Carcass Crawler - The Official Old School Essentials Zine Issue 2

• New classes and races: Two new elf variants. The phase elf and the wood elf.
• Item-based encumbrance system: A simple system for tracking characters' loads and movement rates, based on the number of items carried. (No more need to add up coins and weights.)
  
• Town services: Guidelines and prices for inns, jewellers, money changers, and traders, including a simple optional rule for haggling.
• Hiring retainers: Tables and extra guidelines for locating and hiring retainers.
• Quick equipment: A set of tables for expediting character creation by randomly selecting starting gear.
• Energy weapons: Complete rules for introducing high-tech energy blades and guns into your game, either as alien relics found in long lost treasure hoards or to accompany the sci-fi inspired classes in Carcass Crawler issue 1 (the hephaestan and kineticist).
• Snake cult monsters: 8 brand new monsters: creepy undead, guardian constructs, and devious serpents.
• The tomb of Aum-Pharath: A mini-adventure in the trap-filled ruins of a snake cult temple.
• Adjudicating traps: Advice and optional guidelines for making traps a fun and engaging part of the game.

Interior art: Michael Clarke, Michael Hohenstein (Old School Jelly), Aaron Howdle, Mark Lyons, Chris Malec, Penny Melgarejo, Stefan Poag, Matthew Ray

Publication date: April 2022

32 pages, full color, A5, saddle-stitched zine. PDF included