Hello, hello! March was a fantastic month for Interjection Games, so let's do it again with April's releases!
April Release Schedule
Subterranean Races: Puddling Archeypes - Available April 1st, everyone's favorite naive ooze race finally gets some archetypes of its own!
When a malfunctioning memory crystal scrambles a puddling's brain in the middle of viewing, the end result is a puddling with an amusing split personality disorder. Enter the crystalbroken bloodrager archetype!
Puddling society is predicated upon the concept of consensus, which requires that the oozes swap memories and beliefs until the best course of action is determined. In larger communities, this becomes difficult, as everyone's trying to be heard at once, and specialists are required to keep things organized. Create and control your own telepathic network with the moderator wizard archetype!
A group of puddlings watched some kung fu on a memory crystal once, and figured, "Hey, we could do that!" Having no bones does give them a distinct advantage, and the end result is the master of dropbear-style ambush tactics himself: the protoplasmic fist monk archetype!
(MSRP $1.00)
Strange Magic Items: Ethermagic - Available April 8th, Strange Magic Items: Ethermagic takes magic items to the void itself! Featuring new magic items (including a single wondrous item with a dozen combinable variants), as well as weapon, armor, and shield special abilities, the primary focus of SMI: Ethermagic is the "etherstaff", a total redesign of arcane staves to fit within the framework of ethermagic. Over a dozen premade staves are available to pick up and use, and if you can navigate the creation rules, you can make your own, too! (MSRP $2.49)
Class Expansions: Apothecary Plaguewright Archetype - Available April 15th is the first expansion for the plaguewright base class, the apothecary! Largely refusing to spread pestilence, the apothecary is, instead, an experimental healer who cooks up and injects various beneficial strains of microbes for the use of his allies, or the community. (MSRP $0.00 - Free swag! Free swag!)
The Master of Forms Expanded: Darkness and Shadow - On April 22nd, the only Patreon-funded Pathfinder product to receive a nomination for Endzeitgeist's top 10 lists gets its first expansion. Once again funded by Alex Ross (AKA New Alex), The Master of Forms Expanded: Darkness and Shadow introduces the shadow element, which acts as the glue that holds the other elements in alignment. Stealth and trickery combine with a communal element of sorts in shadow, facilitating both focusing on one element and dipping into a second element. For those seeking a more sinister playstyle, embracing the darkness transforms the player character into a vessel for an observer whose home, Elsewhere, exists at right angles to reality. Wield corrupted versions of existing forms, as well as a grouping of new forms from Elsewhere, as you give up your humanity to further the cause of this alien entity. In you, the darkness stares back.
Also included are a number of archetypes that can be mixed and matched to customize your vanilla master of forms playstyle. Lock yourself out of an entire element of forms to gain access to 4 new forms for your favorite element, or weaken your ability to use cross-element finishers to gain a thematic pool resource for your chosen element. Do one, do both, or throw away the combo system entirely and focus on constantly alternating elements instead! It's all here. (MSRP - $4.49)
Ultimate Runesmithing - Happy birthday to Preston Mitchell! This one's for him. On April 29th, runes get drug away from their overused flavor as magic before the days of spellbooks and wizards. After all, why would there ever be practicing runesmiths if it's the primitive expression of magic? Instead, Interjection Games is proud to announce runesmithing as "magic in reverse". Rather than take raw energy, shape it, and hurl it, a runesmith makes his shaping devices (runes) ahead of time, throws raw energy directly at the shaping device, and lets the device do the shaping for him.
The playstyle of the runesmith firmly sets it down in the "artificer" method of play, but its focus on temporary effects means the wealth-by-level curve remains intact! Runesmiths enjoy the use of equipment runes, which create temporary, whimsical magic items out of nonmagical gear, and projection runes, which affect small bursts of terrain with one of many strange effects. All it takes is three feats and two rune slots to turn an ally into a casino mage (might you RNG us a spell?) with a pair of gloves runed up with the mark of the trickster and a cloak with the sigil of the campaigning soldier (robe of useful things, eat your heart out!). Heck, if the party likes it, the runesmith can focus entirely on the sigil of the campaigning soldier with the campaigner archetype, and suddenly everyone's whipping out random 1st and 2nd-level spell scrolls in the hopes that one of them will be useful. Casino wizard indeed. (MSRP - $6+ The product is still growing, and, therefore, so is the cover price.)
Class Expansions: Apothecary Plaguewright Archetype - Available April 15th is the first expansion for the plaguewright base class, the apothecary! Largely refusing to spread pestilence, the apothecary is, instead, an experimental healer who cooks up and injects various beneficial strains of microbes for the use of his allies, or the community. (MSRP $0.00 - Free swag! Free swag!)
Ah, I was just wondering what kind of healer could I play next... guess I'll finally buy the Plaguewright!
Although the Runesmith sounds quite capable of providing support in the non-healing fashion. Hmm.
Class Expansions: Apothecary Plaguewright Archetype - Available April 15th is the first expansion for the plaguewright base class, the apothecary! Largely refusing to spread pestilence, the apothecary is, instead, an experimental healer who cooks up and injects various beneficial strains of microbes for the use of his allies, or the community. (MSRP $0.00 - Free swag! Free swag!)Ah, I was just wondering what kind of healer could I play next... guess I'll finally buy the Plaguewright!
Although the Runesmith sounds quite capable of providing support in the non-healing fashion. Hmm.
An early build of the "casino mage" aspect of the runesmith is available as a public Patreon post. Take a gander!
As always, Patreon backers get new base classes at the $5 level and higher, and I expect the runesmith to hit $8 or so retail.
Mmm, I appear to have released the wrong product last Friday. We're swapping the 8th and the 15th, folks!
Strange Magic Items: Ethermagic - Available April 8th
Class Expansions: Apothecary Plaguewright Archetype - Available April 15th
Mmm, I appear to have released the wrong product last Friday. We're swapping the 8th and the 15th, folks!
I saw the Apothecary at DriveThruRPG, but it didn't show up here yet.
Strange Magic Items: Ethermagic - Available April 8th
Class Expansions: Apothecary Plaguewright Archetype - Available April 15th
Mmm, I appear to have released the wrong product last Friday. We're swapping the 8th and the 15th, folks!I saw the Apothecary at DriveThruRPG, but it didn't show up here yet.
Correct. I'm seeing how successful pay what you want is; since no other site has it, and since 95% of my freebie giveaways already go through DriveThru, I've decided to give up on the other stores for the purpose of free products.
At the request of the backer, the Master of Forms expansion has had a 900-word "integrated intelligent item" class feature added to one of its archetypes. The document is sitting in the backer's inbox for approval, and will be put up for sale as soon as I have the okay.
Given this step, the product may or may not be pushed back to tomorrow. We'll see.
Alright, folks, the runesmith is bigger than I had bargained for, and I missed the mark again. Release is sliding to tomorrow. I apologize! MSRP will be $7.99, and, in terms of raw content, only the original truenamer release will be bigger.