And has been shipped to backers too…
You can purchase hardcopies of…
and my other works…
…over on Lulu.com
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#RPG – Gor Video & Blog Interview
I also gave an interview over on this blog.
If you would like to have me on your blog, stream, podcast or otherwise to talk about the game and the various other issues it touches on, let me know. Doesn’t matter if you’re big or small, nasty or nice, I’d love the opportunity to talk.
#RPG – The Gor RPG is RELEASED!
THIS GAME DEALS WITH COMPLEX ADULT THEMES AND CONTAINS ARTISTIC NUDITY. MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY.
The day is finally here, long overdue!
The Gor RPG is now on sale, in PDF, while we wait for print proofs.
You can buy the two books that make up the game at RPGNOW/DrivethruRPG.
GOR CATEGORY AT RPGNOW/POSTMORTEM STUDIOS
World of Gor is the encyclopaedia of the game world, but has been written and organised in such a way that the RPG is not necessary to get use from the book. It is intended as a much wider resource for fans of the Gorean Cycle as a whole to inspire and reference while working on fan projects or re-reading the series.
Tales of Gor has basic world information – enough to play with – but is incomplete without the World of Gor book. This contains the rules for making and playing characters for the harsh and exciting life of the Counter Earth.
Our first adventure, The Tower of Art, is also already out, and contains additional supplementary material for the game. Future adventures will work the same way, serving double-duty to provide more game information and rules alongside adventures set on Gor (or even, perhaps Earth or somewhere even more exotic).
If you need a preview before making the jump, you’ll also find a preview document that you can download for free at the same link.
We have a lot of support and material planned for the future and this will, likely be the best supported line of Postmortem Studios products.
World of Gor
World of Gor collects the lore of the Gorean cycle of novels by John Norman into one reference volume, intended for use alongside the Tales of Gor roleplaying game. This reference work will also be useful to Gorean roleplayers and fans of all kinds, roleplayers or not as a resource for fan fiction, roleplaying and Gorean activities of all kinds.
Illustrated in striking style by celebrated fetish and comic book artist Michael Manning (main website, Patreon, Tumblr, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, Fetlife, Spidergarden) this book is also a visual treat for fans of Gor, giving his unique interpretation to Gor, its creatures and its people.
John Norman’s works by permission of the author and the author’s agents Richard Curtis Associates, Inc. John Norman’s works are published by Open Road Media
Tales of Gor
Tales of Gor brings you into a striking world of science-fantasy roleplaying. Born from the Gorean Cycle (34 books) by John Norman, Tales of Gor brings you to The Counter Earth. A world of contradictions, freedom and slavery, science and fantasy, primitive violence and high technology ripe for adventure.
While two great alien powers vie for control of the solar system their plans play out on two worlds, Earth and Gor. Will you take sides or simply strive to survive in a hostile world of gigantic animals, powerful city states and cunning machinations?
Powered by Open D6, Tales of Gor lets you step into this long-running series of science-fantasy novels and carve your own future on the Counter-Earth.
Illustrated in striking style by celebrated fetish and comic book artist Michael Manning (Spider Garden, Tranceptor) this book is also a visual treat for fans of Gor, giving his unique interpretation to Gor, its creatures and its people.
John Norman’s works by permission of the author and the author’s agents Richard Curtis Associates, Inc. John Norman’s works are published by Open Road Media
Press & Publicity
This is a big project for us and one we really want to succeed. As such I am looking to appear and talk on as many blogs, podcasts, livestreams and youtube shows as possible to talk about the game, the Gorean Cycle and any related issues or topics anyone wants to ask about. If you have such an outlet – no matter how small – please get in touch at grim@postmort.demon.co.uk and we’ll arrange something.
#RPG Tales of Gor PDF has ‘shipped’ to backers
If you backed our World of Gor/Tales of Gor Indiegogo campaign you should now be getting the download link for the second book (the RPG book) in your email.
Some people’s email links appear to be out of date though, as I’ve had a few bounced emails. So please a) check your spam folders and b) check your contact information is correct. The download link expires in a week.
You can contact me at grim@postmort.demon.co.uk if there’s any problems that need fixing.
I am now finalising the – subtly different – PoD files and will be ordering proofs. So hardcopies should start to ship in about a week.
Both PDFs should go on sale this weekend for the general public.
Quaff a horn of mead in the name of Torvald!
Ta Sardar Gor!
#RPG World of Gor PDF has shipped to backers
If you backed our World of Gor/Tales of Gor Indiegogo campaign you should now be getting the download link for it in your email.
Some people’s email links appear to be out of date though, as I’ve had a few bounced emails. So please a) check your spam folders and b) check your contact information is correct. The download link expires in a week.
You can contact me at grim@postmort.demon.co.uk if there’s any problems that need fixing.
The RPG book that goes with this one – Tales of Gor – is in final layout and should be available in a few days to backers, a little longer for non backers.
The print version will take longer as proofs need to be received and cleared.
Still, let’s raise a cup of paga in celebration!
Ta Sardar Gor!
#RPG – The Tower of Art RELEASED!
Buy it HERE
Hardcopy available at LULU
The Tower of Art is the first adventure/supplement for Tales of Gor, the Gorean Roleplaying Game.
As an introductory scenario this supplement presents a relatively simple and easy example
of such an adventure, as well as resources and additional material to improve your games (and the value of this supplement).
This adventure is designed for a typical group of 4-6 starting characters. It has a variety of
challenges for them to face in order to get players used to both the system and some of the aspects of Gor that new players may not be familiar with.
This supplement forms the model for future supplements. An adventure – with resources for
the Games Master – along with additional rules, ideas and thoughts that can make games better for everyone.
Ta Sardar Gor!
#RPG Tales of Gor Preview Released!
Chronicles of Gor – Worldbook Sample ‘D’
Desert Kaiila: The desert kaiila is similar to the kaiila used by the wagon people. A lofty, silken, long-necked creature it has a smooth gait and a proud bearing. The desert kaiila stands around twenty hands at the shoulder and is a swift runner with great stamina, able to cover over six-hundred pasangs in a day. While a swift and useful mount, desert kaiila are also temperamental and vicious. Desert kaiila are almost always tawny in color and unlike the more common kaiila suckle their young. Desert kaiila milk is reddish, with a strong salty taste and a high level of iron. Desert kaiila are omnivorous with broad, heavy, padded paws with webbed toes. This keeps them more stable on the sand, and especially in the dunes.
Observations:
I have a hard enough time with horses. Mounting a predatory, stinking, pest-ridden beast in the heat of the desert and before men who were born to the saddle is much worse than mounting a horse. The worse you can get with a horse is trodden on, the worst with kaiila is eaten. At least the desert breed is somewhat more mellow than the northern kaiila and as content to munch on plants as people.
Gorean Chronicles: Art by Michael Manning
The artist we hope to use throughout both books, Chronicles of Gor and World of Gor, is Michael Manning.
Michael Manning (born 1963) is an American comic book artist and writer, fine art illustrator, and traditionally trained animator currently based in Los Angeles, California. He is best known for his graphic novel series, The Spider Garden and Tranceptor, which combine elements of pan-sexual fetishism and BDSM culture with complex characters in science fiction and fantasy settings. He is also active in the supernatural horror and fantasy genres, drawing adaptations of the work of authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, and Alexandre Dumas for the Graphic Classics comics anthology series, as well as illustrating an anachronistic version of the German folk epic, The Nibelungen.
The more money we have, the more Michael we can afford, so please, help FUND IT.
These are prelim sketches for one piece, if you want to see what his finished work looks like, please click on The Nibelungen link above.
Michael’s style is stark, graphically intense and most importantly – different. He will give Gor a distinctive and definitive style and visual appeal.
Chronicles of Gor – Worldbook sample ‘C’
Caste System: Civilized Gor exists within a well developed and life-shaping caste structure. Everyone is born into a caste and, for the most part, will not change caste during their life. It is possible to, by companionship, apprenticeship or being accepted and initiated into the new caste, but most grow up proud of their caste and eager to take on its duties.
Children are considered to be of their father’s caste while female companions can retain their own caste or join their companion’s caste. While every caste has its secrets and its pride, regarding itself as essential, there are still divisions between the high castes and the low castes.
Rulers – administrators and Ubars – always come from the high castes and are advised by a council drawn from the high castes, though the Ubar need pay them no heed. Indeed, if a low caste ruler should ever rise, superstition tells that the city will fall to ruin.
Castes look after their own, providing caste sanctuary, contributing to caste based charities and taking part in entertainments and competitions determined by caste. Not all members born to a caste are necessarily talented enough to take up the main job associated with that caste. The physicians, for example, can only make the subtleties of their advanced medicine known to the most intelligent of those who enter the caste. Others may find work delivering medical products, working to grind ingredients or acting as couriers, taking scrolls of recipes and discoveries from one city to another.
Male children are trained in the workings of the caste from birth, alongside the rest of their education while women are not typically trained in the skills of the caste until they have given birth to two children. Despite this, many women run households, small businesses or make businesses of hobbies. They also often act as the ‘front’ of the caste, representatives of the rest of their caste in negotiations.
Outlaws and slaves lose their caste rights, though a freed slave may be able to reclaim them.
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