OSR Christmas - Days One through Three

We are kicking OSR Christmas 2025 off today - Christmas itself.

How do you get into the "gift receiving" mix?

Email OSRChristmasATgmailDOTcom (trying not to get hit by spam from email scrapers) with some variation of "Days 1 to 3" in the subject.

Let me know if you are in the US or outside the US - some physical gifts won't ship outside the states, as shipping is literally cost-prohibitive.

Note #1 - for physical gifts (including, but not limited to Arduin's Portal to Adventure, a $180 value), some may not ship until late January / February due to projects still waiting to be fulfilled.

Note #2 - all emails during OSR Christmas will be included in the random drawing for Arduin's Portal to Adventure, the final drawing for OSR Christmas.

Days One to Three wrap up Dec 27th @ Midnite. Emails must be received by midnight, Dec 27th, 2025. Gift recipients will be notified here at TenkarsTavern.com on Dec 28th, when Days Four to Six go live. 

Here are the gifts for OSR Christmas, Days One to Three, 2025: 

• Sickest Witch Core Rulebook - Severed Press - Donated by Tenkar (ships mid January, US Only)

• When the Fat Orc Sings (Fiction by Glen Halstrom) - Donated by Wizard Tower Games (ships mid January, US Only)

• The Player’s Guide to Balic donated by Christopher Moneymaker This 29-page accessory, written for AD&D 2nd Edition Dark Sun, fully describes the City-State of Balic on a player’s level. Although it is written for Dark Sun, with a little adjustment it could work in almost any fantasy setting that you wanted to place a loosely Greco Roman inspired city in.  Details about everyday life in the city like food, dress, locations, festivals, and important NPCs are all covered. - PDF

• 2 x $10 DTRPG Gift Certificates - Donated by Tenkar

• Bonus - All who enter will get a copy of Super Atomic RPG with a Deluxe Character Sheet. It's a neat, rules-light, and FREE supers RPG

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Deal of the Day - Savage Worlds Adventure Edition

While I'm not a frequent player of Savage Worlds, it's a solid, flexible system that should be in every RPG player's (and GM's) collection, IMHO. Well, today's Deal of the Day is Savage Worlds Adventure Edition. Usually $9.99 in PDF, until Christmas morning, SWADE is on sale for $3. That is NOT a typo ;)

Create your own setting, convert an existing one, or pick up one of our amazing settings like Deadlands, Rippers, or 50 Fathoms. The rules give players plenty of depth to create their characters and keep bookkeeping to a minimum for the Game Master. If you’re looking for a game that’s fast and easy to set up, run, and play, Savage Worlds is for you!

Savage Worlds handles pulp action, gritty noir, supers, hard scifi, space opera, horror, and anything you can imagine! 

Savage Worlds Adventure Edition is the latest version of Savage Worlds. It does not, however, invalidate prior printings of the rules, which you can continue to enjoy.

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Deal of the Day - Formoria: The Dark Age (Shadowdark Setting)

I'm a sucker for RPG settings. Those who lean dark? Even better! It means conflict is baked into the setting, the engine that drives campaigns. Formoria: The Dark Age is written for Shadowdark, but should be easy enough to convert to the OSR system of your choice, likely on the fly.  Formoria is Today's Deal of the Day and is priced at $9.50 in PDF until tomorrow morning (the usual price is $ 29). 

Formoria: The Dark Age is a Platinum Best Seller on DTRPG.

Rune & Relic Press invites you to the Lands of Formoria; a campaign setting in the world of Asterra with a rich history that has been developed through decades of game play. This guide offers a detailed milieu in which to place your adventures. It has a particular flavor, detailed locations, cultures, religions, politics, npc’s, and history. Although this book was written for use with Shadowdark the RPG. Most of the content here is system agnostic  and entirely usable in other systems. 

The setting of Formoria echoes 4th century dark ages Europe in flavor and theme. It lies on the northern fringes of “civilization” having been settled and colonized by civilized peoples from the Katalian Empire roughly 150 years ago. The world of Asterra was developed and written by Bryan O'Doherty over the span of two decades of actual game-play. The history of heroes and great deeds, magical items and artifacts and the current state of cultures, kingdoms and empires is the result of actual at-the-table gameplay since '99.

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