Gangworld: Effing Faeries and Dark Dominatrixes

Gangworld is a series of short supplements for D&D 3x (OGL d20), each describing a criminal organization. They are both low on crunchy mechanics, high on usable story items. The supplements are short, but well worth the $0.99 each for the PDFs.

Gangworld: Fucking Faeries describes a group of corrupt Seelie Court faeries who "exploit their Seelie Court connections to control local weather and natural phenomena, and their Unseelie Court connections to kidnap, assassinate, and spy from the shadows." The PDF presents history, acitivites, organization, adventure seeds, and Winter and Summer Fey races for use as PCs or NPCs. Basically, these are the go-to guys to put a hurt on someone, while making it look like natural causes. This PDF is 5 pages, but the last page is basically OGL license boilerplate.

Gangworld: Dark Dominatrixes presents an all-female drow gang that "poses as dealers in exotic vices and forbidden pleasures, while hiding a much darker and deadlier secret." The drow run a chain of brothels and strip clubs. They also are heavily (and secretly) into slave trading. This PDF is three pages long. It includes no mechanical, crunchy parts and therefore has no OGL license page.

Both PDFs are well written. They both present concepts that would fit into any urban fantasy setting, though both are written with D&D 3x / D20 in mind. The Gangworld series seems to be a mashup between D&D and a 1930s style gangster film. The art work is well done (anime style), though limited to just a color cover and a black and white repurposing of that cover image. Both PDFs contain what should be a link to the creators' homepage (http://postmortemstudios.wordpress.com) but that link fails. Perhaps their PDF creator stripped the link?

I give both PDFs a 3 out of 5 for style, layout, and art, 4/5 for writing/usability. Not enough mechanics to really rate on that front, but that's okay. Adapting these to a non D20 engine would be an easy task.

I'd be willing to use these products in an urban D&D game. I might change the names to kind of reduce the camp, but otherwise, excellent work.

http://postmortemstudios.wordpress.com