It’s Valentine’s Day and we are in a sentimental mood at the Red Room. That’s why we dedicated this special to a couple of the most romantic role-playing games out there: Venger Satanis’ sleazy sci-fi Alpha Blue and Tales of Gor: Gorean Roleplaying by James Grim Desborough.
We had a lovely chat with James Raggi about horror films, heavy metal music, how not to learn Finnish while living in Finland, transgression, Satanic Panics, easily offended people and self-censorship. We might have mentioned a role-playing game called Lamentations of the Flame Princess…
Today’s guest at the Red Room is Hungarian game designer Gabor Lux, the author of Helvéczia: Picaresque RPG, an OSR historical game of swashbuckling adventure, set in 17th century Switzerland.
The Red Room Reviews: Escape from the Flesh Catacombs a fantasy/ horror OSR adventure for Dungeons & Delvers by David Guyll and Melissa Guyll.
Not a good unboxing, but it’s the first one and I can’t repeat it, it’s already out of the box: Lamentations of the Flame Princess and two adventure anthologies (Death and Fire).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brian Shutter, today’s guest at the Red Room, is the author of Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland, an 80s and 90s nostalgia fuelled OSR role-playing game built upon BX rules, where famous Wrestlers are worshipped as gods. Lord Randy be Praised!
