Carcass Crawler - The Official Old School Essentials Zine Issue 5

• New classes and races: Two new character classes and races. The changeling and the ratling.
• Expanded poisons: Additional descriptive details around the 9 standard poison types, plus 11 new poison types.
• Weapon materials: Rules for weapons of enhanced or weaker materials (e.g. silver, bone, bronze).
• Magic swords: Tables and minor magical quirks to add flavour to the bog-standard sword +1.
• Cantrips: Minor magicks practiced by apprentice arcane spell casters.
• Level 0 characters: Rules for rolling up level 0 "normal human" characters, either for NPC retainers or for use in funnel adventures. Complete with tables of backgrounds and names.
• Lake and river monsters: 8 new monsters that lurk in freshwater rivers and lakes.
• Up Chaos River: A short adventure where PCs must travel up a chaos-infested river to save the local village. Suitable for use as a funnel adventure for a group of level 0 characters.

The Team:

Writing by Chance Dudinack, Brad Kerr, and Gavin Norman
Cover art by Jacob Fleming
Interior art: Jerry Boucher, Chris Huth, and Peter Pagano

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