SoulMuppet’s latest role playing game explodes onto the scene in a shower of hedonistic gore October 10th 2024!

Paint the Town Red is a joyful thrill ride through history, taking players on a tour of the high (and low) points of undead society. As a sad gay vampire, they’ll do anything to indulge their passions, causing untold chaos in their wake. When everything around them is drenched in blood (or on fire) they’ll have to move on and find somewhere else to trash.   

Our gore-drenched crowdfunding campaign features a whole coterie of add-ons and stretch goals suited to any taste. These include things like blood-soaked dice (keep your mortal eyes peeled for pictures of these later) and more content for this, the greatest vampire party ever thrown. 

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The Campaign

This crowdfunding campaign aims to build on the quickstart, unleashing a coterie of sad gay vampires onto your tabletops. We’ll be teaming up with some fantastic writers to bring six undead cities to life, each one on the brink of collapsing into a chaotic orgy of blood-soaked hedonism.  

We’re bringing this book to life with a beautiful hardcover book, with easy to reference but evocative layout by Mina McJanda and Johan Nohr. We’ve brought on a huge stable of talented artists and writers who have captured the whole spectrum of undead life across various histories and cultures.  We’re also expanding on GMs advice for running the game, character creation for other types of undead (like zombies, skeletons, liches, ghouls, werewolves and ghosts), and tools for building new cities and crafting your own adventures.

Adventures and Prop Packs

Alongside the core book, we’re creating six unique adventures, each one shining a red-tinted spotlight on a new city’s undead nightlife. Three of these are included in the core book, one in the quickstart, while the other two are delivered as a stylish prop pack, perfect for unveiling at your table. 

The centrepiece of each adventure is a map produced by vampiric cartographer Aloysius King, detailing the lurks, haunts and key locations for each faction. The map itself is printed on a folding sheet of A2, large enough for everyone to see in play. The details of each city and the undead creatures that stalk them are set out in a bifold A4 pamphlet, lavishly illustrated to match Al King’s spectacular work. A set of 18 tarot cards contains more detail on the Contacts you can meet and the Locations and Factions you can visit in each city. All these elements are contained within a tactile C4 manilla envelope. 

The six adventures are as follows:

• Party of the Century: 82AD in the Eternal City. Written by Zachary Cox.
• Hair of the Dog: 802 AD in Aachen. Written by Zachary Cox.
• Party Crashing in Splendid Ghazni: 1016 AD in Ghazni. Written by Basheer Ghouse. 
• Sleeping Dead World: 1857 AD in Edo. Written by Hipólita.
• A Modern Babylon: London in 1862 AD. Written by Zachary Cox.
• It Never Sleeps: New York in 1920 AD. Written by Brian Flaherty and Elliot Davis.

Luxuries and Add-ons

What would a party be without a little luxury? 

In the past we’ve teamed up with Creative Quest for fancy editions of Best Left Buried and Inevitable. As soon as we mentioned Vampires she was already sending us ideas and suggestions for beautiful old leather tomes bursting with undead. What’s more, we’re in talks with a fantastic UK dice maker to create a limited run of blood-soaked vampire dice. 

The Undying Edition is the perfect companion for any budding scion of the night. It’s a handmade luxury binding of the core book created by Creative Quest UK. The corebook has been bound in black leather, with embossing, vampire bat detailing and a central blood red gem. The book edges have also been coated in black, so it blends perfectly into the shadows for maximum Duplicity and Allure.

At SoulMuppet, we've got a proven track record of producing beautiful hardcover RPGs with tight rules, luscious art and design that prioritise both aesthetics and useability. We’ve partnered with a stunning array of writers, artists and creatives to bring this project to another level. 

Help us bring these sad vampires to (un)life now on BackerKit!