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Our new system for critical hits and fumbles, Severed Heads and Broken Blades, is now live on Kickstarter! Compatible with both 1E and 2E. This compact, but flavorful set of tables contains over 100 different critical hit results and about 100 different critical failure results. The vary in severity from possibly dropping your weapon (make that Reflex check!) to possibly lopping off the head of your foe in one mighty critical success. A $4 pledge gets you a PDF copy at a 20% discount to our projected regular price, and at the other end of the reward structure, a $25 pledge gets you a hardcover copy — something that we will not offer outside crowdfunding platforms. Don't miss out!

Our new system for critical hits and fumbles, Severed Heads and Broken Blades, is now live on Kickstarter! Compatible with both 2E and 1E. This compact, but flavorful set of tables contains over 100 different critical hit results and about 100 different critical failure results. The vary in severity from possibly dropping your weapon (make that Reflex check!) to possibly lopping off the head of your foe in one mighty critical success. A $4 pledge gets you a PDF copy at a 20% discount to our projected regular price, and at the other end of the reward structure, a $25 pledge gets you a hardcover copy — something that we will not offer outside crowdfunding platforms. Don't miss out!

Ramen Sandwich Press is back on Kickstarter and coming back to Pathfinder with two more location modules in our Found by the Way series: Path to Orek and Path to the Royal Tombs. They're set in the same place and among related characters, so you can run them as a linked pair as well as separately. The village of Orek houses laborers and artisans who build out and furnish a nearby necropolis for the ruling elite. However, business has been slow and they have resorted to extra-legal means — including robbing the tombs that they and their ancestors built — to make ends meet. You party passes through right when the local authorities visit on a spot check, and they will have the option of protecting their secrets or selling them out to John Law. In Path to the Royal Tombs your party has the opportunity to plunge into the royal tombs to rescue a couple of hapless treasure hunters — and maybe skim off a little for themselves. Watch out for the mummies, though!

Visit our website for more on Ramen Sandwich Press, and back our Kickstarter early and often! We haven't even finished posting the news that the campaign has launched, and we're already 30% funded. So we're getting folks onboard the bandwagon, but there's plenty of room for more!

Hello, everyone! I haven't posted here in a while, but Ramen Sandwich Press has been anything but quiet. We have now published 10 Found by the Way adventure/location modules, compatible with both Pathfinder 1 and 2. You can find more info and links to where you can buy them on our website.

We spent most of the last 12 months putting together a 259-page rules supplement compatible with D&D 5E, a deep dive into random encounters called The Book of Chance Meetings. We successfully shepherded it through Kickstarter in the spring and wound up with our biggest hit yet!

Since then, we have been working on a comparable book for Pathfinder 2 with the working title The Book of Hidden Paths, and we're getting close to bringing it to Kickstarter. In fact, the first draft of the text is halfway done and we expect to have it completely done so that we can launch the campaign in mid-October with the intention of shipping the rewards in February. Hidden Paths will use a very similar structure and format to Chance Meetings, so if you want to get an idea of what the book will be like and how it will work, you can check out the Kickstarter campaign page for Chance Meetings. The difference, of course, is that Hidden Paths will include creatures from all three Pathfinder 2 Bestiaries published to date! So I expect to be a longer and even richer and more varied book than its D&D-compatible cousin.

I've mentioned this elsewhere, but I have been fascinated by random encounter going all the way to AD&D, which was my introduction to RPGs. I was entranced by the appendix in the AD&D DMG with its pages and pages of tables. The possibilities seemed endless. And yet, there wasn't much follow-through to them: So I roll up, "Orc." Well, how many orcs are there? What are they doing in that place, at that time? Are they happy to see the party, or not? But there was little to no guidance on what would actually happen. It's like Gary Gygax just stared back at me and said, "Whaddya mean? It's orcs. Deal with it." 40 years later, I have tried to answer those questions to my own satisfaction — and, I hope, to yours as well.

Follow Douglas Sun on Kickstarter to get notified when the campaign for The Book of Hidden Paths launches, or check back here. We'll offer PDF and softcover copies at a discount to the eventual cover price. We plan to offer at least one stretch goal: 220 print copies pre-sold through both Kickstarter and Backerkit, and we'll upgrade the print rewards to hardcover. I hope to see you there!

Hello, everyone! I haven't posted here in a while, but Ramen Sandwich Press has been anything but quiet. We have now published 10 Found by the Way adventure/location modules, compatible with both Pathfinder 1 and 2. You can find more info and links to where you can buy them on our website.

We spent most of the last 12 months putting together a 259-page rules supplement compatible with D&D 5E, a deep dive into random encounters called The Book of Chance Meetings. We successfully shepherded it through Kickstarter in the spring and wound up with our biggest hit yet!

Since then, we have been working on a comparable book for Pathfinder 2 with the working title The Book of Hidden Paths, and we're getting close to bringing it to Kickstarter. In fact, the first draft of the text is halfway done and we expect to have it completely done so that we can launch the campaign in mid-October with the intention of shipping the rewards in February. Hidden Paths will use a very similar structure and format to Chance Meetings, so if you want to get an idea of what the book will be like and how it will work, you can check out the Kickstarter campaign page for Chance Meetings. The difference, of course, is that Hidden Paths will include creatures from all three Pathfinder 2 Bestiaries published to date! So I expect to be a longer and even richer and more varied book than its D&D-compatible cousin.

I've mentioned this elsewhere, but I have been fascinated by random encounter going all the way to AD&D, which was my introduction to RPGs. I was entranced by the appendix in the AD&D DMG with its pages and pages of tables. The possibilities seemed endless. And yet, there wasn't much follow-through to them: So I roll up, "Orc." Well, how many orcs are there? What are they doing in that place, at that time? Are they happy to see the party, or not? But there was little to no guidance on what would actually happen. It's like Gary Gygax just stared back at me and said, "Whaddya mean? It's orcs. Deal with it." 40 years later, I have tried to answer those questions to my own satisfaction — and, I hope, to yours as well.

Follow Douglas Sun on Kickstarter to get notified when the campaign for The Book of Hidden Paths launches, or check back here. We'll offer PDF and softcover copies at a discount to the eventual cover price. We plan to offer at least one stretch goal: 220 print copies pre-sold through both Kickstarter and Backerkit, and we'll upgrade the print rewards to hardcover. I hope to see you there!

Ramen Sandwich Press is back on Kickstarter! We're looking for support to help cover layout and interior art costs for Path to the Demon's Veins, the sixth in our Found by the Way series of location modules for Pathfinder. Path to the Demon's Veins is written for First Edition, but it includes notes for running it with Second Edition Playtest rules.

Path to The Demon's Veins describes a fledgling mining colony and the demon who lives next door. Can this small settlement of dwarves find mutual understanding and peaceful coexistence with a foul spawn of the lower depths? Find out more here.

All Found by the Way modules will be available in PDF through DriveThru RPG and in print-on-demand through Amazon and other fine online booksellers, and it will be sent for free to my Patreon backers (search for Douglas Sun). However, Kickstarter backers receive a limited edition of the module that contains a sort of Easter Egg of content unique to that we will never make available elsewhere. Think of it as an inside joke with my Kickstarter backers, because they're just that special.

As we promised our Kickstarter backers, we have made available notes for running the first four Found by the Way modules — Path to Darkharrow, Path to The Gnome's Argosy, Path to Oyster Cove, Path to Sylvanhome — with the 2E Playtest rules. We emailed the PDF to the Kickstarter peeps, and everyone else can download it for free at DriveThru RPG.

You do need to modules to make much sense of the free notes, and they're available in PDF through DTRPG for $2.99 each. However, if anyone is curious, the notes do contain my "I hope I'm doing this right" attempt to stat out assassin vine, which does not yet appear in the Bestiary.

As ever, we're doing our best to support the Pathfinder community during this time of transition and uncertainty. We'll try to cover you whether you're sticking with 1E or moving to 2E.

I managed to keep the project video short and relatively painless, so the Kickstarter campaign for Found by the Way #5: Path to Jarnborg is now live!

This entry in our Pathfinder OGL-optimized series of adventure/location modules takes place in and around Jarnborg, a village founded and populated mostly by dwarves (with a few humans, halflings and gnomes mixed in) and focused on the forge of a legendary weapon smith. It's a place that gives your party a chance to score a cool weapon that relies on superb craftsmanship rather than magic (so it's cheaper), meet some interesting resident NPCs and, if they stick around a little while, solve a mystery that throws the village into crisis, when the smith's book of trade secrets goes missing. You can run it as a stand-alone, or as part of a larger arc that includes Places by the Way #6: Path to The Demon's Veins.

The rewards for this campaign also allow you to catch up on Found by the Way if you missed out on the earlier campaign. Up to two particularly generous backers will also have the chance to make a modest (but credited) creative contribution to Path to Jarnborg or its sequel, Path to The Demon's Veins.

My publisher, Ramen Sandwich Press, just brewed up an announcement for our new Kickstarter campaign in support of a series of Pathfinder OGL modules:

"Ramen Sandwich Press is pleased to announce that we’ve launched a Kickstarter to support a line of location/adventure modules for Pathfinder OGL! We’re testing the market for a new Pathfinder-oriented product line called Found by the Way. As with our successful Places by the Way series of modules for D&D 5E, you should think of them as glittering mosaic tiles that you can drop into a campaign to provide your player characters with diverting side quests and memorable interludes while they follow the overall story arc.

"Found by the Way is written by RPG veteran Douglas Sun. He is also writing Places by the Way, and his past work includes contributions to Decipher’s Star Trek and Lord of the Rings RPGs, AEG’s Legend of the Five Rings RPG, and a substantial body of D&D 3.0/3.5 OGL books (including part of Fields of Blood, the precursor to recent Kickstarter sensation Strongholds & Followers).

"The campaign rewards focus on “Limited,” Kickstarter-only versions of the first four modules in the series. Each of them contains an Easter Egg of content — an extra location, or an addition to an existing location — that will not appear in the versions that will go on sale to the general public after the campaign is over. You can claim a PDF copy of one or more modules and a print copy of a compendium of all four modules signed to you by the author. If the campaign meets its funding goal, we’ll continue the series with Found by the Way #5 (no specifics yet, but dwarves will be involved) in late spring/early summer."

We're on the compatibility license registry here at paizo.com, if you want to check out our blurb, and I occasionally post design diary-type musings to my blog. Pledge early, pledge often!