A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement Gregorius’ Notes: On the Weird OSR Fantasy #Year 2021

Gregorius’ Notes: On the Weird OSR Fantasy #Year 2021 is a role playing game supplement written and published by Kai Pütz a.k.a Gregorius21778 for use with OSR and Lamentations of the Flame Princess. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result. This is a collection of articles originally posted on the author’s blog.

The supplement is available as a 21-page PDF from DriveThruRPG for $2 but was purchased at a reduced price during a sale. One page is the front cover, one the front matter and one the Open Game License. The PDF comes in two versions, one of them more printer friendly.

I Search the Lobcock! is a d66 table of loot for flunkies, aimed at LotFP but in actuality suitable for just about any fantasy system, and even some that are not.

Getting Charisma Out of the Stat Dump is an article with a number of different ways of making Charisma more useful in LotFP and other OSR games.

To Die Happy suggests an option where character’s XP never results in them levelling up, but is instead passed on to their follow-up or replacement character, making an XP score be for a campaign, not a character.

Clerics of the Horned Man has brief details on the benefits a cleric gains for serving the Horned Man of the Woods.

Why is the Hermit Shunned? is a d20 list of results.

The Whistling Hobs is a group of malevolent fey troublemakers and their whistling which can affect every human not of Chaotic alignment in a random way.

Bloomeye is a flower that can be used to replace a missing eye, and then planted again to be used for one of a number of other things. This is used with Rose, the Gardener’s Daughter, from Gregorius’ Notes: On the Weird OSR Fantasy #Year 2020.

NPC Cleric Generator is a series of tables for randomly generating a cleric.

Taverns, Inns and Guesthouses has ten briefly described such places to encounter.

Henry Goode – Supplies, Gear & Trade Goods covers a business and its owner.

Lady Ximena-Adelina Castilla is an NPC who can be encountered.

He Behind the Mirrors and Veils is a potential tutor of the arcane arts who can be summoned.

New Magic-User Spells has four new spells for LotFP.

New Magic Items has ten new magic items.

Enchanted Deck of Cards describes a magical deck of cards where the cards have different effects.

The Rising Devourer of the Pure is a monster that can be summoned using a special variant of the summon spell.

The Nachzehrer is a German undead, a corpse that isn’t dead but eats flesh, and a new monster for LotFP. Some adventure hooks are given for the creature.

Strange & Weird Things On and Off the Road (d20) is a d20 table of encounters, with various sub-tables to make many more encounters.

The Vampire of Hereward Forest is essentially a short adventure in which the characters deal with a vampire.

Gregorius’ Notes: On the Weird OSR Fantasy #Year 2021 in Review

The PDF lacks bookmarks and is long enough with enough different sections that these would have been useful. The text maintains a two-column format and some minor errors were noticed. There are a number of stock illustrations, mostly black and white but one colour. Presentation is okay.

Given that this is a selection of articles from a blog, there are a wide range of subjects covered, so there isn’t really a theme to this beyond fantasy and primarily LotFP as a system. Quite a lot of the articles are neutral enough to use with any system, and more could be adapted comparatively easily to other OSR games. Gregorius’ Notes: On the Weird OSR Fantasy #Year 2021 is a useful, albeit somewhat random, collection of material and it can be found by clicking here.