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TPK has been very busy this year with some wicked and evil projects. One has recently surfaced that I'm gleeful to be able to share. The Reaping Stone is set for imminent launch. The Reaping Stone is the first in a two part (maybe more, muwhahahhahahaa) series based on our widely backed Kickstarter last year. It's 200 pages of pure awesome, which you could begin at first level if you were a real sadist...
THE REAPING STONE
by Tom "Qadim" Phillips (RPG Superstar Three-peat Contender)
Adventure Synopsis
Some years ago, Azrenar, a cleric of Maramaga, Scythe-mother and Queen of Rot, petitioned the king of Maerh-Varza to build a great temple to the ancient goddess. In great fury, the king seeks to put the offensive cleric and his followers to the sword and nearly succeeds. His follower’s dead bodies line the roads to Maerh-Varza and the cleric Azrenar curses the king, declaring bloody vengeance.
Azrenar hides deep underground and he and his remaining followers find an ancient temple deep within the earth, one formerly held by evil dwarves centuries before Maerh-Varza was built. But when Azrenar takes over the temple, his mind is enraptured by the Reaping Stone, an ancient artifact once held by the Midnight King, a powerful wizard-priest of Maramaga’s order.
Now channeling the power of the Reaping Stone, Azrenar has created a deadly supernatural disease, one capable of animating those who die of the horrible wasting disease. Will the spurned cleric turn Maerh-Varza into a zombie-infested metropolis or will the players find the cure in time?
Product
The Reaping Stone is a deluxe 200 page adventure that will take your characters down a dark path, from 1st level to at least 5th level, as prequel for the upcoming Bleeding Hollow deluxe adventure.
The Reaping Stone is as brutal as Rappan Athuk and as challenging and engaging as any published Adventure Path, with a good dose of old school carnage binding the lot together.
This adventure has a dark, engaging and compelling story line in which the player characters must race to uncover the cure to a vile supernatural disease. Your players will be highly engaged and invested. They will know fear... especially since they may very well have contracted the supernatural plague themselves!
Written by former 3-time RPG Superstar contestant and Top 4 finalist Tom Phillips (co-author of The Ship of Fools and author of the upcoming Pathfinder Society adventure: The Hellknight’s Feast) with gorgeous cartography masterfully crafted by RPG Superstar finalist Richard Hunt and illustrated by the sensational artist Christopher Stoll, this adventure is an absolute treat for GMs and players alike.
TPK Games always strives to make our products easy on the GM. This adventure has complete stat blocks, placed in the text right where you need them. The entire text is invisibly hyperlinked to the d20pfsrd.com website for ease of reference and extensively hyperlinked. In addition, the encounters all scale so GMs may challenge their players as they see fit.
The Reaping Stone contains several interesting and deadly all-new monsters and dozens of highly memorable encounters that will haunt you and your players for years to come...
Battlemaps
The Battlemaps are a 136 page PDF pack of EVERY encounter map, scaled perfectly for gameplay as 1” squares -- just print and play!
**Available Soon**
I sense great anger in this one.
I sense great anger in this one.
Vengeance is certainly the major villain's primary motivation.
Where will we be able to purchase these glorious Battlemats? What will the approximate price point be?
As a kickstarter backer, I'm looking forward to getting my copy of this book (and the following Bleeding Hollow). The battlemats would make things very interesting for my players!
Oh, wait. *checks email* I have already downloaded them. *evil grin*
-Aaron
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lol for those who have not *already* downloaded them, they're on sale now in the d20pfsrd store and I'm sure they'll be here and at OBS (if not already there) soon.
When will the adventures be published?
Soon. I think I know, but I'll let TPK games answer that one.
As further incentive, I have 4 words:
GMs, if your players moan and groan (and their PCs wail and cower in terror), you can blame me.
Congrats, Tom! This sounds great!
Congrats, Tom! This sounds great!
Thanks, Eric!
We hope that folks enjoy (and purchase!) this larger-than-usual adventure offering. TPK Games gambled a bit when they cut away my leash and let me run hog wild on a project of this size. Fingers crossed that it pans out. Anyway, it was a blast to write! ;-)
For those of you interested in a page sample, go to Total Party Kill Games's Facebook page. You'll see a bit of text and some of Chris's gloriously dark artwork depicting a new variant monster ...
Enjoy!
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For those of you interested in a page sample, go to Total Party Kill Games's Facebook page.
We've added another art teaser (two actually!) from The Reaping Stone to the Total Party Kill Facebook page.
Check out Vomog and Zagnaaga, a pair of starry-eyed ogre lovers ... who both happen to be clerics of Maramaga, the Scythe Mother, Queen of Rot.
A big kudos to Christopher Stoll for his awesome art!
Thanks TPK!
Thank you, sir! Definitely let us know what you think.
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I am currently GMing this on the Paizo boards, and I have to admit that although it has a very lethal feeling, it also feels balanced.
I wouldn't consider running this from first level unless you are sure that your party are going to a) consider the threats carefully and b) are experienced in the system. The party barbarian (and leader of the party as they are members of The Shining Blade, a mercenary group contracted by the Guild of Streetsweepers and Lamplighters to clear out an otyugh in the sewers) rolled a 1 on his reaping sickness Fortitude save and ate 6 points of Constitution damage.
As we come into the second encounter, I feel that this has the potential to become one of those "oh my god, how did we survive this" adventures. Heartily recommended if your group are in for that kind of thing!