Note: This product is for the Swords & Wizardry version of The Tome of Horrors Complete. The Pathfinder RPG version is located here.

The Tome of Horrors? But that’s been done already; why do it again? Well, actually it’s been done three times, but never like this and never for an older edition of the original game that started it all. In 1974, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson wrote the world’s first fantasy role-playing game. This simple and very flexible set of rules launched an entirely new genre of gaming. Thanks to the Open Gaming License released by Wizards of the Coast in the year 2000, third parties, like Frog God Games, can use various intellectual properties associated with the original Dungeons & Dragons game, also known as 0E or zero edition. Swords and Wizardry is the game you played 20 or more years ago and is true to the original philosophy that made the game great. Just like other editions of the game, the Swords & Wizardry (S&W) needs monsters—lots of monsters. That’s where The Tome of Horrors Complete delivers in spades. Starting from the original Tome written with the 3rd Edition rules along with the later releases of Tomes 2 and 3 for version 3.5, Necromancer Games was in the unique position to bring you updates of the classic monsters not formally released by the OGL, as well as loads of new ones never sprung upon unsuspecting players before. So well received have these monsters been by the gaming community, that this open content has appeared again and again in game publications by other companies including updates to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game system and even appearances in its own bestiaries.

Why stop there? Never before have all three volumes of the 3rd Edition Tome of Horrors been converted for the 0E Swords & Wizardry rules and released as a single, hardbound tome. Monsters from the aberrant to the yellow musk zombie appear in this book, and everything in between—that’s over 700 monsters. But that’s not all; the appendices bring just as much to the table. The Swords and Wizardry Tome of Horrors Complete includes an appendix of all the animals found in the 3E Tomes of Horrors. A second appendix displays the n’gathau, a strange collection of beings from the horrifying Plane of Agony, and includes their complete stats, something not found in the Pathfinder version of this same Tome. There is also a complete list of monsters by CL. What you will not find in this Tome is an appendix of templates. S&W doesn’t use them. You will find the same sample template creatures displayed within the Pathfinder version of this book listed in alphabetical order and converted for use with the S&W system.

But it’s more than just that, in the Swords & Wizardry version, the space freed up by the smaller stat blocks is filled by sample monster lairs and encounters with the hundreds of different monster types featured in the tome. Never before has this massive selection of monsters been updated and brought with these resources all together in one place for use in your own game.

So you’ve got the monsters—both from the original edition of the game and new— the appendices on animals and the n’gathau, and a truckload of sample encounters and lairs to throw at your players, all together in one easy-to-use book. That’s why we call it The Tome of Horrors Complete!