In this Red Room Review we have some recommendations on how to use RPGPundit’s The Invisible College as a modern day horror game, or even as a sourcebook for other RPGs, such as Call of Cthulhu, Kult, Noctum, Conspiracy X, Chronicles of Darkness, etc.
During the Red Room YouTube channel’s first month we interviewed the three original Inappropriate Characters, James Grim Desborough, RPGPundit and Darrick Dishaw. Helder Araújo talked to us about his upcoming game Silent Læke and we chatted with Gavriel Quiroga about Hell Night. Brian Shutter updated the Red Room on Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland, and Bruno Galan announced some changes to his Undead Malefactors. Archduke Griffith talked about his documentary, Secrets of Blackmoor, and the Lost Dungeons of Tonisborg book. We had a virtual visit from YouTuber T-Shirted Historian, conversed about safety tools with Edward James Bluddworth and spoke to David Guyll about the forthcoming second edition of Dungeons & Delvers. Not bad…
We talked to David Guyll about the upcoming Dungeons & Delvers’ second edition and some other projects from Awful Good Games: new scenarios and settings for the OSR fantasy role-playing game and other RPGs coming down the line, such as a western with Lovecraftian influences and a science fantasy world. We also discussed some of out pet peeves, like PbtA and bad art in role-playing games.
Today’s Red Room Review is Venger’s The Outer Presence, both a investigative horror game with very simple mechanics and a weird tales scenario set in Papua New Guinea during the 1970s.
Phantoms of Celluloid, the Red Room channel’s new segment about horror/ cult/ bizarre movies, opens with Zé do Caixão (Coffin Joe), a franchise which tick all the boxes. Brazilian cult filmmaker José Mojica Marins stared and directed ten films centred on a Nietzschian undertaker obsessed with finding the perfect woman to carry his offspring, up to the point of being identified as the character. Later, Morins became a TV celebrity hosting horror shows in character, as Zé do Caixão.
We’ve reached our first goal: 100 subscribers in a little less than one month! Thanks to all of you who subbed the Red Room Channel. While we don’t plan to be real YouTubers, we’ll do our best to keep uploading (interesting?) interviews and reviews. Hopefully better than the previous ones… Now we are aiming at 500
#selfpromosaturday Her Heart Was a Locked Room and Nobody Had the Key is a one-shot bonus adventure to be used with Postmortem Giallo: Orpheum Lofts or by itself.
Richard J. Selatti (aka @bluddwolf), our latest guest at the Red Room, proposes a return to the old “safety tool” paradigm, based on common sense and four decades of role-playing game experience.
Although the interviews and reviews weren’t meant to be included in a podcast, in case you would rather listen to them instead of watching (thus avoiding my ugly mug) I’ll upload them to Spotify too.
The Invisible College is the starting point for the RPGPundit to discuss the Age of Enlightenment, real Magick, Aleister Crowley, his own interest in mysticism, religion and History and how all that fits into his newest role-playing game. He also talked about the different factions in the OSR movement, mockery as the best weapon against the woke and how more and more people are joining the fight against cancel culture.