I often see posts asking for Lulu RPG recommendations, and Lulu’s search functionality is pretty lacking, so rather than type mine up every time I wrote this post for easy reference. It’s up to several dozen recommendations, mostly old school products and story games, and I keep it more or less up to date with new purchases (latest update: May 29, 2018).
If you just want one recommendation, you should buy ASE1: Anomalous Subsurface Environment, which I liked so much that I bought Brian Thomas’ original art for the sasquatron (seen above, as yet unframed). The sasquatron, a robo-yeti with a crab claw, is just the tip of ASE’s iceberg of gonzo awesomeness.
Lulu runs coupons so regularly that I never order without Googling “Lulu coupon code” first. Coupon discounts come out of Lulu’s end, not the publisher’s end.
Notes about the list
Some of the links below are to specific versions (like softcover or standard paper), so you might want to check for other versions.
If I loved something and want to have little game babies with it, I *ed it. (To be clear, I like everything on this list.) If you’re curious what I think about a book in more detail, I eventually rate and comment on every gaming book I own: Here are my RPGGeek ratings.
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Here are a whole mess of gaming books I’ve bought on Lulu that I would recommend, in alphabetical order with links:
- * Advanced Edition Companion
- * Adventures on Dungeon Planet
- Adventures on Gothic Earth
- Agon
- * ASE1: Anomalous Subsurface Environment
- * ASE2-3: Anomalous Subsurface Environment
- * Augmented Reality
- * Barbarians of Lemuria: Legendary Edition
- The Barrow Mound of Gravemoor
- Dark Dungeons
- * DCC RPG Reference Booklet
- * Delving Deeper Reference Rules Compendium
- DemonSpore
- diaspora
- A Dirty World
- * Dodecahedron 2015 Cartographic Review
- d30 DM Companion
- * d30 Sandbox Companion
- Drowning & Falling
- * The Dungeon Dozen
- Dyson’s Delves
- * Elysium Flare
- Encounter Critical
- * Fight On! Compiled Compilation +4
- * Fight On! Foliated Folio +8
- 43 AD
- * 44: A Game of Automatic Fear
- Grey Ranks
- The Hell House Beckons
- Hollowpoint
- * The Hyqueous Vaults
- * KEFITZAT HADERECH – Incunabulum of the Uncanny Gates and Portals
- Knives in the Dark
- Knockspell 1-3
- * Labyrinth Lord: Revised Edition
- Lair of the Unknown
- Last Train Out of Warsaw
- * The Lazy Dungeon Master
- * Love in the Time of Seið
- * METAL SHOWCASE 11PM
- * The Metamorphica
- NOD Magazine (link is to issue 1, but there are many more after that one)
- * Norwegian Style
- Original Edition Characters
- OSRIC
- * Petty Gods: Revised & Expanded Edition
- Planet Motherfucker
- * Play Unsafe
- * A Quick Primer for Old School Gaming (direct link to free PDF)
- Realms of Crawling Chaos
- REIGN
- Santicore 2011
- * Santicore 2013
- Seven Voyages of Zylarthen, Volume One
- Seven Voyages of Zylarthen, Volume Two
- Seven Voyages of Zylarthen, Volume Three
- Seven Voyages of Zylarthen, Volume Four
- * Shadowbrook Manor
- * The Shadow of Yesterday
- SlaughterGrid
- * Stalker RPG
- * Stonehell Dungeon: Down Night-Haunted Halls
- Stonehell Dungeon: Into the Heart of Hell
- * Super Mission Force[1]
- Swords & Wizardry WhiteBox Rules
- * Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque
- * Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque II
- Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque III
- Teratic Tome
- 3d6 Supers!
- * Tomb of the Iron God
- * Transylvanian Adventures
- Ulverland
- * Uresia: Grave of Heaven
- Warriors of the Red Planet
- * Whitehack
- * Wizards Mutants Laser Pistols! Volume One Compilation
- ZeFRS
I apologize to your wallet in advance. Happy gaming!
[1] Super Mission Force is a skirmish miniatures game, but it supports campaign play, features characters with skills useful outside of combat, and deliberately straddles a the fuzzy line that separates RPGs from wargames, so I included it here.

The Unlucky Isles [affiliate link], the first system-neutral guidebook for my Godsbarrow fantasy campaign setting, is available in print and PDF.