Elder Tunnels

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Peryton Publishing is an American role-playing game publishing company founded in 2004. It is co-owned by Christina Lea and Tom K. Loney. It is best known for their original role-playing game products, Crawlspace, Qalidar, and Spacers, as well as for publishing content for Tunnels & Trolls and Monsters! Monsters! role-playing game systems, frequently in collaboration with Ken St. Andre.

History

Peryton Publishing was founded by Lea and Loney in 2004, and started selling their first gaming system, Peryton Fantasy Role-Playing Game, written by Lea, built from Open gaming mechanics, and intended to simply the fantasy role-playing game experience, in 2006.

Loney and Lea are regular attendees of various conventions running products. Their "home convention" is Gen Con where they have run scenarios since 2004. More recently events focus on items from their catalog of published role-playing games and game systems, including Wobble, Crawlspace, and Qalidar.

Their on-line club is Peryton Gamers, where they and other game masters arrange for video conference-based game sessions for various role-playing systems.

TAG System

Tom's Adventure Gaming (TAG) is a set of generic role-playing game rules that can be used with a variety of settings. It was designed by Tom K. Loney.

Crawlspace

Crawlspace is Peryton Publishing's horror role-playing game. The initial version of Crawlspace used Tom's Adventure Gaming ("TAG") rules. In 2014 they published a new version using Tom's Action Card Kit ("TACK") system, where playing cards are used for randomization instead of dice.

• TerrorHog, published in 2022, is a Crawlspace Event and brainchild of Lea. "The movie Hogzilla with Joe Bob Briggs in it became her Lord of the Rings for a couple years." says Loney. "Sadly, we couldn't name the work after it, but I think our title isn't bad."

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Qalidar

(Mention the Qalidar line of products and the published novel.)

Tunnels & Trolls / Monsters! Monsters!

(List of products under these two product lines, including early years collaborations as well as M!M! Buzzard's Gulch products.)

Product Lines

• Spacers
• Red Bat System (aka "New TAG")
  • Wobble
• TACK System
• TAG System

Periodicals

Peryton publishes Elder Tunnels, a role-playing game magazine that features scenarios, stories, and other content for Tunnels & Trolls, with content by Peryton Publishing staff, Peryton Gamers, Ken St. Andre, and was officially "Trollhalla Friendly," meaning it was an approved product for the Tunnels & Trolls line.

External links

• Peryton Publishing Home Page

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Elder Tunnels was a role-playing game magazine created by Tom K. Loney and Christina Lea and published by Peryton Publishing.

Content

Elder Tunnels was published two to three times a year for selected years across ten years and focused on the Tunnels & Trolls role-playing game system.

The magazine enjoyed contributions from Tunnels & Trolls' creator, Ken St. Andre, as well as authors of T&T material produced in cooperation with St. Andre and/or Flying Buffalo, such as Brian Penn, Michael Eidson and David Crowell.

Publication history

Peryton Publishing released 7 issues of Elder Tunnels between 2010 and 2012. After a hiatus of seven years, it produced 3 more issues between 2019 and 2021, which focused on game systems other than T&T, particularly Monsters! Monsters! and other in-house Peryton Publishing games such as Crawlspace.

Reception

In October 2011, Scott Malthouse, one of the staff writers of Elder Tunnels who later joined Rebellion Unplugged as a writer of Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age, noted in his The Trollish Delver website the release of the Halloween 2011 issue of Elder Tunnels is "packed to the brim with awesomeness."

Thomas Grimshaw, in his Alchemy Gaming Blog, reviewed the premier issue (Winter - Spring 2010) of Elder Tunnels in July, 2012, admitting up front "Peryton Publishing now has 6 issues of the Elder Tunnels zine under its belt and, in my opinion, they just keep getting better and better," before analyzing the individual adventures in the first issue:

The first issue was a little hit and miss from my point of view. I absolutely loved the "Wuthering Depths" adventure written by Tom K. Loney. It had depth and an atmosphere that really drew you in as the GM reading over his notes. Stephen Butka's effort, "The Sorcerers Chimney" however left a lot to be desired."

In August 2012, Alchemy Gaming Blog author Thomas Grimshaw favorably reviewed the Halloween 2010 issue of Elder Tunnels, writing:

Balancing horror and high-fantasy can be a difficult task. Even in surreal, pan-dimensional warp spaces like the many worlds of Tunnels and Trolls it's a delicate balance. Many of the classic tropes have already been explored in depth by most gamers, either through the classic fiction that most of us will have read or, through popular culture.... Pick it up now, read through it within the next week and, your next session can really bring some bite to the table. Not only will the players not be expecting you to run such a scenario but, to their credit, the two GM adventures included in this issue don't read like horror at all... Until your players are already up to their necks in it that is.

External links

• "Elder Tunnels". http://www.perytonpublishing.com/elder_tunnels.htm. 

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