Generous and edgy, The Red Room has made the Wretched Bastards quickstart available for a recommended $0.00. You can tip if you want to.
The download is 51-pages long, in full colour but without hyperlink contents.
Wretched Bastards is a low-magic, dark fantasy role-playing game. Besides being deadly and bleak, it is meant to be sleazy.
The main characters aren’t heroes at all; they are greedy, violent, lecherous, cruel, untrustworthy scoundrels. They will lie, backstab, betray, double-cross, kill, pillage and rape through this grim fantasy world.
They aren’t heroes, because there are no heroes in the kingdom of Riget, only a handful in the Kharabas continent, and not a whole lot more in the world of Antillia; however, they aren’t the villains either: the malefactors here are the filthy orcs, who keep coming down from the mountains, located south from the village of Fork,
So, yeah, adult!
The Pay As You Want quickstart comes with The Seven Bastards introductory scenario inspired by the 1978 Con, the Barbarian movie, and others. There’s a page of filmography.
The adult nature is built into the system, too, as characters have stats like sloth, pride, lust, envy and gluttony.
There are character classes, the usual Tolkien-style fantasy races, and an experience system. The system mostly uses a 2d6 approach, but the appendix has a section on Tarot-driven encounters.
DriveThruRPG does not have the product age-gated. At least, they don’t yet. The blub there reads;
Quickstart for Wretched Bastards (it includes a few pages from The Seven Bastards scenario, so if you own the core book but not that one, it may be useful to pick up the Quickstart anyway).
Wretched Bastards is a low-magic, dark fantasy role-playing game. Besides being deadly and bleak, it is meant to be sleazy. The main characters aren’t heroes at all; they are greedy, violent, lecherous, cruel, untrustworthy scoundrels. They will lie, backstab, betray, double-cross, kill and pillage through this grim fantasy world. They aren’t heroes, because there are no heroes in the kingdom of Riget, only a handful in the Kharabas continent, and not a whole lot more in the world of Antillia. In Wretched Bastards low-budget European sword and sorcery movies meet spaghetti western!
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