You won't have to wait long. The proof copy has been shipped. Assuming there are no printing problems... Soon. It will be for sale soon.

"Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen." -- Palpatine

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

Here's a tricky subject that I'm forseeing in book 2 with my group. Spoilerized since I know at least one of my players reads these forums.

Xzaral,

This is a valid concern and certainly one we are sensitive to.

Hope that helps,
Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

Over the last weeks we've released a lot of beautiful art by Michael Clarke, our in-house artist. But so far we haven't shown you much of his cartography. Let's change that.

This is Talingarde where the entirity of the "Way of the Wicked" adventure path is set. This is the player's map and is spoiler free.

This is where your wickedness will be wrought.

Enjoy.

"Way of the Wicked" is the only evil adventure path for the Pathfinder RPG. It is for sale at Paizo.com and DrivethruRPG.

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

New preview art for Book Three of "Way of the Wicked" is available. This is the Nessian Warhound by Michael Clarke.

Though in black and white, the final piece of art will be in full color.

Enjoy.

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

Very cool

go a question in the horn there was 3 rituals 1 for hellhounds 1 for nightmare and 1 for mudman
the mud man can only be done at the horn what about the other 2 can the be done outside the horn it just says once a year.
our mage has both horse and hounds now the knight wants a nightmare.( the night mare bit him for 12 pts and sinch it was fire damage. his prize ring woun't heal him lol(p.s need to be careful with radmoe wildress enounter the was no monster with in 5 miles as the knight capture or kill them to keep in practice)

Bruce,

This is probably best relegated to spoiler-land...

Hope that helps,
Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

Visit us on facebook to get exclusive preview art. This week, we have the statue of the daemon prince who plays such an important role in Book Two of "Way of the Wicked" -- Call Forth Darkness.

Check it out here.

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

OOh, in the next adventure the villainous PCs not only get hellhounds AND a nightmare, but they can potentially upgrade the devil-puppies over time? You know what your audience wants, sir!

OOh, in the next adventure the villainous PCs not only get hellhounds AND a nightmare, but they can potentially upgrade the devil-puppies over time? You know what your audience wants, sir!

Thank you, we do try.

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

"Way of the Wicked Book Two -- Call Forth Darkness" is now available in print here

You've raided plenty of dungeons.

Isn't it time you had a dungeon of your very own?

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

I just ordered the print edition.

PathfinderFan64,

Thanks for supporting the line. It is a gorgeous looking book, if I do say so myself. Mike's cover truly makes it pop.

Anyways, enough gloating. Thanks again and enjoy the exclusive preview sketch for book three at the back.

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

Bought printeditions of Book I and II. After reading Book II for some time, I realized I had to have this is dead tree.

"Way of the Wicked Book Two -- Call Forth Darkness" is now available in print here

Bought it!

Thanks for your support everyone!

Today -- another day of working on Book Three.

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

I think this adventure is a genius idea, haven the PCs fend off waves of adventurers. I guess I will get players from my other groups to play their parts once we'll get there. Sounds like a lot of fun.

Zaister,

Thanks for the kind words. I like the idea of letting there be "guest good guys" to play the NPCs. Of course, you have to be careful that they realize that there are VERY likely to die. The Horn of Abaddon was not a nice place to dungeon delve even before the PCs turn it into a death trap.

Oh, and...

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

Finally got this! Now just waiting for it to download (and the two weeks or so for the print to get to me). Aaaaaargh!

Peanuts,

Thanks for buying our book and thanks for supporting "Way of the Wicked"!

Hopefully it won't take two weeks to get your book. I remain pleased with the POD turn around time.

Regardless, I hope you enjoy "Call Forth Darkness" and I'd love any feedback you care to give.

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

Finally got this! Now just waiting for it to download (and the two weeks or so for the print to get to me). Aaaaaargh!

If you ordered from RPG Now, no worries, I got mine (the first book) two days after they told me it shipped. Now that's fast!

If you ordered from RPG Now, no worries, I got mine (the first book) two days after they told me it shipped. Now that's fast!

I concur. I've received all my proof copies very quickly and in great shape. Go RPGNow!

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

I just can't hold it in any longer. I really like this AP so far, and plan on following it to the end, but regarding the price:

Generic Villain,

First and foremost, I'm glad you like the AP and plan to follow it to its end. We try to price all of our products both to make them a great value and to allow us to continue to make more.

As odd as it may sound, I actually thought about this and there is a reason that our PDF is $10 and our POD are $24.99.

If you would like a very friendly introduction to the psychology of pricing, might I recommend this article.

Hope that helps and regardless, thanks for supporting "Way of the Wicked."

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

I just can't hold it in any longer. I really like this AP so far, and plan on following it to the end, but regarding the price:

** spoiler omitted **

I hate that reasoning so much. Even if it is true, I want to be told how much the thing actually costs rather than having to manually add the 1 cent for the correct price *sigh*

Peanuts,

Thanks for buying our book and thanks for supporting "Way of the Wicked"!

Hopefully it won't take two weeks to get your book. I remain pleased with the POD turn around time.

Regardless, I hope you enjoy "Call Forth Darkness" and I'd love any feedback you care to give.

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

Well that may be the case, but I have the misfortune (as far as getting products quickly goes) of living in Australia :p That being said, the few PoD books I've ordered from RPGNow have gotten to me faster than Paizo shipments usually do :)

One thing that I would love when part three comes around would be for me to be able to buy the PDF when it's available and upgrade later to the print/PDF bundle once that's out for the price difference. I like having the print versions too but it's a pain to have to wait until the print becomes available. What do you think, would something like this be possible?

Just saw that both of your books are on the top 10 downloads. Congrats!!!!

Peanuts,

Ah, well. Making the Pacific smaller is completely beyond my abilities, alas.

But, I would say that living in Australia is its own reward. I visited there in '99 and absolutely fell in love with the country. I went to the WorldCon in Melbourne, scuba dived the Great Barrier Reef and spent almost two weeks in Tasmania.

Relentlessly beautiful country.

I would love to return.

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

Zaister,

We will have some very relevant announcements in April. That's really all I can say for now. But I do hear you.

DSRMT,

Thanks for the kind words. Yes, we're not #1 this week. Call is down to #2 and Knot is up to #5.

Regardless, we remain pleased with the growth of our sales.

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

Peanuts,

Ah, well. Making the Pacific smaller is completely beyond my abilities, alas.

But, I would say that living in Australia is its own reward. I visited there in '99 and absolutely fell in love with the country. I went to the WorldCon in Melbourne, scuba dived the Great Barrier Reef and spent almost two weeks in Tasmania.

Relentlessly beautiful country.

I would love to return.

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

Mmm, it does have it's benefits :)

Zaister,

We will have some very relevant announcements in April. That's really all I can say for now. But I do hear you.

Thanks, that sounds good. I'm looking forward to part three.

thks for answering my question by group already bought their printed copies lol they replayed the adventure twice using their heros to defeat the horn lol i made them run into a fog man swepping looked up at them a sigh" more mess to clean" it got away before the players could act. my group had tears in their eyes after that. it was fun watching the players walking into there own trap after failing a perception check.i put on the furnal march for that. my players was happy it was a what if so their alt characters never die as this is a complete new land.
turly it is a work of art my group is sending all there printed version to me into i run them. lol i know some of them will buy extra to read. but that is ok it means more sells for you.

Bruce,

Glad you enjoyed "Call Forth Darkness". Replayed twice already. Wow! That's dedication. Anyways, thanks for supporting "Way of the Wicked".

Gary "Should be working on book three" McBride
Fire Mountain Games

Hmmm... I wonder how cool it would be to have two groups playing this campaign at the same time--one evil, one good--and interweave their stories together as Mitra and Asmodeus vie for Talingarde through their champions.

Hmmm... I wonder how cool it would be to have two groups playing this campaign at the same time--one evil, one good--and interweave their stories together as Mitra and Asmodeus vie for Talingarde through their champions.

I haven't done the following with Way of the Wicked obviously but about 10 years ago my nere-do-well friends and I embarked on a pretty successful evil campaign. At the end of it we turned in our character sheets and rolled up new characters.

We had to defeat our horrid lot of villains by beginning that mountain-climb as goody two-shoes baby level 1's. Might be a fun way to continue the fun of WotW beyond Gary's awesome published content.

DystopianDream,

This is a very cool idea and one that could really work.

Obviously the evil group is going through Way of the Wicked as written. The good group...

Sound interesting?

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

Oh, and you can now get a preview of one the major opponents from this book here.

Warning! Following that link is a minor spoiler.

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

DystopianDream,

This is a very cool idea and one that could really work.

Obviously the evil group is going through Way of the Wicked as written. The good group...

** spoiler omitted **...

I was thinking of something quite similar:

DystopianDream,

If you pursue this madness, be sure to post a link to the campaign journal. I definitely want to read it.

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

Generic Villain,

If you would like a very friendly introduction to the psychology of pricing, might I recommend this article.

Hope that helps and regardless, thanks for supporting "Way of the Wicked."

Gary McBride

That was an interesting article, thanks. I only brought that pricing article up because I really enjoy this AP, and want it to do as well as possible. This is the only AP that has me nearly as interested as Paizo's official APs, and given what a junkie I am for those, that's saying a lot.

I certainly hope you guys have something planned after Way of the Wicked wraps up.

I'm thinking using Dreamscarred Press' updated Psionics rules when I run this campaign and was wondering if there were any suggestions on how to approach the Organization rules if one of the characters decides to make a Thrallherd*.

It's a real possibility that someone will make one, and I figure that since the class itself is a souped up version of the Leadership feat (your "leadership score" calculated as Cha mod + Total of all Character Level + Thrallherd class level) it might make some difference. Especially since nothing actually reduces a Thrallherds leadership score. This makes them perfect leaders for evil organizations, but it also means that their minions (aka Believers) are totally and utterly loyal as a class feature.

For that matter, any suggestions on how to approach Brandscar using psionic characters? Using their powers creates detectable manifestations, but they can still use them even if bound and gagged.

Generic Villain,

Hey, I'm glad you are enjoying the adventure path! We are happy to feed your adventure path addiction.

Yes, we have something planned for after "Way of the Wicked". And it is too early to make any announcements yet.

Right now our focus is getting "Way of the Wicked" done by Halloween!

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

Tobias,

Missed your post about the Thrallherd. I can't say I'm the world's greatest expert on psionics but I have this general advice about psionics.

First, there is absolutely no psionic related treasure in the campaign so that will need adjustment.

Second, allowing Thrallherd to up the number of actions (i.e. adding to the leadership score for purposes of minion actions) makes perfect thematic sense. I would guess it will add a considerable number of weekly minion actions and that might slow down the game. So keep an eye on the total and be prepared to finesse the chart so that the action number is kept within the realm of reason later in the campaign.

But honestly, I wouldn't worry too much. The character focus on being a creator of brain-washed minions should have piles of brainwashed minions.

Third...

Hope that helps,
Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

I finished reading my print copy yesterday and I have to say that I am very disappointed. Disappointed that it came to an end and I don't have the next 4 parts to read. The adventure was great and the art inside was also great. The group I dm for back in the 1st and 2nd edition days would have loved this. We even did an evil campaign that we started at 1st level and went to the mid to upper 20's. I love the ability of the players to make their own defenses in Call Forth Darkness. Most players would enjoy this. I bet many groups spend hours just working on better defenses. Great job Gary. I do have one sugestion for future modules. Don't forget about Grumblejack. You may want to have something written about him since I think many groups will have him with them still. Maybe some treasure that only he or another ogre could use.

PathfinderFan64,

Glad you enjoyed the book! The rest is on its way.

Hmmm...right now Grumblejack is not slated to play a major party in the AP. Of course, he could very well be a major player if the PCs keep him alive and keep him along. But plot events? Book Two was Grumblejack's zenith honestly. I suppose if there is enough outcry for More Grumblejack we could see about putting a few more words in about the ogre.

Anyways, I've got to finish prepping for Gamestorm.

Game on!

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

I will be unavailable from now till Monday for more questions.

Fire Mountain Games is at Gamestorm here in Portland, Oregon.

Game on!

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

PathfinderFan64,

Glad you enjoyed the book! The rest is on its way.

Hmmm...right now Grumblejack is not slated to play a major party in the AP. Of course, he could very well be a major player if the PCs keep him alive and keep him along. But plot events? Book Two was Grumblejack's zenith honestly. I suppose if there is enough outcry for More Grumblejack we could see about putting a few more words in about the ogre.

Anyways, I've got to finish prepping for Gamestorm.

Game on!

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

I admit, I'd like to see more of Grumblejack.

And have fun at Gamestorm!

Just Picked up this part, after loving Book One! My players are super stoked and set to begin this in about 2 months. By then, I'll have book 3..

Now, to read it so I can post a review! As always, it looks beautiful and reading this thread has me SUPER STOKED!

If anyone else wants to see more about Grumblejack you need to post asap to get it into part 3.