This free preview is now available for download on Paizo.com!

Love these free previews companies are doing now. Very good tactic to get me to buy your stuff!

The Will DC to save vs. purchase for this adventure *is* rather high... Both of the authors also have +3 pens of adventurer bane.

This adventure is now available for download on Paizo.com!

It was an amazing experience collaborating with Rich on this adventure. He came up with the creepy-cool plot and the fantastic cartography. Then he let me off my leash and allowed me to run hog-wild all over it. I think we made a great team, but we'd love to hear your opinions. Let us know what you think!

Now this looks intriguing!

I grabbed the preview, and yeah, it's all about interesting...am eagerly awaiting the beginning of the month so I can be snagging this.

...am eagerly awaiting the beginning of the month so I can be snagging this.

It's actually available now. ;-)

I was referring to payday, lol

I just got TPK Games' email through DriveThruRPG and I want to TPK TPK Games.

I HAVE THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS THEME SONG STUCK IN MY HEAD!!!

It is almost, but not quite enough to get me to attempt to drill out the song with a real drill.

-Aaron

PS- I am intrigued by the adventure idea. I may pick it up at a later date. I grabbed the free preview so I can check it out more thoroughly.

This is practically begging to be inserted in Skull & Shackles, or the Serpent's Skull Adventure Paths. I personally can't wait to hear about someone that runs their party through it. It will be memorable, for certain.

I like how, even in the free preview, there are notes about how dangerous this can be and to be prepared for character death. I'll definitely be paying more attention to TPK products in the future!

Indeed! Our products are intended to provide a challenge to players, though not truly intentional TPK's. All of our adventures allow the GM to scale the challenges and difficulties to suit the needs of their players. Some adventures merely need more caution and intelligent play. Real life doesn't have CR's tailored to your level... sometimes you have to use your head or even run! *GASP*

Even though the gurus at TPK Games cleverly aligned the release of Ship of Fools with April Fool's Day, I just want to make it very clear that this is not a "joke" adventure ... like the old Castle Greyhawk module. Ship of Fools is intended to begin as a horror-tinged investigation of a derelict ship that could easily turn into a multi-deck slaughterfest aboard a cramped ... and SINKING! ... merchant galleon. PC death and/or "assimilation" is a very real danger here. ;-)

I have to say that I love the concept of this adventure.

Top 10 Reasons to buy the Ship of Fools

1. You are a carp DM, and want to seas the day!
2. Because you and the buoys need an adventure to run!
3. You can actually use the saying that there is fungus amongus.
4. You need something to read during your aquaholics anonymous meeting.
5. Because not buoying it is simply unfathomable!
6. Your devocean to slaying zombie mariners is unparalleled.
7. You scurvy dogs need a good dose of vitamin sea.
8. Because it's aboat time for some real ship to go down!
9. You want to add a tinge of fear to the phrase "motion in the ocean."
10. Because you want to run an entire session talking like Quint from Jaws…

Face it, your players are going to wet themselves when the ship hits the fin!

11. Because you live in a pineapple under the sea.

12. Yeeeaarrgghhh

Farewell and adieu to ye fair Spanish ladies ...

Despite the fact that Tom did not win the RPG Superstar final round (amazing work was done by ALL of the contenders), anyone who wishes to see what's in his sick mind can do so here. Richard Hunt also co-authored this adventure and together they did an amazing job of writing a "TPK Brand" adventure.

You'll see more from both of them...

... his sick mind ...

<Gasp!> Hey! I resemble that remark! ;-)

Putting the final touches on my review of this as I type this - expect to see one eiher this week-end or at the latest next week on Tuesday.

Good move by the Coast Guard. You never know what's on those ghost ships....

The U.S. Coast Guard said it opened fire on the roughly 200-foot trawler Thursday after it determined the "unmanned, unlit, unmarked vessel" posed a hazard to mariners and Alaska's marine environment.

They HAD to be talking about the Ship of Fools...

If I can get my act together (no guarantee, there), I hope to run a Ship of Fools PbP tied into a Bard's Gate (Necromancer Games) storyline.

Keep us posted, we would all love to see that play out...

Putting the final touches on my review of this as I type this - expect to see one eiher this week-end or at the latest next week on Tuesday.

Looking forward to it End! The real question will be whether or not you want to run it for your own troupe!

Reviewed here, on DTRPG and sent to GMS magazine. And YES, I will run this one for my group - it's an awesome adventure...and I really hope you can adjust the layout - it's beautiful, but the shaded boxes can lead to problems. It's awesome to see how much better than the first GU this is - kudos, two thumbs up, stellar work!

It's awesome to see how much better than the first GU this is - kudos, two thumbs up, stellar work!

Thank you for your review!

Reviewed here, on DTRPG and sent to GMS magazine. And YES, I will run this one for my group - it's an awesome adventure...and I really hope you can adjust the layout - it's beautiful, but the shaded boxes can lead to problems. It's awesome to see how much better than the first GU this is - kudos, two thumbs up, stellar work!

I am actually working on a print copy now, as in actual 'print' products for all of our soon to be released adventures. We discussed the text boxes recently as well, and they will be changed since we are moving away from electronic-only products. We are also revising ALL of our original products to the new format as this spring/summer progresses.

Thank you all for the stellar reviews!

It was an amazing experience collaborating with Rich on this adventure. He came up with the creepy-cool plot and the fantastic cartography. Then he let me off my leash and allowed me to run hog-wild all over it. I think we made a great team, but we'd love to hear your opinions. Let us know what you think!

Tom simply rocks! We had the distinct pleasure of collaborating during the RPG Superstar 2010 contest and I've known even since back then that we'd work well together. I'm planning out our next venture as we speak!

-Rich

This is practically begging to be inserted in Skull & Shackles, or the Serpent's Skull Adventure Paths. I personally can't wait to hear about someone that runs their party through it. It will be memorable, for certain.

This would also be GREAT with the Savage Tide adventure path! As a matter of fact, I'd present it when their own ship is...

I like how, even in the free preview, there are notes about how dangerous this can be and to be prepared for character death. I'll definitely be paying more attention to TPK products in the future!

We the scaling section useful too you? I developed the current strategy for scaling our stuff and would love some feedback on it works out!

-Rich

Farewell and adieu to ye fair Spanish ladies ...

And now we show our scars! LOL

Reviewed here, on DTRPG and sent to GMS magazine. And YES, I will run this one for my group - it's an awesome adventure...and I really hope you can adjust the layout - it's beautiful, but the shaded boxes can lead to problems. It's awesome to see how much better than the first GU this is - kudos, two thumbs up, stellar work!

Thanks so much for your detailed review! Reviews help us get the word out so much and I highly value your reviews on other 3PP products as well.

-Rich

I'm planning out our next venture as we speak!

<<Tom begins giggling to himself and cackling maniacally. >>

Guys... I'm not sure I'm going to produce 'Return to Candy Mountain.' I just don't see the potential. :D

Oh, what about "Invasion of the chocolate killer-bunnies" and "Conspiracy of the Cookie Dough Golems?" Don't tell me they've been canceled as well...

Oh, what about "Invasion of the chocolate killer-bunnies" and "Conspiracy of the Cookie Dough Golems?" Don't tell me they've been canceled as well...

Yes! "Night on Cookie Dough Mountain!" is a much better title!

"They Came From the TOLLHOUSE!" Maybe you could release a module: Tollhouse of Hommlet?

Tomb of the Marshmellow Medusa! Instead of miniatures it comes with a tray of Medusa peeps!

Review up here and RPGNow, and am adding it to NerdTrek as soon as their maintenance issues are done.

Am planning on designing and building a 3d battlemat utilizing the ships battlemat for my players this coming weekend (hopefully)...will have to get some pictures when we get it done.

Thanks, this was an excellent adventure...now to go enter it all into Hero Lab....lol.

Nice reveiw, KTFish7!

Thank You Endzeitgeist, pretty good review yourself!

Thanks - I'm one of the print-crowd, though, so the boxes have a been a problem. And yeah, your guess was right - the boxes came out partially unreadable when printed in grey-scale. Guess I gotta bite the bullet and order a new slew of color-toner cartridges. -.-

Thanks for the reviews gents. I think if the one thing people didn't like all that well was how it looked when printed, that is an easy fix. I experimented with a few options and should have a much easier to read/print, yet still properly themed version coming out sometime soon. Not to mention I am in the process of building an actual print copy for sale as well.

We are all really pleased that everyone loved the adventure though, it's a riot for sure.

Review up here and RPGNow, and am adding it to NerdTrek as soon as their maintenance issues are done.

Thanks, this was an excellent adventure...now to go enter it all into Hero Lab....lol.

Thanks for the kind review, KTFish! I'm glad you enjoyed mine and Rich's creepy-love-child-of-a-scenario. ;-)

Top 10 Reasons to buy the Ship of Fools

1. You are a carp DM, and want to seas the day!
2. Because you and the buoys need an adventure to run!
3. You can actually use the saying that there is fungus amongus.
4. You need something to read during your aquaholics anonymous meeting.
5. Because not buoying it is simply unfathomable!
6. Your devocean to slaying zombie mariners is unparalleled.
7. You scurvy dogs need a good dose of vitamin sea.
8. Because it's aboat time for some real ship to go down!
9. You want to add a tinge of fear to the phrase "motion in the ocean."
10. Because you want to run an entire session talking like Quint from Jaws…

Face it, your players are going to wet themselves when the ship hits the fin!

This make me like your company just that much more!

-Aaron

How did I miss this one when it came out? Anyways sounds very cool, going in the side cart for next month.