What do you think is the most underrated supplement?

[Celebrim]

From Stone to Steel

I wasn't aware of that one. Looks interesting.

 

[Crothian]

Bluffside. It is get setting filled with mystery and intrigue. It has many aspects that make it different from other more traditional city settings.

 

[gamerprinter]

Sounds good.

I don't actually have an 'oriental' setting in my homebrew world per se, but neither do I actually have an 'occidental' setting either. It's more like medieval Europe if medieval Europe was in south east Asia and the Catholic church was replaced with Hinduism and the racial inhabitants were a mixture of Mayans and Irish settlers.

So it isn't entirely as niche as you think, because exotic horror is definitely to theme. With that in mind, keeping in mind I need more crunch than fluff, what would you say are the strongest pdf's in terms of providing collections of things like monsters, ghosts, etc. Off the bat the 30 haunts for Kaidan looks like it might go on my wish list.

As you mention, #30 Haunts for Kaidan is good PF crunch with haunts, and many of them are inter-related with connecting back story. Altogether there are nine back stories and all 30 fit in those and essentially "fix" one of the problems with haunts in not having an appropriate back story to make the concept to laying haunts to rest more feasible.

Although we plan to do a Kaidan bestiary next, after the release of our setting guides (still in development), most current Kaidan monsters are featured in each of the modules, including The Curse of the Golden Spear trilogy - I think it's worth getting all 3 modules of that arc as it contains lots of monsters, and covers the most esoteric aspects of the setting (at least until the release of the setting guides.)

For one, very interesting and unique ghost, associated haunts and a delicious curse, check out Haiku of Horror: Autumn Moon Bath House - which is essentially a mapped, 5 story Japanese bath house complete with staff, some guests and an included mini-adventure or extended encounter centered on the ghost. It has a strong nod to the movie, The Grudge. This one I wrote, designed and created the cartography for all on my own.

Not that you need samurai archetypes, but Way of the Samurai, is one of our best fluff/crunch books centered around samurai life, with specific archetypes for samurai social caste characters, not just samurai specifically - there are versions of paladin, ranger, wizard and samurai. Also in similar flavor to this supplement is Way of the Yakuza which focuses on Asian criminal gang life. No monsters though in these two PDFs, only traits, feats, archetypes, prestige classes and some spells.

And not that you need modules (though as mentioned most of current monsters are found in those), there is a FREE Kaidan module one-shot called Frozen Wind, that include a yuki-onna "snow woman" (considered an oni in Kaidan), as well as Ice oni and frozen zombies - since it's free it might be worth a look.

Also read the reviews, expecially Endzeitgeist (Thilo Graf) whose reviews are spoiler rich, so you can get a good idea of what is inside each product, and his rating - most Kaidan products have 4 and 5 star ratings.

Michael

 

[TarionzCousin]

Alderac (AEG)

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I can't believe I forgot this. They have since put out the Ultimate Toolbox, which includes everything that was in the original.

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