Monday 18 December 2017

A Ghost Story for Christmas Sale

Happy Christmas from Gethsemane Games,




There is an old tradition at this time of year that we here at Gethsemane Games like to keep, perhaps above any other. Often attributed to Mr Charles Dickens, the tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas is far older than that and pre-dates both his storey 'A Christmas Carol' and the reign of Queen Victoria. Nor is it even a uniquely British tradition, although we tend to carry it on even today and the BBC proudly keep the tradition going by broadcasting a range of adaptations of the stories of M R James, Dickens and a host of other writers. In America the magnificent Washington Irving is said to have been quite the enthusiast for the tradition as evidenced by his storey 'Old Christmas' which can be found in “The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent” first published in 1819”.

With that in mind, we would like to celebrate the practice of telling ghost stories at Christmas with a little tradition of our own, our 'Ghost Storey at Christmas' sale. From now until January 6th our Haunts and Horrors line and a selection of our GMs maps which seem particularly pertinent to creating haunting scenarios of Gothic horror will be available for only $1 each!

That includes the Haunts and Horrors RPG rules, the scenario's 'Blood Money', 'The Curse of Amun Menetnashte', 'The Ahriman Tablets' and the acclaimed 'Suffer Little Children' as well as a selection of mansions, haunted houses, stately homes and other suitable places for your tales of terror taken from our GM's maps range.
From Gethsemane Games, have a very happy, Christmas!

Visit the H+H range Here and take advantage of the 'Ghost Storey for Christmas' Sale





Ooops! Product Line Name Change

Last week I announced the launch of our new range of system neutral village and town resources.  Since then I've discovered that there is another small company who already use 'Dragon Drop' for a range of their own 5e adventure modules.  In order to avoid confusion, I have changed the name of our lien to Graban Drop instead of Dragon Drop. 


Its a shame, because I really liked the name and the other company didn't ask us to change it but I felt it was the right thing to do, hence I made the decision to change it.

Friday 8 December 2017

STOP right there, Dragon DROP villages have just landed, ROLL on over to http://www.rpgnow.com/browse.php?discount=9b3355be72 To get the first one for just $1, but hurry!  the offer only lasts until December the 15th. 

Cover of Dragon Drop Village 1

Have you ever been halfway through a campaign and had to take an enforced break as your players decided to take a detour into a village that's just a name on a map in your adventure?
Or do you need a village as a base for your adventuring party, or just as a backdrop for them to visit?

Well, no more trying to think up and map an entire village – we have designed Dragon Drop Villages with exactly this situation in mind!

Simply take one of our range of villages, drag it over, and drop it in to your campaign notes! A ready-made village, with buildings, NPCs and even scenario ideas, all ready to be used. Just bolt on your gaming system, stat anyone you think might need it, and you're ready to go.
The village is described in detail, with each building on the beautiful full-colour map given its own entry.  Who lives there, what they do, their personality and how they related to the other villagers.  Not Only that but the economy, rumours and lie in the village are all explained and we include a section of adventure ideas as well.
Our first village is a small but important one, with a population of approximately 20 families, a tavern, smith, and a pawn shop which is ideal for adventurers looking to sell the strange items they have accumulated. All mapped out with full GM notes, the Farmer's Market Town is surrounded by crofts and farms and provides a regular market for the farmers to sell their produce, craftspeople and the forces of law and order in the shape of the Burgomaster, Sheriff and Bailiff.

Use THIS LINK  before December 15th to get Dragon Drop Village #1: Farmer's Market Town for just $1 

The Dragon Drop Villages range is system neutral, designed to be used with whatever rules system you use.

Missed the $1 sale?  Don't worry, you can still buy Farmer's Market Town for just $2 for another week before it goe's up to its full price.  Just use THIS LINK to go directly to the products page on RPG.Now

Sunday 3 December 2017

End of the Year - End of the World PDF Sale!

It's the end of the year as we know it and I feel fine!
And so should fans of the Post-Apocalyptic genre because Gethsemane Games is offering a 50% reduction on our 'Pandora's Wake' RPG and 'Pandora's Fury!' Tabletop miniatures battle lines at RPGNow and DrivethruRPGas well as a range of maps that we have specially selected for GMs of Post-Apocalyptic games, compatible with any system!

Pandora's Wake and Pandoras Fury! are mutually compatible, letting you convert your character from the RPG to the miniatures wargame and back again.  What is more, we are also offering the first novel in the Pandora's Wake: The Nomad Chronicles at the same 50% discount in both epuband PDF formats.

The Pandora Event ripped holes in the very fabric of our reality. Holes that let The Other-Verse in, a nightmarish world beyond our own, filled with deadly flora and fauna.
Deadly bacteria and viruses that we had no defence against brought human civilization to its knees. As plagues swept away two-thirds of the human race, the alien life-forms of the Other-Verse began to emerge through the cracks in the walls of our reality, ever expanding, out competing native, terrestrial life, hunting Earth's own biosphere to the brink of extinction. Turning our world into a hellish copy of the Other-Verse itself. Such is the world into which your characters will step, to struggle for survival against carnivorous plant life and predatory alien creatures as well as desperate gangs of raiders and bandits, competing for the scarce resources that have been left behind in... Pandora's Wake.

A Post Apocalyptic RPG from Gethsemane Game

Now just £3 until the end of the sale!
Pandora's fury is a tabletop miniatures game designed to let you play out skirmishes and battles in a Post Apocalyptic landscape. 
Set in the same world as our RPG "Pandora's Wake" the game lets you fight skirmishes and battles with any miniatures and in any scale.
After the 'Pandora Event,' an alien world known to us as 'The Other-Verse' has ripped holes in the skin of our reality, holes through which deadly diseases, carnivorous plants and killer monsters have swept across Earth and destroyed mankind's civilisations.
In 'Pandora's Fury' you can play gangs of survivors battling for resources or simply fighting to survive or you can play swarms of creatures from 'The Other Verse' as they sweep across the landscape, destroying all they encounter.
Includes rules to convert your 'Pandora's Wake' RPG characters to the Pandora's Fury miniatures rules.

The world is ending.
Not in a single, catastrophic moment, but slowly and painfully, screaming out its dying agonies in prolonged death-throes that may last a generation. It is dying,  murdered by another world, a malevolent world, a world that devours all it touches and makes it like itself, a world the survivors of our world have dubbed “The OtherVerse”.
In Pandora's Fury! the players will create groups of survivors who are struggling to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic world that is being overrun by the incursion of the Other-Verse and its hostile flora and fauna, which are slowly and inexorably turning our world into a copy of their own.  Survivors must battle these hostile elements of an alien world, gather supplies and deal with other bands of survivors, some hostile, and some not, to try and survive in a world gone mad.
Just £2.50 in the Sale, that's 50% off!


In the not too distant future, the Pandora Event ripped a hole in the walls of our universe. The nightmare that it revealed, we call 'The Other-Verse'. A parallel dimension of carnivorous plants, vicious monsters and deadly diseases.
Central Europe is in Chaos, with millions dead and the UN forces in disarray, struggling to hold back the hellish creatures of the Other-Verse.
In Switzerland, a small band of survivors run for their lives, but when they become infected with alien fungal spores, they are left only one choice. To survive they must reach the closest hospital in Bex and convince the survivors there to use their precious medical supplies to save strangers.
What they find when they reach the hospital is worse than they ever imagined.
Pandora's Wake: The Nomad Chronicles is a Post Apocalyptic tale of struggle and survival. A blend of action, survival horror and the courage of the human spirit laced with a dry gallows humour.
A sample from Ch: 4
It's getting closer!” Mathias cursed as the forest echoed with the roars of the creatures, “We aren't going to make it!”
“Damn you, don't leave me!” Magda screamed. Fear gripped the injured civil engineer. Whatever was out there was close now, and she knew it would be on them in a matter of minutes.
“We won't!” Mathias insisted although he was ashamed to admit that it had crossed his mind. Only for a second, but it had, and he hated himself for it. He had visions of having to explain what had happened to the others, to Knut and to his namesake, Father Mathias. In the next instant, he made a promise to himself. He would die here with Magda if he had to, but he wouldn’t leave her behind. Even if she hated him, he couldn't let her be taken by whatever horror of the Other-Verse thundered through the wooded slopes towards them."

Now only £1.25 in the 'End of the Year = End of the World Sale'.

Also in the sale are several of our GM's maps products which I have selected as particularly useful to GM's planning a Post-Apocalyptic game!  Pop over to our GM's maps range and have a look!

Gms mpa 31 cover
All the best for the End of the World!