Ryecroft is designed for Old School Essentials but is easily compatible with most BX Retroclone or OSR style games.
Designed to fit easily into any fantasy world, Rycroft has references to MonkeyBlood Design’s Midderlands setting for ease of use with those products.
Ever since the plague and consequent razing of the abbey over one hundred and eighty years ago, Ryecroft has been left to its fate. An overgrown and unearthly place, most that have heard of it, do their best to avoid it. Some say that the dead roam its memorial strewn grounds, but the knowledgeable believe otherwise… Before her savage death, the old abbess swore that the dead would never rise within its boundaries, and she was mostly right. It is not the dead that trespassers should fear. It is the things below…
Ryecroft comes as a shrink wrapped bundle containing the following products:
Main Book:
An A5-sized hardcover, 224 pages, 120 gsm uncoated interior, smythsewn binding, black ribbon, black endpapers, containing 224 interior pages.
Containing:
A timeline of events.
The detailed village of Woodchurch Eaton from which your PCs can make forays into the cemetery and recuperate.
Adventure hooks table.
Handling movement around the overgrown cemetery and random wandering monsters.
Desecration and atonement rules for disturbing burials.
Collectable items: Blueglass shards, Bones of the Saint, and Tombs of the Lost Crescent items.
Factions within the cemetery: Woodlings, maggotkin, wormkin, the old abbess, and the golems.
Notes on Gamemastering the cemetery.
34 detailed above ground locations.
133 detailed below ground locations.
27 brand new bestiary creatures.
5 new magic items and 1 new spell.
3 bestial playable race-classes: Grubkin, Protector Lice, and Wormancers.
12 tables for generating memorials.
Collectables Record Booklet: An A5-sized softcover, 8 pages, 120 gsm uncoated interior, stapled binding, matt laminated softcover.
Memorials Record Booklet: An A5-sized softcover, 8 pages, 120 gsm uncoated interior, stapled binding, matt laminated softcover.
Maps: Folded to A5. Printed full colour both sides. 150gsm uncoated paper stock.
Referees Map: Detailing the above and below ground locations for the referee.
Players Map: Detailing the above ground map for the players, as well as the village of Woodchurch Eaton and some cool mood artwork.
Ryecroft is written for Old School Essentials but works easily with many games including Castles & Crusades.
It may not be possible to ship very heavy items outside of the Mainland UK.
Released: 05 September 2025
