A Claw Full of Wretchedness - Mail Call, The Wretched Epoque Rpg , & A Review Of Tears of Belphegor Adventure

 So for many months now we've been running the Red Room's Wretchedverse over the last couple of months as mini campaigns.  Wretched Époque has really been one of the Red Room's best rpg's that the players have responded too. With that being said the players have also responded Wretched Darkness. So it was high time to grab a copy of Wretched Époque.

So during one of the hundreds of sales that drivethrurpg does I grabbed a copy. And it came very fast. And over the past three or four nights Wretched Époque has been in my hands. And it's about letting the alternative history of Wretched Époque flow. So this is kind of fitting given that it's Edgar Allan Poe's birthday today. Can I honestly say that I'm a huge EAP fan going back to my childhood.  Mostly because of the classic Roger Corman Poe films of Vincent Price. 

I wanted to grab this before the OGl hammer came down by Cowards of the Coasts. Wretched Époque has everything a DM & his players need under one cover. With the added on history of Wretched Époque & it's uniqueness of the historical Paris setting. Paris unto itself in the Wretchedverse is a character as well as a setting. The Red Room does a fantastic job with Wretched Époque by bringing the underworld of Paris to life. 

But we're not done yet! The latest version of Wretched Darkness Rpg came my way. And this is a big book of a horror rpg system! And like every other Wretchedverse rpg is the fact that Wretched Darkness is very much interwoven in universe with lore & fluff that relates to the Wretchedverse! So my local print shop hit me with an offer that I couldn't refuse. 

 So the Wretched Darkness Rpg is a fun & terrible modern horror rpg. I say this in the best way because the  Wretched Darkness Rpg channels Giallo & Eighties or Nineties horror films in the best way. It does this by taking all of the Wretched rpg systems & then channeling them into a very nasty system! 
Here's the thing I'd absolutely do three or four PC's before attempting to interplay in a mini campaign. 
While the Wretched Darkness Rpg is OSR all of the way. It's a far deadlier affair then say even Ravenloft or other 2nd edition world's most favorite fantasy Rpg's. 

And here's where things get interesting. Not only is Wretched Darkness Rpg the Red Room's big Rpg but it's the big rpg with the most connections back to Wretched Époque. I don't wanna spoilt it but there's ways of bringing PC's from Wretched Époque into a Wretched Darkness campaign. And this get's into the trickier aspects of both the supernatural realms & the backdrop of Wretched Époque's Paris! 

And this brings us Tears of Belphegor which is a short scenario & adventure for Wretched Époque's Paris during the closing days of the Commune. You play the scum of the Parisian underworld & it definitely crosses into the world of both horror & the supernatural. It's well written & brings home the Paris of Wretched Époque in spades. And it could potentially be connected into the world of Wretched Darkness quite easily. 

The fact is that the Parisan underworld during the time of the Commune is rife with potential for the DM to exploit. That being said there's lots of potential for the PC's to screw up royally in Tears of Belphegor. Is Tears of Belphegor good without a doubt. And it's an adventure that's going into Saturday's Wretched Darkness rpg session! 

Cut Up & Cut out of Europa! Wretched Époque & Victorious Rpg crossover game Session Report!

 " Interpret the fluctuating appearances of the markings they mapped so well. Mapped so well. All learning is evidently far in excess of ours—and to have carried out The Martians seem to have calculated their descent with amazing subtlety—their mathematical their preparations with a well-nigh perfect unanimity. Well-nigh perfect unanimity. Had our instruments permitted it, we might have seen the gathering trouble far back in the nineteenth for countless centuries Mars has been the star of war—but failed to century. Failed to century. Men like Schiaparelli watched the red planet—it is odd, by-the-by, that. Odd, by-the-by, that."
Professsor Miguel 'Cut Up' Azprainl



So a couple of months ago during our Wretched Époque & Victorious Rpg crossover game one of our NPC goons got tossed through a Martian 'War of the Worlds' Beyond   gateway. Professsor Miguel 'Cut Up' Azprain arrived back in England after a trip to the Beyond's version of Europa. Needless to say that the good professor was insane as ever. His time on the alien moon did not improve his insane outlook. The professor has in his possession a crystal egg & is infected with the alien red weed which grows naturally on Europa. The good professor has also gained psionic powers.  Professsor Miguel has become the most wanted man in Europe broadcasting his insane thoughts too anyone whom he runs  across! The party consense is that the professor is being psionic directed by the crystal egg's alien owners! 

The professor was sought by the Blackguard & they had no trouble finding the professor as he spread red weed wherever he went! They cornered him in High Street Cemetary in London & just as they were about to get him he disappeared through a Beyond gateway! The gateway was made up of hundreds of Victorian household items, human remains, & other far more alien things. 

Land of the Red Weed - Stephen Speilberg's War of the Worlds 

The party blasted the gateway as possible just as a 'Martian' war machine was about to step through the portal! But what about the good professor?! That's coming up in our Wretched Flesh Rpg campaign in 2022! 
The Martain war machine stats came from The Hunter & Hunter Catalogue from the Victorious rpg