Of the Rakuli

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• The preview contains the whole product. Shame on the buyer for not taking advantage of that fact.

  • You are not wrong

• Presumably it's not even a new or novel "ancient evil race"? Tell us which Lovecraft story these Rakuli are swiped from? Alternatively what bad Sci-Fi show, or worse what misunderstanding of actual historical people has the author decided to use as the dressing for that old trope of cosmic evil? What about ancient medioctities. Ancient races who were nuanced, maybe even on the whole ok? No. It's always "Ancient space squids/apes/crabs/bugs/elves with Aztec/Chinese/Sumerian style who are (they slumber) wholly evil!"

  Whatever the questions are Drive Thru's labelling might be, I'm more chagrined by the impression that this is a paragraph worth of pseudo-Lovecraftian fluff stretched to over 50 pages?

  • Interesting name - Swiped from somewhere perhaps? We're sorry you're not impressed by the publication but I'm afraid your take is not entirely correct. The Rakuli ARE a nuanced species, representing the full range of alignments and very much intended as a rival to the Human race for higher-level parties. If you read this supplement you'll see there's a lot more to them.
    You are correct that there is a Loftcraftian influence, but there is also a Silurian feel (from Dr Who). After all, an ancient race sleeping beneath the world surface waiting for a time to awaken is hardly unique to old HP or his mates Mr Derleth and Mr Smith. And they are not really sleeping, but you can find out more about that if you read it.
    Seriously though, it's a resource. It's priced low and we think it is pretty good value for money in terms of the breadth with lots of interesting ideas, locations and powers to consider.
    Dunromin University Press is a publisher based around interesting, useful and fun products at maximum value for money. You can get even more if you go for the Barnaynian Bundle.

• I get the distinct impression that the author, as a twelve year old killer DM, took one look at the Fiend Folio entry for the githyanki and thought, "These guys are underpowered." Of course, young Charles Stross, constrained by editors, didn't bequeath fifty pages of fluff to us.

  Twelve year old me would have loved this. Scanning through the PDF, I was surprised that Neutral Good was one of the possible alignments, which immediately made me suspect that the author has a NG DMPC, probably a fighter/M-U with a flumph familiar. Inject that right into my veins!!!!

• The people that put everything in the OSR section are the spiritual successors to the ebay sellers with listings like "L@@K! Gothic/Industrial/Steampunk pink terrycloth bathrobe".

  • LOL

• Hi All,
  Just a quick update on the product reviewed here.
  Since we re-developed the whole Dunromin product range for Print on Demand we don't offer the products on Pay What You Want any more, but we have reduced the prices as well, so this product is now less that $2 but you also have print options (softback and hardback).
  We'd also like to clarify that it is advertised and labled as a Supplement, not an adventure. We do have a range of excellent adventures as well though, all priced at bargainous levels.
  Dunromin University Press is a very small Publisher producing the best quality products we can maange for the love of the game, fun and amusement rather than making shedloads of cash. That said, our operating costs are increasing so we have had to abandon our "Pay What You Want" policy of the past. Sorry about that.