Spire of Quetzel HC

In the The Spire of Quetzel book, four prominent creators in the OSR-movement present their versions of what an adventure site for Forbidden Lands could look like.

Patrick Stuart (author of the magnificent Veins of the Earth) takes us on a dizzying dimension-hopping ride in The Spire of Quetzel, where the adventurers encounter the different personalities of a Demon-Queen in a psychological nightmare of an adventure site that would make Michael Moorcock proud.

Chris McDowall (creator of the acclaimed Into the Odd) invites us to a strange building at the top of a cliff, where a particularly dysfunctional family of demons is incarcerated. The Bright Vault is an infernal drama that could very well have been the illegitimate love child of Ingmar Bergman and Clive Barker.

Relationships are the focal point of Ben Milton’s (creator of the brilliant Maze Rats RPG) adventure site Hexenwald as well, where five strong women stand in the fore, and wandering corpses cause trouble in an otherwise peaceful location.

Last, but not least, Karl Stjernberg (creator of the post-apocalyptic Rad-Hack) cranks the pulpometer to the max and treats the adventurers to The Graveyard of Thunder, complete with rolling thunder, flesh-eating prehistoric lizards, and cruel orc warriors. Four authors, four visions of what Forbidden Lands can be.

It is now your turn to discover these places, so step through the Silver Door and journey to another world!