Transparency Agenda Daily June 29th 2016 - Developing your IP

NeoExodus Layout Update part 2

OK NeoExodus fans, here are the changes I made to the history section of the updated NeoExodus: A House Divided Campaign Setting. Something that JP always tried to instill on me was the importance of the iconics. I agreed it was a good idea so we created them. And with that I deiced int he new version they would get a more visual importance so we added their images. What do you think Paizo fans?

The Cross of Fire Saga - The waiting for the Phrenic Scourge is over!

Looks like our version of the Phrenic Scourge is in soon than I thought. So does it look like something that might worry your PCs in the upcoming Cross of Fire Saga adventure path? Better still I get to think about how many psionic / psionic-ish monsters I can connect to them in the family line.   Plus I still will be able to build in the psionic interference field for the Phrenic Scourge  I thought might be cool. If there are a certain number of Phrenic Scourge near you, the psionic interference field over lay causing your head to explode a la Scanners style. I am sure PCs will love that. Well off to more work on Cross of Fire Saga. Talk to you later...

The Cross of Fire Saga - Waiting on rough draft on artwork of the Phrenic Scourge

I am waiting for one of my regular and senior character design artist to submit his rough draft of the Phrenic Scourge which is going to be part of the VERY dangerous monsters and villain you are going to meet in the upcoming Cross of Fire Saga adventure path. While many use the Phrenic Scourge as a replacement for the WOTC IP protected Mind Flayer, (including me) I am glad that I can use the Phrenic Scourge instead. There is TOO MUCH of a history with the Mind Flayers and what people expect from them. Using the Phrenic Scourge give me the ability to use a concept people are familiar with and twist it ways that might not be ready for. That really is what my secret when creating monsters: Take something you know and twist it what that make it unfamiliar. For example: Star Wars from Hidden Fortress; Avatar from Dances with Wolves; and Magnificent Seven from Seven Samurai. Hiding tings in plain sight is fun and difficult to do, and this is no different with the Phrenic Scourge. I have decided to use the Durlan race from DC Comics and the artwork from Wayne Reynolds’ Age ofWorms as inspiration and the template for visually where we are starting from for them. Plus I am going to make some cool psionic influenced monsters related to the Phrenic Scourge. Basically put, I looking for ways to make your PC’s head explode and I am off to a good start.  Talk to you later…

[LPJ Design] Adventure Path Iconics (PFRPG) series for $3 each

These book provides eight complete pre-generated characters specifically designed for use in many of the most popular adventure paths available from Paizo and 3PP.  Each character comes with a full stat block including campaign traits, a detailed background and personality, along with tips on advancement through 4th level. Just pick one that strikes your fancy and you’re ready to play. These iconics have been built using a 20-point buy making sure that would be all rules-legal and fully compliant.  In addition, each comes with instructions on how to adjust the stats to a 15-point buy, should your GM wish to use the standard adventure paths or if your group enjoys an epic fantasy feel for their characters, adjustments up to a 25-point buy are also included. There’s a little something for everyone. Whichever buy you choose, with a few minor adjustments your PCs will be ready to go!

Fans of evil themed adventure paths might want to check out Adventure Path Iconics: Pathof the Wicked!!!

Fans of Asian themed adventure paths might want to check out Adventure Path Iconics:Path of Jade!!!

Fans of pirate themed adventure paths might want to check out Adventure PathIconics: Path of Pirates!!!

#3 at RPGNow and rising...

What product is now #3 on the Top 100 at RPGNow? Maybe you should check out Adventure Path Iconics: Path of Undeath and see what you are missing out on.

[LPJ Design] Adventure Path Iconics: Path of Undeath (PFRPG) Now available

Louis Porter Jr. Design has released its newest product, Adventure Path Iconics for the Pathfinder the gothic and horror-themed adventure path and the Obsidian Apocalypse (PFRPG) campaign setting at RPGNow.com and DriveThruRPG.com.  Here is information on this product:

This is the next installment of our Adventure Path Iconics line, and the seven characters herein are specifically designed for play in the Obsidian Apocalypse campaign setting and the gothic and horror-themed Adventure Path. Each character has a full stat block, including campaign traits, a detailed background and personality, and advice on advancement through 4th level. Find one that suits you and you’re ready to play. These characters have been built using a 20-point buy, as many Pathfinder players and GMs prefer it. However, each comes with instructions on how to adjust the stats to a 15-point buy, should your GM wish to use the standard for Paizo’s adventure paths. If your group enjoys an epic fantasy feel for their characters, then adjustments up to a 25-point buy are also available. Whatever your style of play, just a few minor tweaks will have you ready to go.

The iconic consist of seven unique races from the Obsidian Apocalypse campaign setting such as:

Exalted: The exalted are the direct offspring of angelic outsiders mated with the humans of Abaddon. The unique circumstances of Abaddon make this pairing a more common event than it might be in other parts of the multiverse. The angels here are thrust into closer contact with mortals than they are used to, cut off from the gods and entities that they serve and forced to make new lives for themselves.

• Genesai: Genesai are the result of demonic outsiders mating with angelic outsiders, defying all that both sides of the eternal conflict between good and evil consider inviolate. In other worlds and planes of existence, this pairing might be all but unthinkable, but the nature of Abaddon as a “planar trap” throws these opposites together far more often than elsewhere. Whatever the agents of good and evil have against reach other, as outsiders they at least share the same origin.
• Harrowed: The harrowed are one of the most despised and feared races of Abaddon. They are no less than the result of the unholy and abominable union between mortal humanoids and the foul undead. To the subjugated populace, the very existence of the harrowed is a constant reminder of their undead overlords who have taken over Abaddon. These creatures are royal bastards, neither fully mortal nor fully undead, caught between the two worlds.
• Infernals: Infernals are the offspring of demonic outsiders and humanity upon Abaddon or the result of a tainted bloodline throwing up a child bearing the mark of past transgressions of natural law. Infernals are relatively common on Abaddon, given the nature of the world as a “planar trap” and the natural proclivities of the demons who find themselves here, as they are trapped, frustrated, and have only a few playthings to assuage their boredom.
• Khymer: The khymer are descendants of those killed, or at least physically destroyed, by the meteor that struck Abaddon. The necromantic radiation emanating from the blast had many long-lasting effects on Abaddon and its people. For the inhabitants of one city, though, it meant liquefaction followed by mingling with the ravening light. This process infused the liquid remains with negative energy, which coupled with the latent remnants of that people’s native psionic abilities.
• Lykian: Abaddon’s werewolf lycanthropes, most commonly called lykians, are one of the most unusual residents of the world. Unlike standard lycanthropes, lykians are born as lycanthropes. They do not suffer from the lycanthropic disease; instead, they are considered a separate humanoid race with the shapechanger subtype. Before the apocalypse, many carried the curse of lycanthropy, but due to unknown, powerful forces of magic, the curse took on a new form from which the lykians have evolved directly. Lykians, unlike lycanthropes, have only one physical form, despite their shapechanger subtype. They are considered by many to be extremely bestial, hostile, and brutish, like their canine lineage. Their primal nature often usurps and controls their cognitive and reasoning abilities.
• Osirian: According to ancient lore, the osirians were the first intelligent species to emerge on Abaddon, chosen by the gods to be their first creation on this world. They were, and are, a regal and proficient people famed for their skill with their hands and their swiftness, as dangerous archers and fencers and makers of technical wonders and fine crafts.

These iconic consist of:

• Ilita Faara, Female khymer psychic warrior
• Mik’quol an-str-natk, Male osirian cleric (Zebediah)
• Mouse, Female genesai rogue
• Setiphet Sir Lykash, Female harrowed fighter
• (Treeshearer) Snarltooth Swifttongue, Female lykian ranger
• Xasturian, Male infernal sorcerer
• Yeremil Al Zebediah, Male exalted monk

Available at RPGNow!!!

The Obsidian Apocalypse iconics are edited and in layout

I received the four iconics last night and have been work on their layout to make sure all of you who donated at Ghast ($35) or higher will get them by this weekend.

In addition, to the four iconics we are sending out to donors, we created an addition three iconics that we are combining with the original four to create the upcoming Adventure Path Iconics: Path of Undeath. Our Adventure Path Iconics series had been selling so well we thought it made sense to make a full list of iconic characters that would be perfect to use in the several Gothic and Horror themed adventure paths on the market. I mean let’s be honest, the races of Obsidian Apocalypse are a quantum leap about in imagination then the typical race you see in fantasy. I mean you can even compare the coolness of the Exalted or Khymer to a dwarf or elf. Obsidian Apocalypse really kicks it up a notch. As always thanks for your support of this kickstarter and LPJ Design. Talk to you later…

What is coming next from LPJ Design? Maybe this will help

I wonder what these four head shots from Anthony Cournoyer have to do with Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Adventure Paths? I guess we will have to wait and see...

[LPJ Design] Adventure Path Iconics: Path of Pirates (PFRPG) Now available

Louis Porter Jr. Design has released its newest product, Adventure Path Iconics for the Pathfinder winter focused adventure path and the NeoExodus: A House Divided (PFRPG) campaign setting at RPGNow.com and DriveThruRPG.com.  Here is information on this product:

This is the fourth installment of our Adventure Path Iconics line, and the eight characters herein are specifically designed for play in a pirate-themed Adventure Path. Each character has a full stat block, including campaign traits, a detailed background and personality, and advice on advancement through 4th level. Find one that suits you and you’re ready to play. These characters have been built using a 20-point buy, as many Pathfinder players and GMs prefer it. However, each comes with instructions on how to adjust the stats to a 15-point buy, should your GM wish to use the standard for Paizo’s adventure paths. If your group enjoys an epic fantasy feel for their characters, then adjustments up to a 25-point buy are also available. Whatever your style of play, just a few minor tweaks will have you ready to go.

The iconic consist of four human characters and four unique races from the NeoExodus: A House Divided campaign setting such as:

• Dalrean: Dalrean are a race of sentient, mobile plants. If a treant is a thinking tree, a dalrean is a thinking flower, and indeed, the spellcasters of this race are noted for their astonishing floral ‘spellbuds.’ Dalrean, who live exceedingly long lives, are closely tied to the natural cycles of Exodus.
• Enuka: The most primal and barbaric of the savage humanoids have nothing on the Enukas. Enukas are ferocious creatures of the wild lands, animalistic predators blessed with humanoid form an intelligence. This combination has not softened their instincts for battle and the hunt, but it has given them a fatalistic warrior culture well suited to their savage natures.
• Prymidian: Prymidians are regal, red-skinned humanoids. Their stately demeanor and formidable build impress other races and their learning follows suit. The prymidians are a communication and language-inclined race, dedicated to scientific reason, research, expansion of knowledge and discovery. Their culture seeks to know all there is to know in Exodus, and to communicate that knowledge to others. None know better than the prymidians that knowledge truly is power.
• Sasori: Resources wax and wane, weapons and spells become obsolete, the master craftsman of one era is displaced by the industry of the next, and even land becomes worthless with the shifting ages - information, say the Sasori, is the one commodity that is always in demand. These scorpion-like creatures are brokers of information, by turns the greatest secret-keepers and the supreme spies of Exodus. Sasori are also known for their willingness - and ability - to kill to protect their secrets.

 These iconic consist of:

• Bale Tehya, Male prymidian bard (sea singer)
• Bilgeghost, Female sasori monk
• Flowing Kelp, Male dalrean sorcerer
• Shark-Stalker, Male enuka barbarian
• Trista Rask, Female human gunslinger
• Sabine Finn, Female human druid of the God of Storms and Seas (shark shaman)
• Ral Fayden, Human ranger (freebooter)
• Salty Jake, Male human rogue (poisoner)

Available at RPGNow!!!

Coming Soon - Adventure Path Iconics Path of the Pirates

Just to give you a little taste of what you can expect to see releasing very soon, Adventure Path Iconics: Path of Pirates full page spread. Talk to you later...

Adventure Path Iconics: Path of Winter (PFRPG) Now available!

Louis Porter Jr. Design has released its newest product, Adventure Path Iconics for the Pathfinder winter focused adventure path and the NeoExodus: A House Divided (PFRPG) campaign setting at RPGNow.com and DriveThruRPG.com.  Here is information on this product:

This is the third installment of our Adventure Path Iconics line, and the eight characters herein are specifically designed for play in a winter-themed Adventure Path. Each character has a full stat block, including campaign traits, a detailed background and personality, and advice on advancement through 4th level. Find one that suits you and you’re ready to play. These characters have been built using a 20-point buy, as many Pathfinder players and GMs prefer it. However, each comes with instructions on how to adjust the stats to a 15-point buy, should your GM wish to use the standard for Paizo’s adventure paths. If your group enjoys an epic fantasy feel for their characters, then adjustments up to a 25-point buy are also available. Whatever your style of play, just a few minor tweaks will have you ready to go.

The iconic consist of four human characters and four unique races from the NeoExodus: A House Divided campaign setting such as:

·         Cavian: Creatures of myth, whispered in legend, lost in the mists of history – and now returned for reasons unknown to any but themselves. Such are the cavians, a race of humanoid rodents noted for their incredible psionic abilities.

·         Cynean: Crystalline scholars of all things arcane, the cyneans are as mighty in mind as in body. While the psionically inclined might expect the cyneans to share their tendencies, these beings of living crystal are masters of magic, not mentalism. On Exodus, which is both their home and their only known haunt, they can ever be found seeking some mystical secret or long-lost spell.

·         Dalrean: Dalrean are a race of sentient, mobile plants. If a treant is a thinking tree, a dalrean is a thinking flower, and indeed, the spellcasters of this race are noted for their astonishing floral ‘spellbuds.’ Dalrean, who live exceedingly long lives, are closely tied to the natural cycles of Exodus.

·         Prymidian: Prymidians are regal, red-skinned humanoids. Their stately demeanor and formidable build impress other races and their learning follows suit. The prymidians are a communication and language-inclined race, dedicated to scientific reason, research, expansion of knowledge and discovery. Their culture seeks to know all there is to know in Exodus, and to communicate that knowledge to others. None know better than the prymidians that knowledge truly is power.

These iconic consist of:

·         Asta Krigersdottir, Female human barbarian (breaker)

·         Viniana Aurcroft, Female human rogue (sniper)

·         Dron Farwalker, Male human ranger (guide)

·         Jarani Zidane, Male human bard (daredevil)

·         Evergreen, Female dalrean witch (hedge witch)

·         Gryn Kynon, Male prymidian gunslinger

·         Chalu Adsila, Female cavian cleric

·         Maqia, Female cynean inquisitor (witch hunter)

Available at RPGNow!!!

Lots of rough draft of Adventure Path Iconics work

Just though you might be interested in the process that we use for creating our artwork for our upcoming Adventure Path Iconics series, so enjoy! Talk to you later...

Working freelancer Eric Hindley like a dog!!!

As of late while I have been working on and focused on the last bits of Obsidian Apocalypse, I have been assigned all kinds of work to our newest freelance, Eric Hindley. Eric has also done several pieces of work for us on Obsidian Apocalypse too so you can see we are busy. I got an email form Eric and told me that the first draft for the upcoming Adventure Path Iconics: Path of the Star will be in house VERY SOON. Also he is working on upcoming Adventure Path Iconics: Path of Righteous and the iconics for Obsidian Apocalypse. Sensing a theme here? So we have iconics coming out of the wood works here which is a good thing. After all this is done we are going to have Eric work on … wait for it … MORE iconics with The Mummy's Mask and Iron Gods (2014 Adventure Paths). I know that you will see a Machinesmith iconic in Iron Gods iconics from us so at least I will be happy about it. Maybe a Gunslinger too. Who knows? I guess Eric will know soon. Talk to you later… 

Transparency Agenda #028: The Black Episode...

Coming Soon Adventure Path Iconics: Path of Pirates

Just a little thing to keep you interested in what we are doing. Enjoy!

Coming soon Adventure Path Iconics: Path of Winter

Here is just a sample of what you can expect from the upcoming in the next Adventure Path Iconics: Path of Winter. Let me introduce Asta.

Adventure Path Iconics: Path of Winter will be releasing very soon.

Transparency Agenda #022: The Sickness and Fever episode with more Lucas

Another 5-star for Jeff Lee with Adventure Path Iconics: Path of the Wicked

Jeff Lee delivers another another another 5-star review for Adventure Path Iconics: Path of the Wicked (PFRPG). Best quote: Impressive. Author Jeff Lee delivers a cadre of despicable villains to introduce to Way of the Wicked or simply use as low level foes of PCs of other campaigns - with the glorious artworks and neat background information, the characters truly deserve their names. Go get this amazing PDF to run with your Way of the Wicked Adventure Path from Fire Mountain Games.

[LPJ Design] Adventure Path Iconics: Path of the Wicked (PFRPG) Now available

Louis Porter Jr. Design has released its newest product line, Adventure Path Iconics for Fire Mountain’s Way of the Wicked adventure path and the NeoExodus: A House Divided (PFRPG) campaign setting at RPGNow.com and DriveThruRPG.com. Here is information on this product:

Fire Mountain Games has blazed a trail to the dark side with the first adventure path for evil characters for the Pathfinder RPG. They have taken what many GMs consider to be the bane of their existence—an entire party of evil player characters—and turned it into a critically acclaimed and highly popular series of adventures. What you have before you is a product designed to get you into the game quickly by providing eight pregenerated characters designed specifically to be run in an Evil Adventure Path. Each character is built using a 25 point buy, as recommended by the writers of the AP. There are four human PCs. Their stat blocks are accompanied by detailed backgrounds and reasons enough for these dark souls to go forth and wreak havoc through the land, including the details of how they came to be incarcerated in the Prison of the Branded, where the adventure begins.

The iconic consist of four human characters and four unique races from the NeoExodus: A House Divided campaign setting such as: 

• Cavian: Creatures of myth, whispered in legend, lost in the mists of history – and now returned for reasons unknown to any but themselves. Such are the cavians, a race of humanoid rodents noted for their incredible psionic abilities. 
• Kalisan: Calibans are pale-white humanoid creatures native to the north of Exodus. Over time, many calibans have migrated to other parts and are now found in almost every parts of Exodus. Calibans have a well-deserved reputation for cannibalism and savagery. Kalisans are the most civilized of their race and are indistinguishable physically from their feral caliban cousins, although calibans can distinguish one another. Calibans tend to be much more feral and are less suited to be player characters. However the Kalisans are well-adapted. 
• P’Tan: In ancient times, the First Ones enslaved all of Exodus; their plans were served well by countless thousands of unwilling servants. Once their slaves rose up and overthrew them, however, the First Ones were cast into the depths - bereft not only of their power, but also of the vast majority of the very slaves who brought them low. 
• Sasori: Resources wax and wane, weapons and spells become obsolete, the master craftsman of one era is displaced by the industry of the next, and even land becomes worthless with the shifting ages. But information, say the sasori, is the one commodity that is always in demand. These scorpion-like creatures are brokers of information, by turns the greatest secret-keepers and the supreme spies of Exodus. Sasori are also known for their willingness - and ability - to kill to protect their secrets.

These iconic consist of: 

• Anxelica Luris, Female human inquisitor 
• Arok Headtaker, Male kalisan magus 
• Cormac Blackwood, Male human antipaladin 
• Ghostwhisker, Male cavian alchemist (mindchemist) 
• Glimmershade, Female sasori rogue 
• Kalina Rhys, Female human cleric of Asmodeus 
• Rajas the Defiler, Male p’tan barbarian 
• Zachris Swayne, Male human sorcerer

Available at RPGNow.com and Paizo.com!