavour to their experience. As a reminder, you get one of these patron-exclusive mini-eventures every month, and this year, we are focusing on the Ashlarian town of Dulstone. However, almost all our mini-eventures are easily transferable to your own campaign setting.

(Patron-ex...

Behold The Dread Laironomicon

The Dread Laironomicon is another of those books I hope will be useful to you, whatever fantasy RPG you play. Within, find 700 thematic lists designed to add depth and flavour to 100 different kinds of monstrous lairs. Whether it’s orcs, giant spiders, wraiths or something else entirely, you should be able to find a table in the Dread Laironomicon to suit your purposes.

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Behold the Death Rune Goblins

In a slight change of plan this week, Raging Swan Press hurls the Goblins of the Death Rune into your inbox.

The original plan was to release the Dread Laironomicon this week, but I spotted a minor problem with the book’s physical print cover. It’s a really minor problem; apparently, all blacks are not equal, but once I saw the problem, I had to fix it.

I hope the short delay is not a huge problem for you. If you are at the $5 and up levels and desperately need the book’s PD...

The Cannibal Druid Wants to Meet YOUR Characters

I enjoy the Dungeon Backdrop line very much, and I have found some of the instalments tremendously useful for my own campaign. I love the modularity and plug-and-play aspects of the books. You’ve got a setting—now just plug in the appropriate monsters, and off you go! I’m limbering up to use December’s Lost Cellar of the Nameless Mage when my current group return to Dulwich from being at the Shadowed Keep. Depending on how the campaign goes, it might lead to a hitherto unknow...

Drinking at the Sheep Knuckles

This week, our first February release is your free and exclusive mini-eventure. As I’ve previously said, in 2024, we are fleshing out Dunstone. If your characters are desperate to visit an inn run by an eccentric gnome famed for her odd, prophetic dreams, I have the mini-eventure for you! 

As an aside, I am looking forward very much to giving all the major Dunstone locales the mini-eventure treatment. I’m running *Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands* for a new group at ...

Orcs of the Flayed Skull

I am jolly excited to finally share with you our first Monstrous Delve. This line has been a long time coming, and I would love to know what you think of it. I hope you can find a place in your campaign for the Flayed Skull orcs and that your characters enjoy meeting (and slaying) these foul raiders.

What’s a Monstrous Delve?

Monstrous Delves are sort of a cross between the old Tribes line (old-timers may remember Tribes was one of our first lines) and Dungeon Backdrops.

Dread Shrine of the Supreme Warlord

Last last year, I started a second weekly gaming group. On Monday nights, I now run a 5e campaign set in Ashlar. (Check out the session summaries here if you are interested in how things are going). I set the campaign in Dulwich, but some of the players had already been through Shunned Valley of the Three Tombs. How to make it different for them?

First off, I made some notes about ho...

Bandits Lurk in the Wilderlands

This week, we have the last instalment in the Wilderness Dressing. Everyone needs bandits for their game, and this week, we give you the handy tools to make the bandit encounters in your game more exciting and flavoursome! 

(And, yes, a Wilderness Dressing hardback is coming this April; save a spot on your bookshelf! We have a full-on print schedule this year, and I can't wait to share the details with you next week!)

What Do You Want?

What's on your gaming agenda for...

Visting the Tower of the Astromancer

Welcome to 2024! I hope you have an excellent year of gaming ahead of you.

I’m mixing things up a bit in 2024, and I’ll explain in more detail as the changes filter through into the release schedule. With several of our established lines (Monstrous Lairs and Wilderness Dressing) coming to a natural end, it seemed like a good time to play around with the release schedule to give you better tools for your games.

The first change you’ll spot is that we’ll be kicking off each ...

Into the Nameless Mage’s Lost Cellar

We end the year with a cracking Dungeon Backdrop. Old, buried settlements long lost to time are a classic part of fantasy roleplaying games. They provide innumerable opportunities for adventure! Behold, Lost Cellar of the Nameless Mage (which comes in 5e, OSR, Pathfinder 1, Pathfinder 2 and System Neutral editions).

In this month’s Dungeon Backdrop, a rich merchant makes a surprising discovery in the deepest part of his townhouse’s cellars and needs adventurers to investiga...

On the Road Again

Some GMs find improvisation easy, and some find it hard. Even among GMs who find improvisation easy, some things come easier than others. For me, I often fail to come up with good, thematic names for random NPCs while I can go on and on about dusty dungeon corridors, overgrown trails wending their way through deep, gloomy woods and so on.

So, for GMs like me, we give you Wilderness Dressing: Travellers—loads of travellers for your characters to meet as they journey to their next adven...

A Quartet of Books for Your GM’s Toolkit

December is always a tricky month for the release schedule. Who wants to be reading emails and downloading books between Christmas and New Year unless they absolutely have to? That’s why I’ve combined the Monstrous Lairs and Urban Locales releases this month.

This week is also momentous because you get the last two Monstrous Lairs to add to your GM toolbox. Behold:

• Monstrous Lair #99: Eye Despot’s Domain
• Monstrous Lair #100: Mind Devourer’s Domain
• U...
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Not a Cloaked Figure in a Shadowy Corner of the Inn

Adventurers sometimes work for wealthy patrons. Such folk are often successful, monied merchants. But where would the characters meet such folk to discuss details of their mission (and, perhaps more importantly, the terms of their remuneration)?

Wealthy merchants probably don’t hang around in the kinds of taverns and inns the characters normally frequent. But fear not! Now, Raging Swan Press provides you with the tools to bring to life the upmarket inns and merchant townhouses beloved...

Return to the Shadowed Keep

I’ve been looking forward to this week’s release for quite some time. I have big plans for the Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands, and they start today!

I wrote the original version of this adventure for Pathfinder 1st edition back in 2012. A lot has changed in a decade.

In 2022, Raging Swan Press released a 5e-compatible edition of Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands. We also included new maps, new art, added the town of Dulwich and included additional no...

Into the (Many) Dungeon(s)

November is shaping up to be a print-tastic month at Raging Swan Press.

This week, we have print editions of GM’s Miscellany: Dungeon Backdrop III in 5e, OSR, P1, P2 and System Neutral editions.

Next week we have updated editions of Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands in 5e and Pathfinder 1 and the first OSR edition of the adventure. I’m moving to a twice-yearly update and expansion cycle for Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands...