Like Lewis Carroll on acid with Lovecraft thrown in

The Fungus Forest was featured on the Roll For Initiative podcast.  I think they gave us a new tagline:

This is like Lewis Carroll on acid with Lovecraft thrown in.

Check it out!

Fungus Forest Reviews

The first few reviews for the Fungus Forest pay-what-you-want adventure location are starting to roll in.

Needles at "Swords & Stitchery" gave a very detailed and enthusiastic review.  I loved all the ideas presented in the review about how to integrate the Fungus Forest into different genres - great stuff!  You should read the whole review but the last paragraph has a nice summation:

"So why all of the serious fungal talk about the Fungus Forest adventure? Well because it happens to include a full OSR monster tool kit for creating your own fungus monsters and encounters;"Ready Reference Appendices: Formatted in black and white with printable margins to enable home printing for easy in-game reference; Appendix I - Random Fungus Generator; Appendix II - Magic Mushrooms of the Fungus Forest; Appendix III - Fungus Forest Bestiary (30+ unique entries); Appendix IV - Printable Fungus Forest Map." This makes inserting the Forest and its monsters into your old school campaigns a snap! Do I think you should grab this adventure? Yes! Today,now, and start using one of the most underappreciated types of horrors for your game today. A hearty five out of five. "

A second (much shorter) review was posted on DriveThruRPG by user "Zero C":

"I am vey impressed! I picked this up for a look, even though I haven't played OSR rules since the 1990's. I discovered this 71 page adventure site is well-written, well-formatted, and nicely illustrated."

But don't take Zero C and Needle's words on it - download the Fungus Forest and see for yourself!  "Pay what you want" means you are welcome to download for free if you can't contribute anything.  I guarantee it is a great value for the money :)  Full color cartography, art and layout including "The Ring of the Restless Dead" from cave C13 (pen & ink drawing by yours truly colored in Photoshop):

Stonehell Dungeon Review and Interview

My review of Stonehell Dungeon just came out at the Eye of the Vortex.  Not only do I review the megadungeon, I scored an interview with author Michael Curtis in which he hints at a very interesting location in the upcoming publication that will detail the deep levels of Stonehell.  

This is just the first in what will be an ongoing series of reviews and interviews with some of the luminaries of the old school movement.  An interview with the always interesting James Raggi and review of his module Death Frost Doom will be next up in the series.

As a related side note, if any of you out there in the blogosphere reading this have a RPG product you would like me to review on the Eye of the Vortex, shoot me an email (carlgnash  AT gmail DOT com) because I would love to hear from you.  This is your chance to get reviewed in a forum that reaches beyond the dedicated folks reading and writing all the great old school blogs and taps into a much broader audience of gamers of all sorts.