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WEIRD TALES PRESENTS: PANDEMONIUM NOIR, THE LEGENDARY MAGAZINE’S 1ST OFFICIAL TABLETOP ROLEPLAYING GAME, ON KICKSTARTER
Ravendesk Games Has Teamed With the birthplace of Cthulhu and Conan for the First in a Series of Weird Tales-Related Games
(LOS ANGELES, CA – August 31, 2020) From the pulp pages of Weird Tales Magazine, comes Pandemonium Noir, the first official tabletop roleplaying game in the nearly 100-year-history of the legendary fantasy and horror publication.
Created by Ravendesk Games, the publisher behind the Vurt and Herald: Lovecraft & Tesla RPGs, Pandemonium Noir is a one-of-a-kind tabletop roleplaying game. Set in The Five Boroughs, a collection of diverse lands that are home to every supernatural monster creature and being imaginable (think 1940s-50s New York city as imagined by Hieronymus Bosch), Pandemonium Noir delivers exciting gameplay full of scares and laughs. The game launched Monday, August 31st on Kickstarter and within hours was made a recommended “Project We Love.”
“For nearly a century, Weird Tales has been the ground-breaker for so many talented creators; a thrilling space where unique worlds, characters and concepts have jumped/crawled/slithered off the page and into legend,” says Alexander Lepera, Company Director of Ravendesk Games. “This tabletop game embraces all of that glorious weirdness.”
The Pandemonium Noir core book will contain all you need to play in one handy tome. Outwit the Leprechaun Mafia in ShadowShade. Take a side in the Great Fey War in the Red Garden. Walk through the Really Big Pit of Fire in the Broken Lands. Get a magical tattoo on Witch End. Battle the Hecatoncheires on Monster Island. Survive the undead on the Zombie Islands. The possibilities are endless. Already a fan? Or still a newbie? The Pandemonium Noir Tabletop RPG is for everyone. The Cypher System is easy-to-learn and makes sense with pulpy Noir adventure, deadly battles and hard-boiled detective work. All rules are included, no need for any other publication.
To support the campaign, visit Kickstarter: http://kck.st/3lAx68J
Pandemonium Noir is based on the Dead Jack fantasy and horror novel series by James Aquilone. The first Dead Jack short story was published in Weird Tales in 2014 and the series has been optioned and is now being developed for television.
“Pandemonium Noir is just as wild and crazy and fun as my Dead Jack books,” says James Aquilone. “Ravendesk has created an amazing team to create this game, and I think people are going to have a blast playing it.”
Pandemonium Noir is the start of an ongoing series of official Weird Tales settings. Later settings will focus on the many worlds and shared universes of H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Ray Bradbury and C.L. Moore, among others.
There are eight million stories in the Five Boroughs of Pandemonium… Which will you tell?
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ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM
Ravendesk Games has successfully created/funded/published two tabletop roleplaying game lines — VURT, based on Jeff Noon’s mind-blowing science fiction novels (Cypher System) and HERALD: LOVECRAFT & TESLA, based on the ongoing comic series from John Reilly/Action Lab comics (Savage Worlds System). Both games were well received and VURT was nominated for the Emmy (Best Game).
Weird Tales is the place where two storytelling concepts meet: speculative and alternative. In 1923, when the magazine was originally founded, those two ideas amounted to the same thing. Weird Tales was launched to showcase writers trying to publish stories so bizarre and far out, no one else would publish them — stories of unearthly dimensions and dark possibilities, gothic seductresses and cosmic monstrosities. Today, Weird Tales carries that mission forward into the 21st century, finding the most talented new writers, artists, and creators whose visions are too incredible to fit within the comfortable little boxes of everyday experience.
James Aquilone is an author from Staten Island, New York. His fantasy/horror series Dead Jack has been optioned for film and TV. His short fiction has been published in such places as Nature’s Futures, The Best of Galaxy’s Edge, Unidentified Funny Objects 4, and Weird Tales Magazine.
