Author: Diogo Nogueira

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)!

I’ve made a 20 pages RPG Zine for my patrons over my Patreon page (you can still get it there if you join this month). It’s called Dispatches of the Old Skull and contains a variety of stuff I produced in the las month.

It has a big 100 random encounters table with weird scenes that can inspire an entire session or even their own adventures. They are all set in a swamp/marshes environment and can be used to color journeys through those places or simply starting points for the game.

There is also an entire dungeon adventure created based on a color isometric map I created during the new year, an article about making your game epic right from the start without needing to wait until you get a higher level character, and a comic strip inspired by low level characters and their struggle to remain alive and motivated to explore monster infested death holes with treasure!

Check out the content of the zine in this quick flipthrough!

Check out My Games and Other Publications as well!

2021 is here and I am ready for it! I am starting a new website for Old Skull Publishing (this one), I am launching a Patreon (support me there to get zines, artwork, games, original art and much more), and I am working on several new projects that will hopefully come out this year, including a game called Kosmosaurs, an RPG about Dinosaur Space Rangers!

By the way, I have recently released 3 more games!

Check out The Dead Are Coming, Screams Amongst the Stars and Running Out of Time!