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Get Medieval With TTRPG ‘Danse Macabre’, Now on Kickstarter
Fans of Shadowdark, Knave, and other old-school renaissance (OSR) games have a treat on the way in Christopher Pickett‘s new TTRPG Danse Macabre: Medieval Horror Roleplaying, which recently just launched its Kickstarter, and has almost reached its $15,000 funding goal with plenty of time left in the campaign.
The story centers around the end of the 14th century in Abandoned Constantinople, where death is not the end. Those who perish are somehow miraculously revived, albeit each time with new maleficia — mutations of the spirit and the flesh. You take on the role of Pilgrims who are doomed to survive this world filled with historical intrigue, brutal combat, and the hordes of demoniacs: mutated humans who are lost to the madness beyond death.
Alongside the Rulebook (available in digital, softcover or hardcover) is the “Guide to the Abandoned World” book, which extends the game’s campaign to other parts of the Mediterranean. The book also includes new rules for classes, relics, arms and armor, and encounters as well as setting-specific quests. For you lore junkies, the Guide delves into how other cultures interpret the Abandonment of Death.
If that’s not enough for you, there’s also a third book, entitled “Unsunken: Paris Below”, an addon book that includes a “mega-dungeon” campaign set in Paris. Written by Wythe Marschall, the campaign includes several dungeons to explore, along with plenty of new quests.
Still not enough? There’s “The Reliquary” addon, which offer over 100 unique relics for Danse Macabre that contain quintessence, which is the mysterious resource that restores the natural order of death. Each relic also has an activation power that can aid you on your quest.
Currently, you can make pledges of varying amounts to several levels, which will get you either the Danse Macabre Rulebook and Guide, or include “Unsunken” or “The Reliquary”. That’s on top of whether you want the softcover or hardcover editions, which also include the PDF versions of the books.
Netflix is reuniting with Emilia Perez director Jacques Audiard on an adaptation of French horror novel La Nuit ravagée, Variety reports today.
The project is described as an elevated horror film based on the critically acclaimed horror novel by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo.
It’s set in “Saint-Auch, a fictional suburb on the outskirts of Toulouse in Southern France, in the early 1990s. It follows a group of teenagers drawn to an abandoned house that exerts a strange power on them. After one of their friends dies under disturbing circumstances, they decide to enter the house, not suspecting it’s alive with something supernatural. Once they enter it, it begins to feed on their private fears, desires, and traumas, turning their psychological vulnerabilities into something monstrous and inescapable.“
The French-language Netflix original marks Audiard’s first foray into horror.
The divisive Emilia Perez, Audiard’s Spanish-language musical crime drama, amassed 13 nominations at the 97th Academy Awards but also met with controversy when offensive tweets by star Karla Sofía Gascón during the film’s award campaign.
Del Amo’s source novel was published last year and has been described as an homage to ’80s and ’90s horror in the vein of Stephen King, though its social realism is what lends itself to the elevated horror concept and Audiard’s attachment to the project.
Stay tuned for more as it arrives.
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