Paint The Town Red - Quickstart

Something very bad happened to you a very long time ago: you died and it fucking hurt. 

Your blood is cold, but your skin is colder. Your heart might as well be made of stone. Your memory is like treacle. Sometimes, you even remember to blink. 

Being dead sucks, but I know what will make you feel better. Wet your mouth a little, have a drink! It’s time for a party. Let’s…

Paint The Town Red

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Paint The Town Red is a sad vampire RPG from SoulMuppet Publishing, created by Zachary Cox (Orbital Blues, Inevitable, Best Left Buried) and with art direction from Johan Nohr (MÖRK BORG, CY_BORG, Into The Odd). This is a game about depression, partying and falling in love, and explores themes of trauma, vice and loneliness. 

Your characters are vampires, afflicted with the Curse of Undeath. Being dead feels horrid, and the goal of every character is to chase the sensation of feeling alive and escape the rot they feel in their soul.  

Paint The Town Red is set in the greatest cities throughout history, where the Dead mass together to form an active nightlife. Sessions of Paint The Town Red feel more like boozy nights out on the town than heroic quests, complete with pre-drinks, loud music, smoking areas and hangovers. 

This 94 page book is a Quickstart to the full game, coming to Kickstarter in September 2024, and contains our first adventure: A MODERN BABYLON, set on the streets of Victorian London in 1862. The characters will become embroiled in London’s pulsing nightlife, facing off against a gang of werewolves, undead agents of the British Empire, and the lich who dwells in the Tower of London. None of them will take kindly to your characters spoiling their perfect immortality.