Land of Blood & Honey Issue 2 by Will Jarvis is a role playing game supplement published by Inverted Castle Press for use with Old School Essentials.
The supplement is available as a 13 page Pay What You Want PDF from DriveThruRPG. One page is the front cover and about half the contents and credits.
The adventure begins… explains that this is the second in a series of small zines covering a new desert campaign setting inspired by swords and sandals tales, classic TSR supplements and Arabian Nights. It recaps what was in Issue 1 and explains this has a town, introductory dungeon, tables for rolling up caravans and NPCs.
The Waystone Caravansary describes a small town – actually, barely more than a hamlet – built within a limestone slab. It opens by covering the population, authority, customs, location, trade, strength and well before detailing the various locations in the settlement, what can be obtained where relevant and some NPCs.
The Waystone Well: A Dungeon for Levels 1-2 covers a small dungeon crawl beneath the settlement. It gives the events leading up to the current situation, the main foe, various locations and random encounters, as well as a map.
One-Roll Caravan Generator has a number of tables for rolling a caravan; destination/origin, size, travellers accompanying it, what’s special, what’s being transported and trinkets and oddities.
Sand Scum: Ready-to-Use NPCs has details on a number of NPCs.
Land of Blood & Honey Issue 2 in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and, though short, has enough sections that these would have been useful. Navigation is okay. The text maintains a two-column format and appeared to be free of errors. There are a number of stock images, mostly black and white with one colour. Presentation is okay.
Settlements are always useful, and a desert settlement is easy enough to drop into a setting. However, though the locations in the settlement are labelled as if to match up with a map, there isn’t a map of it. This does diminish the settlements use a bit, and also gives the impression that the map might have been forgotten. The additional material, including the dungeon crawl, increase the usefulness of the settlement too. Land of Blood & Honey Issue 2 can be found by clicking here.
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