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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 8251818" data-attributes="member: 1">Wicked Ones is an RPG in which you play the monsters and fight intruding heroes. While you will be able to buy a deluxe edition, or a hardcover, you can also download the core PDF version for free!"Wicked Ones is a Forged in the Dark tabletop RPG about a group of fantasy monsters building a dungeon, launching raids on the surface to gather a hoard, and pursuing your nefarious master plan. Along the way, there's pillaging, rituals, concoctions, contraptions, discoveries deep in the ground, dungeon rooms, traps, creatures, minions, and so much more! You build your dungeon over time throughout the campaign and no two dungeons will ever be alike. The free version is the full version of the game - 325 pages of full-color content, over 50 full-page illustrations (and tons of other small ones!). It includes everything you need to start building dungeons with your friends."[ATTACH=full]135826[/ATTACH][URL unfurl="true"]https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/354307/Wicked-Ones-Free-Edition?affiliate_id=1403878[/URL]The PDF was <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/354307/Wicked-Ones-Free-Edition?" target="_blank">released free yesterday</a>. The designer, Ben Neilson, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/mtytad/wicked_ones_is_now_free_come_grab_a_copy_and/" target="_blank">posted on Reddit</a> explaining why:[callout]Why make it free? I have a ton of reasons. But before I decided to release it, I consulted with my Kickstarter backers and Discord members to make sure it didn't feel like I was pulling the rug out from under anyone by releasing something they already paid for. And, a bit to my surprise, that community was overwhelmingly in favor of a free version! Mostly for the following reasons:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">More people with the game in hand means more players, more GMs, and more community content. (There's a community content "license" now! Hoping to see some cool creations there.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Players can have their own copy of the book. There's a lot going on with Wicked Ones - dungeons are complex beasts and the more knowledgeable players are, the better. These days with online play, it becomes really difficult to "pass a book around" and this solves that problem.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The art in the book is just too good for others not to see. Victor Costa did a really great job and I hope more people have a chance to see his work.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I made a lot of (I think) interesting changes to the Forged in the Dark system and I'd like other hackers to have access to that without having to buy my book. It just felt bad explaining my game, which turned into a recommendation that they buy it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There are other products coming very soon - the Undead Awakening expansion where you play as the leaders of an undead horde, and the War for the Overworld expansion, which lets you play campaigns similar to the video game. If the game is free, there's no barrier to entry for these (and future) projects. I can imagine some people are interested in one of these and not the original game itself - I want to make it as easy as possible to play the game people want to play.</li> </ul>[/callout]The game used John Harper's Forged in the Dark system (which is a variant of Blades in the Dark). It was Kickstarted last year to over 1,000 backers and over $40K.</blockquote>

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