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Released yesterday at the Paizo store - Haiku of Horror: Autumn Moon Bath House - this is a map product with a creepy encounter as plug-n-play for any existing Kaidan module or Asian campaign. The monster comes in varying CR to be a threat to every PC level up to 20+.
There's labeled maps for a 4 story bath house, a full room by room gazetteer, printable sliced map for full scale (1" = 5'), and includes JPG files at 50 ppi and 100 ppi for use in VT apps.
This is the first release with me as author and designer (though Justin Sluder helped with the more complicated parts of the design).
I've got plans for many more - these are iconic locations you'd find in an Asian setting, like: bath house, Japanese castle, temple, shrine, cemetery, brothel, teahouse, shops on a street, etc. These are all based on authentic feudal Japanese architecture, so these map structures would work for both fantasy and historical Asian games.
Oh, and regarding the ghost of this release - if you've ever watched The Grudge, you might have a good idea what to expect...
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In the included custom haunts of this release, I've opted to add a Knowledge DC check as part of the stat block. RPGChronicle.com review of #30 Haunts for Kaidan, included a mis-step of not including a Knowledge DC check - even though Paizo's own standard haunt stat block has no reference to such. I agree with that reviews points, so have included that in each haunt stat block.
Also, I've included a new trigger for haunts - specific time. In ghost lore it is believed some ghosts reenact the final moments of their life, at the same hour every day, like a recorded event. Which means, to me, that some haunts might not be triggered by proximity - entering into the affected area. One of the custom haunts in this production has the trigger of midnight (hour of the rat) - the haunt manifests whether anyone is around to witness it or not. This should attract the PCs attention, and begin a series of related haunts that lead to the first encounter with the yurei no kami ghost of the site.
I can see many haunts triggered by a specific moment in time, depending on the backstory of the event that caused the haunt to form.