A genuine Gary Gygax curio just turned up on Kickstarter. Pulse Publishing has launched Castle Wolfmoon, the long-buried third instalment of an adventure series Gygax co-wrote with designer Chris Clark in the late 1990s and early 2000s. After the first two modules, A Challenge of Arms and Ritual of the Golden Eyes, the pair set the finale aside, formed Hekaforge together, and the manuscript ended up forgotten in a file labelled "Gygax" until Clark stumbled across it years later.
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Set up your group for freeThe campaign is system-agnostic, which is sensible given Castle Wolfmoon predates the modern OSR boom by a decade. Pulse has lined up a roster of names that will mean something to anyone who has spent any time in old-school D&D circles: Luke Gygax (co-founder of Gary Con and Gary's son), Frank Mentzer (the designer behind the BECMI red, blue and green boxes a generation of players started on), Heidi Gygax, GAXLAND co-founder Erik Garland, and actor Todd Stashwick of Star Trek: Picard fame.
This is also unusual because it is not the only Gygax castle currently funding. Troll Lord Games is running BackerKit's Castle Zagyg Act 2 at the same time, covering dungeon levels six through seventeen of his definitive rebuild of the original Castle Greyhawk. The first Castle Zagyg campaign pulled over $600,000 from around 2,600 backers in 2025, so the appetite is clearly there.
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Find events near youIf you organise an old-school dungeon night, both campaigns are decent fodder for a one-shot or a club mini-campaign, and the Wolfmoon material has never been seen before by anyone. For UK groups looking for a steady venue to crawl through it, find or set up a regular OSR night on Backseat Gamer.
Sources: Kickstarter | The Gaming Gang | EN World
