Review and Commentary On The Red Room's Red Alerts issue #1 For The Red Rpg System and Other OSR Role Playing Games

 In this issue of Red Alerts issue #1 you will find The Abandoned Temple of the Veiled Sun, a one-shot scenario for Savage Swords written by Mark Brooks, who also wrote A Red Vision of an Alternative Retro-Future. Roger Jones contributes The Price of Silver, an adventure for the upcoming western game Blood and Dust and a short story, Brides of Darkness. The Red Room team presents Absolution of Flesh, a 19th-century investigative horror adventure for Gothic and Blood in the Arena (Savage Swords). Also in this issue, Lost in Emulation an article by Darrick Dishaw and Why Run Your RPG Like a Soap Opera, by the Red Room. Finally, you will find a selection of new monsters for The End of Innocence, by Charles Miller. Cover by Kyousakee.

Red Alerts issue #1 takes The Red System and other Red Room games in an additional set of directions. The Abandoned Temple of the Veiled Sun, a one-shot scenario for Savage Swords written by Mark Brooks, this adventure has enough twists and encounters to keep the players guessing. Roger Jones's Western adventure The Price of Silver, has the old school Western rot and goodness about it. Absolution of Flesh, has a dark and twisted bent about it as an investigative horror adventure for Gothic by the Red Room. There's enough here to get a Gothic campaign off the ground. Lost in Emulation an article by Darrick Dishaw addresses the point of old school gaming where games draws in player's through their mutual emulation into the play of the game. It's a well written and thought out article. But this isn't the only bend that this gaming magazine takes with additional monsters for The Age of Innocence rpg.

Over all Red Alerts issue #1 brings the old school goodness of the Red rpg system and that Red Room goodness. For those who are into the Red Room's creations this is a solidly done magazine. At five dollars there's enough adventure goodness too keep a gaming group going for a couple of months. Grab  Red Alerts issue #1 and get rolling some dice with your friends. There's horror, weirdness, adventure and monsters in this one.