An Adventure Gaming Bric-a-Brac. Being A Compendium of Miscellanea for
Old-School RPGs. For us OSR weirdos and curious D&D heads alike.

KNOCK! issue 4 is ready to go to press, just waiting for you to pledge. You
know the formula: no theme, all mean. Once again, we've cobbled together a
bric-à-brac of game design insight, random tables, rules suggestions,
monsters, classes, maps, adventures… the lot. We've also added a short series
(12 pages) aimed at post-WotC meltdown 5E refugees (or just your friends who
you’d like to bring over to the adventure gaming side of the divide).

The book is 212 pages (A5 format: 5.9’ x 8.25’, slightly bigger than digest
size) in beautiful full colour, printed on quality paper (coated 130 gr, with
a cover on coated 300 gr) by Olivier's neighbours in the South Basque country.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/896102915/knock-issue-four
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gbbgu

On 30 Nov 2023, gbbgu wrote:

> An Adventure Gaming Bric-a-Brac. Being A Compendium of Miscellanea for
> Old-School RPGs. For us OSR weirdos and curious D&D heads alike.
>
> KNOCK! issue 4 is ready to go to press, just waiting for you to pledge. You
> know the formula: no theme, all mean. Once again, we've cobbled together a
> bric-à-brac of game design insight, random tables, rules suggestions,
> monsters, classes, maps, adventures… the lot. We've also added a short series
> (12 pages) aimed at post-WotC meltdown 5E refugees (or just your friends who
> you’d like to bring over to the adventure gaming side of the divide).
>
> The book is 212 pages (A5 format: 5.9’ x 8.25’, slightly bigger than digest
> size) in beautiful full colour, printed on quality paper (coated 130 gr, with
> a cover on coated 300 gr) by Olivier's neighbours in the South Basque country.
>
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/896102915/knock-issue-four

I have the 3 previous Knock! books and I think they're great. They typography
is a bit all over the place, different styles used throughout the book, so if
that's not your thing you won't like this. Make them a bit hard to read, but
at least they're pretty to look and and not boring :)

Books are really solid, and have content on every place they can, including
the dust jackets.

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gbbgu

On 11/30/2023 10:32 AM, gbbgu wrote:
> On 30 Nov 2023, gbbgu wrote:
>
>> An Adventure Gaming Bric-a-Brac. Being A Compendium of Miscellanea for
>> Old-School RPGs. For us OSR weirdos and curious D&D heads alike.
>>
>> KNOCK! issue 4 is ready to go to press, just waiting for you to pledge. You
>> know the formula: no theme, all mean. Once again, we've cobbled together a
>> bric-à-brac of game design insight, random tables, rules suggestions,
>> monsters, classes, maps, adventures… the lot. We've also added a short series
>> (12 pages) aimed at post-WotC meltdown 5E refugees (or just your friends who
>> you’d like to bring over to the adventure gaming side of the divide).
>>
>> The book is 212 pages (A5 format: 5.9’ x 8.25’, slightly bigger than digest
>> size) in beautiful full colour, printed on quality paper (coated 130 gr, with
>> a cover on coated 300 gr) by Olivier's neighbours in the South Basque country.
>>
>> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/896102915/knock-issue-four
>
> I have the 3 previous Knock! books and I think they're great. They typography
> is a bit all over the place, different styles used throughout the book, so if
> that's not your thing you won't like this. Make them a bit hard to read, but
> at least they're pretty to look and and not boring :)
>
> Books are really solid, and have content on every place they can, including
> the dust jackets.
>

I looked at the kickstarters for them I think, but I really couldn't
justify paying that much shipping. But I am living a bit off the beaten
path.

On 25 Dec 2023, kyonshi wrote:

> On 11/30/2023 10:32 AM, gbbgu wrote:
>>
>> I have the 3 previous Knock! books and I think they're great. They typography
>> is a bit all over the place, different styles used throughout the book, so if
>> that's not your thing you won't like this. Make them a bit hard to read, but
>> at least they're pretty to look and and not boring :)
>>
>> Books are really solid, and have content on every place they can, including
>> the dust jackets.
>>
>
> I looked at the kickstarters for them I think, but I really couldn't
> justify paying that much shipping. But I am living a bit off the beaten
> path.

The shipping is the biggest pain point for a lot of kickstarters. I'd grab a
lot more stuff, but when the shipping is equal to the cost of the item I also
just have to let it go. They're not Pokemon and I don't need them all :)

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gbbgu

On 1/11/2024 1:45 AM, gbbgu wrote:
> On 25 Dec 2023, kyonshi wrote:
>
>> On 11/30/2023 10:32 AM, gbbgu wrote:
>>>
>>> I have the 3 previous Knock! books and I think they're great. They typography
>>> is a bit all over the place, different styles used throughout the book, so if
>>> that's not your thing you won't like this. Make them a bit hard to read, but
>>> at least they're pretty to look and and not boring :)
>>>
>>> Books are really solid, and have content on every place they can, including
>>> the dust jackets.
>>>
>>
>> I looked at the kickstarters for them I think, but I really couldn't
>> justify paying that much shipping. But I am living a bit off the beaten
>> path.
>
> The shipping is the biggest pain point for a lot of kickstarters. I'd grab a
> lot more stuff, but when the shipping is equal to the cost of the item I also
> just have to let it go. They're not Pokemon and I don't need them all :)
>
>

yeah but at least some of them would be nice to have. I have gone on to
buy much more stuff lately, despite shipping. Because I feel like I'm at
a point in my life that some wasteful spending is ok. So I order more
stuff from Lulu that I really should have bought ten years ago :D
(I finally got around buying Starships and Spacemen for example)
Still, from what I remember Knock was way more expensive to ship to my
place than the magazine even would have cost.