Gary’s Appendix: Issue #5 is Up for Crowdfunding on Kickstarter

Feb 16, 2024

RPG Ramblings is in the midst of a successful Kickstarter to bring the fifth issue of Gary’s Appendix to the masses. The issue promises plenty of Old School Essentials goodness to bring to your game table. Don’t worry if you don’t run OSE, all the content is easily usable with nearly any OSR retroclone. The project is past the 500% funding mark and you can reserve a copy of the fifth issue of the zine (with PDF) for a $16.00 pledge or grab it digitally for a $3.00 pledge through February 29th with an expected delivery in August.

About the zine:

We Are Back!

Hot off the heels of Issue #4, we present a new assortment of articles to inspire your games filled with deep dungeons and horrible dragons. For Issue #5 we’re getting slimed with a wide range of sticky content, including an article on what exactly one might find in a gelatinous cube and an expanded bestiary entry for that very same ooze.

Inspired by the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide.

Gary wrote and collected a vast amount of information, rules, and guidance. Its haphazard nature and perplexing subjects makes it as fresh today as when he penned the work almost fifty years ago. Indeed, Gary’s Appendix draws inspiration from the past works of the gaming giants.

Gary’s Appendix is about our love for the past and our excitement for the future. We do not have the audacity to believe that we can produce a work that matches the magic of the AD&D DMG. Instead, we seek the spirt of that evergreen work by presenting an array of articles that are enjoyable to read, informative to the GM, and useful at the gaming table.

Each issue contains a collection of articles written for the OSR by a variety of authors. In addition, Jeff contributes an expanded entry for a collection of monsters from the OSE collection.

Here’s a preview of the content packed into the upcoming issue:

Investigation Themed Adventures, by Travis Miller
A Case for Using Wandering Monsters, by John Kaniecki
Legends of the Supernatural Pt. 2, by Dave Semark
Hiring a Spy, by John Kaniecki
Governments: Part 1, by Hannah Wolfram
What is in a Cube?, by Zac Goins
The Bestiary, by Jeff Jones

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Founder/Editor-in-chief of The Gaming Gang website and host of The Gaming Gang Dispatch and other TGG media, Jeff tackles any and all sorts of games but has a special fondness for strategy, conflict sims, and roleplaying games. Plus, he's certainly never at a loss for an opinion...