I really wish +Rafael Chandler had given me the heads up that Pandemonio was releasing, but no, I had to stumble across it myself ;)
From the blurb:
THE LAST WAR HAS BEGUN
Demons feed on innocent souls while angels obliterate cities. Humans are caught in the middle: possessed, devoured, judged, damned.
The world needs a hero. Unfortunately, there aren't any, so what the hell, you might as well give it a try.
You're a Disciple, a supernatural warrior on the front lines. Wielding bizarre magics like Sexpletive, Death Panel, Photobomb, and Gunfetti, you must hunt down the diabolical and divine, rescue innocent civilians, and maintain a grip on the tattered vestiges of your humanity. How far will you go to destroy your enemy? Will you resort to cannibalism? Are you certain? Listen, don't knock it until you've tried it.
This game is an amalgam of two previously-published RPGs. Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium was originally published in 2002, with a new version in 2007. Spite: The Second Book of Pandemonium was released in 2009.
Pandemonio combines both rulesets and settings into a fast-paced game of splatterpunk action set in a world of violence and decay. You'll need several 12-sided dice and a mind full of nailbombs, scaphism, and hollow-point bullets.
"If you love gorehound transgression at its most base, this is the game for you. You will be vomiting needles ten pages in." (Jason Morningstar)
"This is an independent-publishing triumph." (Ron Edwards)
"I bought the game and devoured it immediately. Excellent writing, flowing with ideas, and worth every penny I spent on it." (Jason L. Blair)
"One of the best traditional RPGs I've seen. It's rock solid entertainment with rules that are easy to grasp, cool to play with, and make play fun." (Matthijs Holter)
"An excellent horror game." (Kenneth Hite)
"The game is something of a primal scream of rage against the kind of God that burns Sodom and kills the first born of Egypt. And the expressions of that rage are the PCs, armed to the teeth with machine guns, kill-mobiles and the ability to go nova when they need to." (Steve Darlington)
"Damn near perfect for a lot of folk who want to play horror games involving humans with supernatural gifts, especially if they're focusing more on the monster takedown." (Christopher W. Richeson)
"The book's a riot to read—Rafael Chandler is the kind of writer that the RPG field sees maybe a couple of times a generation." (Stew Wilson)
Hey, amigo! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI was going to wait for an announcement until all the versions were released -- print and PDF, via DTRPG, Lulu, and Amazon. Don't want to spam people with multiple announcements; figure I'll wait till all the proof copies are in and the game is available elsewhere. But thanks a million for putting the word out! Damned kind of you.
Shares some art with the Teratic Tome, I guess that's fair.
ReplyDeleteYeah, a few of the monsters in the Tome were "torn from the pages of Pandemonio," so to speak. Originally, I'd planned to create a monster manual consisting of nothing but the angels and demons from Pandemonio, but then I had all these ideas for orcs and trolls and giants and it just spiraled out of control really quickly.
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