[TPK GAMES] The Sinister Secrets of Silvermote Adventure

[necroblivion]

The full length, 64 page adventure is now available on drivethrurpg.com (here) on pdf format for only $7.99. You can also get a download of the adventure teaser here and check it out for free.

A hellish 64 page dungeon crawl designed for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game which scales for characters of 7th-12th level—an adventure not for the faint of heart! This is the first ever full-length adventure by Total Party Kill Games!

The setting of this adventure is a place called Silvermote, the underground lair of our latest villain in the Infamous Adversary product line, Temerlyth the Undying. You do not need the latter product to enjoy this one, but owning both will enhance your enjoyment immensely!

Temerlyth, our infamous elven lich, was forced to spend his great personal fortune and energies building what has become a hidden lair, laboratory and base of operations. He built it during a downward spiral of frustration, bitterness, spite, hatred and, finally, insanity—all of which drove him to seek lichdom. Silvermote is a calamitous reflection of his nature and more. This bizarre place features elements reminiscent of cathedrals, crypts and laboratories built over about a decade as Temerlyth, a once gifted alchemist and enchanter, went slowly mad and turned to dark necromancy in seeking a lasting solution against all werekind. Silvermote is a strange place from a lost age and has grown at least as twisted as its undead owner and just as filled with ancient spite and untold secrets.

The Sinister Secrets of Silvermote is part adventure, part recurring campaign location, all written especially for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. The adventure features an unhealthy mixture of lycanthropy, undead, traps, tricks, new magic items and much, much more, including rules for making intricate magical tomes, locked, trapped and ready to fill a library of rewards!

This adventure can be dropped into any campaign setting as a hyper-challenging one-shot adventure or as a recurring adventure site to which defeated characters might return again and again!

This 64-page adventure features high-quality art, a detailed, full-color map of Silvermote (viewable in the teaser!) and uses the Open Game License to work with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game rules. It also features full hyperlinks to the award-wining d20pfsrd.com web site so all of the rules you need to run the adventure are right at your fingertips!

You asked for it—your players can blame us.

 

[necroblivion]

Delightul Fantasy Horror Crawl With Plenty of Extras

5/5 Stars!

I’ve been playing role-playing games for over twenty years. In that time, the height of my “boxed adventure” experience was in the golden age of TSR – before WOTC. Adventures were written to inspire, and the inspiration that created in the GM then got passed on to the players. While it was not often that I used the descriptive texts verbatim, there were areas where that writing (particularly with puzzles) was key to ratcheting up the tension, and giving my players a sense of achievement (or horror, in the case of failure). Time changed the quality and methodology of the publications, as well as the overall intent – the formatting even became less immersive, with a lot of indexes, appendices, and poorly organized clutter.

TPK has re-set the bar with Silvermote – this is golden-age level caliber content all over again. The quality of the work, both artistically, and mechanically, speaks volumes about the effort and thoughtfulness that TPK put into developing this adventure. Even the “filler” encounters are smart, and the balance between dark fantasy horror, and a good old-fashioned dungeon crawl/kill the monster module is expertly executed. There is some great artwork, along with the maps, which really help in providing inspiration for GM’s who may be struggling in finding the correct adjectives to set the mood.
The ”recommended” ECL of 8-12 is certainly well suited for the printed matter. You could easily beef up some encounters and enemies, and still have challenge for players a bit higher even. Bump down a few particularly challenging items, and you have a tough slug, but a doable one (maybe with a hefty NPC or a cache of disposable magic items) for those even below the low end of the recommended. There are some particularly nasty traps, and a wide variety of encounters throughout Temerlyth’s lair.

Regardless of the party you bring, Silvermote will hook your players – possibly in a vital place… There is a lot in this supplement – healthy plot, a good peppering of NPC’s, some fantastic mapwork, and a great means of scaling the adventure and encounters as needed. As with Temerlyth the Undying’s supplement, this is all provided in a fairly neutral setting, which can be dropped into your existing campaign, or, if you like, form the foundation of a new campaign setting.

There are some really interesting new magic items and magical arms/armor powers, as well as an entire mechanic for creating magical libraries! This mechanic alone is worth the price of purchase, and you get a whole well-crafted adventure for free!

My only issue with the product was the variation in link depth, through the breadth of the PDF. Despite this inconsistency, I think that the fact the adventure _is_ linked (with reference materials going to d20pfsrd) is brilliant, making for a quick double-check when planning, or a fast end to player questions while running. I’m sure as TPK continues to grow in their finesse, issues like this will even out with experience.

We are definitely pleased to hear that you enjoyed the adventure! Achieving that dark and sinister feeling of old school gaming with a fresh and clean game system (a la the Pathfinder RPG) is one of our major focuses.

If anyone is about to, or currently is running this, we'd love to hear the gory details!

 

[13garth13]

Spam reported....

Cheers,
Colin

 

[necroblivion]

Yeah, I got 'em too. Thanks!