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Someone keeps letting him escape containment…
Redacted morning’s greetings, mortals! Of late, I notice, ye find thyselves aswamp in misery & notices of villains long gone—& so please enjoy our latest adventure module, the tragically-relevant “FOREST OF PHANTOMS!”
Thou & thy companions arrive in the hamlet of Akirima™, a dismal place shrouded by misery & mists. The locals prayed for brave adventurers to cleanse the woods, which bristle with ghosts, ghouls, & shadows. But as ye dig, it seems more than ghosts reach from the past to claw at the future in the FOREST OF PHANTOMS!
Unravel history & mystery in our thrilling new adventure! Perfect for fans of intellectual challenges, moral puzzles, & thoughtful role-playing, the FOREST OF PHANTOMS contains mature themes & exhaustive footnotes.
LEGAL NOTE: This adventure takes place in the mysterious fantasy setting of Akirima™, which is nothing like so-called “America.” Any similarities to persons, history, & sins, are.
Explore Akirima™, a village haunted by the sins of its forefathers—literally! Each monster in this module is not some random creature, but rather, a horrible villain with an extensive personal history, rooted in Akirima™’s past. Each of them escaped justice for their unthinkable crimes, becoming potent phantoms & growing in power as the years passed.
“This is the first RPG module I have ever played that replicates the creeping feeling of finding out that the place you live in is founded on rot & evil. It really bummed me out.”
The gruesome ghastly fiends who fill the fields & woods surrounding the village, offer a chance for action-packed encounters between the lengthy sessions conducting interviews with victims & combing the local archives, both of which comprise the bulk of the playtime. Wow!
In addition to a hand-painted, high-quality, natural cloth map (included in the Docent’s Edition™), each copy of the FOREST OF PHANTOMS includes 744 pages’ worth of diary entries, chronicle scrolls, accounting books, & blood-stained letters, to enhance the players’ experience. Along with our unique new Special Collections System™, with this module you can provide players the genuine thrill of thoroughly examining documentary evidence!
To enhance replayability, we’ve included backstories & stat blocks for a vast array of villains to fill out the FOREST OF PHANTOMS & Akirima™’s history. Including: the banker Geoff Epsteyn; Odyssey-Master Johan David Norman; Ioannes, Wainwright of Gacy; Ser Lawrence King; Dark Priest Aquino; the Wretched Lady Maxwell; the terrifying monster-men of Ranger’s Troupe #137; Archdeacon Wyrm; & more! Each character comes with a list of mayors, aldermen, counts, jarls, town guards & so forth, all of whom may be used by the Dungeon Master to cover up their crimes & stymie the players’ efforts at seeking justice.
“Finally, a tabletop RPG product that truly simulates the experience of fighting against the powerful!”
If the players are able to overcome staggering institutional efforts to hide the truth, then the main adventure begins! Once they have constructed a comprehensive case, uncovered the local corruption, & pieced together the dark history of Akirima™, they will face a serious choice: do they attempt to deal with the problems in the present? Or, find some way to travel into Akirima™’s past, & deal with the problems when they were fresh, stopping the horrors from spreading? The latter solution requires knowledge of magic, & a bit of ingenuity, but using chronomancy to confront the town’s sins in the past is much easier than trying to exorcise an entire FOREST OF PHANTOMS.
Thankfully, this is a fictional adventure, because if Akirima™ were a real place, where, say, monstrous fiends had run about unchecked for a century, spreading evil, with their tracks covered by all the most powerful people in Akirima™…goodness, that would be a dire world indeed!
If ye implement our optional “Extended Campaign™,” which pits the players against an extensive trial & appeals process that adds 2d6 years to their adventure, be sure to add some helpful NPCs to aid thy poor players!
However ye play, we here at WizWorld LIVE™ guarantee: ye shall not regret a single solitary second spent avenging the innocent in the...
FOREST OF PHANTOMS!
Enticing, eh mortals? Pick up a copy soon!
Thank ye for reading! & we humbly thank again-again that growing clan of mortals who can & do support our works here with coin! GRATIAS!
I shall write ye come Wednesday with news of our next episode—where will the Shattered Empire take us next? ’til then: be safe, be well, & remember, ne’er trust a billionaire to babysit…
Cheers,
Amœnus Franco
Chaotic Good, Warlock/Skald, I cast Detect Pedophile & ready my Wand of Fireballs
P.S.: For all the art fans, please enjoy this exclusive Scriptorium bonus, of the cover imagery without the text:
An unusually ominous owl…
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