Underworld Be Damned! - Red Room's Darker Rpg Session Report!

  The wind of the Beyond echoed in our party's ears and the house itself seemed to stretch into eternity. The pig things made thier way back into the house and down to the cellar. We gave chase! We made our way following on the heels of the pig thing humanoids deep into the cellar of the house. And we found a tunnel dug in the celler of the house and we were ahead of the curb. We killed three of the pig things after they took out one of our number. 
This session picks up after last week's session here on the blog. 

Our party followed the pig things deep into the tunnel and that's when the back of the make shift tunnel collapsed! 
We had no choice but to go forward! The pig things sent two crossbow bolts our way! We dodged outta of the way and sent several bullets thier way. 
We continued on as burnt oil smells and screams assaulted our ears. We kept going with flash lights lit. 
The roof was supported by timber & weird metal  rapports supporting the Earthen works. And then the group came across an outlet tunnel. And they came face to face with a huge system of gears, pulleys, etc. all being run by the pig things. These monsters were not happy to see the group and they began to give chase especially as the party saw who or what was cooking in the large copper pots below in some of the gas works! 
The party began to run and run swiftly away as more cross bow bolts and spears whistled past thier ears. 
The party noticed that the tunnels were slopping upward and followed the tunnels as sulferous air assaulted thier nostrals. Finally after what seemed like miles they came to the opening on the surface. The red hazed skies were rife with demonic forms that flapped lazily and around the party was a plethora of burnt out wreckage of what once must have been vehicles  of some type at one point. The landscape was a ruin filled with the wrecks of ancient times. Before the party even had time to catch thier breaths they heard the bronze on pavement of the hell horse's hooves. Then the demonic laughter of the hell maidens who were tormenting some poor soul. They sighted the party from the backs of the hell horse (hellhorse from the creature codex here). 

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The party opened up with thier guns towards the hell maidens and did absolutely nothing to the maidens. They laughed at the party and began taking off after the party. We ended here. 

Our DM tonight brought in a deep cut with the hell maidens and the hell horse taken from Bloody Arduin.  
The Darker rpg is easy to convert over the original Arduin rpg material because the Red Rpg system is OSR. 
Darker has some solid bones that pulls deeply from it's OSR system. Darker does away with the PC classes rpg levels. And the Red rpg system has a high value combat system that is fast and reliable. 
The Darker rpg has a fast magic system and takes it's 'P's & 'Q''s from a third generation OSR system. This means that the players can get on with play. This makes the Darker rpg go that much quicker. 

The Darker rpg is not an rpg that tries to get away from it's mature themes and material. Instead it embraces it. 

Corridors of Terror - Red Room's Darker Rpg Session Report!

  Tonight's Darker Rpg adventure session picks right up from last week here on the blog. Our party of Darker rpg adventurers lost three members in tonight's game as the events of In Wretched Depravity.

  We held our own protecting the Vandervance family from the forces of the supernatural from the horrors of the Beyond. Last week we survived the battle with the imps. This time we were surrounded by pig like humanoids armed with spears, mancatchers, hammers, and short swords. These horrors came through some sorta of gate. Well our sorcerers held the line with a protective circle that they put down on the fly. We opened fire when the pig things tried to open the circle. 

Then all Hell broke loose as they fired cross bows into our party. We opened fire and managed too kill four of these horrors with blessed ammo! The pig things retreated and we followed them into the gate! 
Our party made it into a whirlwind of weirdness of the Beyond! We lost our way and now things are getting very sketchy! 

The Darker rpg is well suited to this sorta of a horror action rpg campaign. The fact is that the Red Room did a killer job with the Darker Rpg geared for a group of players to jump right into the deep end of a campaign. 
Tonight's monsters are from the Beyond right out of the Red Room's Wretched Darkness Bundle.  
Which easily translates over to the Darkness rpg. The monsters were the glue that bonded the players into the game campaign. 
The fact that the Darker rpg is easy to bring other OSR sources makes it a great game to play. Because it serves as a bridge between the Red Room's Red and other old school rpg gaming sources. 

House Of Doom - Red Room's Darker Rpg Session Report!

  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. 

A family has been terrorized by dark forces as the supernatural forces are closing in around the family. 
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! 

Chapter House Of Doom - Red Room's Darker Rpg Session Report!

 Things turned very dark in tonight's game as the player's PC's were brought into the Legacy House. This foundation is the front for a philophetic foundation that searches the world for archelogical artifacts and historical sites. Not all is as it seems because the PC's are actually battling the occult and supernatural. The problem is that the Dark Forces are winning. 

 The PC's got to the chapter house and almost bought it when they came face to face with a damned soul straight outta of Hell. After the head of the chapter house recieved an ancient talisman from thier far East office in Cairo. The PC's almost didn't make it as the spirit shape shifted into thier greatest fears. Clues were sprinkled throughout the manor to allow the PC's to destroy the talisman and banish the spirit. The PC's then had to call the police and clear the body of the old chapter house head. 
There are however secrets that are hinted about within the chapter house head's diary. The manor holds far more secrets then they know. The player's PC's aren't getting a break as thier thrown into the events of In Wretched Depravity adventure.

 

 The PC's are called into investigate a house that is far more then it seems! The events needed immediate attention and the PC's think that there might be a portal to Hell here! We'll let's talk the Darker Rpg for a moment. This game uses the Red Rpg system and it's quite lethal in combat. I noticed the players trying to avoid confrontation. Also Darker's magick system is far more geared towards ritual magic & that's there's a greater variety of occult casters and such.