Challengers of Vanth

Challengers of Vanth is an RPG that applies the minimalist rules of MÖRK BORG to the gonzo hoblings-and-phasers world of Vanth as depicted in the lost 1978 RPG Encounter Critical by Hank Riley and Jim Ireland.

Challengers of Vanth is a love letter to an era, a tribute to an age when you liked awesome stuff solely because it was awesome.

Challengers of Vanth offers an alternative setting to the fatalistic doom of MÖRK BORG. While the amazing setting of MÖRK BORG explores the weighty concepts associated with an inevitable eschaton of a dark and gloomy land of corruption, Vanth is a world inspired by paintings on the sides of vans, sci-fi and fantasy TV shows and movies from the 60s and 70s, and Sword and Sorcery comics from the late 70s.

The world of Vanth is an RPG setting created by two overconfident geniuses from 1978, unencumbered by restraint or subtlety or tradition.

Challengers of Vanth is everything you thought was cool when you, or probably your parents, were 12-15, everything cheesy and amazing and mind-blowing created between 1960-1985.

Challengers of Vanth is a glam-rock barbarian with a machine gun standing atop a mountain while a lightning storm rages in the background. 

Challengers of Vanth is a warlock casting fiery spells at hissing sleestaks from Land of the Lost on the top of an Ark II speeding across the desert. 

Challengers of Vanth is Caroline Munro and David Hasselhoff in Starcrash.

Challengers of Vanth is drawing lightning bolts on the cover of your Trapper Keeper. 

Challengers of Vanth is renting a VHS from the sci-fi rack at the neighborhood video rental shop after midnight.

Challengers of Vanth is an independent production by Christian Conkle and is not affiliated with Ockult Örtmästare Games or Stockholm Kartell. It is published under the MÖRK BORG Third Party License.

MÖRK BORG is copyright Ockult Örtmästare Games and Stockholm Kartell.

Encounter Critical is the intellectual property owned by Venger Satanis and Kort'thalis Publishing... along with Cha'alt, Alpha Blue, and Encounter Critical III.