Designer's comment: Beyond the Black Gate Compendium 2010 is here, Happy Holidays! This year's compendium features new items, houserules, monsters, a new character class, an adventure, PC Events, and more random tables than you can shake a yule log at. Hope you like it, and it finds some use at your table :) Be sure to print it "little booklet" style for maximum old-school effect. Table of Contents: PC Events.....................................3 Random Table: Slum Encounters................12 Random Table: Atonement......................15 Random Table: Weird Things in Rooms..........16 Random Table: Humanoid Mutations.............19 Random Table: Ruined Building Contents.......21 Random Table: Quick Hex Contents.............24 Random Table: Megadungeon Missions...........26 The Mapless Maze.............................28 House Rules: Ritual Spell Casting............30 House Rules: Don’t Fall Asleep...............30 House Rules: Alignment as Allegiance.........31 House Rules: Death and Alignment.............33 New Races....................................35 Sci-Fi Items for a Fantasy Campaign..........38 New Class: Psychic Knight....................40 Adventure: Beneath the Crystal Dome..........42 Spirits of the Elder Wood....................45 Infamous Arrows of Kwille....................47 Horrible Blue Book of Jir Harish the Mad.....49 User summary: An eclectic, esoteric collection of houserules, random charts, magic items, a scenario and races of use for old-school fantasy games.