Post World Games‘ King for a Day is now live at Drivethru RPG.
This is a large, systemless, fantasy sandbox campaign with a focus on the sinister rather than splatter. The style is Lovecraft and the campaign is a chunky toolkit of people, places and events all pointed towards a “horrific and unreal finale”.
The game is recommended for mature readers.
This is a successful Kickstarter project and its good to see these reach shelves. The Kickstarter, which closed in May 2012, asked for $800 and raised nearly $5,000. The result is a 312 paged adventure, with nearly 200 NPCs, 50 different story lines and 100 pages devoted to setting content.
There are 60 pages of maps and the download includes a PDF of handouts. That means King for a Day is nearly 400 pages of scary RPG stuff.
Here’s the original video pitch.
You can pick up King for a Day at DriveThru RPG.
I’ve read the book, and it is really good. There are so many story lines and npcs that you can choose what you like and still have a ton of material. The main story line is also very good, something that is rarely seen in a low fantasy early medieval campaign. Highy recommended.