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Bastards Sale (all Items 25% Off)

Starting today and ending next Sunday, all Wretched Bastards books will be on sale at DrivethruRPG.

Wretched Bastards core book: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/394438/Wretched-Bastards?cPath=41674_42403

A Fistful of Wretchedness Bundle: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/409322/A-Fistful-of-Wretchedness-BUNDLE?cPath=41674_42403

Deviants & Dirty Deeds issues 1 and 2: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/395731/Deviants–Dirty-Deeds?cPath=41674_42403

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/395731/Deviants–Dirty-Deeds?cPath=41674_42403

Seven Bastards Trilogy Bundle: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/408408/Seven-Bastards-Trilogy-BUNDLE?cPath=41674_42403

Strong Female Antagonists Bundle: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/410171/Strong-Female-Antagonists-BUNDLE?cPath=41674_42403

The Goat Lady: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/409419/The-Goat-Lady?cPath=41674_42403

Furry Bastards: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/398043/World-of-Bastards-Furry-Bastards?cPath=41674_42403

Scurvy: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/397181/World-of-Bastards-Scurvy?cPath=41674_42403

The Seven Bastards: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/395038/World-of-Bastards-The-Seven-Bastards?cPath=41674_42403

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Latest Red Room Items in Print (Lulu.com)

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Coldheart Canyon – Released (BGE and DrivethruRPG)

Coldheart Canyon – Released (DrivethruRPG and BGE)

Coldheart Canyon, by Silvia Clemente, is a Weird West old-school scenario, heavily inspired by John Carpenter’s “not western westerns”, especially Ghosts of Mars; any similarity is not a coincidence but a homage! The adventure is meant to be played as a one-shot, taking place over a single night, from dusk to dawn.

The party arrives at a small forsaken town in the desert; they are beaten from the arduous voyage and in need of some respite, but what they find is a ghost town. Dudleytown appears empty, at first, it seems like everybody has just vanished. Slowly the horrifying truth starts to be revealed. In the canyon, nearby miners have awakened an ancient alien force that ravenously spread across town. There will be no rest tonight!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/414847/Coldheart-Canyon

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#Selfpromosaturday: Behold the Wretchedverse!

If you don’t know it yet here’s an invitation to discover the Wretchedverse, a series of old-school role-playing games and adventures where the players take the role of anti-heroes in cinematic settings. Available in digital format and print-on-demand at DrivethruRPG, Big Geek Emporium and Lulu. If you would like to know more… just download the free quickstarts following one of the two links:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/413501/Wretched-Quickstarts-BUNDLE

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In the Mouth of Hell – Released

In the Mouth of Hell – Released (DrivethruRPG and BGE, Lulu coming later)
A scenario for Wretched Époque or other investigative horror games set in the Belle Époque. It can also be easily adapted to fit other Wretchedverse games, such as Wretched Country, Wretchploitation and Wretched New Flesh.
On the night of December 8th 1901, British occultist Ambrose Fanshaw was murdered by a Portuguese friend, poet and student of occult lore, Artur Corvelo, while staying in Portugal. Fanshaw was thrown off Boca do Inferno (Mouth of Hell), a steep cliff near Cascais, by his associate Corvelo.
Teodoro Albergaria, the lighthouse keeper of the nearby Santa Marta phare, witnessed the murder and testified in court. Even though Fanshaw’s body wasn’t found, Corvelo was trialled, convicted of murder and jailed. However, the poet mysteriously vanished from prison two months after being sentenced. The police are flabbergasted by the scholar’s vanishing act. But the real story is a little more convoluted than that…

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/413484/In-the-Mouth-of-Hell?src=newest

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Red Room Flash Sale: Wretched Giallo Trilogy 50% Off

Drivethru’s Halloween Sale is going on, but here at the Red Room, we would like to offer you an even better deal for the Wretched Giallo Trilogy: The Sisters of the Seven Sins, The Memorial and Orpheum Lofts. Just for today, the three scenarios can be purchased at a 50% discount:

Orpheum Lofts: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?discount=9edd116e53

The Memorial: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?discount=9edf583993

The Sisters of the Seven Sins: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?discount=9eddfad90d

The Sisters of the Sevens Sins:
This horror scenario takes place in a Portuguese convent with a dark history of demonic possession, black magic, and Devil worships that, in the mid-1970s, is occupied by a recently founded unusual religious congregation made up of disgraced women who wish to atone for their past, the Reprobate Sisters of the Seven Sins. Players can take the role of nuns, Vatican authorities sent to investigate reports of demoniacal manifestations, reporters interested in exploring the story behind this atypical catholic sisterhood or even criminals working on a devious plan to restore a sinister painting to the convent where it originally belonged.

In this scenario, you will find a summary description of the fictional Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene, located in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, followed by some information about the country during the late 1970s and various detailed characters. This assumes you will run it in Wretchploitation or other modern horror games. But if you’d rather play it as a Wretched Époque scenario, there are notes for adapting each player and non-player character to the Belle Époque and more plot hooks and details about Lisbon in the late 19th century.

The Memorial
The Memorial is a contemporary horror scenario inspired by Lars Von Trier’s cult TV series Riget (1994), Milos Forman’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and The Killer Nun (1979), an Italian “video nasty” classic starring Anita Eckberg and Alida Valli. There’s undoubtedly some Green Wing, ER, House M.D. and Scrubs in it, hopefully not that much, as it is meant to be horror, after all. 

The Memorial was previously published by Postmortem Studios, part of the Postmortem Giallo series. The new Wretched Memorial is meant to be run using Wretchploitation, an old-school game which emulates the exploitation movie genre and it also includes a few plot hooks meant for Wretched Époque. Nevertheless, you will find it easily adapted it to most contemporary horror role-playing games.

The scenario takes place in a rundown old hospital,The Ernest Spencer Memorial, especially in its psychiatric ward. This surreal institution is populated by bizarre people with a troubled past and where strange things occur frequently. Part of those occurrences is of supernatural origin, but some of them are illegal experiments and common medical malpractice

Orpheum Lofts

Orpheum Lofts is a thriller/ horror role-playing scenario inspired by Dario Argento’s Three Mothers Trilogy [Suspiria (1977), Inferno (1980) and Mother of Tears (2007)], Polanski’s The Tenant (1976) and Rosemary’s Baby (1968), ’80s and ’90s sitcoms, and romantic comedies. Yes, it’s a strange mix, but it will get weirder… As usual in Red Room adventures, there is no predetermined plot, only suggested ones, and no described scenes; instead, there are many story seeds. Though it was planned for a series of connected stories set in the mid-80s, Orpheum Lofts can easily be turned into a one-shot. The timeline isn’t set in stone either.

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Coldheart Canyon: Coming Soon

Coming soon from the Red Room, Coldheart Canyon, by Silvia Clemente, the first scenario for Wretched Country.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/397915/Wretched-Country?term=wretched+country

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In The Mouth of Hell: Coming Soon!

Coming soon from the Red Room: In the Mouth of Hell, a Wretched Époque scenario (and by soon, I mean next week, tomorrow we’ll release All Bets are Off)

In The Mouth of Hell

On the night of December 8th 1901, British occultist Ambrose Fanshaw was murdered by a Portuguese friend, poet and student of occult lore, Artur Corvelo, while staying in Portugal. Fanshaw was thrown off Boca do Inferno (Mouth of Hell), a steep cliff near Cascais, by his associate Corvelo.

Teodoro Albergaria, the lighthouse keeper of the nearby Santa Marta phare, witnessed the murder and testified in court. Even though Fanshaw’s body wasn’t found, Corvelo was trialled, convicted of murder and jailed. However, the poet mysteriously vanished from prison two months after being sentenced. The police are flabbergasted by the scholar’s vanishing act.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/399586/Wretched-Epoque

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Wretched New Flesh 50% Off (Drivethru and BGE)

Tomorrow we’ll release All Bets are Off, an alternate setting for Wretched New Flesh – Postcards from Avalidad. If you haven’t yet purchased the core book, now is a perfect time. Until next Sunday we are offering 50% off the digital book at DrivethruRPG and Big Geek Emporium, and also a discount on the print-on-demand softcover (Drivehtru). Let’s get Wretched!

PDF:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?discount=900707fc28

Softcover:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?discount=9009c9d285

So, what is Wretched New Flesh?

Wretched New Flesh is an OSR adaptation of Postcards from Avalidad, a Postmortem Studios setting. This is a near-future sci-fi/ surreal horror game inspired by the works of William S. Burroughs, David Cronenberg, William Gibson, and Clive Barker. Almost 400 pages crammed full of information about the bizarre world of Avalidad, with mechanics compatible with the previous Wretched games.

The game setting is centred on Avalidad, a futuristic city in Morocco where corporations have been conducting research in genetics, cybernetics, augmented and virtual reality, and biotechnology. By default, characters are expected to be ZoneSec operatives or executives for Takeda Technologies, one of the most powerful corporations in Avalidad, but other roles such as Avalidad’s celebrities, fiscal royalty and seedy underbelly are also possible.

This book includes the contents of Postmortem Studios’ Postcards from Avalidad, new mechanics, the scenario As Above, so Below and additional information about the city of Avalidad, corporations, technology, ZoneSec and more.

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In the Mouth Of Hell: Coming Soon

Since Wretched Époque made it to Silver Seller and (In)Sanatorium was well received, I decided to put Space on hold one more week and get one more Wretched Époque scenario ready: In the Mouth of Hell will be one of our next releases.