To Kill Or Not to Kill : Jason Rainville Artwork

Jason Rainville blew me away with Qwayneel,  

a verrik greenbond who suffers more than others of her race from 

the Curse of Xyphon which plagues all verrik.  

She also plays a major part in both this adventure and adventure #4 of

  The Rituals of Choice:  Ceremonies of Sacrifice,  I am overjoyed with how this turned out. 

The first Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Compatible patronage project

Rite Publishing announces Coliseum Mopheuon: The Damnation Epoch designed by Clinton J. Boomer (Pathfinder Campaign Setting and Pathfinder Council of Thieves: The Infernal Syndrome). Find out even more on Episode 23 of the Atomic Array Podcast!

AE Essentials: Crime and Punishment

An excellent supplement by Keith Baker that deals with fantasy Law and Order.   I use this book whenever any one of the player characters wants to become involved with the Watch (regardless of which side of the law they are on).

This book is really for any game not just AE or OGL, go buy it at E23

Monte Cook’s Arcana Evolved essentials

Core Books

Any book by Malhavoc Press

Any D20 book by Fiery Dragon

Any D20 book by Blue Devil Games

Everything by Rite Publishing

Siege of Ebon Ring Keep

Magic Item Compendium

Advanced Bestiary

Advanced Gamemaster’s Guide

Deluxe book of Templates.

Tome of Horrors 3.5,

Instant Campaign Builder

Van Richten’s Guide to the Shadow Fey

Fantastic Maps: The Ice Temple

Jonathan Roberts cartographer, for Wrath of the River King and Adventures in the Hyborian Age, presents: 

“The Ice Temple”

This multi-page PDF allows you to print out the battlemap at a 1 inch=1 square scale as a letter-format map and is also available in a printer-friendly light grayscale version.

 A dragon hangs in the frozen waterfall, trapped by ancient ritual. As long as the sacrifices are made every Midwinter's Eve the dragon will remain at bay, like an axe poised over the kingdom ensuring unwavering loyalty to the priests of the God of Winter. Can a hero save the maiden from her fate, escape the crumbling temple of ice and defeat the dragon as it is freed from its centuries long imprisonment? 

 

You can find more of Jonathan Roberts work at his website HERE

Get Ready to Roar!

Litorians: A Patronage Project

Do you ever feel like three hundred pounds of claw, bone, sinew and muscle? Does your tail lash angrily when you pick up a spear? Would you bleed before you betray your own personal code?

Are you lion enough?

Litorians has reached its threashold goal and has started production

Monsters of Verdune now on sale!

$5.95 at Your Games Now

$6.95 at DriveThruRPG

The Kaviljor Ur-rathi , terrible yet noble undead knights who seek to defend the undying of Verdune;
The Curenjod, the Woeroot trees whose leaves fly out and cut to ribbons those who defile the forest;
The Talinet Ur-rathi, these tortured elemental spirits now posses Verdune’s tainted lands,using the powers inherent in the black streams of necromancy to leave not but havoc in their wake.
The Primoridal Ooze, a vile creation of the dramojh that destroys you with healing.

Monsters of Verdune provides these new creatures as a supplemental bestiary for Monte Cook’s Arcana Evolved.

Within you will find:

• - A new, complex and detailed prestige template, along with the template for its mount.
• - All descriptions presented in first-person perspective using the monster's point of view.
• - Detailed descriptions, variant rules, Lore DCs and designer's notes.
• - Each monster leaps from the page with inspiring and evocative illustrations.
• - The monsters within have complex motivations and can serve far beyond a simple encounter.
• - Compatible with the 3.0 and 3.5 versions of the world’s most popular role-playing game
  

AE Essentials: Van Richten’s Guide to the Shadow Fey

Van Richten’s Guide to the Shadow Fey is a wonderful book if you plan on doing something ranges into the Harrowdeep, In my own game it took the fey to the level of the Big Bad.  It has a wonderful Fey creature template that can help  you adapt monsters that are not normally part of the tropes of AE, and the changeling template lets you cause fundamental harm to the loved ones of the party and makes it so that you cannot just kill the fey, you need them to put your loved one back the way their were before the Shadow Fey gifted them with immortality and the loss of their soul.

 The Horror aspect of Ravenloft translates very well to the nature of the dark woods of the Harrowdeep, this book is very well written and can be quite haunting but I have always loved a good gothic horror story.  

Be on the lookout for this in the used Rpg books or pick ite up as a PDF Here

 

Monte Cook’s Arcana Evolved essentials

 Core Books

Any book by Malhavoc Press

Any D20 book by Fiery Dragon

Any D20 book by Blue Devil Games

Everything by Rite Publishing

Siege of Ebon Ring Keep

Magic Item Compendium

Advanced Bestiary

Advanced Gamemaster’s Guide

Deluxe book of Templates.

Tome of Horrors 3.5,

Instant Campaign Builder

 

New Recomendations

Van Richten’s Guide to the Shadow Fey

Why not Steven D. Russell Games?

It's a common tendency for a business to be named after the original founder (Me Inc). You’re basically branding your name, but the problem with a brand built around an individual rather than a company is that people start looking at you, rather than your products.

 I want people to find the same value they do in Soren K. Thustrup’s The Living Airship (ENnie nominated author that he is), Frank Carr’s Jade Oath, as well as the books I personally design.

 Also I have a huge ego, you need one to be able to take the criticism you do as a small Pdf publisher and designer, but I also have to be able to keep it in check so that I can recognize an idea that is just as valid as or better than my own. Making it about the company and all the folks who make these books happen (the editors, the artists, the proofreaders, the graphic designer, our forum administrator, etc.),

 In Addition I tend to think long term, I want Rite Publishing to keep going doing what it is doing long after I am gone, I will one day want a successor. It won’t be a relative because nepotism is stupid. And heaven forbid I ever decide to sell this company (Paizo you want me as an imprint right?); a brand built around a single individual is less attractive to a perspective buyer than a brand built on a company.

 So why Rite Publishing?

 Well RitePress.com was taken J

 As to the Rite:

 One: I always want to do the right thing as a business; I will shut it all down before I do something evil.

 Two: Rituals, Ceremonies and Rites a huge trope for fantasy gaming, especially with our focus on Monte Cook’s Arcana Evolved.

Steven D. Russell

Rite Publishing