Village Backdrops

Village Backdrops are short, richly detailed supplements that each present a single village ready to insert into almost any home campaign. Perfect for use as a waystop on the road to adventure, as an adventure site themselves or as a PC’s home, Village Backdrop present the details so the busy GM can focus on crafting exciting, compelling adventures.

This bundle contains the following four GM's Miscellany compilations:

• GM's Miscellany: Village Backdrop I

• GM's Miscellany: Village Backdrop II

• GM's Miscellany: Village Backdrop III

• GM's Miscellany: Village Backdrop IV

Click on the links above to learn more about each book’s villages. The GM's Miscellanys present the following villages:

GM's Miscellany: Village Backdrop I

• Ashford

• Black Wyvern

• Bleakflat

• Coldwater

• Kingsfell

• Lanthorn

• Longbridge

• Shroudhaven

• Suurin

• Thornhill

• Wellswood

• White Moon Cove

GM's Miscellany: Village Backdrop II

• Byrnfort

• Dawnmarsh

• Farrav'n

• Fulhurst Moors

• Hard Bay

• Needlebriar

• Quey's Glade

• Ronak

• Silver Bluff

• Skaalhaft

• Tigley

• Woodbridge

• Y'taris

GM's Miscellany: Village Backdrop III

• Blackhill Gaol

• Bossin

• Echo Harbour

• Gull's Roost

• Hosford

• Kerwyn's Pride

• Lady Cross

• Laewas

• Lanthorn 2.0

• Masquerade

• Oakhurst

• Raven's Cradle

• Underdell

• Victory Elm

GM's Miscellany: Village Backdrop IV

• Arcmor

• Aubade

• Azagirn

• Brackendale

• Carillon

• Don Galir

• Edgewood

• Feigrvidr

• Gloya's Bridge

• Hopesyre

• Hornwall

• Poxmire

Raging Swan Press’s 2020 OSR collection comprises virtually all the OSR-compatible books released in 2020. If you want Village Backdrops, Dungeon Dressings, Eventures and more for your OSR campaign, this is the collection for you!

Individually, the books retail for $138.84, but the collection is available at a special low price. Save your precious time and get this epic collection of OSR GM’s Resources today!

The bundle comprises:

• Dungeon Dressing: Archways, Bridges, Captives, Ceilings & Walls, Denizen’s Loot, Floors & Trapdoors, Fountains & Pools, Mundane Chest Contents, Portcullises, Secret & Concealed Doors, Stairs, Statues

• Eventures: Where There’s a Will, Widows Wake

• Urban Dressing: Port Town

• Village Backdrops: Aldwater, Bleakflat, Beacon Promontory, Fraywrack, Fulhurst Moors, Macrimei, Rifthammer, Shroudhaven, Tigley, Vulcanbridge, Y’taris

• Campaign Codex: Classic Foes, Lesser Undead

• GM’s Miscellany: Eventures I

• GM’s Miscellany: Mini-Eventures I

• GM’s Miscellany: Village Backdrop I

• Town Backdrop: Wolfsbane Hollow

• Barroom Brawls

This collection comprises a single large download of roughly 300 MB. We highly recommend you download it over wi fi and do not use mobile data.

This bundle contains the following full products:

• Dungeon Backdrop: The House of Yspher 

• Dungeon Dressing: Secret & Concealed Doors

• Raisa’s Auction Most Wondrous

• Village Backdrop: Bleakflat 2.0

The House of Yspher

The lonely house on the hill is no place to spend the night. Many a weary traveller on the road to Dunstone has sought shelter there from the dangers of the night, only to find even darker terrors lurking inside the house’s crumbling walls. Those who find death beyond the shadowed threshold are considered fortunate, for the few who escape the house’s harrowing halls are cursed to endure a life of madness; their bodies and souls scarred beyond mortal comprehension. Few know the truth. The dreaded manor once belonged to Yspher, a reclusive wizard with an evil reputation who mysteriously vanished many years ago. Whispers of sinister experiments involving black magic and forbidden lore surrounded Yspher’s disappearance, which would prove only the first of many tragedies…

Unearth the disturbing past of Yspher’s dismal demesne and unveil the mystery surrounding Ashlar’s most haunted manor. The House of Yspher awaits!

Dungeon Dressing: Secret & Concealed Doors

This instalment of Dungeon Dressing presents loads of great features and details to add to the secret and concealed double doors in your dungeon. Designed to be used both during preparation or actual play, Dungeon Dressing: Secret & Concealed Doors is an invaluable addition to any GM’s armoury!

Raisa’s Auction Most Wondrous

Raisa Ojanen, of Raisa’s Curios fame (or perhaps notoriety if you believe the rumours), has secured another batch of wondrous magical items for sale at another of her famous auctions! Only the great, the good or the wealthy are admitted to these exclusive gatherings during which thousands of gold crowns reputedly change hands in exchange for items normally money literally cannot buy. Will Raisa grant you admittance or will she find you lacking?  

Village Backdrop: Bleakflat 2.0

Lost to the north of nowhere, far beyond the reach of prying eyes, a rocky bluff rises from barren soil. Here, deep amidst the frozen tundra, a ruined castle has been refitted into a tiny village. Ten hovels, whose rude architecture suggests structures five centuries old, surround a refurbished tower, and in this tower lives Bleakflat’s lord. Wise and capable, he tends to his villagers as a shepherd to his flock.  

The very presence of such a remote village is enough to arouse suspicion. There are no ore mines here, no nearby dungeons, no ley lines or trade routes. The people seem simple enough, but they are somehow able to fend off the wolf packs roaming the land, and are unperturbed by the massive bats which attack the rare unannounced visitor. How? The people of Bleakflat are under the protection of a vampire, the lord of the village and the only citizen with rosy cheeks and warm smile. The villagers trade their blood for his protection and care, and in turn he tends his flock well.

An OSR Compatible GM’s Resource by Mike Welham

Idyll seems like the perfect place to live, but subtle signs something is not right are scattered throughout the village. Why are the residents reluctant to leave the village’s precincts? Why are there so few children in such a prosperous place? How has the village stayed unspoiled with the wasteland surrounding it? Why is the seemingly empty Wardens’ Lodge that once served as the centre of law for Idyll so ominous? Those who investigate Idyll’s mystery too deeply may discover plane-shattering secrets. Whether the curious can capitalise on these secrets is yet another question.

About Village Backdrops

Village Backdrops are short, richly detailed supplements that each present a single village ready to insert into almost any home campaign. Perfect for use as a waystop on the road to adventure, as an adventure site themselves or as a PC’s home, Village Backdrop present the details so the busy GM can focus on crafting exciting, compelling adventures.