OSR Does anybody know anything about this OSR adventure: Gods of the Forbidden North?

[Yora]

A brief summary of the campaign:

The PCs are adventurers from the remnants of the Hadean Empire that fell apart in a chaotic war of succession two decades ago. They have come into the possession of an odd artifact from the northern land of Titherion that presumably unlocks the vault to a great treasure somewhere in that cold land.
Titherion had been settled by the Hadean Empire just before the outbreak of the succession war after an imperial army destroyed an undead horde guarding the towering stronghold of an evil sorcerer that had subjugated the native tribes. With the imperial army no longer existing, the Hadean settlers have turned towards hiring mercenaries to pacify the still largely unexplored wilderness and clear out whatever evils might still be lurking in the sorcerer's abandoned castle.

Spoiler: What neither the settlers nor the native tribes know

is that the sorcerer has not actually been killed 20 years ago, but has actually trapped himself in an extradimensional prison years before the Imperial Army assaulted the stronghold defended by its undead guardians. Nor are the native tribes actually the first people who have made their home in this land. Thousands of years ago there was an even older people who had pledged themselves to a group of demons serving a great primordial evil that was imprisoned deep beneath the earth by divine beings at the dawn of time. In the very same prison the evil sorcerer had been seeking, and his meddling might have been the final crack in the ancient seals meant to hold the evil for all eternity. But it's thoughts have been reaching beyond the walls of its prison for a very long time and burrowed into the minds of many potential pawns.

 

[Dyson Logos]

Maps by a friend of mine. Thus I say "BUY IT" so he gets more visibility and love.

 

[Libertad]

Thank you for all those who answered. I think I'll wait until all 3 volumes are out; feels too weird when an adventure I'd be buying is "incomplete" in some way.

 

[agrayday]

Vol III is on KS with the option to get the trilogy in offset print slipcase collectors hardbacks, hex maps, and many other supplemental materials.

 

[Libertad]

Normally I would let this thread fade into the ether, but with the recent post updating the thread I am inclined to point out that this book's publisher, Pulp Hummock Press, has come out in favor of the "anti-woke" side of the culture wars on their Twitter account. Not so much direct statements as retweeting other such content creators. Such as a tweet by the Basic Expert saying that people are "throwing Gary under the bus" in regards to the recent kerfluffle over a D&D history book acknowledging that older supplements had bigoted content, or another person hoping that Elon Musk buys WotC, and so on.

 

[Mannahnin]

Normally I would let this thread fade into the ether, but with the recent post updating the thread I am inclined to point out that this book's publisher, Pulp Hummock Press, has come out in favor of the "anti-woke" side of the culture wars on their Twitter account. Not so much direct statements as retweeting other such content creators. Such as a tweet by the Basic Expert saying that people are "throwing Gary under the bus" in regards to the recent kerfluffle over a D&D history book acknowledging that older supplements had bigoted content, or another person hoping that Elon Musk buys WotC, and so on.

Gross.

Thanks. The product otherwise looked pretty cool.

 

[Bill Zebub]

Sounds like a great campaign for Shadowdark.

EDIT: Reading the Kickstarter, I'm tempted to shell out for all 3 volumes in PDF format. If it were written for Shadowdark I would totally, without a doubt, pledge at the $270 level.

I would love to see Kelsey do something this epic.

 

[AlexofBarbaria]

Edit: Normally I would let this thread fade into the ether, but with the recent post updating the thread I am inclined to point out that this book's publisher, Pulp Hummock Press, has come out in favor of the "anti-woke" side of the culture wars on their Twitter account.

That's pretty unfair on the basis of 2 retweets, both of which are about the same very specific thing: pushing back against criticism of Gygax's character.

It's possible for someone to feel protective of Gygax's legacy without being "anti-woke" in general, isn't it?

 

[Gus L]

That's pretty unfair on the basis of 2 retweets, both of which are about the same very specific thing: pushing back against criticism of Gygax's character.

It's possible for someone to feel protective of Gygax's legacy without being "anti-woke" in general, isn't it?

Supporting Elon Musk's meme nonsense ... That's not about Gygax. Stop justifying the worst values with appeals to nostalgia.

I don't care if someone does it cause they like ugly electric trucks or think Musk is one of the world's best Diablo players. Even three years ago that guy was spouting absolute white nationalist trash. Now he's popping off Hitler junk on TV. If you're down with that crap for whatever reason, I don't want to buy your RPG stuff, and I'm going to let people know why.

Of course this isn't absolute or eternal. Pulp Hummock might just be ignorant fools, and they could always say something by way of apology or acknowledgment. Until they do I'll assume they meant what they said...

 

[Afroconan]

Normally I would let this thread fade into the ether, but with the recent post updating the thread I am inclined to point out that this book's publisher, Pulp Hummock Press, has come out in favor of the "anti-woke" side of the culture wars on their Twitter account. Not so much direct statements as retweeting other such content creators. Such as a tweet by the Basic Expert saying that people are "throwing Gary under the bus" in regards to the recent kerfluffle over a D&D history book acknowledging that older supplements had bigoted content, or another person hoping that Elon Musk buys WotC, and so on.

They raised a lot of red flags when I read the chapter on religion in Vol. 1

Dude basically remixed Catholicism with a fantasy twist and used the chapter to pontificate on how God is great, and how the chaos cultist (depraved degenerates full of witches that defiled the "sanctity" of their wombs for powert), twist history to discredit the Church's great work...

Also, how imperialism in the name of God is good, actually.

SMH