With the rising of the Blood Moon, the accursed abode of the Blood King returns to this world. The lord of all vampires comes to claim the blood that is owed to him. His halls contain treasures and secrets that would make any ambitious adventurer abandon reason and caution to seek them out. Will you risk your soul for gold and glory in the Halls of the Blood King?
Last year (2020) was a tough year. But it was made a little bit lighter for me when I was asked to write an adventure for one of the best OSR RPGs ever made: Old School Essentials!
Since the beginning of the conversation I was giving total freedom to decide what to do, and sent them a few pitches I was excited about writing and they choose the one about an plane traveling manor of an alien vampire! And so was born Halls of the Blood King!
The process of writing it was mixed with the process of playtesting it. I knew that I wanted a few things in the adventure: a sense of an otherworldly place, multiple factions and interests that could be explored by the PCs, variations of the vampire theme, and just plain weird stuff in the mansion they could play with. In the end, with playlets feedback I added up more than that, and the adventure took a life of its own. New ideas, new hooks and plot opportunities were born out of player interaction and pondering with the adventure.
In the end, Halls of the Blood King was a practically a collaborative project, and the writing was done due to a bit of my imagination, players’ interaction, careful editing by Gavin (he is a genius). But you know what made it one of my favorite product I’ve ever worked on? Justine’s art! Have you seen it! It made the adventure so much more than it already was! Seriously, Justine is an amazing artist and I hope we can work together again, and soon!
So check it out! Halls of the Blood King is available right now at DriveThruRPG in PDF format and very very soon in print at Exalted Funeral (the best Indie RPG Store out there)!