Supplement V: CARCOSA is a book of rules options for the original Dungeons & Dragons game published in 1974. CARCOSA includes:
* a new character class: the sorcerer who summons and controls Cthulhoid entities
* a new form of magic, including 96 sorcerous rituals
* an easy-to-use psionics system
* dice conventions
* 48 new monsters
* tables for the random generation of spawn of Shub-Niggurath
* 5 colors of the desert lotus
* countless high-tech weapons and items of the Space Aliens
* Random Robot Generator
* technological artifacts of the Great Race and of the Primordial Ones
* mutations
* 400 encounters on an outdoor hex map with an area of 34,880 square miles
*and more
Reviews:
Spinachcat's review
James Raggi IV's review
Melan's / Gabor Lux's review
James Maliszewski's review: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4
Jeff Rients's review
Zulgyan's review
Korgoth's review
Supplement V: CARCOSA is available in PDF in two versions:
1. The Expurgated Edition is (in terms of its lack of explicit violence) on the same level as Gary Gygax's AD&D Players Handbook and Dungeon Masters Guide.
2. The 1st Edition is for mature audiences only. Most of the sorcerous rituals described on pages 16-33 of the 1st Edition include the murder and/or torture of human sacrifices (ranging in age from the newborn to the aged). Four of the 96 rituals include sexual assault. The level of explicitness is similar to that in M. A. R. Barker's 1978 masterpiece of demon-summoning, The Book of Ebon Bindings (a supplement for his FRPG, Empire of the Petal Throne, published by TSR in 1975).
Please note that the two editions are 98% identical. The only difference is that the Expurgated Edition does not have the explicit violence contained in the 1st Edition.
Supplement V: CARCOSA consists of three PDFs:
1. a PDF of the text that you can read on screen or print-out and put in a 3-ring notebook
2. a PDF of the text that you can print-out and make into a booklet
3. a PDF of the hex map
Please be sure to specify whether you want to buy the 1st Edition or the Expurgated Edition.
Also available is The Fungoid Gardens of the Bone Sorcerer, a module for low-level characters in a D&D campaign that makes use of Supplement V: CARCOSA. (This module was originally published in Fight On! #4.) Click for a free peek at the cover and the caverns map of the Fungoid Gardens of the Bone Sorcerer: http://www.mediafire.com/?ytmxk0mmxlx
It is a 24-page illustrated module with professionally-done maps and a full-color cover.
The Fungoid Gardens of the Bone Sorcerer consists of three PDFs:
1. the cover linked above
2. the 24-page module text in reading format (to read on your computer screen)
3. the 24-page module text in booklet format (to print out as a booklet)
All PDFs will be emailed to you within 24 hours (typically sooner) of receiving payment.
Prices:
Supplement V: CARCOSA (either edition) (13MB) $6
Fungoid Gardens of the Bone Sorcerer (28MB) $2
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last updated: Jan. 2, 2010