EPIC!: A Teaser For The Red Room’s Cha’alt Game Jam Scenario
Month: January 2023
Days of Darkness Sale
Days of Darkness Sale: After the release of Wretched Darkness, the Wretched game of horror and dark urban fantasy, perhaps it’s the right time to take a look at our supernatural-themed scenarios. Starting today and ending Sunday all horror adventure modules will be at a 25% discount at the Red Room store.
Presenting Wretched Darkness and Chatting with Griffith Morgan
Wretched Darkness Released
Wretched Darkness was just released at DrivethruRPG and Big Geek Emporium (it will be available later at Lulu in print on demand)
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/421954/Wretched-Darkness
Welcome to the nightmarish realms of the Wretchedverse, where horrors lurk around every corner, and the darkness hides untold terrors. Wretched Darkness is a mature horror role-playing game where players take on the roles of anti-hero characters who must face the unknown and confront the supernatural and the paranormal head-on. Wretched Darkness may be played as a dark fantasy game, or you can make it into an actual horror experience. Players can choose from several factions for their characters, some already featured in previous Wretched games, such as the Knights of Cydonnia, BurroughsTech, the Araknyd Brotherhood and the Daughters of Ksenia, and a few new ones, like the Warden Foundation and the Children of the Night.
By default, the game is set in modern times, in urban environments, where danger lurks at every turn and death is never far away. However, you can use it to play horror games in different timelines. Combine it with Wretched Époque or Wretched Country for a 19th-century terrifying experience, pair it up with Wretched New Flesh – Postcards from Avalidad for a near-future surrealistic horror campaign, jump into the far future by using Wretched Space, or set it in any other age. This book presents you with a sandbox-style setting inspired by the works of masters of horror, such as Clive Barker, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, John Carpenter, George Romero, Wes Craven, Dario Argento, Tobe Hooper, Lucio Fulci and Mario Bava, but expect sources of inspiration as varied as William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, William Gibson, Paul Auster, exploitation movies and Leonard Cohen’s poetry.
As a Game Master, you will find here tools and game mastering hints for running any style of horror game, such as Giallo, gore, supernatural, psychological, apocalyptic, surreal, sci-fi horror and more. Wretched Darkness uses a revised version of the Wretched mechanics, an old-school set of rules designed for playing characters that are not necessarily good or virtuous. The revised rules are still entirely compatible with previous versions. Still, they include new mechanics for sanity and the use of magic, as well as several new classes and playable races, such as Incubus/ Succubus, Loup-Garou, and the Wampyr. Player characters are also more vulnerable than they were in previous Wretched games: The Hit Point increase was downgraded (now, by default, you don’t roll for Hit Points when you level up, you only get 1 additional point per level), and the level cap is set at 10.
Cha’alt Game Jam: The Red Room Will be a Part of It
EPIC! a Wretched Cha’ alt adventure by Sílvia Clemente will be The Room’s entry to the Cha’alt Game Jam between, taking place January 1st and February 14th. During that time, gamers will have an open license window to create stuff related to Venger Satanis’ Cha’alt intellectual property (extending that to include Crimson Dragon Slayer, Alpha Blue and Encounter Critical (both the original and new edition). You can find more information about it in Venger’s blog.
EPIC!, being written by Sílvia for the Cha’alt Game Jam, will be the first episode for Wretched Cha’alt, a series of adventures mixing the two universes. The scenario will take place mainly in Theta Blue, a space station inspired by Alpha Blue.
In EPIC! the Cronos, an ancient power source, was awakened and disrupted by events taking place far away on the remote desert planet, Cha’alt. The Cronos will drag its Adityan Guards across the galaxy and into the path of a group of scoundrels forcibly recruited to police the ass of the Galaxy – also known as the Outer Rim – as part of the Wretched Legion. Neither Adityans nor Legionaries are prepared or interested in saving the galaxy, although the Cronos has seen signs they will. First and foremost, they must survive the dangers and treachery of Theta Blue, the most infamous space station in the system.
Author’s note:
I was preparing our first adventure for Wretched Space when Venger Satanis announced a Cha’alt Game Jam; torturing my players with a Bastards Cha’alt crossover was already in my plans, so I decided to take the opportunity to make something more ambitious. EPIC! It will be the first in a series of adventures crossing Wretched and Cha’alt universes and takes place mainly in a space station built in the style of Alpha Blue; using both Alpha Blue and Wretched Space as source books will help you get more out of this adventure.
Sílvia Clemente
