The system flows quite well and it is intuitive. Nice change from D&D and it is easy to teach to beginners. The price is very good for what you get and it leaves room for expansion.

Very rich setting! It's very nice and quick to read but at the same time full of informations that spark ideas to masterize in this oriental place! Excellent content.

Great ideas! Original objects, low magic and dangerous! VERY NICE!

The book does exactly what it says on the cover but I find this the weakest of the excellent Compendium series. The combat section is weaker than I hoped. Definitely buy Compendium 1 and 2 but unless you need tables? I'd skip this one and buy another Warlock! Or Fire Ruby product.

This AI written campaign has a few sparks of authentic pencraft. At least with the art they're honest and admit it's from Midjourney. It's full of redundancies that look more like a guide on how to play a TTRPG for the first time in your life than actual adventure hooks. I would have rather had a $5 actual adventure hook release, even if it were just 3 pages of tropes one can use on a Warlock campaign. That would have connected me with the author a lot more. Dressing it with AI to make it look like a fully fledged minicampaign is lame.

Your core rulebook is good, the setting can be good too, don't be lazy.

A delight to read and play. While it looks like they aren’t putting out new stuff atm, there is more than enough in this book, let alone the supporting other books to carry you.

If I can recommend ONE house rule? It’s the addition of a Will stat that starts as per Luck. Wizards can use this as an additional pool to draw from BEFORE tapping Stamina… as well as setting this up as a ‘Sanity’ mechanic.

Even without this? This game is great.

I love this gritty little gem of an RPG. If you're a fan of deadly combats, brutal critical hits, miscasting tables, and desperate battles in the dark over causes that are morally grey... but not a fan of hundreds of percentile modifiers and scores, then this is the rule set for you. You could totally use this to play a game set in a grim dark setting by a certain model company that makes wargames. I didn't... I made my own which is way more awesome (in my opinion).

Specifics - The Good bits

• There are no attributes. Players can totally make up the character they want. Having an option of 4 different careers is the only real limitation on this... and that only lasts for as long as the character needs to develop enough upgrades to swap careers.
• The spells are amazing. No rules for the actual spells, so their effects can be different in the different contexts they are used. Summoning a swarm can be useful to stop a pursuit- or for getting rid of a corpse quickly.
• Easy to adapt. I have added gunpower weapons to my game (to resemble more a 17th century England). It is very easy to do. The rules are highly adaptable.
• Baddies are easy to run. They have only a few stats and kind of remind me of ICRPG bad guys in how simple they can be.
• The way currency is used. Its an awesome feature in the game!

Stuff that might be better

• Combat can be swingy. One side can win one round and be decimated another. This makes combat risky, for sure, but if you want to let the PCs have some advantages they earn, I'd add toys to the combat site. Either way to make the environment work for them - or ways the environment is used against them. Sometimes you need to hold the high ground in order to win, you know?

Still, the game is awesome. Well worthy of 5 stars. I bought the PDF and the print version and the print version is already my new best friend. lol

I've been a GM for over 20 years, I have to say that this is a masterpiece!

What an incredible job! It's exactly what I was looking for in the OSR scenario, simplicity and great features and ideas for fantasy adventures! This fits perfectly into the game with little preparation but a lot of fun that I'm looking for!

E os suplementos! Certamente Greg é um autor fantastico e estou muito feliz de poder acompanhar toda a produção de conteudo para Warlock! Espero que Greg continue nos agraciando com ótimas aventuras e suplementos!

Warlock shows that we can have OSR outside the D&D paradigm. If you only knew about AC and HP and classes and levels, you should try Warlock. Warlock is gritty, flavourful and concise. Warlock is easy to grasp: seldom have I read a RPG rulebook so fast and still already felt ready for gaming. As a book Warlock is cheap and short and for a ruleset that's a big plus. It's a matter of taste but in my mind Warlock wins hands down compared to more bloated and crunchy systems.

I've liked all of these "!" rulesets. Warlock! and Warpstar! are enjoyable, svelte books you could teach people to play in a few minutes. This book is much the same; the rules are light, and fun. My main knock is the layout. Some pages could have used another once over from an editor; columns are off or, in the case of some pages in the Equipment chapter, descriptor text that's supposed to be placed opposite a particular block of text is instead placed directly beneath it.

Now as some others have pointed out, AI art was used in this product. I don't feel like I'm educated enough on the issue to present a particular "argument" for or against but I'm not the biggest fan, personally. The cover and interior art of the first two books had a grimy, scummier vibe that I do miss a bit.

An excellent niche product. If you are a fan of the Shadowrun setting but hate the system, then this product is made for you. If you are a fan of the Cyberpunk 2020 setting but hate the system, then this product will mostly cater to your needs.

It does not include any setting information in it. This is purely a system replacement. You will need books from other games to utilise this unless you create your own setting. What it does include is everything else. Character creation, archetypes, skill checks, cyberware, gear, magic, matrix, bestiary, contacts. It is ready to go and playable. The resolution mechanic is simple: roll 1d20 + skill level, if result is equal to or greater than 20 you succeed. In combat armor reduces damage taken, once at zero stamina your character starts taking critical hits.

Because it is a niche product I am very glad that the publishers used AI art. A product like this will not have enough of an audience to justify much if any decent artwork in it. Instead what you get are stunning full page art pieces present throughout the book - almost every 2nd page is filled with art. There is an entire emotional argument around use of AI art in games. If that is enough to dissuade you from supporting a product you might need and use, then stand your ground don't buy it. I think it is worth it, and I want to see more products like it. A similar treatment focused on Rifts for example would be an immediate buy for me. To the publishers: great job on the AI art! The prompts and pieces chosen are magnificent.

Warlock! Traitor's Edition presents a fun, simple system of mechanics and still manages to capture the style of gaming it pays homage to. It reads so fast too. At 144 pages, I finished my read through in one sitting and I can't wait to get the game to the table.

Full Disclosure: I did not realize this book included AI art created with Midjourney. Other products by Fire Ruby Designs used real artists as far as I know. To be honest, if I had known I would not have purchased this product. I can't undo that now though, so on with the review.

Editing and Layout: Decent in most parts of the book but I kept stumbling on sections that didn't make sense and needed to be rewritten. I also encountered some weird layout issues (like a section header that wasn't formated as a header), and a few other things. Overall, this hurt the book.

System: The mechanics of the game are top notch. I really liked everything about the Wetwired! mechanics and I think it will play very smoothly at the game table. One of the things that keeps my current group from playing Shadowrun is the crunch and I think this game will solve that problem, my group will enjoy these rules. There is only one thing I felt was missing and that was rules for "cover fire" but I can easily hack that into the game using the mechanics they've provided. Even without that, I still think the Wetwired! system is a solid 5/5 stars.

Fluff/Flavor: Honestly, there's some fluff/flavor in the book. Maybe just enough but it felt really sparse. The product relies too much on a reader's knowledge of other cyberpunk products. For a product that is just shy of 200 pages, that is a shame. If someone really didn't know much about Shadowrun or the Cyberpunk RPG, they might struggle with what to actually do with this game. Some would say the target audience for this game already has that knowledge, but I think that would be a bit of a copout. The game can stand on its own while providing homage to the old classics, if done right.

The Art: Politics about using AI art aside, the art actually hurt this book. The cover was excellent and there were a few pieces that were quite good, but most of it was blah. A few of the art selections were downright awful. The art lacked cohesion aside from the weirdness that has become a staple of Midjourney generated art. Weird is good sometimes but this is not a good weird. I hope Fire Ruby Designs returns to using real artists.

This product was good but not great. The core system is excellent, an adaptation of Warlock!, but the rest of the book kinda fell flat around that. In the end, that won't hurt the game at the table once I do my homework to craft a good story for my players.

This is a less ink-intensive and more practical character sheet than the one provided in the book, though it does hav a bit less "character".

This is a wonderful collection of characters, organizations, events, and items that serve as perfect story seeds for your occult or magic-focused modern game. There are a lot of mentions of soul jars and other terms that feel like it may have originally been written for a particular game. But that doesn't detract from its usability for any system. Each entry includes a story hook idea, easily adjustable for use in your own campaign.

The only complaint I have is that the bookmarks are a mess - all collected under one letter, some missing, some in the wrong places. But that's a minor editing issue. The content itself is great! Thank you!