I am working hard on putting the final touches on my next two books.   The Witch and Eldritch Witchery . They are not quite ready for full on press releases or product announcements yet,  but I am very, very excited about them. The Witch "The Witch" is designed to be used with "Basic Era" games.  Games that were released in the late 70s and early 80s and whose legacy is being continued with games like  Labyrinth Lord and Basic Fantasy RPG . The Witch will feature a new character class, the witch, and witchcraft Traditions so you can play any type of witch from fantasy, pulp or faerie tale.  In addition there are going to be new monsters associated with the witch as well as tons of new spells and magic items.  Many of which I have playtested over the last 12 years and some even dating back to my original notes I had written on the witch back in 1985. Also included are appendices for extending the "Magic-User" class into a proper ...

NON-LETHAL AND WEAPONLESS COMBAT PROCEDURES I will freely admit; the first time (the first few times, actually) that I looked at this section, I let out a hearty "What the F*#$??" At first glance, this really looks like the definition of the chaotic mess that AD&D has a rep for being. It's really not, though. Once you dive in and read it, not only does it make sense, but it's pretty damned elegant. I've even found myself wondering how tough it'd be to directly convert the entire combat system to these rules. This brings me to my one complaint about the weaponless combat sub-system. ...It's a sub-system. What I mean is, AD&D already has a combat system in place; why design an entirely different set of rules that have no connection whatsoever to normal combat, just to handle grappling, pummeling, and overbearing? Was it needed? That's probably why most of us just decided to use good old-fashioned attack rolls with non-lethal damage appl...

Thought everyone might be interested to know that I have revised and updated both Age of Conan pamphlets.  They can, as always, be found on my D&D resources page at http://www.grey-elf.com/dnd/