The mud of pure malice pollutes the wetlands of the Yuhwa Province and the people of Eunsan grow restless and scared as possessions and undead mischief become commonplace. Undying Corruption will take your characters from lvls 1 to 20 as ordinary shamans and exorcists of the Black Bear Clan restoring order between the physical world and the spiritual. What appears like a local issue becomes far grander as your journey takes you across the entirety of the Korean mythology-inspired country of Danguk, uncovering the dark conspiracy at the root of the challenges you must face.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
September 2024 Update: PF2e Player's Guide out & Freight Progress
over 1 year ago
– Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 07:18:11 PM
Hello everyone! Not long till the end of summer, so hopefully things cool down soon.
As you may have noticed, our Pathfinder 2e Player's Guide has been sent out to everyone's emails through BackerKit. We have officially started the playtest phase for our many classes and ancestries. Due to most of the material we wanted to work with from PF2e being tied to SRD, we opted not to fully place Undying Corruption under the new ORC license. However, we're following the example set by Rage of Elements and formatting our book to be Remaster-friendly. Spell and monster names will remain as it was under SRD, but other forms of terminology and certain gameplay mechanics like the removal of alignment will conform to the remastered rules.
Freight Progress
Dice & Comics Cafe in Korea received the books! The ships containing books for our North America, EU, and global backers have finally departed. We expect the fulfillment companies we've partnered with to receive everything by late September to early October.
Look forward to future updates on delivery progress especially once we reach word they've arrived at our North American and UK fulfillment partners' doorsteps. They've reached me here in California, so I presume it won't be too much longer. My printers mentioned that North America should receive theirs within late September to early October.
Korean Translation & Pathfinder 2e Conversion
We've begun the work of committing our completed translation of Arc 1 into proper layout format. Any work on these ends will begin the moment we acquire funds to pay for the necessary labor. As mentioned, everything from here on out must be paid out of pocket.
Right now, when we're able to sell our books properly, my highest priority will be using the income to complete the Korean translation and the Pathfinder 2e conversion. We thank everyone for their patience and support up till this point.
The Future
So in order to help continue growing our little creative group, I've been tinkering with different project ideas related to Undying Corruption. I'm thinking about putting out soon a bestiary that compiles every creature in our book plus more. For one, it's a convenient way of keeping stock of all the wonderful beasties we've put out. We're also planning on using the opportunity to present new creatures and gods found in Danguk, Long Xin, and the Kyougen Federation.
DriveThruRPG will have our printed books for sale shortly once we get through the approval process. We'll update you on this as well.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email us at [email protected].
August Update: Books Printed, Shipment Due to Begin
over 1 year ago
– Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 06:13:04 PM
Happy summer! I hope you're all keeping cool.
I'm proud to announce that all the books have been printed. The printers tell me they look even better than in the pictures that they've sent:
The books will be shipped out to our fulfillment partners from the printers this coming Friday. We will contact everyone about shipping fees once we get exact estimates for them. The fated day is almost upon us!
In the meantime, we've officially begun layout art for the Pathfinder 2e conversion's Player's Guide. We'll see how long conversions will take us, but we hope to certainly have significant updates for you on this front by next time.
DriveThruRPG
We are live on DriveThruRPG and itch.io! The final copies of our books (the Player's Guide, adventure, and Korean-translated Player's Guide) are officially on sale.
If anyone is interested in adding the PDFs of our Player's Guide and adventure to their libraries on either site, please email me and I'm happy to work that out with you. A rating or review would really help us out here on these platforms!
State of Funding
Our remaining biggest promises are the Korean translation and the Pathfinder 2e conversion. At present, I think the Pathfinder conversion will require less capital to pay for. The Korean translation is more expensive as we are essentially paying for the cost of rewriting our book. With freight now having been paid for, we have officially exhausted all of our Kickstarter earnings. Everything from this point on is either out of pocket or, ideally, from book sales.
I'm announcing this to give everyone a realistic idea of where we're at in terms of what we're capable of. Of course, I promise we'll still fulfill our biggest promises. Right now, the issue comes from being able to pay for the key necessary labor. All this is to say, I hope to continue counting on your support, especially as I begin the hard work of telling more people about the book! I'm trying to be more active on that front so that I can get you the conversion and the translation sooner rather than later.
By the way, I'm eager to open up paid GM sessions for a Curse of Strahd, another 5e module, or a Pathfinder 2e adventure path during the weekday afternoons to evenings if people are interested. Our Sunday Season of Ghosts game is going well and any earnings will go to paying for Nine Heavens Press projects.
I have an account on StartPlaying if interested and you can hit me up there!
That is everything for now, I believe! If you have any questions or comments, you can email us at [email protected], hit us up on Twitter, or join our growing Discord server!
June 2024: Full PDF Release
almost 2 years ago
– Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 03:23:54 PM
The full PDF release of Arc 6: Heavens: Those Who Wail is out! All Arcs 1-6 have been released through BackerKit. A corrected version of the Player's Guide has also been released. We've been spending the month doing more thorough corrections based on reviews sent to us by fans. Our aim is to make sure the printed copy is as close to perfect as it can possibly be. If anyone notices anything else, please let us know by 7/01 which is when we will send the PDFs to be printed.
It is finally happening. Thank you very much for all of your patience and support. We know that this update is coming out late, but we've been using that time to perfect our final draft.
The hardcover books will take 3 weeks or so to finish printing based on our printer's estimates. After which, the books will be shipped over to our partnered fulfillment companies who will take charge of delivering the books and merch to everyone.
We're on the final leg of this. After we send out the PDFs to print, we'll continue work on the Pathfinder 2e release.
To be perfectly forward, we're spacing out our resources to make sure that we can focus on our priorities and compensate our partners. We're close to exhausting the funds that we've received through Kickstarter, so everything after printing will be funded out of pocket. Still, we're almost ready to do the fun work of again spreading the word of our printed book, and I do intend to fulfill the promises laid out in our campaign.
All of that said, we're extremely grateful for all your support and encouragement as we reach this milestone. It still feels a little unreal, to have published a book and this big a one at that, but I'm humbled by the fact that there's still so much to do. We're excited to hear from you!
May 2024 Update (1.5): New Korean PDF + translator notes
almost 2 years ago
– Sun, May 12, 2024 at 01:03:36 PM
Hello everyone,
Just wanted to fill you guys in: we readjusted the Korean PDF so you should only be able to read one page at a time. In addition, we included our translator's notes to help clarify or add context for certain translation decisions. They've been compiled together into a zip file and sent out through BackerKit to both backers and preorder supporters.
That's all, I hope you're all having a fantastic Mother's Day!
May 2024 Update! Arc 5 and Korean Player's Guide out and other updates
almost 2 years ago
– Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 06:50:49 PM
Hello all! Arc 5: Wood: Our Radiant Revolution is finally out and we're almost at the finish line. The party finally makes it to the capital city of Danguk, Asadal, where they will confront the masterminds behind the Black Stake incidents. Once Arc 6 is out next month, we will immediately make contact with our printer.
In addition! The Korean translation for the Player's Guide is complete and committed to layout! PDFs have been sent out to all Kickstarter backers. We're working on translating Arc 1 so it'll follow when we have it available. Thank you so much for all your patience.
The acrylic minis are due to be manufactured starting next week! We've come to an arrangement with our partners. It took some time, but we wanted to make sure that the minis were totally fit for in-person play. I have it in good authority that they conform 100% with size standards for miniatures.
Also! We have a number of new creatures to share with you on our Patreon. In the last couple weeks, we uploaded a printable mini and statblock of our Pipefox conversion from PF2e. We also have a totally homebrew monster, the Apgolmaja, a mummy that includes the sarcophagus! We have a lot of exciting updates coming up such as lore and subclasses that I'm eager to play with, so please, consider supporting us to help fund our future projects.
The final episodes of Arc 2 of Transplanar's The Chaos Protocol are almost out! We've got some exciting monsters to share with our partnership with GM Connie and her table. Please do check out the show on Saturday, 8PM Eastern!
As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to comment here, catch us on social media, or email us at [email protected]! You can also join our Discord server where I'll be talking more about my design process as I work on new playable material for 5e and PF2e.
