VANISHING TOWER PRESS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Jay Murphy, Vanishing Tower Press, jay@vanishingtowerpress.com
First Two Books in Deluxe USR Sword & Sorcery RPG Series Deliver Rules-Light Classic Pulp-Fantasy
Aspen, CO - Vanishing
Tower Press is pleased to announce the release of the first two books for the Deluxe USR Sword & Sorcery roleplaying game in print-on-demand (POD) format on
DriveThruRPG. Deluxe USR Sword & Sorcery delivers
classic pulp-fantasy using the Unbelievably Simple Roleplaying (USR) engine, a
rules-lite system customized for adventurers who live—and often die—by the
terrible swift sword.
USR Sword & Sorcery Deluxe
Book One: Characters, Combat, and Carousing and Book Two: Mass Combat and
Magic feature never-before-printed mass
combat rules for the game, as well as carousing, an expanded magic
section, and more.
"I grew up
reading Sword & Sorcery by Robert E. Howard, Michael Moorcock, Lyn Carter,
and other writers who gave us heroes and anti-heroes that carved up their
world one sword stroke at a time," said Jay Murphy, the game's designer.
"This is a love letter to the genre and it utilizes a rules-light formula
that stays out of the way and lets game masters (called Crypt Keepers in the
game) and players get right into their own bold adventures."
The soft-cover POD
format in a comfortable A5 size, just like they did in the old days. Book
One: Characters, Combat, and Carousing is 50 pages B/W with a price of
$12.25. Book Two: Mass Combat and Magic is 40 pages B/W, with
a price of $12.06. The retro-styled game is written by adventure writer Jay
Murphy and includes new art by Jeremy Hart, Daniel Hernandez, Gennifer Bone,
Michael Gibbons, David Lewis Johnson, Earl Geier, Joyce Maureira, Luigi Castellani,
and Miguel Santos.
"I believe the
artists commissioned for this project delivered illustrations which match the
fevered-pitch of combat prevalent in the wonderful books that inspired this
game," said Murphy. "The line art really give the books the feel of
the game's simple, but exhilarating, combat rules."
Murphy has previously
published old-school adventures, including Purging Woth Nrld Oekwn’s
Muddy Hole, a 40-page adventure that pits PCs against a well-organized
tribe of troglodytes and alien slime, which 10 Foot Pole's Bryce Lynch
said was, "full of evocative writing and interesting interactive
encounters. And is non-standard as all get out."
Deluxe USR Sword &
Sorcery Book Three: Worlds of Adventure, featuring the sinister and savage world of Xoth,
will be released in the near future.
Vanishing Tower Press
is happy to arrange interviews with the author and PDF copies for online
reviews. Direct all inquires to jay@vanishingtowerpress.com.