Pyramid Review: Tales That Dead Men Tell

Pyramid Review

Tales That Dead Men Tell

Published by Basement Games

Written by Mark Kibbe

44 pages, $9.95

Tales That Dead Men Tell is a new adventure for Basement Games' Forge: Out of Chaos RPG. Their first adventure, The Vemora, was a neat little traditional dungeon crawl. In TTDMT, the setting and plot is more ambitious.

Kamon Manor is a cursed, disgraced ruin. Once the home of the wealthy and powerful Kamon family, it all fell apart when Lord Kamon was accused of being in league with a powerful thieves' guild. When the guards came to arrest him, his eldest son was killed trying to defend him, his younger son disappeared, his wife was arrested (and died in prison shortly thereafter), and Lord Kamon was executed on the spot.

The manor has fallen into disrepair. Local peasants refuse to work the fields, complaining of eerie chills and evil spirits. Nothing grows much there, anyway. But a little while ago, the manor bell began to chime at dawn and dusk, just the way Kamon used to do it to drive away spirits the superstitious peasants were afraid of. The nearest town sent a patrol of guards to investigate. They never returned.

Enter the player-characters, of course. Hired to investigate the mysteries of Kamon Manor, they find . . . well, that would be telling. But there is a lot going on in the slim 44 pages of this book, with multiple factions, several ghostly presences, evil wizards, monsters, treasure, and a chance to see an old wrong righted.

This is a well-constructed . . .

This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.



Article publication date: October 8, 1999

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