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If you've been to the Legendary Games website, you've seen our first product line are "Adventure Path Plug-Ins".
What are they, you ask?
Adventure Path Plug-Ins are support materials designed to fit directly with the themes of a particular Adventure Path campaign for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, written by the very authors who wrote the actual adventures!
Though Adventure Path Plug-Ins all share a theme with a specific Adventure Path campaign, they’re also designed for easy inclusion in your home game regardless of what campaign you run.
Soon to be available Adventure Path Plug-Ins include:
Gothic Adventure Path
The Murmuring Fountain: A “set piece” adventure designed to give 1st to 3rd level characters the chance to earn additional experience and Trust within a gothic-themed Adventure Path campaign. Includes elements inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft. Provides the party with the possibility of acquiring a spectral “pet.”
Treasury of the Macabre: A collection of 30 magic items by our all-star Design Team for use in a gothic-themed Adventure Path campaign. Includes items with thematic links to ghosts and haunts, mad scientists and constructs, werewolves, eldritch horrors, vampires and witches, and liches and the ancient dead.
Gothic Pregens: A set of 8 rules-legal, fully fleshed out, ready to play pregenerated 1st level characters created specifically to shine in a gothic-themed Adventure Path campaign, written by authors who actually wrote the Adventure Path! Built using Pathfinder Society 20-point-buy method (with notes for 15-point builds), includes advancement notes, roleplaying tips and more! Useable by players as PCs, by GMs as NPCs or rival adventurers.
Tomes of Ancient Knowledge: A supplement including variant rules for addressing mythos-inspired madness as well as several fully-detailed tomes of unspeakable knowledge and also including horrific mythos spells (and mythos versions of common spells) suitable for any gothic-themed Adventure Path campaign.
Additional planned installments include a product on Golems by Jason Nelson, as well as another plug-in mini-adventure by Greg Vaughan.
What is the goal of the Adventure Path Plug-Ins?
Paizo makes amazing adventures. But their adventures are designed to EVERY game group, not YOUR game group. Our plug ins help you add to and customize your adventures for your campaign and your game group. Plus, the published adventures have to fit a page count. And, by necessity, some stuff just gets cut. We help fill those gaps. Whether it is not enough Trust in the first adventure, or a lack of an early Lovecraftian flavor, or good, customized madness rules befitting epic, heroic characters, we've got you covered.
Will you always write for the current Adventure Path only?
Heck no! It just so happens we all love and are inspired by the recent Gothic AP and wanted to start with that. But we all also love sandbox-style kingdom building as well as Arabian Nights themed Adventure Paths quite a bit! Not to mention the many other great APs out there. Will we offer something for the current AP? Always. But we also intend to reach back to prior APs. Why? Because they are great. And because most gamers don't play through the APs immediately as they are published. So many GMs are only now starting prior APs for their home game group and they need our support material just as much as the current APs do. In fact, a planned future product line includes some "capstone" epic level (or near epic level) adventures that extend some of the prior Adventure Paths. Unfinished business on the City of Brass, perhaps?
Behind the curtain
Also look for discussion from us about how and why we designed things the way we did. We hope to share our design experience with you. This is a luxury you don't have with a limited page count product. And with the specific team members we have, we think it will be helpful to explain (either in the product or on these boards) why we do some of the things we do, to share our experience with all of you! If our involvement in RPG Superstar has taught us anything, it is that this community has a voracious appetite to learn and improve their design and we think not only will our products enhance your game, they will also be useful examples for improving design!
Your turn
Now you've got the Legendary Games Design Team listening to you. What material do YOU think your favorite AP needs? We've thought of lots of stuff, but maybe you have an idea for us. Share your thoughts here, if you want. Tell Neil, Jason, Boomer and Greg what you think.
Oh hello!
Will these be available through the Paizo store too? And do you have plans to revisit older adventure paths?
[edit] Perhaps I should read the whole thing through, eh?
I'll take it as a compliment that excitement led you to post so quickly!
Yes and Yes. :)
How can you not sell stuff for Pathfinder at Paizo.com? Seems silly to me. Not only is that where the Pathfinder fans are, but the people at Paizo are so cool, and so supportive of 3Ps, that it only makes sense to partner with them. I believe in not only supporting gaming and the fans, but of supporting Paizo directly. So it is a pleasure to offer products through Paizo.com. I also use DTRPG because so many Necro fans find our products there and I am good friends with Steve Wieck who runs that site. A long time ago, when I was struggling with a decision, Steve gave me a great piece of advice--life is too short to work with people you don't like. That advice helped me make a decision and since then I've lived with that motto. Selling through Paizo.com and DTRPG are just extensions of that same idea (ie: make sure you work with people you DO like).
And, as stated above, we love the prior APs, too! Heck, the Legendary Games Design Team worked on a huge portion of them. We have favorites, like anyone else, but they are all really good. Some are amazing (I'm partial to Legacy of Fire, for instance; Boomer loves Council of Thieves, Jason likes Kingmaker; we all love Crimson Throne; and didn't Greg write all of them? Lemme check, yup.).
Clark
edit: ninja'd
DM you can ninja (or get ninja'd by) me anytime!
Keep in mind, we've only just scratched the surface of what's possible with this product line. Paizo's adventure paths pretty much took the adventure "niche" by storm, giving more than just an adventure module...i.e., entire campaigns crammed full of awesome storytelling and memorable game encounters. We're looking to take these Adventure Path Plug-Ins and expand on that experience. So sharpen your swords and study those spellbooks, people! You thought the adventure was over? Oh, no. It's just getting started...
My two-cents,
--Neil
Seems very cool. Any idea when it will be made available? Also, looks like PDF only, is that correct?
I have to say I am really excited by this as will my players. The capstone adventures probably the most!
I don't want to rain on all the excitement, but this isn't quite as revolutionary an idea as some seem to be making it out to be. After all, Jon Brazer Enterprises provided some very nice supplements to Kingmaker with their River Nations books.
Unless I failed my Perception check, I'm fairly certain that's what Dale was referring to in the other thread.
I don't want to rain on all the excitement, but this isn't quite as revolutionary an idea as some seem to be making it out to be. After all, Jon Brazer Enterprises provided some very nice supplements to Kingmaker with their River Nations books.
Yep, he did. And its awesome! But I'm not talking about isolated products, I'm talking about a product line with this goal. In the end, it just means more for the fans to enjoy!
OK, so I'm about to start running Carrion Crown in the summer of 2012 ... and I find a bunch of references to "The Murmuring Fountain," a plug-in designed to work with the AP. But the only references I can find to it are a year old. Nothing since! What has become of Legendary Games and their Murmuring Fountain?
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OK, so I'm about to start running Carrion Crown in the summer of 2012 ... and I find a bunch of references to "The Murmuring Fountain," a plug-in designed to work with the AP. But the only references I can find to it are a year old. Nothing since! What has become of Legendary Games and their Murmuring Fountain?
Last I talked to Clark he was doing the RPG Superstar as a judge and some other RL stuff keeping him busy. I haven't talked to him in a bit so not sure how things are progressing.
The website link in the original post is non operational. Is there another link to his company?
Clark's doing some stuff in transitioning domains around. It involves Necromancer Games and apparently Legendary Games is somehow connected to it. He's a bit busy this weekend, but plans on sorting things out Monday with the online customer service folks who do the hosting for the site.