In the last post of this week devoted to Lamentations of the Flame Princess today I will talk about the adventure No Salvation For Witches written by Rafael Chandler.
before starting the review itself I must warn you that I recommend this adventure only to adult players who do not care about the mix of miages that can be considered NSFW, mainly nudes and elements of splatter films (surely you had seen that this acronym corresponds to the adventure title, mor information about it below), so I avoided putting to explicit photos of some contents.
It's also necessary to take in account that this adventue it's not easy to direct, so referees will have to do a an effort prepaing it previously to assure a correct performance.
Analyzing No Salvation For Witches
No Salvation For Witches takes place in our real worls, in the 17th century following the orientation James Raggi is implementing for Lamentations of the Flame Princess (as I explained in the first post of this thematic week), and more specifically in teh England of the end of 1620s, during the Price revolution.
This period is characterised by a huge inflation commomly associated to the flux of gold and silver form the Crown of Castile possessions in the New World leading to a sixfold rise in the cost of life, including food, from the second half of the 15th century to the second half of the 17th, this with a population increase in Europe after the Black Death caused major famines.
The most important location where the action of this adventure unfolds is the Priory of Caversdale, a place I suppose to be imaginary as I have'nt found any information about it, although the closest name I found is Caversfield, a parish in Buckinghamshire county. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the rise of Anglican Church the priory was abandoned auntil four years ago when abbot Richard Grey and his congregation arrived at the place and made Caversdale a worship center again attending those in need thanks to the discovery of the wealth hidden ther, so everything seems fine, right?
Well, it may not, as the coming of the sorceress Orelia Woolcott and her group of dancing girls will complicate the situation in Caversdale and those places near the priory in unsuspected ways I will not give away so as not spoil the fun...
Player Characters, whether bandits who would not mind taking over the Caversdale treasure, authority representatives sent to investigate the strange events which may occur in the zone or simply a group trapped by the situation will have to face what will happen in the coming hours, wheter it's good or bad, all depends on the eye of the beholder...
Leaving aside these veiled allusions to teh adventure plot (which in fact don't reveal anything) I can explain you that the referee will find gaming stats for Lamentations (easily converted to similar games) of Orelia Woolcott and her followers and other Non Playing Characters and Creatures in Caversdale and near it as well as magical objects and the spell book Tract of Teratology, containing instructions for summoning entities in the game, the perfect complement for the magic artifacts described in Realms of Crawling Chaos, which I reviewed in this post of the OSR Week.
Trivia about the book
The publishing process of this adventure is a bit special, as the gathering of funds for printing it was carried out through a patronage campaign at Indiegogo under the premise of the Pay What You Want (PWYW) pay scheme which I devoted a post in year 2013, so you could have the book for only 1 € plus shipping costs.
The title of teh book is itself a reference to the English expresion Not Suitable/Safe For Work (NSFW), used in Internet to mark contents no suitable to read at work, including pornographic, gore, violent or offensive contents.
Gaming aids
As aids for these adventure I offer links to the book The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church by A. Hamilton Thompson at The Gutenberg Project (for obtaining more data about English churches internal disposition) and the book Malleus Malleficarum by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, for which I offer links to the article at Wikipedia in Spanish, Catalan and English (for being complementary to each other) and links to Wikisource and The Malleus Maleficarum, because although the work was condemned by the Catholic Church in 1490 it was still used in secular trials during 16th and 17th centuries, so it can be a reference work for an Inquisitor apprentice during the adventure.
Conclusions
No Salvation For Witches is the ideal adventure for those people who like terror cinema in its aspect of gore comedy like the film Braindead (1992) (IMDb | Wikipedia) for instance.
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