One of my all time favourite OSR zines and resources. If you love a little gonzo in your OSR game, you must buy this.

I absolutely love everything about this product. Hardback arrived in good condition

Tons of great ideas here and inspiration. The classes and Meatshields of the Bleeding Ox section are a lot of fun.

Black Pudding zines are amazing. It feels as if you were looking into the personal notebook of a very experienced OSR GM. The illustrations and tone are up my alley, cartoonish and with interesting ideas thrown left and right. There's character sheets, character classes, monsters, magic items, dungeons, optional rules... tons of great content!

In theory you could get all the zines for the pay what you want individually. But I decided to go with this compilation, which just orders all the content nicely, and it's a way to support the authors. Still waiting on the delivery of the print option.

I hope there're more of these coming along, and I hope to continue supporting the excellent work!

The print version of Black Pudding Heavy Helping is a quality product, with clear pages and tight binding. Rather than a simple rehash of the first versions of the 'zine, it's organized by section / topic, so you get all the character classes in one section, magic items in another, monsters in another. That organization is much better than the lazy approach of simply binding all the issues together that is taken by some fanzine compilations. The entries are imaginative and written in a humorous and engaging style. Even some that might seem a bit of a stretch at first, have real potential once you read them (the Goblin as a PC class comes to mind). What really got me excited, though, were the Meatshields of the Bleeding Ox! Remember the Shady Dragon Inn supplement for B/X D&D? I loved that supplement. Well Meatshields is 'Shady Dragon Redux', and for once the Director's Cut is better than the original! I adored this section and had to say so.

I'm really looking forward to a Second Helping of Black Pudding...