The Path of Forever - The Profane & The Hellish - Elf Lair Games Veterans of the Supernatural Wars Rpg By Jason Vey & Tomothy Brannan Session Report & Monster Workshop Now With More Kasimir Urbanski's "The Invisible College" rpg

"I embrace hardship and privation with ecstatic delight; I want everything the world holds; I would go to prison or to the scaffold for the sake of the experience. I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. I grow delirious to contemplate the delicious horrors that are certain to happen to me. This is the keynote of my life, the untrammeled delight in every possibility of existence, potential or actual."
Ch. 54
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929)

This blog entry picks up right where our last blog excusion left off. We go  into the bowels of a supernatural & occult  thought exercise in a campaign set into a world of  mixing  both 'Veterans of the Supernatural Wars Rpg' by Jason Vey & Timothy Brannan & Kasimir Urbanski's   "The Invisible College" rpg  at the table top. 

So what scares some members of Kasimir Urbanski's   "The Invisible College" rpg? The samething that has scared members of every occult & supernatural society from time immorrial. And that is death. Even those whose practices can create bolts of supernatural damnation must & will bow to the blade of the reaper as will we all! Or will we?! In the highest levels of occult sciences & supernatural practices there are literal physical immortals who practice immortality at a very high end of the scale in  "The Invisible College" rpg. 
So there are literally immortals who might have been around since the forgotten times of mankind. Immortals who are quite literally willing to do anything to secure their own fleeting immortality. Sacrifice an enite people or country?! No problem at all. Genocide an entire civilization? Sure why not to ensure another two thousand years or so. These monsters of the  "The Invisible College" rpg are the true manipulators who move entire family lines of minions just get their points made. These immortals are invited onto the path of divinity & then things get weird. Even these monsters pale in comparison to the true manipulators of evil & good. We're speaking here of the B/X immortals those who have the insane desire to walk the next path of immortality. 

While it is possible to step from the "The Invisible College" rpg to the Frank Mentzer path of immortality. Its going to be very rate indeed. Because the incredible price that must be paid is very high in both occult power & ingrediants to maintain  existence. These immortals sometimes create for themselves cults around them going against many of the principles of magick itself. According to Crowley, " I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics, or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle." Some of the immortals merely want ot maintain their own grasp on phyical & spiritual power. They use their own  wizards as immortals use other adventurers to fufill an agendas of temporal & mercurial power. 

Both sets of immortals often bring themselves into conflicts with mortals & magicians who are far down on the ladder of adventure. This pecking order is the same that we see time & again used in fantasy author's creations such as Michael Moorcock's dark fantasy & science fiction creations. A pecking order well established within   Veterans of the Supernatural Wars Rpg' by Jason Vey & Timothy Brannan.

Not only are wizards of the "The Invisible College" rpg aware of other worlds such as Greyhawk or Mystara but they absolutely seek these out for the rare ingrediants that such places hold. The cross point is that risk of the immortals or gods of these realms becoming aware of the supernatural tresspassers into their realms! A fact not lost on the demonic & infernal hellspawn of Rafael Chandler 's Demonic Tome 'a pay what you want title' . 

But why?! What draws the infernal to these magus of the "The Invisible College" rpg as more then simply another meal or soul?! We'll get into that coming up because nothing lasts forever. Not even immortality itself. 

Picking Your Battle Grounds - The Profane & The Hellish - Elf Lair Games Veterans of the Supernatural Wars Rpg By Jason Vey & Tomothy Brannan Session Report & Monster Workshop Now With More Kasimir Urbanski's "The Invisible College" rpg

" Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand; some few obtain the truth."

Aleister Crowley


The problem as its been seen by fellow DM's is the fact that we're so eager to believe in world grinding conspiracies these days. Corporations engage in campaigns against their own consumers. Governments hold on to power anyway they can & where does this leave the common man?! With mystery & magick! If you think that our reality is the only one. Think again! This blog post picks right up from our last one here. 

You've got to realize that travelers between planes & dimensions are not going to tell anyone who they are in reality. They get along with their occult assignments & move on. The world's inhabitants are going to turn to the 'subtle sciences' of magick & the occult. Last time we asked the question 
 is there room enough on the table top for both 'Veterans of the Supernatural Wars Rpg' by Jason Vey & Timothy Brannan & Kasimir Urbanski's   "The Invisible College" rpg  at the table top?!  And the answer was yes! 

If your expecting gouts of Hellfire & brimstone those are isolated incidents straight from horror movies & they happen.. And Hell isn't interested in taking apart the status qou. If anything Hell is interested in maintaining our reality as we know it.



This is right in line with the precepts of the definition of Lawful Evil. By its very definition it comes darkly into play; "

Lawful evil is sometimes called "diabolical," because devils are the epitome of lawful evil. Lawful evil creatures consider their alignment to be the best because it combines honor with a dedicated self-interest. Lawful evil is the most dangerous alignment because it represents methodical, intentional, and frequently successful evil." So the traditional definiation of fist edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragon's alignment stands at least until the trumps blow for Revelation. Let's go straight back into the fact that the things you actually have to watch out for on a street level game are going to be the demons. These things of the Abyss straight out of the D&D Rules cyclopedia are going to be more then a match for the average magus even in the Invisible College  rpg. 

The Abyss operates exactly as Crowley talked about black magick, "Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature. " This is the very essence of chaotic evil & Chaos itself. Temporary results or the quick way of power. The convient way of power is the quick path of that power. When power is offered on a plate in unexpected ways humans jump at the chance. They seldom realize where this power originates. So where does using Rafael Chandler 's Demonic Tome 'a pay what you want title'  come into play? It comes into play as these demonic forces begin to invade the PC's life. They bleed into reality from backrooms, the board rooms, & from your neighbors.  The infernal & Abyssial  universe right next door is knocking. And it wants in. 

The only ones who can stop this are going to be those movers & shakers of the Kasimir Urbanski's   "The Invisible College" rpg. These magus can & will change the results of a battle field in Eastern Europe, the skyrocketing economy of a first world nation, & cut off the supply of success to Silcon Valley firm. International corporations &  governments have been using these demons & evils as subtle  weapons for decades.  And this weakening of the fabric of reality has been allowing other planes to wash up against our reality all of the time. People can wander into other times & places only to come back changed. This is the origin for some of the PC's in our own campaign version of Veterans of the Supernatural Wars Rpg' by Jason Vey & Timothy Brannan.

These wash overs of other realities happen at the fringes of our own. These create the ruins, dungeons, etc. that PC's are called to. These are places of the otherworldly & places created by the otherworld forces that over arch our plane from elsewhere. If this campaign of thought seems influenced by Michael Moorcock it rightfully is. We'll get into that next time. 

The Profane & The Hellish - Elf Lair Games Veterans of the Supernatural Wars Rpg By Jason Vey & Tomothy Brannan Session Report & Monster Workshop Now With More Kasimir Urbanski's "The Invisible College" rpg

" If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable."

Aleister Crowley

This post is gonna pick right back up where this blog post ended. Today we're gonna rewind the clock back a bit. Because we got together last night & began to discuss B/X OSR rpg options & resources. 
Why?! Because we hadn't examined one or two B/X occult mega resources for 'Veterans of the Supernatural Wars Rpg' by Jason Vey & Timothy Brannan. Namely Kasimir Urbanski's   "The Invisible College" rpg from Amazon. You can read my review of 'The Invisible Colllege' here. 

Right off the bat this blog post is made with the following warning. I don't care about any of the rpg designer's political views or camps. Timothy Brannan over the years on his 'Otherside  blog' has reviewed lots & lots of  Kasimir Urbanski's rpg titles & vice versa. So let's dive right back in. 

"Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics."

Aleister Crowley

 So lets get back to the fact that 'the Invisible College's occult & mundane forces  may be the only thing standing between our normal reality & infernal Hell on Earth. I'm not talking Harry Potter here but the promise of the Golden Dawn realized! The idea that visitors from one universe might be coming to pollute our own during the Eighties! The Sixties occult awakening led to the Seventies Supernatural Cold War. But both Russia & America realized that each other wasn't the true enemy here. The powers that be of the Invisible College are minor players in the B/X multiverse here. 

The Invisible Collège offers full on B/X style occult demons. So let's go with that for a moment. These are scouts straight out of the multiverse probing for weakness within the fabric of our lower vibrational quantum reality. International governments have been using these demons & evils as subtle  weapons for decades. 
World of Darkness?! Cthulhu?! No this is far more dangerous stuff here. These demonic forces from the Plane Prime next door are weapons of mass deception of the highest caliber. 
But is there room enough on the table top for both 'Veterans of the Supernatural Wars Rpg' by Jason Vey & Timothy Brannan & Kasimir Urbanski's   "The Invisible College" rpg  at the table top?! 
Yes & in point of fact here's my suggestion for the cults that are trying to bring about the destruction of the Earth! Grab a copy of Kevin Crawford's  Silent Legions rpg in addition! 

Why?! Because the real enemy who'd be trying to wreck the world as we know it would be the supernatural  cells & cults springing up in board rooms & back alleyways across planet Earth in the Eighties. 

Think about it?! Your neighbors, your friends, relatives, & strangers might all be veying for power across your home town. The real issue? What if they get it? What if that power comes from a whole other universe whose supernatural cancer wants to spread?! Would the cure already be in place?! That's where 'Veterans of the Supernatural Wars Rpg' by Jason Vey & Timothy Brannan comes in. With these three powerhouse games you as the DM can build ANY supernaturally oriented campaign from the ground up! This will have years of miliage within it! Why?! Because essentially this is all OSR B/X powered supernatural & occult goodness. You can & add or subtract as needed. 



Where does using Rafael Chandler 's Demonic Tome 'a pay what you want title'  as the basis for a Horror Pulp style invasion of Hell on Earth come into play?! Soon but let's take this slowly because we're in the middle of Hell folks! 

The Profane & The Hellish - Elf Lair Games Veterans of the Supernatural Wars Rpg By Jason Vey & Tomothy Brannan Session Report & Monster Workshop

 "Demons feed on innocent souls and obliterate cities. Human victims are possessed, devoured, and damned. Unfortunately, the world's last line of defense is a group of ultra-violent cannibals wielding unholy magic."

This is a follow up to yesterday's blog post on retooling our Veterans of the Supernatural Wars rpg. Today we started discussing 

'Veterans of the Supernatural Wars Rpg' by Jason Vey & Timothy Brannan could have an infernal campaign definited by a band of infernal NPC demonic villains & we've got the perfect OSR  solution. 



Game campaigns are often as good as the enemies that the players are facing & sometimes its all within the enemies. Welcome to the Eighties when the Earth went to Hell & the demonic came home to roast! Now what happens  when the 'Heroes of New England' have the demonic neighbors from across the dimensional dive come to call?! The 'heroes' from one universe could be the demonic evils of another universe! What the Hell are you talking about?! We're talking about using Rafael Chandler 's Demonic Tome 'a pay what you want title'  as the basis for a Horror Pulp style invasion of Hell on Earth. 

How do you describe this one hundred & thirty two page OSR supplement/modernish campaign setting!? Well try & imagine the Bible's Book of Revelation combined with White Wolf's Hunter The Reckoning but with an OSR death metal paint job this is 'The Demonic Tome'! And the weirdly altered demonic adventurers are the perfect NPC villains for a group of 
'Veterans of the Supernatural Wars Rpg' by Jason Vey & Timothy Brannan PC's.  The Earth shudders under the weight of the books of Pandomonium. The doors of Hell have been flung open & only the PC's can save their Earth! The demonic hordes lead by other adventurers come to call. 

There are a few  areas where the invasion could begin San Fanscisco, New York City, The Saint Loius arch, or Los Angeles. These ares are iconic & have urban legend credit when it comes to having gate ways to the bowels of Hell itself. For handling the minor incursions of the diabolic & demonic use the demons & devils from the D&D Rules Cyclopedia (Basic). This will give the players a touch stone with their old school roots. 

Then unleash the hordes of Hell from Rafael Chandler 's Demonic Tome! This might be a perfect way to have the PC's explore an Earth that literally teiters on the edge of Hell itself.