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Trekking along the high mountain trail five lonely travelers find themselves in grave danger. Caught in a fierce and unseasonal snowstorm, they must take shelter in Miyamakoori Monastery, a shrine of the yamabushi, located within a crevice near the summit of a mountain. The yamabushi shrine offers the only refuge for travelers along the highland trail. On this night, however, a powerful spirit of Jigoku, and her demonic entourage, has come to settle an old agreement between the abbot and herself. As a cold and unspeakable darkness falls upon the monastery, the travelers must use all the resources at their disposal to survive...
Frozen Wind is a One-Shot Adventure for five characters at 5th level designed for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
Written by Jonathan McAnulty with art and cartography by Michael Tumey.
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While this adventure has been designed for use in the Kaidan setting, this could easily fit into your Tian Xia campaign, in time just for Halloween!
And as a hint, the BBEG is a yuki-onna...
The BBEG is Yoko Ono?!
The BBEG is Yoko Ono?!
That would be scary.
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I had a lot of fun running this adventure at Origins this year and its great to see it being given a slight polish for this release.
When I wrote it, I was aiming for a three act horror movie feel and I think it worked out pretty well for that. The adventure comes with pregenerated characters that are designed just for the adventure (a lack of clerics [and a shortage of healing magic] is essential, in my opinion, for maximum fun with this particular scenario). Each of the characters has an in-scenario tie in to help with the feel of the whole thing.
If I hadn't already run it for my family once this year, this would be my choice for a halloween one-shot.
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Tomorrow's the day, like a Christmas in October. :)
actually its Trick or Treat!
Surpise its hear a day early :)
for FREE
Tomorrow's the day, like a Christmas in October. :)
actually its Trick or Treat!
Surpise its hear a day early :)
for FREE
Dare I ask what the trick is?
My Review of Frozen Wind
Overall Comments: This is a great single-evening adventure with a horror-centered plot, suitable for Halloween, a winter-horror themed event or whenever you want to scare your players. Yes, there are zombies, frozen creepy ones and much, much worse. It can be inserted into any oriental themed campaign; and is in fact specially designed to fit into any Kaidan-based campaign, per the trilogy of adventures from Rite Publishing.
I am not going into the details of this adventure to avoid spoiling this one for players. There are three acts and a sufficient quantity of different encounters to occupy any gaming group once the general feel of the adventure is realized. The adventure is run through the use of event-based acts, but is otherwise fairly sandboxy, at least inside the confines of the monastery. The GM might want to place a restriction upon simply leaving without first solving the mystery of this place to avoid players simply leaving. The weather limitations may not deter some groups; though a harsh GM dealing out frostbite to recalcitrant PC’s might do the trick.
Spoilers for my players: My own sense of hilarity wants to add humor to horror. So any delay by PC’s after killing a zombie or two would cause ones they just killed to reanimate and attack again. If they wise up and start to dismember the bodies, the arms, hands or bodies with legs would animate and probably be more scary (and/or laughable) than dangerous. Any player genius enough to try to burn a corpse would succeed in ending the reanimation. Obviously other GMs might not want to do this as it would defiantly delay the game.
Complaints: The existence of several typos, spelling errors and errors of usage indicate this product would have benefitted from another editing pass. But they don’t detract from the flow of the adventure and are barely even noticeable, unless you are like me. Plus this is free, a couple of typos can't detract from the overall awesome quality of this adventure, for free!
Cool Bonus stuff: For the players, there is a set of 6 pregenerated characters. For the GM there is a nicely illustrated appendix of adventure specific new monsters as well as several gamemaster aids; a temperature chart that helps the GM track the affects upon and times for saving throws, a countdown track to help the GM keep track of the time limit involved, and a score chart for those GMs who wish to reward the players.
Production values: As is typical of Rite Publishing and Kaidan materials, the appearance is standard and includes nicely drawn maps, original art, and some free domain art from old Japanese sources. Amazingly for a free product this is nearly all in color.
Did I mention this is free? Why haven’t you got it already? You will not be disappointed.
So, if stars mean something to folks I give this a 4.5, rounded up to 5 because it's free!