We've been doing an investigative game involving The Red Room's Darker rpg. Our party has been approaching the entire In Wretched Depravity rpg adventure tonight. This session picks right up from this session report on the blog.
In tonight's game the party began to experience some of the events of In Wretched Depravity.
The violence started with polergiest activity with flying furnature & nasty shadow manifestations. The PC's got smacked with food, fecal material, and ecotoplasm! The PC's started doing research into the house finding out about a murder that happened in the house.
There's a portal to Hell in the basement of the house! As the PC's found out when diobolical imps began manifesting. These things began to manifest as the damned only to tumble into a pile of imps!
The imps mocked the PC's and took on one of the investigators one at a time as a means of looking for the weakest link.
They tried to kidnap one of the PC's down into the Underworld. This didn't happen as one of the PC's had prepared a blasting staff! The imps were not amused! Half of them were banished back to the underworld!
The second thing we need to talk about is too talk the Darker Rpg for a moment. There are aspects of the Darker Rpg that works very well for a horror rpg without strings attached. First is the fact that the combat is downright lethal.
Darker is geared around the ritual magick scene in spades. The fact is that the Red Room did a killer job with the Darker Rpg. The system is deadly and plugs right into the OSR scene with little issue. You can easily adapt your favorite diabolical horror from an OSR source. This is exactly what I did tonight with a classic Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual creature.
This has allowed me as a DM to bring in monsters from my favorite old school sources. This means that I don't have to keep working at pulling in old school resources. Darker is an excellent game!
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