Monthly Archives: November 2023

The Coming of Winter–FUNDED!!

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Kickstarter News: We Reached Our Goal!

Wow!! We are stoked to have reached our goal!! Thank you so much for your support! I’ve been busy with the holidays and this made everything better for me and hope you all had a great holiday as well! We have been successful with a few Kickstarters now and each time, it’s an absolute dream to be able to commission original art for our adventures and we feel great knowing there are others being able to use our products for their own campaigns and making memories with their players.

New Tiers!

In our comments, a backer asked if we would combine all our PDFs into one package. I finally had some time to put that together and we are now introducing:

PDF Blizzard: The PDF Blizzard (90$) includes The Coming of Winter PDFs, Journal of Nevermore optional rules, and all of the Add-On adventures in PDF form—which basically covers all of our adventures (it will also include the short adventure- The Covey, which isn’t part of the Add-Ons). There are a few that aren’t on there as they are PWYW/free on DrivethruRPG (Kellerin’s Rumble) and a few free adventures we have on our blog. This tier is basically for the whole sha-bang.

White Out: I also added a tier for all of our PODs/PDFs ($190) into one package called White Out. Basically this includes everything, like the PDF Blizzard version but includes both the Book AND PDF versions of adventures from the Add-Ons as well as PDF’s of adventures that don’t have the option of PODs. It will also include the POD/PDF of Coming of Winter and Journal of Nevermore optional rules.

Snowfall: Just a 1$ tier but gives backers an opportunity to purchase Add-Ons at a discounted price than anywhere else. This tier does not include the new Coming of Winter adventures.

Art is Coming In…

Just got a few new pieces from Eric Hunt for the Winter’s Grasp adventure:

And also a new piece from Del Tiegeler for the Ice Needles of the Cryoptera adventure:

Del said it was a joke at first…adding baby manticores. I told him to keep them in there because I’ve never seen an adventure with baby manticores before—so I wrote them in. What would your PCs do with baby manticores?!

Jonbar is going to start posting about our brand-new campaign through Coppercore as we playtest through it again. Keep your eyes open—good things are coming!

I have failed thee…

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Terribly sorry folks, seems I had something not correctly set up when last we streamed. Had I done it correctly, there would be a far better copy…and one without the internet crapping out on us too.

All is not lost, however; Twitch…which is where we stream live every Wednesday at 6:15PM Pacific Standard Time, does have a recording of the entire episode 3.

I will be preparing all day in the dungeon that is our studio, in an attempt to insure that this does not happen again, and so a pristine copy of Episode 4 will be waiting for you next Sunday night. I’d like to think that the sound will be far improved as well, and that I might be able to do some more with the stream itself, split screens and better shots of the battle board.

Again, my profuse apologies

Shamoda

The Dragonback Mountains – The Beginning of an Entire World

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This is a map that Jonbar drew up which includes the Dragonback Mountains (north) and the Zontani Sea region (south). The Zontani Sea holds the City of Vermilion and we have recently put out a bunch of adventures in that region, as well as playtesting the City of Vermilion. The giant empire of Rhone lays between the Dragonback Mountains and the Zontani Sea.. But we will focus on the Dragonback Mountains for now:

A closer view of the Dragonback Mountains that Jonbar drew a long while back. The darker etched mountains in the middle are the Dragonback and its name comes from the region looks like a dragon with arching wings and a long tail. Building a world like this is a giant task, so we started with the Dragonback Mountains but eventually broke it down to Drachenvale.

This Drachenvale map was generated by Grutzi who does a lot of great map work (and possesses an astounding creative mind)! It is a living map that is constantly expanding and becoming more detailed as we publish more old school modules. In its current state it shows the location of some of our already published OSR Adventures including The Willowmere Vagabonds (near Willowmere), the Nevermore Mine, Trollback Keep, Of Beasts and Men (north of Oakvale near the Elvish Ruins), and the Dragon’s Gullet. Winter’s Feast is not shown but is up past Mammoth Lake in the Mammoth Glacier area!

Within Drachenvale sits the city of Coppercore, the main human town in this region that we started with. From Dragonback, to Drachenvale, to Coppercore.

We realized very quickly that Coppercore itself was getting big, fast, and so we decided to break the map down even further! There are several adventures the party can follow that surround the city proper that include its three wayhouse settlements (Ersten, Mittelholme, and Farholme), as well as locations underneath Coppercore!

Further still are three fully fleshed out adventures that we’ve decided to combine into one singular production for a Kickstarter in the works called the Coming of Winter. If you want a quick bundle and want to support us, amazing artists we work with, and kick us some beer money then we’d appreciate it! It really goes right back into creating more adventures and breaking-even on commissions paid to (very talented) artists.

This entire region is also currently the setting of our live stream on Twitch. If you want to poke your head into our adventures every so often, the stream is every Wednesday with recordings posted to Youtube by the following Sunday.

This map shows Coppercore’s location and how close those three adventures are: Ice Needles of Cryoptera, the frost giant and wolf lair (Winter’s Grasp) and ice troll cave (Winter’s Blight).

We continue to delve into creating our own lore, deities, and other aspects that make this a living, breathing, world. This is nothing new as I believe a lot of GM’s enjoy world-building and all the little details, but I wanted to share what our own flavor or ‘world’ looks like.

If you have ideas for adventures that might fit in our world and want to try your hand at publishing, reach out to me through email themercilessmerchants@gmail.com or on our Discord (link on the homepage)! There are several continents and hundreds of ideas we haven’t come up with yet!