Publications: Game Aids | tunnels & trolls

A Beginner’s Guide to Tunnels & Trolls: The Necropolis…

19th July 201819th July 2018
by dekh

An evil necromancer is terrorising your town and only one person can stop him. Well no, that’s not true. Lot’s of people could stop him but they’re not. And so you decide to take on the task…

This adventure introduces the reader to the wonderful world of Tunnels & Trolls. You will create a character and learn the rules as you play, no preparation or knowledge of the system is needed. By the time you have finished you will be ready to take your newly minted delver and subject them to any of the hundreds of Tunnels & Trolls solo adventures available.

The adventure starts here!

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Grimtooth’s Traps Lite

4th June 20184th June 2018
by dekh

Start your game off right with improved Traps Lite, the funniest addition to our line of Traps books. Eighty pages of “kinder, gentler” traps, each presented without game mechanics. The nature, cause, and effect of each trap has been described so that any game master can use the various traps in whatever role-playing system they wish. And of course the traps each have a skull rating to denote how dangerous they are.

And now a word from the Troll himself Grimtooth:
“That’s right humans, I have a new book just for you and whatever RPG you use; Over 110 specially designed traps for all occasions and situations. The traps in my tome are meant to humiliate, confound and embarrass adventurers of all types (past present and future) but not necessarily kill them. Read ’em and weep mortals!”

Plus meet other members of the Grimtooth clan that pitch in to host different chapters. Also included is a bonus 8-page Grimtooth’s Traps comic written and drawn by Paul O’Connor and Steven S Crompton. Traps Lite: Tastes Great – Less Killing!

Includes the original cover from 1992, plus all the original traps.

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T&T Adventures Japan

20th April 201820th April 2018
by dekh

From the pages of T&T Adventures magazine in Japan, this fun product is translated into English with original Japanese illustrations and maps.

Solitaire adventures, Gamemaster scenarios, FRPG Manga, and a special set of T&T mini-rules written by Ken St Andre especially for this product, all are included to make this a perfect book to introduce RPG to beginners, or fans of Japanese RPG.

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W3 (cubed): Warriors, Wizards & Women: fantasy character portraits…

20th April 201820th April 2018
by dekh

Beautiful fantasy character art by Gilead; zany commentary by Ken St. Andre. Jazz up your frp character sheets by using these pictures.

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Grimtooth’s Traps Bazaar

20th April 2018
by dekh

Includes a (humorous) description of each trap, and a (fiendish) illustration by Steve Crompton. That’s right, due to popular demand, Grimtooth has opened his Traps Bazaar! It’s a showplace for those small, hard-to-find traps that Gamemasters just love to use on greedy adventurers.

Grimtooth and his minions have choosen the best items they could salvage from the untold members of now dead trespassers who dared to sneak into his dungeons. Trespassers who brought in their own equipment to try to outsmart his infamous Traps in vain attempts to steal from Grimtooth. Now we make the best of their gear available to you… for a price. Give your unsuspecting adventurers the Cy-Bear Trap, Mesmer-Eyes, the Bowling Balls of Boom or any of the many other trapped items awaiting you in Traps Bazaar.

This book describes over 100 of these unique trapped, cursed and tricky items for use in your role-playing games. Amaze your adventurers, petrify your players and amuse yourself with this book, and visit Grimtooth’s Traps Bazaar today!

Also includes maps of the Bazaar, including the secret lower level and the “bargain basement.”

With Art by SS Crompton & Scott Jackson

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Trollgod’s Terrible Twenty

27th November 2017
by dekh

Annotated and illustrated bestiary of 20 fantasy monsters for Tunnels and Trolls all created by Ken St. Andre. The book also contains the story of the Trollgod, who he is, and what he does.

Ken’s Explanatory Introduction

People keep asking for bestiaries and monster lists, but it seems to me that there are already innumerable monster lists. What is every Wandering Monster Table but another list of monsters to plague hard-working dungeon delvers? I kept trying to do it, but it just didn’t seem like fun, and writing has to seem like fun to me, or else I fizzle out and never finish the job.

I do like monsters in role-playing games, but doubt if I would like them in real life. After all, what is a monster? To me, it is something that is trying to hurt me, eat me, or kill me. A mosquito is a monster, although a very small one, but if you made it big enough to really see, it would be as scary a monster as anything from horror or science fiction.

It occurred to me that it would be a lot more fun if the monsters I wrote about were MY monsters, creatures that I thought up to bedevil my players. So, that’s what I’m going to do. The creatures in this document are all things that exist only because I imagined them in the first place. They may have been inspired by something that already exists, but these particular incarnations have been through the fires of my imagination. And they have all appeared in published T & T material.

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Citybook I: Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker

8th August 20178th August 2017
by dekh

25 City-based establishments with over 75 fully-described non-player characters, and scenario suggestions for use with any role-playing system.

This book won Flying Buffalo its very first Origins Award in 1982.

Maps, portraits, descriptions; everything you need. This book established that you COULD have a GM book that is genuinely for ANY Fantasy Role Playing System, and not just thinly disguised for one particular system. All the descriptions and mechanics are in generic terms so it will fit in with whatever campaign system you are using.

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Braggards & Barflys

8th August 2017
by dekh

The latest freeby from Bolt Thrower Press: Braggards & Barflys

6 characters of the type that could be encountered in a tavern in Khazan, or indeed any part of Trollworld, or your own fantasy setting. They can be used as PCs, either for solo or group games, or they can be dropped in as NPCs as the GM sees fit. They are all equivalent to newly rolled characters.

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The Vital Spot

26th July 201726th July 2017
by dekh

Contains two substantial GM adventures:

Something in the Wind
A colourful adventure for a bunch of low-level characters.

The Jumbo Compendium 5-in-1 Bumper Dungeon Fun Pack!
A portmanteau of five short and silly adventures.

Also other material for the Tunnels & Trolls(TM) role-playing game:

Magic Items
Random Names
Conversion Notes for other role-playing games
Novelties

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Arena of Khazan Appendix of Gladiators and Fighters

2nd May 20172nd May 2017
by dekh

This is a collection of stories, portraits, and gaming stats (Tunnels & Trolls system) for some of the more unusual gladiators in the great Arena of Khazan. Original art by David Ullery will help you visualize these characters as real people instead of just nameless monsters to be defeated. You might even use them as player characters of your own. These characters were imagined and contributed by members of the Trollgod’s Trollhalla which can still be found (sort of) on Facebook.

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Build Your Own Magic Weapon for Deluxe Tunnels and…

24th April 201725th April 2017
by dekh

The trouble with magic weapons is that you can outgrow them. That sword you got at level 1 from the horde of that creature you almost died to kill that deals +2 damage isn’t much use once you start getting to the level where you are surrounded by dragons, demonss and extradimensional demigods and the trouble with that is that you don’t really have a weapon that you can grow with, a weapon that can see you through the good times and bad and that is just silly.

Loads of great legends have signiature weapons – King Arthur had excalibur (after the sword in the stone broke, but, yes we’ll just forget about that), Captain Carrot had that kingy sword of his and Blade has his well, blade.

Well this book can help – this book tells you how to accumulate Magic Weapon points on a quest (which can be obtained instead of adventure points) and used to build a weapon that fits your identity as a hero and can give you more powers as you grow in level. The weapon will also never leave you – it has an inbuilt power to return to you even it is completely obliterated. So if you are a pyromaniac, you can load up on all the fire based powers for your weapon you like that will keep coming from level 1 to level 20.There’s a whole load of lovely powers you can choose from to customise your weapon from now until the end of time.

Enjoy!

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Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls Solo Rules Update

29th November 201625th April 2017
by dekh

Stuart Lloyd provides suggestions to have the most fun while playing solo adventures using the Deluxe Tunnels and Trolls rules.

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Grimtooth’s Traps Ate

24th November 201625th April 2017
by dekh

A complete compendium of better mouse-traps, delver mishaps, adventurer mish-mash, and a sarcastic smorgasbord of stealthy strikers, cryptic confusers and character crushers.

This is the original book from 1989, digitally redone by the artist, Steve Crompton. Includes a (humorous) description of each trap, and a (fiendish) illustration by Steve. Includes new art. Shown without specifc game mechanics of any kind.

The nature, cause, and effect of each trap has been described so that any game-master can use the various traps in his or her favorite role-playing system with ease. So step right up for a big heaping plate of Traps Ate!

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