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I. … with boughs of holly.
Dungeon Delve is back! … and today, we’ve ventured into the cavernous depth of the holiday season. Tis a bustling time of inclement weather, employment busy seasons, gift chasing, and hibernation.
Take this wintry scene outside my local coffee shop!
Its been a couple weeks, our last couple issues focusing on Black Friday. However, now I’m back to the normal flow, collecting and providing some of the latest updates in TTRPG media.
But thats not all…
… there are a couple exciting developments worth sharing with you.
ChaoticanWriter.com is being replaced by a BRAND NEW website, with a new brand, look, and identity! … I’ll reveal more during next weeks issue.
We’re coming upon our FIRST anniversary of Dungeon Delve! Anticipate a look back the past year, and thoughts on the upcoming year.
… but enough talk! Have at yee with the round-up!!
II. Looting the Room
This Weeks Free Resource
The ever industrious D4 Caltrops has dropped a d100 table for monster lair locations for times when you need to conjure up a place for creatures, critters, and miscreants to call home.
RPG Bundles and Deals
Prepare yourself, chummers! … Bundle of Holding is hosting not one, but two deals for Shadowrun 5th Edition content for those seeking a tactical, chunky, gun-touting game experience in PDF form!
Shadowrun 5E essentials contains the full kit of core books to build out your cyberpunk arsenal and execute dangerous missions! $14.95+
SR5 Universe Mega collection has plentiful adventure sourcebooks to keep the table engaged in the world of magic and machine! $19.95+
SR5 Mission Mega Bundle revised for 2024 has updated versions of hit missions to keep the campaign riding high! $14.95+
[5 DAYS LEFT] Vintage PC map making is having its encore moment, as the Map Making Mega Bundle is back on Humble Bundle, with the full Campaign Cartographer 3 inventory and its add-ons!
As a personal fan of the Fallout TTRPG by Modiphius, I’m excited for the DriveThruRPG digital bundle deal at almost a 1/3rd of the price. You can grab individual books if you prefer that!
$94.98$35.50Fans and the curious of Candela Obscura can enjoy a wave of discounts on the Darrington Press original cult horror RPG on DriveThruRPG!
An ongoing cause, especially in a food insecure world! Power Word Meal is addresses global hunger, offering a bundle with a one-shot and a new species for DnD and Pathfinder. Just $16 can feed 20 people!
Ongoing bundles and deals!! HawtPixel Font Firesale | Tome of Worldbuilding | No-Prep Game Master | West Marches Campaign Playstyle Book | How to Solo Any Game | Ancestry and Culture 5E
III. Markings on the Wall
Crowdfunding projects
CRACK THE SUN is the first BIG official campaign for Draw Steel by MCDM Productions, the fantasy RPG for those who love the fusion of tactical combat and storytelling, with a full character level journey broken into 5-acts, tons of encounter scenarios, and MUCH MORE!
HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL from Eric Lazure enters the fray in a world high on the buzz of Daggerheart RPG, fulfilling a gap in the market of big-effort campaign frames. Five frames to be exact! … Check them out in the link!
RPG News and Finds
An additional crowdfunding entry we covered earlier! … Twilight Sword, the new TTRPG with inspiration from The Legend of Zelda, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy and other old-school RPGs… is breaking the half-a-million euro mark!
Zinequest open call!! … The crowdfunding celebration in February will be upon us soon, and Kickstarter is seeking YOUR game development project. If you have one prepared, now is the time to get submitted!
You’re familiar with Runequest, Chaosium Inc’s answer to the fantasy TTRPG market? What if I told you there is a new tactical CRPG called Runequest: Warlords launched on Steam just last week? Article by Saving Content.
While the title is D&D: Five Great Spots For Ancient Ruins, J.R. Zambrano at Bell of Lost Souls provides some fantastical pulp locations fit for any might and magic RPG.
Gift guides! There’s still time to add some extra magic to your shopping list. Talian @ ENWorld has their own Gift Ideas for the Gamer Who Has Everything (2025).
Who coulda thunk that playing as mice in a dangerous mini-world had such a huge community? Christopher Hutton over on TTRPGInsider hosts a retrospecitve on Mausritter Month!
Gameable and Design Stuff
If you’re more indie RPG curious, has their own gift guide with some top recommendations of fantastic zines to pick up! I’ll be grabbing the game design resources shortly!
Over on ’s Substack, we have a brilliant and honest deep dive into Cairn 2E, one of the OSR sweethearts of the indie RPG scene, pointing out its successes and its flaws.
The game development process can sometimes produce oddly useful methods and tools to test how your project plays. is discovering the fun with their Fantasy in My Backyard RPG using Google My Maps.
Last month, released the Ultimate One-Page Solo RPG Toolkit 2.0, fit with oracle tables, hexcrawl rules, and more!
A Maniacs Insight (quoting an adjacent Substack blog)
While it’s amusing to say that hexcrawls are actually pointcrawls without the lines, there is some truth that there are similarities. Players are moving between locations via allowed (legal) connections. Hexes typically have six outbound connections (faces) while points can have an arbitrary number of outbound connections.
It is, of course, impossible to say whether hexcrawls or pointcrawls are better no more than you could say a hammer or a saw is better. It depends on the type of player experience you want to create and how the map works with all the other mechanisms in the game.
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