Urban Horror In A Corrupt City: A Setting & Adventure Path for 5E, Pathfinder, and S&W

Frog God Games has sent along an enormous ten-page preview of The Blight: Richard Pett's Crooked City. For D&D 5E, Pathfinder, and Swords & Wizardry, this book details a decadent and corrupt city. Richard Pett created Dungeon Magazine's The Styes, worked on Paizo's adventure paths, and originally created this city for Pathfinder. A Swords & Wizardry conversion followed, and now a 5E version is coming! This enormous 900-page book contains a poster map, a full guide to the city (with new classes, player options, races, and 13 city districts) plus an entire urban horror adventure path called Levee, "set within the rotten and degenerate urban confines of the city, where the PCs must scratch and claw their way to survival starting at 1st level and continuing through 9 adventures all the way to 10th level and above."

Frog God Games has sent along an enormous ten-page preview of The Blight: Richard Pett's Crooked City. For D&D 5E, Pathfinder, and Swords & Wizardry, this book details a decadent and corrupt city. Richard Pett created Dungeon Magazine's The Styes, worked on Paizo's adventure paths, and originally created this city for Pathfinder. A Swords & Wizardry conversion followed, and now a 5E version is coming! This enormous 900-page book contains a poster map, a full guide to the city (with new classes, player options, races, and 13 city districts) plus an entire urban horror adventure path called Levee, "set within the rotten and degenerate urban confines of the city, where the PCs must scratch and claw their way to survival starting at 1st level and continuing through 9 adventures all the way to 10th level and above."

Below is the D&D 5E version of the ten-page preview. When you've finished looking at that, head on over to the Kickstarter and back it! It has 13 days to go and is two-thirds funded. It's $50 for the PDF or $135 for the hardcover, but for that you get 900 pages of setting and adventure path, which is a big, big book - bigger than Monte Cook's Ptolus: City By The Spire, bigger than the War of the Burning Sky compiled adventure path, bigger than Hero System 5th Edition Revised, bigger than Tome of Horrors Complete and Rappan Athuk, bigger than Talislanta 4E, and nearly as big as The Slumbering Tsar (which edges it out at 937 pages).

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jerryrice4949 said:
To clarify it is only PDF for 5E at this point which has kept me from backing. At 900 pages a book would be far more useful to me.
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LOLWUT?

The Squire level is $50 for Pathfinder or S&W in PDF.

EDIT--My bad, I see what you're saying, now. Sorry. Apparently I can't delete my post.
 
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techno

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This book is expensive but, based on my experiences with other Frog God Games adventures, *well* worth the cost. 900 pages of PF, SW, or 5e adventuring in an awesome, evocative urban horror setting? Yes, please! Richard Pett (who frequently writes as a freelancer for Paizo's APs--for example the Skinsaw Murders in Rise of the Runelords) has been releasing samples of the book as KS updates and the writing is superb, dark, and unsettling. I agree that a 900-page PDF would be somewhat difficult to manage at the table so I am backing the PF hardback (at least until the 5e hardback stretch goal is achieved) and planning to just use the 5e PDF (which is included with the hardback pledge) for monster stats, trap stats, character options, etc. If there is a desire to have epic adventures written by 3PPs for 5e rather than just the WotC-published adventures in the Forgotten Realms, it is critical that projects like this one get supported. I know Frog God Games is looking at this as a test to see what the interest in doing very large 5e adventures is. Definitely worth at least taking a look at the Kickstarter.
 
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Matthan

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It might be helpful to have a recap of the Kickstarter. When it was launched, it was only for PF and S+W. People asked for a 5E version and FGG crunched the numbers to see if they could make it work. They decided to offer a 5E version as a PDF (though they cannot edit pledge level texts after the KS is live) with the hopes of funding a physical version as a $100,000 stretch goal.

I purchased some of their PF products over the holidays to check them out and I've been impressed. Their products seem to skew towards very dense sandbox style play which is strong on its own, but for the more homebrew style DM provides an abundance of material to lift and adapt to their own work. The Blight is intriguing because it not only offers that deep sandbox of a dark, urban setting, but also an actual adventure path as well. The author, Richard Pett, has a solid history in the industry for quality work from a variety of publishers and seems to be approaching this as a personal passion project. From all the previews and the talent involved, this looks to be something special and well worth supporting. Even if it doesn't hit the 5E print stretch goal, I think this is going to be a tome that a lot of folks will want on their shelf.
 




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Noctem said:
So once it gets to 100k, I'll pledge :) There's no point to pledge toward something I might not even be able to get right?
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I completely understand that. I'm still sitting at the pdf level myself. I need to clarify if I pledge for a physical copy if I can swap out the included pdf for the 5E version or if I have to step up my pledge to do so. Hopefully, they'll hit the stretch goal and it won't be a question.

I would encourage you (and anyone else in your situation) to star the KS so you get a reminder when its close to ending so you can check to see if the stretch goal has been hit.
 

techno

techno

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Noctem said:
So once it gets to 100k, I'll pledge :) There's no point to pledge toward something I might not even be able to get right?
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If a 5e hardback is the only option you will accept, then it makes sense to wait...unless you want to be part of making the $100K goal.
 
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