Monday, July 18, 2022


Wretched GM Screen (inserts) - RELEASED

A set of landscape-oriented inserts (8x  8.5" x 11" pages) for Wretched Game Masters. Four are illustrated panels with evocative and wretched art by Warghoul (aka Lore Forge Meister) who also did the cover and some interior art for Wretchploitation. The inner panels contain rules references and tables for GMs running games of Wretched Bastards, Wretched Country, Wretched Époque, Wretchploitation, and Wretched New Flesh (or any of the planned games for the Wretched line). This is a work in progress and it will be updated when new games are released.

Saturday, July 16, 2022



We just released a Wretched Époque Quickstart. It's a 61-page version of the whole thing, including an intro and a condensed version of the rules (sanity and ritual magic rules not included). More than enough to discover how Wretched it is. If you know someone who might be interested, let them know that it's available for free on Drivethru.

Wretched Époque takes place in the period known as the Belle Époque. This is the time and the fictional place where Umberto Eco's Simone Simonini crosses paths with Jacques Tardi's Adèle Blanc-Sec, Edgar Allan Poe's Chevalier Auguste Dupin and Maurice Leblanc's Arsène Lupin, amidst anarchist bombings, the echoes of the Dreyfus affair, the catastrophic side effects of secret societies conspiring in the shadows and the mysterious results of experiences conducted by mad geniuses and occultists messing with supernatural forces. Not yet pulp, not quite historical, it is neither the right time nor the right mood for Steampunk or Dieselpunk. Welcome to the wretched times of Nouveaupunk!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/403118/Wretched-Epoque-Quickstart

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Sexual Holocaust, Wretched New Flesh and some small talk

In today's video, we show Sexual Holocaust in print from Lulu, cry a little more because Drivethru made the right decision of pulling out insensitive and bigoted book from their virtual shelves (nah, just kidding, we just bitch a little more about morons) and announce the next release: Wretched New Flesh - Postcards from Avalidad.




Monday, July 11, 2022

Wretched New Flesh - Next from the Red Room







Wretched New Flesh - Postcards from Avalidad

Today I start working on the next Wretched thing, the new version of Postcards from Avalidad, tentatively named Wretched New Flesh. Here's a preview:

Wretched New Flesh - Postcards from Avalidad is a near-future sci-fi/horror game inspired by William S. Burroughs, David Cronenberg, William Gibson, and Clive Barker. The story is centred on Takeda Technologies, a Japanese corporation conducting research in genetics, cybernetics, augmented and virtual reality, and biotechnology.

They had a significant breakthrough, sometime before the beginning of the story, by dealing with supernatural entities, whose leading representative in our world lives in disguise as a human millionaire. Hideo Kobayashi, head of a vast economic empire, furnished Takeda with future tech for reverse engineering in exchange for control over their business and the products of their research.

Though Takeda accepted the deal – and sold his soul to the "Devil" in the process – he has managed to conceal some of the more ambitious projects from Kobayashi.

At least until the story starts.

This darkly surreal tech-noir game setting combines cyber, bio and psi punk to create a Burroughsian nightmare world of decadence, drugs, Libertarianism, violence, glamour and oppression. By default, characters are expected to be ZoneSec operatives or executives for Takeda Technologies, but other roles such as Avalidad’s celebrities, fiscal royalty and seedy underbelly, are obviously possible, depending on the type of scenario you are planning.

Wretched New Flesh takes place in an undetermined time, about thirty years in the future. It is influenced by William S. Burroughs' works such as Naked Lunch, the Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine, Nova Express and The Ticket that Exploded), William Gibson's Sprawl and Bridge trilogies, most of David Cronenberg's films, and Clive Barker's Hellbound Heart and The Scarlet Gospels. There are some references to other authors, such as Paul Auster and Kurt Vonnegut, but they weren't major sources of inspiration.

Just got Sexual Holocaust from Lulu





Just got a package from Lulu. The very DANGEROUS and OFFENSIVE scenario DrivethruRPG has censored! Sexual Holocaust is the scenario THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO PLAY!!!

Sunday, July 10, 2022

Resort of the Dead - Released

 


Resort of the Dead - Released 

Zombies, yeah, I know, they have been done to death... But there's a catch, these are beach zombies. Ok, that was already covered by a few video games. Wait: it's a George Romero and J.G. Ballard crossover about a Zombie Apocalypse set in a formerly luxurious – but now decaying – summer resort in Portugal during the 1980s. That has never been done, right? Phew, that was a close call! Resort of the Dead provides you with a sandbox-type location and a cast of characters to run your zombie apocalypse scenario. You can use the Wretchploitation rules, or you can run it in other games.

You can purchase it from Lulu: https://www.lulu.com/shop/joe-coombs-and-s%C3%ADlvia-clemente-and-miguel-ribeiro/resort-of-the-dead/ebook/product-r964d9.html?q=resort+of+the+deadpage%3D1&pageSize=10&fbclid=IwAR2tj5Y2P9YPEdT-w7hPiSIwAIiPZqpR3cwEeWuITtwydJCylYXA5ycB3nM&page=1

Or DrivethruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/402493/Resort-of-the-Dead?fbclid=IwAR33aMNMuTSDTL6ITw2m0e7b55b24bReaLJLs1jnX4adXvB4N3Xqn9YjZRE

Back to Blogger

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Wretched GM Screen (inserts) - RELEASED A set of landscape-oriented inserts (8x  8.5" x 11" pages) for Wretched Game Masters. Four...