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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Kickstarter - The Islands of Purple-Haunted Putrescence (an OSR module)


Where does one start? +Venger Satanis is the one running this Kickstarter, and his first adventure, Liberation of the Demon Slayer was a Hot Item at the RPGNow site after it's release. I never reviewed LotDS even though I have the PDF, mostly because the number of house rules at the beginning of the product would have been better suited as either their own system or a separate product IMHO. Or heck, put them at the end. At the beginning, they seem much less optional. FYI, I also dislike Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. The mix of house rules with adventure made the expectation that you would run said adventure with the optional rules presented pretty much a default.

So yeah, I really should go back to it and JUST read the adventure part this time and pretend the optional rules don't exist. Layout was nice, art was slamming and I suspect the dungeon was a good one.

What about the current Kickstarter, The Islands of Purple-Haunted Putrescence? It appears to be an enclosed sandbox / small wilderness setting spanning three islands:
Rather than another dungeon crawl, this is a wilderness crawl.  Specifically, adventurers will explore three islands in close proximity that have been visited by a wyrm-riding empire, extra-dimensional invaders, space aliens, Elves, Dwarves, Humans, and more. They'll find black pylons enabling time/space travel, an evil temple, a shattered dome city, and most importantly, The Thing That Rots From The Sky!
I'd say that looks to be pretty damn awesome, all wrapped up in 23 32 pages and $20 for the print version. Which seems on the low middle-ish for page count. Unless the stretch goals are hit, which have the potential to gradually increase the page count to over 100 pages, which would make this a bargain.

Am I in? I'll let you know next payday, which is a week from Friday. Just leased a new car today and my discretionary spending is gonna take a hit. Otherwise, I'd be in for $20 today. Just keep and houserules in a separate product ;)

edit: maps by +Dyson Logos . It's now a "must buy"

9 comments:

  1. Just want to confirm that Venger has already contacted me (and I've accepted) to do maps for this project.

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  2. Coolness. Didn't know you knew of my existence, let alone skimmed through Liberation of the Demon Slayer. Nice.

    Thanks for the shout-out! 23 pages was just an arbitrary amount. If the original goal gets funded, it'll be at least 32.

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    1. the Grumpy Dwarf knows all, sees all.

      at least, so says the spam i get ;)

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  3. Ok, just updated the 23 pages to 32!

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  4. I hate puppies, ice cream, and Eric telling me about Kickstarters.

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  5. I really like Liberation, so I'm in!

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  6. New video uploaded. It's much better than the first and touches on a few more things.

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