Feb 2023: Addendum to the Last Update
10 months ago – Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 07:16:46 AM

Hey everyone, chiming in since we have a new announcement and a backer brought to our attention that the Patreon link in the previous update wasn’t functional. Kickstarter only lets us update announcements until only 30 minutes after they’re first posted, so this is the best way to get the right information out there:
 

We’ve actually just posted our update for this week too for both 5e and PF2e! Presenting our Dokkaebi NPC, Tan the Bomber! She’s an alchemist born from a chef’s love for cooking (though her dishes end up being far, far spicier). Her idea of fine dining tends to get her in trouble, usually charged with arson, but someday, her love will prevail over such the culinary establishment’s fuddy-duddy sensibilities.

Use her digital token or playable mini for your character or add her to your story as an allied NPC!

Enamel Pins

We also would like to show off the enamel pins that have been manufactured!

All pins have been accounted for and are up to snuff for delivery. The only bits of merchandise left to put together now are the special norigae and the acrylic standees we promised. They will be sent alongside the hardcover books as planned!

Paid-GM Games

Also worth mentioning, I still have a table open for my Curse of Strahd game to be run, say, Monday afternoon! If anybody is interested, please do not hesitate to hit me up. We’re due to start the 3rd session of my Season of Ghosts game this weekend and we’re almost at the end of Chapter 1!

Again, thank you all for your patience, but we just wanted to make sure we got accurate information out to you.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to reply here, DM us, or email us at [email protected]. You can also join our growing community in our Discord server! 

February 2024: Arc 2, Patreon, and Update!
10 months ago – Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 02:24:52 PM

It's February 2024! 

Hello everyone, I hope you've had a good start to the New Year. It's now both Black History Month and just a week from Lunar New Year. Very exciting.

Act 2

First thing's first, we've uploaded the PDF for Act 2 out of 6 of Undying Corruption! You can download and play Water: Dead Men's Raid from BackerKit just like with both Act 1 and the Player's Guide. This act will take you to the port city of Nampung which is under siege by undead pirates based on the multinational wokou pirates from history! 

From a small village to treacherous waters, your adventure's only getting bigger from here. Please let us know what you think of it!

Patreon

NHP finally has our own Patreon up!

We're hoping to use the Patreon platform to both help fund future projects and work on smaller projects such as homebrew NPC/Monster statblocks, PF2e-5e conversions, digital tokens, and also, printable paper minis! 

Below, we'd like to share a preview of our Astromancer Lunamorph NPC, Yun Dal-myeong. She's a wizard from the Moon on a mission to reunite with her true love, a distant dwarf planet. You can add her into any game you're running with custom Valiant Actions to support your PCs with. We have more to come over the coming weeks!

Update

Everything on the merch front is going well. I've sorted everything to be shipped to their respective warehouses for final deliveries minus acrylic standees which we're hoping to find time to work on properly. That's the last thing though, so we can coordinate everything to be delivered alongside the final hardcover and softcover books.

Act 3 will be slightly late about by a week or so, due to some personal matters to attend to. We're committed to staying the pace, but I just wanted to let all of you know in advance.

Of course, if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to comment here, DM us privately, or email us at [email protected]. You can also chat with the growing NHP community at our Discord server!

January Update: Player's Guide and Arc 1 PDF out
11 months ago – Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 12:40:00 PM

Hey everyone, happy holidays, Merry Christmas, and happy new year!

Hope you've all been getting some rest amidst the festivities. As for this month's progress update, I'm happy to announce that the Player's Guide PDF and the PDF for Arc 1 out of 6 have been released. You might've received an email from BackerKit with a link to your downloads. If you haven't, you might need to complete your survey first. In that case, please contact me and I can resend yours to you. We plan to release the remaining arcs one at a time per month and as we collect feedback for essentially our closed beta period, we'll fine-tune the final iteration so that the printed edition will be perfect.

On the merchandise side, we're proud to announce that I've received the prints and enamel pins are currently in manufacturing. That just leaves the acrylic standees and the norigae, so we're making solid time with these. 

That's largely it for now, but please stay tuned in the coming month as we're working on some exciting things we're itching to announce. Till then, we'll keep working on both layout and translating our book into Korean. 

We're also almost ready to start our paid-GM 5e Curse of Strahd and PF2e Season of Ghosts campaigns to help fund future projects, so if you're interested, please contact me to discuss scheduling! Thanks so much and again, happy new year!

If you have any questions or comments, you can reply here or contact us at [email protected]. Please also consider joining us in our Discord server by clicking the following link:

December Update: Arc 1, Player's Guide, Merchandise Updates, and Paid GMing
12 months ago – Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 11:31:52 AM

Happy December! We're pleased to bring you your monthly progress report.

Progress Report

I'm happy to announce that the stickers have all been manufactured and we're in the process of getting the pins manufactured as well. We're underway with having all of our Kickstarter merch produced and ready to ship alongside the hardcover books once those are completed as well.

Regarding Arc 1, after listening to some comments sent to us responding to the previous update, we've decided to take a little bit of time to complete the Player's Guide. To play the game ideally, people ought to have access to the most recent iterations of both game mechanics and world lore. We'll send over PDFs of both at the beginning of December in lieu of rushing production. This gave us an opportunity to commission and include more art into the books. Once again, we appreciate your patience as we make sure to get the best possible versions of our books and merchandise out to backers.

5e, PF2e Paid GM Games

I'd also like to announce that I'm looking into running paid-GM games come January after the holidays to help fund future projects we're excited to work on. They'll be run digitally over Discord and through either Roll20 or Foundry depending. I'm looking to open two groups: one 5e and one PF2e and the games will be decided by popular request.

Personally, for 5e, I'd love to run Curse of Strahd or Out of the Abyss as I don't have experience with either. For PF2e, we're at 3-4/6 players and they've decided on Season of Ghosts, a supernatural, very Japanese mythology-inspired adventure path. If you're interested or know anybody who is interested, please let me know!

That's all we've got for this month. We'll return in January with more good news! Please enjoy your holidays and see you very soon.

Please feel free to leave a comment, contact us at [email protected] or any of our social media accounts, or chat with us in the NHP Discord server:

November Update: Sequential PDF Releases
about 1 year ago – Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 12:16:31 PM

Hey everyone!

Happy Autumn, we're heading smack dab into the fall season! To fill you in on what's been happening, we're making excellent progress. I've written out the promised one-shot "The Great Pagoda Heist", formerly known as "Curse of Nangweon Temple". Not only that, but I've started a regular project converting older edition and PF monsters to 5e on social media. Just something in between work.

We're also formatting the PDF. It's a big task and it might take a little more time than expected, but I'm not here today to announce a delay. Instead, we're going to deliver each of the 6 arcs of our adventure book sequentially, one arc at a time as we head into the final hardcover book release.

This enables us to receive more playtest data pertinent to the story itself. If there's any need to put forward erratas, we'll have early data that can help us save time later down the line since we needed some broader player reviews. That way, the final book release will ensure the adventure is in its most perfect form. Think of this as a closed beta: everyone who preordered or backed us will receive a chapter per month release.

You can expect arc 1 to be delivered sometime around November! We'll send you guys each a completed arc leading up to the final product within/before a month.

That in mind, here's a preview of our layout:

If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to hit us up on Kickstarter, email us at [email protected], or join us at our Discord server!