Reading D&D Aloud

From Deadlands and Pinnacle in the 90s to the Marvel Multiverse RPG today, Matt Forbeck makes the adjective prolific look insufficient. He writes so much that there is a unit of writing named after him, the Forbeck, and exactly how many words long is a Forbeck Matt? Steve Kenson has been designing RPGs professionally since 1993, and in 2002 he designed Mutants & Masterminds, a game that became one of the defining superhero RPGs of the 21st century. Reviews have been singing the praises of M&M for decades, some calling it the best superhero RPG in years and others describe it as a perfect RPG. Welcome Steve! Support Steve Kenson's Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/stevekenson See what Matt Forbeck is up to here: https://www.forbeck.com/

Pawel Kicman's WHISPERS OF THE WOODS is oily with atmosphere and new takes on old monsters. (You won't believe what he did to the basilisk.) And it's so fantastic it won the Gold ENnie for Short Form Adventure this year! We discuss herein. See more of Pawel's work here: https://heltung-storytelling.itch.io/

This is the Wildest Magic System You've Ever Seen! THIEVES OF THE TOME is an ENnie-nominated game where you bring a book to the table and you use it to cast magic! Check out creator George Philbrick's other games here: https://dairykillsme.itch.io/

Today we are diving deep on the demonic, and imagine what if, instead of running away from demons and devils in Dungeons & Dragons, creators and companies ran towards it? Recently, we had Gavin Norman of Old School Essentials fame to talk about the Demonic Grimoire which is funding on Backerkit as you hear this. But May is Old School Essentials month on Backerkit, and Gavin Norman and the other Necrotic Gnomes celebrating an Exalted Funeral have gathered an entire cult of creators to summon an entire Luciferean library. Hellish hardbacks! Possessed pamphlets! Satanic scrolls! Cthonic codices! Malevolent manuals of memes from Mephistopheles! The wicked works of Woland, the only demon brave enough to visit Stalin's Moscow! Today we have two of the eldritch elders, monstrous masters whose manuscripts will be birthed unto this wicked world whether we would have them or no. First up is Nicholas Montegriffo. His contribution to this macabre and malign month is HELLBLASTER: AGAINST THE CYBERFIENDS! The adventure's pitch reads thusly: "Under a burning sky rent asunder by eldritch storms, a jagged wreck from an unknown world vomits corruption. Abominations of fiendish flesh and mirrored chrome spit hot plasma death from iron orifices. Amid howls for blood and cries of pain, priceless artifacts of alien technology sound a call to adventure. Inspired by classic modules and early-90s dark industrial aesthetics, HELLBLASTER: Against the Cyberfiends is a location-based adventure for high-level characters, set in a crashed spaceship captured by the forces of hell." Also joining us is Luciferean luminary and accursed augur, Allen Hall. Allen's works include UHF CONTACT, a series of adventures for LIMINAL HORROR, & THE MOUNTAIN OF POWER, an awesome pamphlet adventure for Old School Essentials. His contribution to OSE Month is titled "Out of the Iron Labyrinth" and it's described thuslhy: "OUT OF THE IRON LABYRINTH is a hell escape adventure built for play with Old School Essentials. Whether they were kidnapped by a cult, traded to a demon by an evil wizard, or accidentally banished by an errant spell, your character must navigate the Court of Yllthrax, one corner of the infinite Iron Labyrinth, in order to find a way back to the Material Plane. Designed for play by one player character, Out of the Iron Labyrinth can be played with a GM or as a solo adventure using the included solo tools. Perfect as a self-contained module or as a side adventure when the party in your campaign gets split up (or when only one player can make it to game night)." Back HELLBLASTER here! https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/bloodstar-productions/hellblaster-against-the-cyberfiends Back OUT OF THE IRON LABYRINTH here! https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m-allen-hall/out-of-the-iron-labyrinth