Worlds Without Master: Omnibus Bundle
Worlds Without Master is an adventure fiction and gaming ezine featuring sword & sorcery short stories and games from Epidiah Ravachol as well as many others.
This Omnibus Bundle contains all 11 extant issues of Worlds Without Master. You get 11 PDFs, the contents of which include:
10 Original Tabletop RPGs
- Enter the Avenger, a roleplaying game of swords, sorcery, and the troubling insecurities of vengeance by Rafu (Raffaele Manzo) and its supplement New Places, Meet Interesting People & Visit Retribution Upon Them
- Wolfspell, a roleplaying game about wolves with the human blood in their veins, by Epidiah Ravachol
- Swords Without Master. A sword & sorcery roleplaying game by Epidiah Ravachol
- Sorceress Bloody Sorceress, a game of intrigue, murder and, of course, sorcery by Epidiah Ravachol
- A Scoundrel in the Deep, a game of darkness and fire by Renato Ramonda and Flavio Mortarino
- Invisible Empire, a game of wondrous and horrifying geography by Epidiah Ravachol
- No Longer With Us, a game about what happens when adventures gather to lay a companion to rest by Dymphna Coy and Josh T. Jordan
- Masks of the Mummy Kings, a game tomb robbery and hidden identity by Nathan D. Paoletta
- The Dread Geas of Duke Vulku, a game of horror and wonder based on the game Dread by the original author, Epidiah Ravachol
- Amazons, a game of adventure and devotion by Vincent Baker
22 Tales Of Swords & Sorcery
- “In Ssef Seat: the Cannibal Queen,” a tale of dark debauchery from D. Vincent Baker and the debut adventure of the scofflaw Jakko Orange
- "Strange Bireme," a tale of fishermen and stars featuring Manyara & Snorri written by Epidiah Ravachol
- "One Winter's Due," a story about vengeance, family and crossed oaths, by Epidiah Ravachol
- "Historia Imperio--Part 1," the beginning of the history of Keith Senkowski's Conspiracy of Shadows world, fiction and cartography by Keith himself
- "A Slaying in Smoke," a story about cults and fashion, by Epidiah Ravachol
- "In Taruve: the Merchant Train" another tale of Jakko Orange and his "niece" Tam-tam by D. Vincent Baker
- "Two Swords of Mars,” a tale of swashbuckling upon the red planet, by Rose Bailey
- “The Prize of Banteteth,” another Snorri & Manyara tale by Epidiah Ravachol
- "The Trial of the Crimson Ribbon," a tale of insufferable and indomitable curses by Jason Keeley
- "Day of the Coward," a tale of survival in an altered state of consciousness by Epidiah Ravachol
- "From Salted Earth," a tale of necromancy and redemption by Evan Dicken
- "The Pebble Ballad," an epistolary tale of century-spanning sorcery by Epidiah Ravachol (Available to read for free on Medium)
- "Three Came Upon a Fire," a tale of fire, storm, and other tales by Epidiah Ravachol (Available to read for free on Medium)
- "The Spider & the Forest Apes," a tale of with a monstrous protagonist by Dylan Craine
- "In Pankech: the Ghost's Chambers," another Jakko Orange and Tam-tam adventure by Vincent Baker
- "In Search of a Slaying," a tale of patience and hunger by Epidiah Ravachol (Available to read for free on Medium)
- "Nine Years of Mourning," a tale of a vengeance that crosses the world by P.H. Lee;
- "High Upon the Table of the World," the tale of a doomed hunt by Epidiah Ravachol (Available to read for free on Medium)
- "Because I Clasp the Clouds As Mine," a tale of a shifting identity by Osmond Arnesto
- "The Hoard of Yengra," a tale of commerce and justice by Epidiah Ravachol (Available to read for free on Medium)
- "The Shape of the World," a tale of sorcerous rivalry, ancient love and death by Epidiah Ravachol (Available to read for free on Medium)
- "The Spirits of the Forest Apes," another monstrous tale of Kassmamon the Ranger by Dylan Craine
3 Original Comics
- "Oh, the Beating Drum!" a sword & sorcery comic from Bryant Paul Johnson across 8 installments
- Issue 7: Barbarian Lord, a comic by Matt Smith
- Shel Kahn's comic "Wolf Neighbours" across 2 installments
Original Artwork in Each Issue From:
- Issue 1: Ed Heil, Storn Cook, and Tazio Bettin
- Issue 2: Shel Kahn, Delfino Falciani, and Andrew DeFelice
- Issue 3: Steven Austin, Jeremy Duncan, Ed Heil, Storn Cook, and Chris L. Kimball
- Issue 4: Gary McCluskey and Jon Taylor
- Issue 5: Russell Ashley, Juan Ochoa, and Manuela Soriani
- Issue 6: Delfino Falciani, Ed Heil, and Eric Quigley
- Issue 7: Gennifer Bone, Chris L. Kimball, and Juan Ochoa
- Issue 8: Nate Marcel, Patricia Smith, and Jabari Weathers
- Issue 9: Jeff Brown, Maegan Cook, Andrew DeFelice, Delfino Falciani, Tina X Filic, Ed Heil, Jenna Kass, Chris L. Kimball, Dagmara Matuszak, Lorenzo Palermo, Eric Quigley, Andrea Scott, Kim Sokol, and Jabari Weathers
- Issue 10: Wendy Martin, Vlada Monakhova, and Tiffany Turrill
- Issue 11: Dagmara Matuszak, Tina X Filic and Jabari Weathers
Full-Color Cover Artwork by
- Shel Kahn (Issue 4), Jeff Brown (Issue 6), Evan Rowland (Issue 7), Gennifer Bone (Issue 8); Nate Marcel (Issue 9); Jabari Weathers (Issue 10) and Tawny Fritzinger (Issue 11).
And many miscellanies of wondrous sights; ill omens; dangerous roads to follow; repasts nourishing and nefarious; experiences unseen; ill-fates; treasures bizarre and rare; final resting places; delays and distractions for any journey; and far off sights and portents.