The Longest Rest is a brand new RPG crowdfunding now that wishes to discover the horror of spending the night time in a tavern.

“You gather in a tavern, taking shelter from the road. Four strangers from disparate beginnings united to find common purpose.”

So begins many an RPG. In reality, assembly or spending the night time in a tavern goes past RPG, it’s a hoary outdated fantasy scene, repeated repeatedly. Iconic and customary sufficient that it’s develop into a meme all its personal. The Longest Rest needs to vary the best way you consider spending the night time at a tavern, in a darkish, horror-fueled spin on the fantasy staple.

Designed by the multi-award-winning Jeeyon Shim, whose previous work contains the superb Field Guide to Memory and The Shape of Shadows and has been seen all over the place from The Verge to Polygon, The Longest Rest seems to be extremely cool.

The Longest Rest

At the center of The Longest Rest is the concept typically, getting your coronary heart’s need can price you all the pieces. As you and your companions come to relaxation within the tavern your deepest desires and darkest secrets and techniques manifest:

A small band of vacationers arrives at a tavern. Filthy, spent, and weary of their limitless journey, they eagerly cross the tavern’s threshold to hunt respite from the mud of the street and the burden of their very own sins. But within the tavern, the rooms are larger on the within than they’re exterior. Lodgers wake within the night time to see their darkest secrets and techniques coalesce earlier than them, made flesh. The partitions develop arms to embrace them.

And the tavern presents everybody the identical discount: your coronary heart’s need, in change to your humanity.

If studying that doesn’t ship shivers up your backbone, I don’t know what to inform you. It’s visceral. You can really feel the burden of it. It takes a spot of relaxation and turns it on its head. Fans of fantasy and lovers of horror will acknowledge all the most effective earmarks of their genres in a sport like this:

Once the gamers’ characters enter the tavern, their outsider standing and the secretive rituals of the tavern’s inhabitants will ring true to followers of folks horror. Themes of the land reclaiming itself by the vengeful avatar of the tavern have acquainted eco-horror anchors. And because the motion picks up over the course of the sport and characters are subsumed, one after the other, the sport’s physique horror components will make themselves referred to as plainly as a ruptured artery.

Players tackle the position of one among six completely different Travelers. Will you play the Sellsword, a former knight and dishonored mercenary? Or the crafty Consort, a courtesan in hiding, looking for vengeance? And will you claw your approach out of the tavern?

The solely solution to discover out is to again the sport, crowdfunding now on Indiegogo. There are three completely different tiers out there for a wide range of budgets. And you may snag some luxurious rewards as properly. Don’t miss out on an 8×10 archival high quality artwork print, an actual leather-based coin purse, or an precise engraved pewter tankard. Or higher but: a Damascus metal pocket knight with bone deal with, brass fittings, and customized engraving.

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Bell of Lost Souls Staff Writer and DM, J.R. covers RPGs of all stripes and every now and then eats sandwiches. You can ask him about both at [email protected]

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