Pan, His Majesty in Yellow (Print + PDF)
WINNER of Best Story Telling and Nominated for both Best Game and Best Experience for the 2023 Wandies, from Wandering Monster Podcast!
LINK to awards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTnQOGXCmhs
Pan, His Majesty in Yellow is a fairy tale cosmic horror sandbox campaign setting, combining the lore of Peter Pan, Hastur, Neverland, and Carcosa into a strange and unique gaming experience.
This book is designed for use with Old-School Essentials Advanced Fantasy, and is therefore compatible with the Basic/Expert (BX) edition of Dungeons & Dragons—as well as most other OSR games and retroclones.
After purchase, you will receive the PDF download link within 1-2 business days.
Full color, hardcover; US Letter (8.5" x 11")
DISCLAIMER:
The game's art and imagery were created in early 2021, and some art assets used the WOMBO AI-assisted image filter (before it was WOBO Dream). This was all before the author or anyone else knew about the unethical practices most AI models use to train their imagery. At that time, WOMBO advertised itself as more of an image filter, much like Google's Deep Dream (circa 2015), and over a year before any known media were talking about the ethical concerns over AI. WOMBO, in the version which was used to filter some of the imagery in this book, was released almost 3 years before Midjourney, for example, and was used as a filtering tool. The author's choice to use WOMBO was to help create dreamlike and amorphous imagery, to channel the feeling of a dark and strange Neverland.
It is the author, Wayne Robert's, stance and belief—as well as that of Ability Score Games—that AI-generated imagery, in its current incarnation, is unethical and untenable. Until or unless AI models can demonstrably prove they are only trained on fairly and legally obtained images and data, we believe AI imagery should not be used. This was the author's first, only, and last foray into using AI-assisted image filtering, and this version of the book will never be reprinted in its current form. If there are future reprints, it will only be after the AI imagery has been replaced by art which did not use AI filters or other AI assistance.