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Races of the Outer Rim is a new series by Total Party Kill Games that explores newly cataloged species, unseen in the core worlds.

The Anarchane are a new playable science-fantasy race of humanoids that have been irradiated by magical energies that leave them both infused with strong magic, but also perpetually weakened from the effects. What are these enigmatic travelers so desperately seeking within the cosmos, and why?

Inside this PDF are the traits of this new playable race, new feats, inventions, colonies, factions, deities and more!

Download the Anarchane now, and bring them to your star systems!

**Not yet available on Paizo.com, but coming soon.

You guys should try Roll20, or Fantasy Grounds, whom will have the Valkyrie integrated sometime soon.

No 3PP is PFS legal, but this is certainly great for home games.

Races of the Outer Rim is a new series by Total Party Kill Games that explores newly cataloged species, unseen in the core worlds.

The Ruanoch are a new playable science-fantasy race of humanoids that resemble surly, aggressive badger-like creatures (and no, space badgers don't give a frag...).

Inside this PDF are the traits of this new playable race, new ruanoch feats, inventions, colonies, factions and deities.

Download the ruanoch now, and bring them to your star systems!

I messaged EZG to find out what issues he's talking about. We have an editor that is used by several companies and is 5E versed, so I'm a bit surprised.

Ultimately though, I just want the best product and want to get it fixed.

Sorcerer/Wizard Core Spell Deck I

The Sorcerer and Wizard Core Spell Deck I contains the nearly 120 class spells from level zero through level two in a thick poker card deck format.

This spell deck allows players to easily reference their class spells and even manage their spell slots with visual representation. These spell cards have the full spell text and mechanics within, so no need to hunt down the rules, you have them at your fingertips!

You can even use multiple decks to represent your entire number of slots and memorized spells!

*Shipped inside a 120 count hard plastic deck protector.

You can view images of the spell decks and preorder at the Total Party Kill Games website or facebook page.

Available on Paizo.com soon!

We are actually working on a set of Pathfinder-lite rules that will go along with our upcoming campaign setting. One of the things that I addressed is exactly this. Why punish heroic action on the battlefield?

Let your players perform any action they want. If they fail by 5 or more though, then consider allowing attacks of opportunity or counter-maneuvers. Everyone wins and it's still balanced.

Also looks like the #1 selling product on DriveThruRPG right now, not just in Pathfinder, but site-wide!

Total Party Kill Games returns triumphantly with an all-new adventure!

SLAUGHTER AT SPLINTERFANG GORGE

Many years ago a brutal bugbear chieftain united the goblinoid tribes of the Meirlara Forest and nearly wiped out all traces of the elves there within. A stroke of chance fate turned the tide and the dreaded bugbear warlord Spragnokk was defeated. His loyal kin hid his body away in a sealed chamber and then the world forgot about Spragnokk... until now.

Now his bloodline continues, and they have plans to resurrect their fallen "great chieftain," to bring ruin and revenge upon the elves that handed them defeat decades past. The goblinoid tribes have once more been gathered, and their bloody revenge is imminent, except fate has yet once more placed new champions to stand in their way.

They just don't realize it yet.

Slaughter at Splinterfang Gorge is a challenging, 70-page adventure for an average party level of 5, but suitable for 4th to 6th level characters. Encounters also include scaling advice to fully challenge more powerful characters.

This adventure is also in a dual-stat format, fully suitable for either the Pathfinder(TM) or fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons(TM) roleplaying games.

Moreover, the PDF product is in glorious full-color, with extensive bookmarks and hyperlinking to the award-winning d20pfsrd.com website.

Available here on Paizo.com now!

Must... have... Horror... Adventures...

Wield the wicked and eldritch powers of the elder fey! Inside this edition of Feats of Legend is 30 new fey-themed feats. These feats are designed for use with any character looking to use the powers of the seelie courts, be them fey-blooded sorcerers, half-fey, elves or wild adventurers. Only $2.99!
Inside, you'll find awesome new feats like:

Augmented Illusions
Arrow Charm
Blood-Soaked Cap
Capricious Luck
Changeling Raised
Dreaming Jaunt
Erlking's Blessing
Fae Sight
Faerie Godfather
Faun's Fancy Tune
Feyborn
Feybane Fist
First-World Blood
Flesh of the First World
Gift of the Tooth Fairy
Gremlin's Luck
Grig's Compulsion
Jack's Grin
Knowledge of the Old Ways
Mercurial Mind
Polluted Blood
Seelie Presence
Speak with Nature
Strength of the Oaken Lords
Strong-Willed Charmer
Supernatural Metabolism
Tricky Shifter
Unearthly Fortune
Unseelie Power
Unseelie Side

Up your game with Feats of Legend! This product is extensively bookmarked and hyperlinked to the d20pfsrd.com website for ease of use.

Grab it here for only $2.99!

Now available! 30 fey-themed feats for only $2.99!

Available here!

Total Party Kill Games is looking for freelance cartographers.
Pay Rate: $50 per half page digital or drawn cartography. Paid via paypal upon receipt of finished pieces.
Respond by: This will remain open. We may use multiple cartographers, and all applicants are encouraged to apply.
Contact: Brian Berg at necro.tpk@gmail.com. Please include samples of previous work or links to online portfolios.

Total Party Kill Games is looking for Hero Lab Coders, i.e., someone who can code custom feats, races, prestige classes, classes, archetypes, etc.
Pay Rate: Negotiable.
Respond by: This will remain open. We may use multiple coders, and all applicants are encouraged to apply.
Contact: Brian Berg at necro.tpk@gmail.com. Please include samples of previous work.

@Ericthecleric Worry not, EZG always gets a review copy.

Hey all, just because I'm a filthy tease, you can expect TPK Games to do a follow-up to Laying Waste, our 5-star critical combat book, with a critical (and fumble) magic sourcebook.

We'll see a kickstarter in January.

Eric, we are planning on releasing that one next!

If you want to auto confirm crits, just have them automatically deal a light critical hit. Or add +10 to the severity check, which along with the d20 roll should net at least a light critical.

We use kickstarter with some frequency these days, and you guys are all absolutely correct.

Here's some more tips I've learned the hard way:

Promise less, deliver more. The more you promise, the more you have to deliver. You can always surprise people with that extra cool thing, but don't let it grind your efforts to a halt or break your bank because of unanticipated costs.

Come to the table with 95% of your work done. Don't dream of something and then put it on kickstarter. Do it, and then use kickstarter to help fund it to a larger audience or improve it.

Keep your funding goals low. You can always use stretch goals to encourage more funding. $9000 is better than a $10,000 goal that goes unfunded.

Be in contact frequently with other business partners. You might find yourself making promises you can't keep because another business sells to new owners, no longer manufactures your desired product or just plain forgets.

Correct. We are producing a much better quick start guide and game aid that will be added to the downloads and distributed free. Coming soon.

Thanks for the review Yuengling Dragon! The good news is that we left out the more magical archetypes on purpose. You'll see them in a future 'Laying Waste' supplement that deals with magic, psionics and alchemical critical hits (and fumbles). Cheers!

As of this morning Laying Waste is the #1 Pathfinder compatible download on DriveThru! Thank you everyone!

Critical hits and fumbles are about to get a lot more interesting. Laying Waste, the successful critical hit kickstarter project, drops Thursday at midnight.

Everything You Know About Critical Hits is Wrong…

With 600 critical hit and fumble effects, Laying Waste presents a slick system to maximize the enjoyment of critical hits and fumbles in the Pathfinder RPG or any OGL d20 systems. This system replaces the standard critical hit and fumble rules, adding realism and balance to combat, while still being simple and elegant enough to use with ease. Over 100 playtesters have given us their feedback and approval.

Players and GM characters are actually rewarded for *all* of their threat rolls and for their level of skill with weapons! Critical hits will add a very fun element to the game now, rather than simply making combat go faster by doing huge amounts of damage. It is even possible to receive lasting wounds from particularly terrible fights, the sort of thing to show off over tavern ales and campsite fires.

The emphasis of this product is fun however, and not sheer destruction. While the possibility exists for horrific maiming and wicked injuries, clerics also have ways to treat such injuries and it will take a very honed and practiced sword hand to deal the most grievous of blows. Within the 166 pages are over 100 feats, 16 new martial archetypes and a plethora of optional combat rules to add to your games.

Now get your crit together and enjoy Laying Waste upon your enemies now and for years to come! This book is a must-have for every gaming table.

From the talented minds of Brian Berg, Clinton Boomer, Brian Boonstra, Creighton Broadhurst, Rick Cox, Thilo “Endzeitgeist” Graf, Hal Greenberg, Adam Meyers, Jason Nelson, James Olchak, Tom Phillips, John Reyst, Rachel Ventura, Jim “Drawmij” Ward, and Mike Welham.

It was completely an oversight. I'm hoping to sometime soon do a reprint edition with expanded content to clarify.

OOoooohhh... Shadowsfall fiction from TPK author Rick Cox! Awesome.

So I'm completely late to the party here, but I urge you all to check out our Feats Reforged title. We fixed up some of the feats seen as "worthless" and allowed all feats to level as you do! All feats will continue to provide benefit, regardless of when you purchased them in your adventuring career.

Hahahahahaha... ah yes... great post by the way. I think we'll have to write a supplement for this. Perhaps we'll call it Bovine Intervention. Gah, it hurts...

The gladiator alternate fighter class is a robust expansion upon the gladiator archetype in standard fantasy. Television series such as Spartacus™ have vividly inspired us and we are pleased to present ‘The Ultimate Gladiator.’

Total Party Kill Games’ Ultimate Gladiator is an excellent adaptation, blending the exceptional Pathfinder system to a fantastic concept. We’ve utilized the “Talented” class framework to create a gladiator that is incredibly flexible and has the abilities to back up the strength of the concept.

Our gladiator is not only a killer in the arena, but a viable character when allowed to adventure, providing valuable inspiration to his allies as he performs his feats of bravado and dash. While powerful, the gladiator is mostly limited in scope to melee combat and not well armored, preferring light armor and great mobility over heavier armors. This grants him great reflexes and their incessant combat practice allows them to take wounds that would cripple a normal hero and still keep on fighting.

Within are multitudes of talents, feats, combat styles, traits, and even archetypes. Play the role of an insightful Andabata (Blind Helm Fighter), a ferocious Bestiarus (Beast Master), an acrobatic Blade Dancer, the charismatic Champion, the reviled Criminal, the massive Gigante (Giant), the alluring Gladiatrix, the unstoppable Immortal, the unflinching Ironbound, the wealthy Noble Gladiator, the deadly ranged Sagittarius, the rage-filled Barbaric Slave gladiator, and the fearsome Venator (Beast Slayer).

Use ‘The Ultimate Gladiator’ to bring an exciting new warrior class into your games. Build a gladiator campaign around the multitudes of different gladiators you can build with this sourcebook. Or play a free gladiator that inspires his adventuring allies with his panache and bravado in your existing campaign.

You will be entertained… on sale 2/13/14 everywhere.

Check out the previews on our Facebook page.

If you want to really have some fun with dragons in your game, pick this up. Here's some examples of what you can do:

Golden Scale Defender = Human Paladin + Major Gold Dragon Bloodline Template

Flamebringer Kobold = Kobold + Major Red Dragon Bloodline

Chromatic Dragon Infiltrator Thrall = 1/2 Elf Rogue + Aberrant Dragon Template + Minor Silver Dragon Template

Dragonblooded Half Frost Giant = Human + Giant Template + Major White Dragon Template

Greenscale Terror = Advanced Template + Troll + Major Green Dragon Template

What will you make?

I (Brian Berg) will be contributing some dark post-apocalyptic love to this setting as well as Clinton Boomer.

Our first review for Rawr! II: 'Flame & Wrath' is in... 5 Stars!

"...this book covers a lot of options for dragons and dragon descendents. The rules are solid, I've played with building some stuff and all seems to work well, and you can customize how much or little dragon blood you have. I don't want to give too much away, but this is a highly customizable system for dragon descendants. The rules to supplement dragons themselves are also well thought out, and I will probably use almost all of them. The new monsters are balanced and well written..."

Thank you Nick E.!

Looks like you'll see a volume two! Scarcely a day and some change left, so if you are considering jumping in on this awesomely fun project, now is the time to do so.

We've used four of the RPG Superstar contestants in our products thus far, and several others who simply pitched a great idea. I'd say that if you are interested in freelancing, find a company that produces the sort of product you are looking at creating, and send them a solid pitch.

Be prepared to show some finished examples of your work. They don't necessarily have to relate to what you are hoping to produce, but showing finished work of any variety will lend confidence to the publisher. We wouldn't want to committ resources to anything and then have a writer flake. Everyone wants to write RPG material right?

Also, having the ability to take feedback is instrumental. Also, always be courteous and professional. You would be surprised how much the third-party publishers talk amongst one another.

We are always happy to take submissions, as long as they match our brand. Feel free to reach out to me at necro@tpkgames.com. I've found writing game materials to be very satisfying, and I'm sure you can to.

Now with more Endzeitgeist!

We have more classes on the horizon too... That's probably one of my favorite things to write, though you have to really take your time and get them right.

Given the opportunity, always play a necromancer. :P

What about a hex magus? Pretty good versatility and capable of doing all sorts of fun stuff.

We should have an updated v1.1 of Feats Reforged available tonight. I'm finalizing the changes this morning, so be sure to download the new version when it updates!

"Vol. I, Core Rules" what would you be looking for before Vol.II and such or are you already doing them?

You are correct Sir! Next up are the feats from the Player's Guide. I intend to give those feats a "reforging" as well as everything in Ultimate Combat and Ultimate Magic in volumes III and IV respectively.

I shared this in another private forum, but being on the Paizo list is not entirely indicative of overall sales performance. It all depends where your fans have been trained to shop. TPK seems to rarely make the lists here at Paizo, and sell roughly 10:1 over at DriveThruRPG. Our latest release is yet another solid class, but might not make the top ten list on Paizo, yet it is the #2 Pathfinder category product on DTRPG and was also the #2 in the top 100 small press. Last month three of our products were in the top 15 Pathfinder products on DTRPG, but nada on the Paizo list.

DriveThru has marketing tools that allow for a much greater awareness and reach by comparison to Paizo. We've seen some excellent exposure on Paizo recently, but we still sell a vast majority of our books on DTRPG because that's where we linked all of our releases to in the beginning.

Top Sales List on D20pfsrd for August:

1-Ultimate Psionics PreOrder
2-Summer Class Blitz Bundle
3-Scions of Stone: 6 Original Gargoyle PC Races
4-Pact Magic Unbound, Vol. 1
5-Psionics Unleashed & Psionics Expanded: Advanced Psionics Guide Bundle
6-Open Gaming Monthly #5
7-101 New Skill Uses
8-Cerulean Seas Bundle
9-Rogue Glory
10-The Genius Guide to the Talented Monk

Aside from Super Genius Games, the folks mentioned above for being top third party teams aren't even ranking there. Everyone has a varying degree of success per sales channel depending on how they use it. If you see any third party folks on any list, they are probably doing something right. :P

Just a week ago we surpassed 1000 fans on Facebook, and many more on our other social media sites (@tpkgames on Twitter). To us, 1000 fans and followers on Facebook is a significant milestone and we want to celebrate it with all of you!

For starters, we are putting our entire catalog on sale for 20% off, on all sales channels. That means you’ll be able to grab any of our older titles or recent ones you’ve missed for an excellent 20% off discount. But wait - we are even going to include our new releases in September in this deal!

If you haven’t already seen it, our line of deluxe adventures kicks off with The Reaping Stone, a vicious adventure by acclaimed writer Tom Phillips. This adventure is suitable for 4-6 players of 2nd level that will take them on a dark journey all the way to 5th level as they deal with the machinations of an evil cleric of disease and destruction as he seeks his revenge.

We’ve also been producing a line of player race sourcebooks, with Dwellers in Dream, a book of five fey-themed player races and Scions of Stone, a sourcebook allowing you to play gargoyles as a player race! Scions of Stone is already a best seller on DriveThruRPG.

THE DEDUCTIONIST BASE CLASS
What’s next for September? We have been working on a new class, and we are pleased to announce the release of The Deductionist, an all-new skill and leader type class that uses brains over brawn and uses reason to fuel their vast array of abilities. If you’ve ever had the inclination to play a character based on Sherlock Holmes, Harry Dresden or even Batman… this class sourcebook will be for you. The title should be available on all sites September 6th and will be available in print, along with many of our other titles.

FAN CONTEST
This has been all good news, right? Well, we aren’t stopping there. We are going to run a contest for some amazing swag this month too. You can enter simply by forwarding your purchase confirmation emails to necro@tpkgames.com. We will give you 1 entry per item purchase and two entries for items $9.99 and above (MSRP). You’ll be able to tell us which items you are interested in. Everyone will be entered into their chosen pools for the fan rewards, and we’ll draw winners at random.

CONTEST AWARDS
One lucky person will win a TPK Games logo t-shirt (up to 5x)!

One lucky person will win a TPK Games “We Kill For Fun” t-shirt (up to 5x)!

One lucky person will win a TPK Games logo women’s “husband-beater” style tank top (up to 5x)!

Six lucky people will win a game session of The Ship of Fools for via Roll20!

One lucky person will win a print copy of The Deductionist.

One lucky person will win a print copy of The Reaping Stone.

Once again, thank you all for what has been a terrific year thus far. We have many more great releases planned for this year too. Keep up with all of our releases and convention appearances on Facebook and Twitter!

TPK T-SHIRTS NOW AVAILABLE
As you can see, we now have four different styles of t-shirts available. You can show off your support and make your fellow gamers cringe in fear! Our shirts are all of durable cotton and up to 5x in size. We have three designs to choose from, and even have a pink women’s “husband beater” tank top as well.

You can order a shirt during the month of September for 20% off too. After that, they will return to regular price. You can get them direct from us by messaging us on Facebook.

View the shirts here!

TPK Large Logo t-shirt (Black) $20 ($16 through September)
TPK “We Kill For Fun” t-shirt (Black) $20 ($16 through September)
TPK “Official Cohort” t-shirt (Black) $20 ($16 through September)
TPK Logo women’s tank-top (Pink) $20 ($16 through September)

Hmm... elusive artifact wording... must be the eye of vague-na!

You can grab all of our products in print over at the d20pfsrd shop here!

What if I told you the award-winning roleplaying game The Secret Fire had a killer follow-up sourcebook written by veteran designers including Ed Greenwood, Logan Bonner, Thomas Reid, and George Strayton, with a foreword by Mr. Jim Ward?

The Way of Tree, Shadow & Flame supplement contains new races, callings, prayers, spells, background and relationship tables, rules for running domains, and more — hundreds of pages of material for players and game masters alike.

And with your help, The Secret Fire’s system of roleplaying mechanics for creating three-dimensional characters and forging epic storylines with your games will be converted to both Pathfinder and Swords & Wizardry in official companion books.

And that’s not all.

New David “Diesel” LaForce artwork, a unique Stan! comic, special Pathfinder mechanics by Owen KC Stephens of Super Genius Games and Brian Berg of TPK Games, a gazetteer by the master himself, Bruce Heard, an origin story of the TSF world by Ed Greenwood (in addition to his design work on the supplement), new Swords & Wizardry mechanics by Matt Finch, cartography by Tom Fayen, a dark and dangerous adventure by Paizo RPG Superstar contestant and TPK Games alumni Tom Phillips and more will all be part of this fantastic collaboration of designers and artists that spans the lifetime of roleplaying games!

Help us bring this RPG into the realm of Pathfinder. Live on Kickstarter here!

I have a Malefactor player in my game at home. She doesn't do a lot of damage, but her ability to make my life miserable as a GM and keep the baddies on their heels is impressive. The Malefactor wasn't designed as a damage dealer. It's an entirely different play style, which may ruffle some folks' feathers if they are used to blasters and slicers. I think the evil laughter from the players is worth the trade-off.

Yeah, I have to agree with all of the above. For us, style is extremely important. I like hungry artists that contact us. It tells me they want work and are more likely to deliver.

Really there is a ton of good material out there, depending on your setting. I didn't know Endzeitgeist had his own website, but sorting by topic is genius. Super Genius even. A third party pun!

Check out our The Malefactor Base Class or Dwellers in Dream. Both may be of interest to you as a player or GM.

I have to commend Rite Publishing and Jon Brazer Enterprise's use of the Malefactor in their works. We've used Super Genius Games' work before in Infamous Adversaries: Urizen the Bleak Lord. No matter what, using other's open content is a win for everyone.

I fear too many companies feel that they have to protect their work, and then sell half as many copies because of it.

Hello all, we have been quietly lurking in the darkness working on a handful of projects. One of which is now done and live on Paizo now! If you love the fey, you need to check this out.

Long have the fey captured mankind’s imaginations. Dwellers in Dream is a fey-themed player sourcebook containing five all-new races for the Pathfinder RPG. This new sourcebook explores five original fey-themed races for your d20 and Pathfinder games. These are not your standard fantasy fey either, these are creations from the darkest recesses of the twisted minds over at Total Party Kill Games.

The first of the five new player races is the Briarborn, a plant-like race born of nature’s response to harm and injury. They grow quickly and are a measured response to the likes of orcs and men who would seek to harm the world itself. Then there are the Crimbil, goblin-blooded fey and snatchers of children. Next, we explore the True Changelings, mercurial shape-shifting fey. There is also the Glimmerkin, a race of elves who used magic to enter a chrysalis state for an age and emerged something altogether different. Lastly is the Sylfaen, a brutal warden of nature and fey lands, the leaders of the Wyld Hunts.

Each race is fully developed with a total of 80 pages of content! There are tons of new fey-themed feats, abilities, traits, archetypes, spells, magical items and even a new plane of existence. All of the content is hyperlinked to the d20pfsrd.com website for your convenience of use and extensively bookmarked.

For those interested in a sample, check out the Briarborn race on d20pfsrd.com!

This is just a huge amount of content for only $9.99! You can grab it on Paizo right here.

We spoke with Ed Greenwood yesterday about it, and just to be on the safe side the name has been changed. House Everhate will now be House Invidious. One of the things I love most about gaming is the expanded vocabulary. If you look that one up you'll quickly see the connection.

Look for some teaser text as my stretch goal comes closer! Someone let me write about a wicked, evil race... Mwahahahahahaahahahaha!

-Brian

I really hope this keeps steamrolling, I'm very much looking forward to showing you guys how awful drow can really be. I'm pulling no punches, this won't be scimitar-wielding Hello-Kitty, I'm talking degenerate desperate scum of the underdark.