I’m going back home, so to speak. Two years ago, Orpheum Lofts was released by Grim Jim’s Postmortem Studios and we had already talked about selling the Red Room’s games at his store. After being banned from Drivethru, it was settled.
Author: Miguel Ribeiro
Get the Red Room’s Updates by Email
Now that we were kicked out of Drivethru we need to get in touch with the audience. Since Big Geek Emporium hasn’t the same level of publisher tools, we added a Mailchimp subscriber to the website. You can find it in the lower right bottom of our homepage. Or you can just fill in this form to subscribe to our newsletter: https://us21.list-manage.com/contact-form?u=e93bfd51f90ebb06e4119da26&form_id=7f24f1761c4f12f564b4c7793fad1262&fbclid=IwAR2oSp47M8r5V_tBTqRd9BRa4oOALpPejBlmvh5PWIGgdvH1Q3PtEYsW5-M
Where to Find us Now Drivethru Invited us to Leave…
It’s not really a secret, but repeating it once more won’t hurt. You can now purchase our books in digital format at Big Geek Emporium:
…and you can buy hardcopies at Lulu
The Red Room’s Contacts With DrivethruRPG: Clarifying False Accusations
Since a lot of people are taking Drivethru’s accusations of hostile behaviour as a fact*, in this blog post we include the content of our emails directed at their Publisher Support Team.
*This is the statement from Scott Holden’s email about cancelling the Red Room’s account:
Miguel, we have tried our best to work with you for the past year, but your stance toward our company and your treatment of our social media administrators has always been aggressive, bordering on abusive. We will not tolerate it any further.
We’re certain that if you have taken Drivethru’s side so far, you will still not believe the Red Room, and assume that these emails are not the only contacts we had with them. Or you will consider these emails to be extremely hostile, bordering on abusive, in spite of the fact that they are NOT.
The first one is about the product description for Wretched Bastards containing the word “rape”.
Drivehtru’s email:
Our reply:
Drivethru’s Publisher Support email when Sexual Holocaust was “temporarily suspended”:
Our first reply:
Our second second reply, after they repeated the same thing:
Drivethru’s Publisher Support email when someone reported Wretchploitation Quickstart as offensive:
Our reply:
There were other reports from (two or three more), but Drivehtru only contacted me after the review was done, informing me that the product was briefly taken down while they conducted a review and was up again because they had found no harmful content or other infringement of their guidelines. I didn’t reply to those, so there’s no need to post them here. I didn’t reply to the latest email warning me that MEN has been taken down. Next, here’s a full list of my contacts with their social administrators during my entire life
…
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I never had any contact with their social media.
Now that I have wasted a bit of my time, keep believing Drivethru’s statements. They are on the Right Side of History, and I’m one of the Bad Guys, after all. Maybe you can ask them for proof of their claims. I’m sure they will not provide since they do not exist.
For those of you who support us:
Star Wretched!
#ttrpg #osr #redroom #BGE Welcome to Big Geek Sale
Since Drivethru “invited” us to leave, we invite you to accompany us to Big Geek Emporium. During the weekend, if you use the coupon “Welcome2BGE” you’ll get a 25% discount on all products except MEN and St Cloud (limited to 1 usage per customer).
We’re Not Dead Yet! Welcome to St. Cloud – RELEASED
Welcome to St Cloud is A surreal horror scenario, heavily inspired by David Lynch’s cult TV show Twin Peaks (1990), but it leans on other sources, like John Carpenter’s The Fog (1980), The League of Gentleman (1999), Carnivàle, (2003) and 1970s slasher flicks. There isn’t specific mythology, and even the amount of supernatural and/or paranormal phenomena can be easily modified to suit different tastes. This is the Wretchedverse release with new plot hooks, more random events, locations and NPCs.
What’s presented here is a detailed description of the titular small town of St. Cloud, WA, and its inhabitants, which provides multiple story seeds. In the end, there’s a much more developed but unstructured plot hook that encompasses a series of events set in motion after the death of a local pre-teen girl.
The final chapter, (Not) Wrapped in Plastic, is a plotline designed for those who want to play St. Cloud with a distinct Twin Peak’s feeling, but without instantly giving away the whole story.
If this and some of the characters’ descriptions sound familiar at a glance (you’re right, of course, it does!), that’s only a superficial similarity, however.
Indeed the inspiration isn’t masqueraded, but St. Cloud can be run even if in your group there are players familiar with Lynch’s work since the characters and the town’s dirty little secrets are pretty different from the source. What remains very similar are the eerie atmosphere and the overall semblance of a soap opera gone insane.
Now available only at Big Geek Emporium (since the fascists at Drivethru have banned from their woke store)
Is this the end of the Red Room?
The short answer is: Maybe. Looking at the numbers, the situation is looking pretty bleak unless something changes soon. As of now, our sales have primarily been through Drivethru, which accounted for almost ten times more than both Big Geek Emporium and Lulu combined. That’s a significant difference.
But we haven’t lost hope just yet. We can still turn this around. The woke parasites over at Drivethru take 35% of the publisher’s profits This has resulted in our total profit being almost halved each month, and that’s quite a lot. As you know Big Geek Emporium takes a much smaller share. Drivethru has happily taken our money to sell our “problematic content” for almost a year, but now we can shift our focus to Big Geek Emporium and Lulu. If even half of our previous customers start buying from these two retailers, we can keep the Red Room alive and thriving.
We’ve considered creating our own store, but it doesn’t make much sense now. If people aren’t willing to switch from Drivethru to Big Geek Emporium, they’re unlikely to purchase from our website. So, we’re sticking with what we have and trying to promote even more than before.
If you want to help us keep the Red Room (and the entire Wretchedverse) alive, it’s quite simple. Just buy from one of our other retailers. All of our paper books are at Lulu.com, where the printing quality is significantly better than at Drivethru. The price is only slightly higher than at DTRPG, so you’re not really losing anything by purchasing hard copies from Lulu. All of our digital books are available at Big Geek Emporium at the same price they were on Drivethru, so there’s no reason not to buy from there.
But there are other ways to help us as well. If you’re feeling generous, you can donate to our Ko-Fi page to help us cover the expenses of maintaining our website and YouTube channel. However, we’d prefer to have you as customers rather than patrons (we don’t even have a Patreon account, we were also expelled from there for being very naughty people, but that’s beside the point now).
One of the most important ways you can help us is to spread the word about our products. Share our posts and videos on social media, leave reviews at Big Geek Emporium, and if you have a blog, podcast, or YouTube channel, please review our products. It may not seem like much, but it’ll make a world of difference to us.
Thank you for supporting the Red Room and the Wretchedverse.
Stay Wretched!
Our links:
Big Geek Emporium: https://biggeekemporium.com/?pr_author=redroom&wpf_fbv=1&all_products_filtering=1
Lulu store: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/miguelribeiro
Website: https://moordereht.com
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheRedRoomChannel
Facebook Group (Wretched): https://www.facebook.com/groups/wretchedosr
Facebook Group (Red Room): https://www.facebook.com/groups/moordereht
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/gaming/moordereht
MeWe Group: https://mewe.com/i/moordereht
Red Bubble Store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/moordereht/shop?asc=u
#TTPRG – The Red Room has been censored off DrivethruRPG
Free Wretchploitation If You Bought MEN at Drivethru
If you have purchased MEN, take a look at your mailbox. As a gift for the first (probably only) customers who purchased it at DTRPG I sent a copy of Wretchploitation. If you already own Wretchploitation, let me know! Thanks! Keep Wretched!
Reported in One Day, Bound to Be Censored: A Brief History of MEN
MEN has been “temporarily suspended” after a customer reported the title “as potentially containing offensive content” at DriveThruRPG. And we know what happens when products are temporarily suspended, don’t we? It took them a day, for fuck’s sake!
