CASTLE OLDSKULL - Exiles of the Scarlet Tabard

A sequel to the 2019 supplement Captains of the Scarlet Tabard, EXILES is a companion volume which advances the known lore of the author’s World of Oldskull campaign setting, while also serving as an introduction to the ongoing saga of the Realm of Tyrrhenia, the Chaos Plague, Castle Oldskull, and the Free City State of Grimrook.

Herein, your worthy guide — Damian Prester, Plague Patriarch in service to His Overlordship — will introduce you to the old school fantasy city of Grimrook, the Overlord, and the many threats which assail the Order of the Scarlet Tabard and its citadel, the Crimson Spire.

Ongoing adventurer and mercenary triumphs throughout the bloody dungeons of Castle Oldskull have awakened the wrath of the Drow and their Serpent Folk allies. A dread Serpentine curse has corrupted one of the Scarlet Order’s most trusted Captains, leading to betrayal and chaos throughout the Ushirian dungeons, the ranks of the Order, and the Drow-assailed alleyways which lead down into the Undercity. While the Grimrook Legion wars against the Drow, the Overlord has called upon the Scarlet Order to recruit new adventurers and heroes from lands afar in hope of restoring order before all is lost.

EXILES OF THE SCARLET TABARD serves as an introductory setting guide for players and Game Masters alike.

This supplement has been written to honor the generous contributors who participated in the highly successful 2022 Castle Oldskull / Bundle of Holding charity and funding drive, following the July 4 Arapahoe County fire which threatened the author’s neighborhood and family. Participants in the funding drive raised funds in support of the author’s family, as well as over $1,200 for the Arapahoe Rescue Patrol, generating over $13,000 in total sales for more than 4 million pages’ worth of Castle Oldskull gaming lore. In recognition of their spirit and support, all of the NPCs featured in this volume are partly inspired by the user names of the top-funding contributors. Ladies and gentlemen of the Bundle, consider yourselves immortalized in the Chronicles of Oldskull!

This e-supplement will always be set to Pay What You Want. Please feel free to “tip” the author if you like what you see, or you can pay nothing at all. Whatever you decide, please download, plug the Scarlet Order and Grimrook into your own old school fantasy game world, and enjoy!

Disclaimer: This product contains assets that were procedurally generated with the aid of creative software powered by machine learning.

The software used to create the raw output of this artwork was Midjourney AI, as prompted and curated by Kent David Kelly. Additional necessary refinement software (“Handcrafted” in DriveThruRPG parlance) used by Kent David Kelly to further customize the individual raw AI outputs included the following, with between four and seven software suites being used per piece: [1] Affinity Photo, [2] ChaiNNer, [3] FaceApp, [4] GFPGAN Inference, [5] Microsoft Picture Manager, [6] Paint Classic, [7] PowerPoint, [8] Python Colaboratory (Colab), [9] PyTorch, and [10] 4x_Deviance_60000G.pth.

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Each of the Wonderland Imprints series has an acclaimed first introductory volume. You can start there, and then journey further as you choose.

Series include the Black Label Editions (unillustrated tabletop volumes), Castle Oldskull (old school RPG supplements), The Classic Dungeon Design Guides (system neutral dungeon crafting), Hawk & Moor (Dungeons & Dragons history), Old School Essentials (supplements for Gavin Norman's B/X game), Oldskull Innovations (unique experimental products), and the Oldskull Library (classic weird fiction), as well as many Free Supplement Releases.