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The original was posted on /r/osr by /u/schneeland on 2025-10-27 14:42:04+00:00.

Necrotic Gnome have just announced that they will consolidate their rule book products into just two books, largely corresponding to the current Advanced Fantasy Player’s and Referee’s Tome. The new books will include a few more revisions and also feature new illustrations, but are said to be 100% compatible with existing products. Texts will apparently be revised to be “OGL free”.

The blog entry lists the following changes:

• New art. Around 200 new illustrations, including an illustration for every class and race, lots more monsters, and a set of beautiful colour paintings by Jacob Fleming.
• Introductory material and examples. A completely rewritten introduction plus dozens of new examples of rules and gameplay, including fully detailed examples of creating a wilderness region, base town, and dungeon.
• Glossary and index. The Player’s Book now contains a glossary of common game terms and a full index of rules topics.
• Basic play appendices. An appendix in each book notes which content is derived from the Basic/Expert D&D rules and provides additional tables for those seeking a core B/X experience.
• New optional rules. We’re adding a handful of extra optional rules, including training, XP for magic items, hovering at death’s door, and higher Hit Die types (à la AD&D).
• Class tweaks. Minor tweaks to the assassin, barbarian, knight, and ranger classes, based on feedback from players over the past 6 years. (As mentioned in our end-of-2024 update.)
• Minor rules fixes. A small number of tiny fixes to core rules for the sake of B/X fidelity, for example attacking from behind, sea-based encounter chances, and travel effects of roads and trails.

Full announcement can be found in the link blog entry.