We’re so so nearly funded on Paint The Town Red, and we have exciting updates for you! Just a few hundred quid more to get us over the line.
Wait, Roll That Again’
First up, I did an interview with Alex from Wait, Roll That Again. In this incredibly tightly edited interview we cover everything from iterative design, playtesting, the creation and themes of Paint The Town Red, and both pass on a bunch of advice to any creators looking to make their own RPGs. This is a fantastic 32 minutes of chat that I really enjoyed and I think you will too!
Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or head here.
If you want to interview me (Zach) on stream or on a podcast, drop me an email to [email protected]. I love talking about this game, and chatting in general.
Community License and Paint Stockholm Red
Like Orbital Blues and Best Left Buried, Paint The Town Red is going to have an expansive community license that allows you to make your own adventures.
One of our playtesters, the incredible Attus, has already put together their own adventure. But it’s not just one adventure, it’s actually THREE, all set in the same city: Stockholm. Welcome to Paint Stockholm Red.
In Forging a Kingdom, you arrive in town shortly after a successful uprising by the new Swedish king in 1523, just in time to celebrate the start of a new era for the living and dead alike.
In A Grand Theatre you return in 1783, at the height of the power of the Theatre King as he is transforming the town into a European centre of culture. From behind the throne, the vampiric Shadow King is proclaiming his city a safe haven for the dead, calling all to join him in his undead capital.
Lastly, in The Plutonian Games, Stockholm is in 1912 host to the Olympic Games, and the dead is at night hosting their own violent counterpart. Join in the games, or just enjoy the carnage and debauchery in its wake.
Attus was a playtester for some of the advanced mechanics in PTTR, such as city generation, moving in between cities and all of the playtest adventures. With access to the playtesting materials, they’ve been able to weave the Factions and Contacts from our existing adventures into Paint Stockholm Red, so this adventure is actually a great opportunity to meet some of the characters from the official adventures before the game goes to general release.
The important thing about the Best Left Buried and Orbital Blues licences is that they technically prohibit you from using stuff from the setting of those games in your own 3rd party work. Really, if the Duchy of Torre or the Parazzo Family shouldn’t appear in your 3rd party adventures for those systems. With Paint The Town Red however, we want you to mix in these iconic characters into your own adventures and continue the mythos, and we’ve set up the writing of the game from the outset to encourage this and foster the interconnectivity of our universe.
If you want to make some in PTTR adventures of your own, drop me an email to [email protected]. I’ll share the license terms with you, and also tease characters or locations from some of the future adventures if there are specific things you need!
As for Paint Stockholm Red, please support this third party adventure and grab it on Itch. If enough people buy it, we might print it and offer it as a add-on on the project.
One Shot
You might have listened to SuperDillin playing party animal Minnie in the My First Dungeon campaign of Paint The Town Red, but now they’re GMing their own game of PTTR on the OneShot Podcast.
Dillin is running another official adventure, Party of the Century. So our three vampires have been unleashed on our Ancient Rome adventure from the core book! Our guest stars are ZakTheDrak, Sarah Chaffee and Breeedo, and I have been promised that they ‘partied hard and suffered BIG at the end.'
Dillin absolutely *gets* PTTR and I’m so excited to see them GM this amazing game. It comes out tomorrow on Monday, so go check it out wherever you get your podcasts.
If you want to run an actual play of PTTR with one of our unreleased adventure, drop an email to [email protected] and we'll sort you out with some preview material and whatever assets you need!
I’ll be back next week with some information about our Edo adventure.
