Outcast Silver Raiders
A blood-drenched occult medieval roleplaying game in the OSR tradition.
Explore the barbaric theocracy of medieval Europe as seen through a dreadful mirror. Perform forbidden rituals. Feed your blood to dæmons. Spill the guts of your foes over cracked altars, and howl loud to heaven for a forgiveness that will never be granted to your wretched, abominable soul.
Outcast Silver Raiders is a distillation of the OSR in service of an occult medieval vision. The rules work within the familiar framework of old-school Dungeons & Dragons and are popular with thousands of published supplements. Play is fast and simple, focused on exploration and player ingenuity.
People who have never played a tabletop RPG pick up the rules quickly, and experienced gamers appreciate their elegance. If you love the OSR movement or 5E, you will love this game. If you’re unfamiliar with the OSR, this is a great place to start.
Outcast Silver Raiders is a luxury game set that includes everything a group needs to play. This Slipcase Edition includes the Player’s Guide, the Referee’s Compendium, a mammoth-sized campaign book called The Mythic North, and a poster-sized map of the Mythic North.
Occult Medieval Hexcrawl
The Mythic North is a full-sized setting book with over 50 hand-drawn maps, six competing and interwoven factions, 10 towns full of quests and secrets, and 88 unique encounters (mostly characters, not monsters). By rolling a few dice, referees can combine the places and encounters to create thousands of hours of emergent gameplay without ever sacrificing player agency.
Occult means that magic in the world is secret, dangerous, and somewhat unknowable. This is not a fantasy setting where magic is commonplace. This world mirrors our own, where magic is forbidden and strange. Potions are rarer than crow's teeth. Wizards are terrible beings of legend. Monsters are unique and frightening.
Medieval means that the world is a fictional mirror of medieval society. The Church reigns supreme and infests all aspects of life. The gentry stand above the lower classes as superhuman, assured of their rightful dominance by a judgmental god. Medicine means leeches and bleeding. Education is for the rich. Might makes right. The restrictions of this era breed conflict, and conflict creates great stories.
Roleplaying magic made dangerous
Outcast Silver Raiders contains twenty individually illustrated dæmonic rituals. These rituals were inspired by contemporary and historical magical ceremonies, distilling elements of Goetian, Wiccan, and hermetic magical traditions. They require the collection of strange and rare reagents and following detailed physical steps. The rituals are usable in play by any character class. They are steeped in blood and mystery, and add an occult flavor to any role-playing game.
Outcast Silver Raiders is what the televangelists, the hack investigative journalists, and the grasping Hollywood producers imagined when they caused a satanic panic around RPGs in the eighties. Daemons. Darkness. Sacrifice. Blood spilling over cracked altars in desecrated chapels. Players portray brutal warriors, clever rogues, and conniving sorcerers who reject the barbaric theocracy of medieval society to seek fortune and glory as outcasts beyond the reach of lords or God.
Mature advisory:
Like a death metal album or a horror movie, this game explores some dark facets of the human experience. It contains depictions of torture, slavery, cannibalism, self-harm, suicide, violence involving children, violence involving animals, and sexual violence. It depicts fictionalized versions of real-world religions that some may find offensive. Understand the limits of your own appetite for horror before proceeding.
Text and Design Isaac VanDuyn
Illustrations Kim Diaz Holm
Calligraphy Lex Rocket
Editing Paul VanDuyn
Player’s Guide, 64 pages, 6” x 9” hardcover, anti-scuff matte finish, full color interior, ribbon bookmark, 80 lb. gloss paper stock, useful tables and charts printed in the end papers, PDF included.
Referee’s Compendium, 144 pages, 6” x 9” hardcover, anti-scuff matte finish, full color interior, ribbon bookmark, 80 lb. gloss paper stock, useful tables and charts printed in the end papers, PDF included.
The Mythic North, 320 pages, 6” x 9” hardcover, anti-scuff matte finish, full color interior, ribbon bookmark, 80 lb. gloss paper stock, useful tables and charts printed in the end papers, PDF included.
Double-sided 12” x 18” full-color hex map of The Mythic North.
Full-color, durable, illustrated slipcase to contain all three books and the map.
