| DougSun |
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Hello, everyone! I haven't posted here in a while, but Ramen Sandwich Press has been anything but quiet. We have now published 10 Found by the Way adventure/location modules, compatible with both Pathfinder 1 and 2. You can find more info and links to where you can buy them on our website.
We spent most of the last 12 months putting together a 259-page rules supplement compatible with D&D 5E, a deep dive into random encounters called The Book of Chance Meetings. We successfully shepherded it through Kickstarter in the spring and wound up with our biggest hit yet!
Since then, we have been working on a comparable book for Pathfinder 2 with the working title The Book of Hidden Paths, and we're getting close to bringing it to Kickstarter. In fact, the first draft of the text is halfway done and we expect to have it completely done so that we can launch the campaign in mid-October with the intention of shipping the rewards in February. Hidden Paths will use a very similar structure and format to Chance Meetings, so if you want to get an idea of what the book will be like and how it will work, you can check out the Kickstarter campaign page for Chance Meetings. The difference, of course, is that Hidden Paths will include creatures from all three Pathfinder 2 Bestiaries published to date! So I expect to be a longer and even richer and more varied book than its D&D-compatible cousin.
I've mentioned this elsewhere, but I have been fascinated by random encounter going all the way to AD&D, which was my introduction to RPGs. I was entranced by the appendix in the AD&D DMG with its pages and pages of tables. The possibilities seemed endless. And yet, there wasn't much follow-through to them: So I roll up, "Orc." Well, how many orcs are there? What are they doing in that place, at that time? Are they happy to see the party, or not? But there was little to no guidance on what would actually happen. It's like Gary Gygax just stared back at me and said, "Whaddya mean? It's orcs. Deal with it." 40 years later, I have tried to answer those questions to my own satisfaction — and, I hope, to yours as well.
Follow Douglas Sun on Kickstarter to get notified when the campaign for The Book of Hidden Paths launches, or check back here. We'll offer PDF and softcover copies at a discount to the eventual cover price. We plan to offer at least one stretch goal: 220 print copies pre-sold through both Kickstarter and Backerkit, and we'll upgrade the print rewards to hardcover. I hope to see you there!
| DougSun |
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Please post your PF2 content updates and kickstarters to the appropriate forums, not to PF1 forums.
Sorry about that, but I have left open the possibility that the book would be compatible with 1E, as we get inquiries from time to time. I can confirm that Book of Hidden Paths will contain notes for using it with 1E creatures.
| DougSun |
The Kickstarter preview page for Book of Hidden Paths is now live, and we'll launch on October 18! I can confirm that there will be notes for using the book with 1E, even though it uses creatures from the 2E Bestiaries. Going through the first draft, I realized that converting it to make it useful with 1E was mainly a matter of scaling the encounters, and it's something that can be covered by some "as a general rule"-type advice.