I’m a huge fan of Goodman Games’ Dungeon Crawl Classics. They’re old school style modules that are fun to play with plenty of action and not as much talking and role playing. It’s the D&D I remember as a kid and while I now like a more complete game, these modules make for a great night of gaming. I did a review of Idylss of the Rat King so I encourage you to check that out to see what you get.
For a while, the Dungeon Crawl Classics all kind of stood on their own. Now Goodman Games is introducing the Gazetteer of the Known Realms, which is basically a campaign setting formed around the 30+ Dungeon Crawl Classic modules that the company’s produced over the years. I was very interested despite the fact that I’ve ran my campaigns in Faerun since it’s inception (I have the original boxed set still) and the only thing that’s probably stopped me from picking this up has been it’s price tag ($70).
Now Goodman Games is giving you sneak peak at the campaign setting. You can download an excerpt from the GM’s guide and they now recently released an excerpt of the Gazetteer that discusses the North Reaches of Aerth.