This is a slippery argument because play reports under a certain weight class are as rare as diamonds but given the popularity of the work it is certainly reasonable to expect there to be some. So against all the powers of heaven and hell I will do something which is exceptionally boorish and ask the question “but has anyone actually played it?” After the outraged boohing and angry hisses have died down, A cursory google search “Red and Pleasant Land play report” or “Red and Pleasant Land actual play” brings up several entries: There are multiple single session entries and on the Lotfp website there is what appears to be a 4 part play report that takes place largely in locations of the GM’s own devising, involving no significant creatures or content from RaPL besides Vampires (but sounds fun though!). Get in the back of the bus Gramps! The Powers That Be have decreed this is a work of GENIUS and YOU had better shut your prole mouth and get on board the Z train! Award for Exceptional Roleplaying Achievement. It is also hugely successful for an Indie publication, it comes with endorsements from China Mevielle and Monte Cook and lauded with awards: The Gold Ennie, the Monocled Raggi of Prestigious Excellence, the Nobel Peace Prize for Roleplaying Literature and the Zak. is another landmark entry in the Artpunk phenomenon, and the first campaign setting that has the problems commonly associated with it without it being absolute shit. Zak S (Lamentations of the Flame Princess)Īnother reReview and the reason should be obvious. Thou maketh merry, and mocketh, and hath forgotten thine Appendix N, and on the forums thou speaketh lightly of the OSR if at all! But our OSR is a jealous, and a vengeful OSR, and mockery he abideth not! For we believe in the living, unbroken and eternal OSR, who came from Appendix N and who manifested itself through Gygax, Anderson & Jaquays and whose word is preached by Lux, Fullerton, Huso and countless multitudes that came before and after them, and we follow its inscrutable Will, whose true designs mankind cannot nor ever will unravel. On his chest was branded a message “Thou hath taken our OSR and delivered it unto moneylenders, charlatans and harlots.
Yet still one day an Artpunkman was found nailed to the purple obelisk in the village square. When it came, it was not preached by any state or church. We demand that you fire this profane edifice and submit to our will.” “You refuse to worship the OSR by raising the purple obelisk, the true sign of fealty. “We have endured your insults long enough,” they said. One day the Artpunkmen stood before our temple.
Gygax was first besmirched with offal and then pulled down, replaced with a hideous lernean idol, whose many horned heads would vomit a perpetual torrent of black slime. Anderson or Jaquays the Twice-born, but with the eerie wailing and meaningless babel of the Artpunkmen. The streets were filled not with the earnest hymns to St. Soon many of the alleys and streets of the OSR became unsightly in our eyes. There was room enough, it was stated, in the OSR for Artpunkman and OSRman alike. Was this not what they had fled from? But again the softer of the OSRmen urged patience and understanding, and so hands that had reached for axe and torch relaxed. When the first purple monolith had been erected in the village square, we were appalled. Yet for a time Artpunkman and OSRman worshipped together. They had roving minds that walked strange, twisted corridors and always they looked for new things on the horizon. Gygax, but always the Artpunkmen would misunderstand. But we had been told to be kind, and thus we welcomed them.įor a time the OSRmen sought in vain to teach the Artpunkmen the word of St.
Even then the ways of the Artpunkmen were disturbing and strange. The OSRmen were few, living lives of pious observance to the Appendix N, and would only occasionally look upon the great purple monolith that had been erected alongside the twenty-sided throne with wary disgust. It was the time of the Two Thrones when the Artpunkman first came to our lands.