Pan, His Majesty in Yellow (OSE)

Pan, His Majesty in Yellow is a fairy tale cosmic horror sandbox campaign setting that combines the lore of Peter Pan, Hastur, Neverland, and Carcosa into a strange and unique experience.

This version is designed for use with Old-School Essentials Advanced Fantasy, and is therefore compatible with the BX edition of the world's most popular roleplaying game—as well as most OSR games and retroclones.

Dimensions are US Letter (8.5" x 11").

Physical copies of the book (hardcover, smyth-sewn, with yellow ribbon bookmark) can be found from Ability Score Games, Exalted Funeral, Third Kingdom Games, and others. We have been working with DTRPG to get softcover print-on-demand books underway, but keep running into hiccups with their printers.

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Praise for Pan, His Majesty in Yellow:

"It expands on the genre [...] and then mashes the entire thing up with some Hastur/Carcosa s***. Which, kind of makes perfect sense. There’s the usual stuff, with a new pirate in town, the faeries, the lost boys and so on. And then there’s a Carcosa-like dream city full of nightmares from beyond that melts in. There’s a continual theme of Pans capriciousness, and the consequences of it. There were Wendy’s before Wendy and Wendy’s after Wendy. What becomes of them? Hence The Old Ladies, appearing in the adventure. Other items are expanded upon as well. And almost everything has this slightly dark twist to it. What appears to be the frivolity of Peter Pan and the environment has dark undertones and origins. And it all works out pretty good, as a theme. It’s not my thing, but it brings the weird … never in your face but hiding as origin stories and in deep dark caves."

—Bryce Lynch (Ten Foot Pole blog)


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"[Pan, His Majesty in Yellow] is a unique book. The flavorful atmosphere, mixing Barrie’s original work with Greek mythology and Ambrose’s Carcosa is so cool that I would still recommend the book even if there were not stats for the Denizens."

—Tzimiscedracul (full review at Tower of the Lonely GM)

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"It’s a rare delight when I get to check out a tabletop game setting that this fervently ignites the occult and esoteric side of my brain."

—Charles R. Bernard (Wandering Monster)

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“It really truly looks beautiful … There's just a lot of cool things going on!”

—Splinterverse (YouTube)

Interview with the author, Wayne Robert, by Dave Townsend of Games with Dave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzh2uiTlWcQ

Pan, His Majesty in Yellow contains a mixture of original art, stock art, AI-generated art (all of which was heavily edited in Photoshop by a human artist), public domain art (much of which was edited in Photoshop), and map assets by both an RPG cartographer (2-Minute Tabletop) and created using INKARNATE and Photoshop. Please note, the choice to use machine-learning-assisted art in this project was done to create a jarring, surreal, and dreamlike quality—much as our subconscious minds filter and process information by deconstructing and recombining information in our dreams when we sleep, utilizing AI art explicitly for this purpose was an intentional decision. Wyrd Valley Press will never use unmodified AI art in our products and, moving forward, until the laws are clearer and better defined to protect living artists from the many AI programs using their art to train on without their permission, WVP will not use AI-generated art in any future project after this one.