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This is a pre-order item.

Orders containing this item WILL NOT SHIP until the final pre-order item is available to ship. Expected release date is Aug 1st 2026 - Image, contents, and release date are subject to change without notice.

The four books in the Advanced Expansion Set detail: 

Characters: 9 additional classes (acrobat, assassin, barbarian, bard, druid, illusionist, knight, paladin, ranger), 6 additional races (drow, duergar, gnome, half-elf, half-orc, svirfneblin), rules for choosing character race and class separately, plus optional rules to add extra depth to character creation, combat, and spell casting. 

Magic: Over 100 new spells for bards, druids, gnomes, illusionists, and rangers. 

Monsters: 120 new monsters: mimics, piercers, shambling mounds, banshees, coffer corpses, terrible eyes, metallic dragons, liches, drow, deep ones, the terrifying tarrasque and many more classic 

Advanced era monsters! Includes complete encounter tables for dungeon levels 1–8+ and all types of wilderness terrain. 

Treasures: 150 new magic items: the apparatus of the crab, ioun stones, the deck of many things, dancing swords, holy avengers, and many more! 

Old-School Essentials Advanced Fantasy is a "best of" old-school gaming: a complete retelling of the classic 1980s Basic/Expert game expanded with reams of extras inspired by the 1970s Advanced 1st Edition rules. 

The Old-School Essentials Classic Game Set + the Advanced Expansion Set contain the same game as the Advanced Fantasy Player’s + Referee’s Tomes , just presented in a 9 book pair of box sets for those who share our love of RPG box sets! 

The Team: Author: Gavin Norman Box Set cover artist: Peter Mullen Individual book cover artist: David Hoskins Publication date: April 2023 

Published by: Necrotic Gnome and Exalted Funeral Press