A Red & Pleasant Land
Multiple 2015 ENnie Award Winner!
GOLD AWARD: Best Writing
GOLD AWARD: Best Setting
SILVER AWARD: PRODUCT OF THE YEAR
SILVER AWARD: Best Adventure
A terrible Red King wars with an awful Queen¸ and together they battle into being a rigid¸ wrong world... and this book has everything you need to run it. (And any other place in your first¸ second¸ third¸ fourth or fifth edition game that might require intrigue¸ hidden gardens¸ inside-out-rooms¸ scheming monarchs¸ puzzles or beasts¸ liquid floors¸ labyrinths¸ growing¸ shrinking¸ duelling¸ broken time¸ Mome Raths¸ blasphemy¸ croquet¸ explanations for where players who missed sessions were¸ or the rotting arcades and parlors of a palace that was once the size of a nation.)
Zak Sabbath¸ game master on I Hit It With My Axe and author of the multiaward-winning Vornheim: The Complete City Kit now brings the same do-it-yourself tables-and-toolkits approach and eerie magic to an entire distorted continent.
"It's inadequate to call A Red & Pleasant Land brilliant. With alchemist swagger¸ Zak takes the base matter of well-worn fantasy standards and our cheerful nerd hobbies¸ and makes the strangest gold."
- China Miéville
"God this is beautiful¸ I love this."
- Molly Crabapple
"It should be next to impossible to do anything original with Dracula or Alice¸ but Zak Sabbath demonstrates instead that it's next to impossible for him to put out a bad game book. He trails his barbed artistic and gaming sensibilities through these two modern myths and emerges with something more than a mashup or a collage: it's a necromantic restoration of a nightmare that never was."
- Kenneth Hite¸ designer of Qelong and Night's Black Agents
"Zak is not just imaginative¸ he's bold. Which means that while he recognizes the value of fantasy traditions¸ he doesn't hesitate for a moment to throw out anything that's become tired or dull."
- Monte Cook¸ author of Numenera