OSR Review & Commentary On Wretched Interbellum Campaign Setting By The Red Room For The Wretched Rpg System

 "The shadows of the Great War still loom large in this uneasy interwar period, coloured by the lingering trauma of unprecedented violence that swept the world from 1914 to 1918. Unsettled borders, crumbling empires, and new regimes leave the political landscape fraught with tension. Strange occult forces stirred by wartime bloodshed now threaten the fabric of reality. You take on the role of adventurers in this uncertain era, navigating landscapes scarred by the horrors of trench warfare. Like the roguish sailor Corto Maltese or Steinbeck’s wandering souls, you may have no allegiances beyond your own code of honour. Alliances are prerequisites for survival, yet trust is scarce among scheming factions vying for power in the ashes of war. Moral compasses waver like ships in a storm, the lines between heroes and villains obscured in swirling fog." Ever since Wretched Interbellum Campaign Setting By The Red Room was announced we've been waiting for it. And Wretched Interbellum does not disappoint. If your looking to get your Wretchedverse on with Indianna Jones with a European flare then Wretched Interbellum might just be the campaign setting for you and your players.

What is the  Wretched Interbellum Campaign Setting ?! This is the time period right after the Great War aka World War I and World War two. These were the years leading up to the Great Depression in America and a time of great instability in Europe. And it's in the center of this time instability that we find ourselves. The  Wretched Interbellum Campaign Setting clocks in at three  hundred and sixty nine pages of disillusioned veterans, vagabonds, drifters, adventurers, and the like. The kind of scum and decidence that Indy and co would find themselves right at home with. 
Add to this the unknown of the supernatural and weird making the  Wretched Interbellum Campaign Setting weird, different, and strange. This campaign setting has a bit of everything from European Pulp asthetics to full on Weird Tales strangeness. All of this wraps itself around a Europe railing back from World War I while the social fabric is a powder keg watching the steady rise of facism in Germany and Italy. Oh did I happen to mention the fact that your playing the not so nice scum & adventurers who are trying to make it against the Pulp Noir background of the  Wretched Interbellum Campaign Setting?
Lost worlds, supernatural horrors, and worse all exist right along with a Europe hip deep in the blood of the horrors of World War I. Blood soaked battle fields where the dead do not rest easy on one side of the world while lost worlds teaming with ancient tribal warriors who want to sacrifice you exist on the other side of the world to lost gods of the Beyond. Yes this is a time when men and women can and will make thier fortunes but it's also a time when thousands will perish in the blink of an eye with World War II looming on the horizon. 
The  Wretched Interbellum Campaign Setting is perfect for the DM looking to move up his or her Wretched Epoque campaign into the next era. There are brand new PC options,skills, backgrounds, historical notes, etc. within this expansive campaign. And there are lots & lots of new details on Europe against the  Wretched Interbellum Campaign Setting. And the campaign setting is a solid one with lots of European and world details taking full advantage of both historical and fictional Wretchedverse details. 
This is without a doubt one of the best game campaign settings that I've seen out of the Wretchedverse. And because it continues the Europe of Wretched Epoque there's a ton of utility and use for Wretched Interbellum. 

Is Wretched Interbellum worth getting?! In a word, oh yes there's tons of adventure potential. And lots of fiction that can be pillaged to create a full on Wretched Interbellum campaign. And for the OSR Wretched Interbellum is perfect for use as a campaign for Night Owl Workshop's Raiders of the Lost Artifacts rpg. 
Wanna get your Indianna Jones on with a twist or two?! You can use Wretched Interbellum as the campaign and Raiders as the OSR system. The two work really well together.