Starry Knight Press

Zero Level Player Rules + Lair of the Toad

Zero Level Player Rules + The Lair of the Toad is my eighth supplement, my first "Rules" supplement and my second book on character creation.  Its attached adventure is created to be easy to drop into your existing campaign world, for a quick one night gaming session to being a new player group. 

This 20 page rules supplement and adventure module contains all the information you need to create and play fledgling zero level player characters. You will find within information on creating player characters that will assist new players in learning to role play and to help veteran players by creating a more immersive experience with player characters that have a past together, for a more cohesive group!

In “The Lair of the Toad” the players will band together on their first quest, to recover the lost signet ring of the beautiful elven sage Alura Morrowgan! This supplement provides background information, adventure hooks, a fully detailed underground adventure setting, and a map of the land, and its environs, for use in this modules and others to come, or in the GM's own adventures.

The supplement also provides GMs and players with  six fully set-up PREGENERATED CHARACTERS, a PROFESSIONAL ADVENTURER CHARTER, appendices for NEW MONSTERS AND NEW MAGIC ITEMS, Old School overland and dungeon maps...and so much more!

Available NOW as a PDF directly from us and a PRINT book (coming soon), this book features 20 pages of excitement and thrills, sure to please discerning GMs and players everywhere!

SYNOPSIS:

ZERO LEVEL PLAYER RULES: A Guide to Creating Zero Level Players for OSRIC and other OSR retro-clone games. I created these Zero Level Player Rules as a helpful way of introducing new players to role playing games and as a useful way to form a new adventuring party, forged from a close knit group, e.g. all from one community and not just random strangers. I provide a detailed, step by step character creation technique, with new features such as player origins, created with the intention of helping players invest in their avatar and of tying the characters together. I also include an adventure to help the newly created PCs bond as a group.

In “The Lair of the Toad”, the players are a group of friends who have grown up together and on the fateful night in question they meet a traveler, in the person of would-be eleven sage Alura Morrowgan, who seeks their assistance in recovering her heirloom signet ring, which was lost in the market square.

The players realize it’s time to put down the blacksmith’s hammer, step out from behind the bar, and stop alphabetizing those scrolls for their master. It’s time for the players to strike out on their own path, to start writing their own story with their friends by their side, to earn a name for themselves and their adventuring company, it’s time for…adventure!

This 20 page adventure module includes:

• This 20 page rules supplement and adventure module contains all the information you need to create and play fledgling zero level player characters.
• This supplement also includes a carefully crafted set of Six Pre-Generated Zero Level Player Characters, ready for immediate use in the game by players or the GM. Each of the six players is presented fully ready to play with all of the necessary stats and gear, as well as included “to hit” and saving throw tables.
• We also include a Professional Adventurer Charter which the GM can complete and hand out to their players to commemorate their advancement from zero level to first level in their chosen character class; a special way to mark their ascendancy to their new role as a hero in your campaign!
• To help the GM and players get right into the action, the supplement includes an all new original introductory module, full of fun and adventure but tuned to the skills and capabilities of neophyte adventurers. The adventure is fully detailed and ready for immediate use with very little preparation by the GM or the players! It is easily playable in one session of no more than 2-3 hours, so it’s great for a night of gaming enjoyment!